Isaias becomes Atlantic’s first hurricane of the season, nearly breaks 121-year-old record

The Atlantic season now has its first hurricane

Isaias was upgraded overnight after rapidly getting stronger in the Gulf of Mexico

And it could reach Category 2 strength by early Friday, with winds of 110 mph before making landfall along the northern Gulf Coast early Saturday

Forecasters are warning of dangerous storm surge from Mississippi to the Florida Panhandle

Here's the National Hurricane Center's director. So we're expecting multiple dangerous life-threatening impacts along portions of the northern Gulf Coast beginning Friday and continuing into the weekend

That first risk is storm surge. We have a broad area of the risk of life-threatening inundation from storm surge all the way from the mouth of the Mississippi River across the Mississippi and Alabama Gulf Coast

all of the Florida Panhandle coastline and down into the Big Bend over to Yankee Town

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has declared a state of emergency in 25 counties, with mandatory evacuations now ordered in two panhandle counties

Alabama has also declared an emergency in 40 counties, and the storm could also change President Trump's weekend plans

He's been expected at Saturday's Alabama-Georgia football game in Tuscaloosa, but when asked Wednesday whether he still plans to go, the president sounded less certain

Mr. President, a hurricane is forecast to hit the Gulf Coast this weekend

Are you still planning to visit Alabama and go to the football game on Saturday? Well, a hurricane and a football game

I love Alabama. I got to go to a game. I can't be awfully hard

Look, I mean, if there's an emergency, if there's a hurricane, I don't want to do anything to take the focus of all of the great people

that work on those things. You know, they have some tremendously great people

I don't want to take the focus off