A slight shift to the left of this storm would bring big changes. We all need to keep an eye on this system.

We're on the weaker, west side of the storm, Ophelia is not going to be a Katrina, even if it turns into a hurricane, and none of the forecast models bring the center directly to Jacksonville.

It may well be in our own back yard by the end of the week.

Keep tuned to the forecast, because it's moving hardly at all, it is forecast to drift to the north and northwest. It may well be in our own back yard by the end of the week.

The hope would be that the storm would actually move over land a little quicker because it would prevent it from sitting over the warm Atlantic ocean waters -- these waters 85, 90 degrees -- and possibly gaining strength.

Mark Baker is a good friend and trusted adviser of the senator. He and the senator have traveled the state and they both understand the diverse nature of the state and its people. Mark's family is just one of the many Montana families the senator is fighting on behalf of.