Zelensky and Euro Leaders Visit WH After Trump's Putin Summit, Baby Missing in CA： AM Update 8⧸18
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Trump meets with Ukraine s President Volodymyr Zelensky at the White House to discuss peace between Ukraine and the United States, the disappearance of a 7-month-old California baby, and Hurricane Aaron.
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Good morning, everyone. I'm Megyn Kelly. It's Monday, August 18th, 2025. And this is your
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AM update. I mean, critics of President Trump are always going to find something to criticize.
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You don't pay attention to it anymore. Team Trump making the rounds on Sunday,
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combating Democrat and media narratives, suggesting Friday's summit with Russian
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President Vladimir Putin failed. While the next step toward peace in Ukraine takes place today
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at the White House in a meeting with Ukrainian President Zelensky and more. I fell on the floor
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and I said as I got up, I couldn't find my son. Investigators unable to rule out foul play in the
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disappearance of a seven-month-old California baby whose parents say he was kidnapped. And Hurricane
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Aaron, the first Atlantic hurricane of 2025, on a wild ride in the Caribbean, tracking where the
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powerful storm is headed next. All that and more coming up in just a moment on your AM update.
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President Trump continuing to take the lead in high-stakes diplomacy today,
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meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and other European heads of state at
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the White House, days after a landmark summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska
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on Friday. Today's meeting marking Mr. Zelensky's first return to the White House since that infamous
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Oval Office clash back in February. A quick reminder of how that went.
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Mr. President, with respect, I think it's disrespectful for you to come into the Oval
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Office and try to litigate this in front of the American media.
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You're gambling with World War III, and what you're doing is very disrespectful to the country,
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Have you said thank you once this entire meeting?
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No, in this entire meeting, have you said thank you?
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The result? Lunch canceled. A rare-earth minerals business agreement between the U.S.
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and Ukraine delayed for a couple of months, potentially delaying the prospects of a peace
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deal. This time around, several European leaders making the trip to Washington.
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European Union Commissioner President Ursula von der Leyen, U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer,
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German Chancellor Friedrich Mertz, French President Emmanuel Macron, Finnish President Alexander
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Stube, Italian Prime Minister Georgia Maloney, and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutta.
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President Trump expected to meet for bilateral talks with Mr. Zelensky alone before the entire
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group takes part in a discussion. Sunday on CBS, Secretary of State Marco Rubio blasting
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host Margaret Brennan and others in the media with similar criticism for suggesting the European
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leaders are joining Mr. Zelensky to prevent President Trump from bullying the Ukrainian president
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into accepting a bad deal. You know there's concern from the Europeans that President Zelensky is going
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to be bullied into signing something away. That's why you have these European leaders coming as backup
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tomorrow. They're not coming here tomorrow. This is such a stupid media narrative that they're coming
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here tomorrow because Trump is going to bully Zelensky into a bad deal. We invited them to come.
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We invited them to come. The president invited them to come. Our goal here is not to stage some
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production for the world to say oh how dramatic he walked out. Our goal here is to have a peace
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agreement to end this war okay. And obviously we felt and I agreed that there was enough progress not
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a lot of progress but enough progress made in those talks to allow us to move to the next phase. If not we
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wouldn't be having Zelensky flying all the way over here. We wouldn't be having all the Europeans
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coming all the way over here. Today's White House visit follows the meeting between President Trump and
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Russian President Putin on Friday. The summit beginning with a red carpet arrival on the
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tarmac at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson as Presidents Trump and Putin walked to the presidential
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limo for a private ride together. Mr. Trump greeting the Russian president with a show of military force
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a flyover involving a B-2 stealth bomber accompanied by four F-35 jets. The B-2 considered a symbol of U.S.
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military power. It can fly around the globe without stopping carrying nuclear or conventional weapons.
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The same kind of bomber used by the U.S. to bomb Iranian nuclear sites in June. After about six
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hours on the ground in Alaska the summit concluding with brief remarks no questions and no ceasefire
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deal. However both leaders hailing the event as a positive step forward. President Trump at a brief
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Friday press conference signaling future economic cooperation with Russia once the fighting stops.
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And I will say that I believe we had a very productive meeting. There were many many points that we
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agreed on. Most of them I would say a couple of big ones that we haven't quite got there but we've made
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some headway. So there's no deal until there's a deal. It'll of course call up President Zelensky and tell him
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about today's meeting. It's ultimately up to them. They're going to have to agree with what Marco and Steve and
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some of the great people from the Trump administration who've come here. Scott and
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John Radcliffe. We also have some tremendous Russian business representatives here and I think
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you know everybody wants to deal with us. We've become the hottest country anywhere in the world
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in a very short period of time and we look forward to that. We look forward to dealing. We're going to
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try and get this over with. Critics blasting the summit as a win for Vladimir Putin pointing to the lack
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of a ceasefire and the red carpet reception for the Russian leader. Here a sampling beginning with
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Democrat Senator from Connecticut Chris Murphy. That meeting was a disaster. It was an embarrassment
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for the United States. It was a failure. Putin got everything he wanted. Trump's number one priority
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is just keeping his friend Vladimir Putin happy. I don't know if Donald Trump is or is not a Russian
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asset. He certainly acts like one. It looked like Putin was in control of this summit. What happened
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on Friday was a historic embarrassment for the United States. This is what Putin wants. He wants
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to be seen as an equal of the U.S. president. He made no concessions. Russia has not changed its
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positions on the Ukraine war one inch. That last soundbite from President Obama's former Deputy
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National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes, whose boss was once caught on a hot mic telling then-Russian
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President Dmitry Medvedev he'd have, quote, more flexibility with Russia after his 2012 re-election.
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Team Trump countering the critics. Special Envoy Steve Wyckoff, who participated in the summit,
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hitting the Sunday shows, outlining multiple concessions the Russians are willing to make,
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including accepting U.S. security guarantees for Ukraine, which Mr. Wyckoff calls, quote,
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game-changing. The exact scope of that commitment reportedly could be hammered out at today's
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White House meeting. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, another member of Friday's delegation on ABC,
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slamming critics for suggesting the war can end without President Trump meeting with Mr. Putin.
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Pop and circumstance, the red carpet, the warm handshake, that President Trump simply lost that,
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that Putin gained there, just by being on the world stage and walking down a red carpet with
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Well, I mean, critics of President Trump are always going to find something to criticize.
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You don't even pay attention to it anymore. But I will tell you this,
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Putin is already on the world stage. The guy's conducting a full-scale war in Ukraine. He has
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the world's largest tactical nuclear arsenal in the world and the second largest strategic nuclear
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arsenal in the world. He's already on the world stage. When I hear people say that, oh, it elevates
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him. Well, all we do is talk about Putin all the time. All the media's done is talk about Putin all
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the time for the last four or five years. That doesn't mean he's right about the war. That doesn't
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mean he's justified about the war. You're not going to end a war between Russia and Ukraine
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without dealing with Putin. That's not, that's just common sense. I shouldn't even have to say
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it. President Trump blasting the media yesterday morning on Truth Social, quote,
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If I got Russia to give up Moscow as part of the deal, the fake news and their partner,
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the radical left Democrats, would say I made a terrible mistake and a very bad deal.
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The president following up Sunday night with another Truth Social post, quote,
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President Zelensky of Ukraine can end the war with Russia almost immediately if he wants to,
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or he can continue to fight. The effect of today's visit could have massive global implications.
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We'll bring you the very latest. Coming up, a seven-month-old baby missing in California.
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Parents say he was kidnapped. Investigators have their doubts. And Hurricane Aaron setting records
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in the Atlantic. Will this powerful storm affect the East Coast?
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As President Trump is settling into his new administration, one of the top Democrats in
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Congress aiming to undermine the Trump agenda is Democrat Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois.
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takeover of your credit card before it's too late.
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California's San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department announcing on Saturday it is unable to rule out
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foul play in the Thursday disappearance of seven-month-old baby Emanuel Harrow. Baby Emanuel's
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mother, Rebecca Harrow, originally reporting the baby missing around 7.47 p.m. Thursday evening,
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telling authorities she was changing her son's diaper in a sporting goods store parking lot in
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Yucaipa when an unknown male attacked her. Harrow sporting a black eye, recounting her story to
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Los Angeles' ABC 7 on Friday. I fell on the floor and I said as I got up, I couldn't find my son. I got
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him out of the car seat and I laid him down so I could get his diapers ready. And somebody said,
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hola, and that's all I remember. And I saw, I saw white. And the hearing sound, I, I fell on the floor
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and I, and I said, as I got up, I couldn't find my son. I checked all around my truck and I ran into
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big five and I asked the lady if she saw a baby or someone with the baby. She said, no, it was happy
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boy. Canine teams and helicopters deploying. Deputies from San Bernardino and Riverside counties
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conducting an extensive search that night, yielding no results. Police have not yet said whether there
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is any relevant camera footage from the alleged scene. Authorities searching the couple's home
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on Saturday, reportedly bringing cadaver dogs. It is unclear if evidence was recovered. The Sheriff's
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Department releasing a statement on Saturday morning that reads in part,
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Rebecca was confronted with inconsistencies in her initial statement and declined to continue with
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the interview. At this point in the investigation, investigators are unable to rule out foul play
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in the disappearance of Emanuel. Investigators will continue their investigation to locate Emanuel
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Harrow. The statement did not name the mother, Rebecca, or the father, Jake, as suspects, nor did it
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expand on what inconsistencies they found. We asked the Sheriff's Department on Sunday if it remains the
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case that they have no suspects but have not received a response. On Saturday, the Uvalde Foundation for
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Kids, a national child advocacy and violence prevention group, announced it was withdrawing
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its search teams and reward offer for Emanuel, saying too much is missing in this case, and noting,
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quote, the inconsistencies in the details and the sudden decision by the mother to end communication
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with law enforcement. The group asking, quote, what parent would do that? Emanuel's grandmother is
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speaking out in support of her daughter Saturday to KTLA. Tonight, the grandmother has confirmed to us
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that the couple is no longer cooperating with investigators and has lawyered up just hours
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after they made that desperate public plea for their son's safe return. They're not going to hurt
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that baby. Those couple were just home buddies. The grandmother also says investigators asked her
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daughter to take a lie detector test, but her husband said no until they had a lawyer. She's just
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going crazy. You know, she can't handle it anymore. And we have learned tonight that the baby's father
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does have a criminal record. The Orange County Register reporting Mr. Harrow has a June 2023 conviction
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for child cruelty stemming from a 2018 arrest. He was scheduled to 180 days in jail and 48 months of
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probation and is scheduled to appear in court in early September for an alleged probation violation.
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The grandmother also noting a two-year-old child had been moved out of the home, though it is unclear
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if that choice was made by parents or mandated by authorities. Also unclear if and how many other
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children live in this house. Harrow originally telling investigators she went to a sporting goods store
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to purchase a mouth guard for her stepson, who plays youth football. Authorities have yet to activate
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an Amber Alert, saying the criteria has not been met with no suspect or vehicle description.
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Baby Emanuel said to weigh about 21 pounds, approximately 24 inches tall, brown hair, brown eyes,
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and is said to be cross-eyed. He was last seen wearing a black Nike onesie. Anyone with information
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about Emanuel's disappearance is asked to call 911 or the San Bernardino Sheriff's Department at 909-890-4904.
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Hurricane Aaron, the first Atlantic hurricane of 2025 and the fifth named Storm, on a wild ride through
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the Caribbean. Aaron at one point reaching a Cat 5-level hurricane, the fiercest designation,
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but as of Sunday night downgraded to a Category 3 with sustained winds of 125 miles per hour,
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centered just over 310 miles northwest of San Juan, Puerto Rico. The hurricane center predicting the
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storm will continue to fluctuate in size and intensity. The 5 p.m. advisory warning, quote,
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Aaron is likely to remain a dangerous hurricane through the middle of the week. While its maximum
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winds diminished, the storm's overall size grew. The hurricane center reporting Saturday night that
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Aaron was experiencing an eyewall replacement cycle, where the storm becomes so powerful and its eyewall
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so intense that a new eyewall forms, enlarging the radius of the storm's eye, ultimately strengthening the
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storm, potentially. Hurricane Aaron still expected to avoid a direct landfall, passing north of Puerto
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Rico, then curving northeast into the open Atlantic between the East Coast and Bermuda. But the hurricane
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center warning Aaron could still produce life-threatening rip currents along the Bahamas, the U.S. East Coast,
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Bermuda, and all the way up to parts of Canada over the next several days. Turks and Caicos and the
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Southwest Bahamas bracing for tropical storm conditions today, nearly all of St. Thomas Island reportedly
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losing power with scattered outages throughout the rest of the U.S. Virgin Islands. Aaron making the
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history books, jumping from a Cat 1 on Friday morning to a Cat 5 in just over 24 hours, one of the fastest
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intensifications ever recorded in the Atlantic. Fox Weather's Michael Estime with more on the record-breaking
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We went from what was a little kitten to a big, ferocious tiger in literally 24 hours. This was
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yesterday at about 11 o'clock in the morning, 75-mile-per-hour winds, and we ramped those
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winds up by nearly 90 to 95 miles per hour in just 24 hours. We literally call that, quote, rapid
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intensification. That, though, is when you see winds increase by 35 miles per hour in 24 hours. This was
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90-plus miles per hour in 24 hours, so almost a super rapid intensification is what we're calling it.
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This marks the fourth straight season with at least one Category 5 hurricane. AccuWeather forecasters
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tracking two other potential systems, one with a low chance of development, the other with a medium
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chance. Peak hurricane season is in September. The full season extends through November.
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And that'll do it for your AM Update. I'm Megan Kelly. Join me back here for The Megan Kelly Show,
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live on SiriusXM Triumph Channel 111 at noon east, on youtube.com slash megankelly,