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>> okay. >> can you imagine what mattlock would say to these guys if he was in their firm? >> well have the full story come i coming up. bill? one of those seasons like 04 and 05, one after another. this is maria. if you werent paying attention over the weekend, this became a hurricane, will head to the islands, and has its eye set on either virgin islands or puerto rico, maybe a little bit of both. the concern is that it will go through dominica and martinique as a category 3. puerto rico has...

Chain. after the 04-05 season we required generators at the distribution point at the ports. before that did not have a generator to off load all of that product into trucks and to move it around the state. so they did that additionally they required wiring to go into all of those gas stations up and down its evacuation routes so most of them as pointed out have generators. so we have gas going in there. additionally some of our food markets put about $100 million, one of our large food markets ...

Border with florida and georgia. that will drop. florida is kind of flat. it takes a while for it to go down like that. you can still see, we also talked about jose in the next couple days. sometimes in the 04 and 05 storms, it was one after:00 this one will not be a problem. it looks like it will curve out and head out to zee sea. 48 hours of damage from irma we can go back and stay at this journey, it was a hurricane for 12 day itself, of course, it was 185-mile-per-hour winds for 37 hours whe...

We were before. having said that you are you are right, its going to be really tough trying to predict these really small wobbles. thats sort of where a lot of research in model prediction is occurring is trying to get these really high resolution models to be able to capture these small shifts which have such important consequences. there is a lot of work being done at the national weather service and the national hurricane center. they are developing new models and improving the resolution and...

Say up to two to four weeks, theyll try to find alternative living situations for them so that we can get the schools back and running, so that mom and dad that are going to work can go to work and not worry about the kids because theyre going to be in school as normal. so its a cascading effect as we go down. but youre right, electricity starts with it. but its also the water and sewer and septic. it all has to be working together for these folks to be able to go back in their homes if its stil...

We still see the temperatures in that upper 80s to low 90 degree range. so typical florida weather. they were a little cooler yesterday, but that has come to an end. and now you get the super and have knots. and i went through it when i lived in florida in 04, 05. people that have power look and feel great and people that dont, its 00 not fun. >> thanks, bill. lets go to the mayor of the islands just outside of savannah. mr. mayor, thanks so much for joining us. very much appreciate it. your are...

Things. steve: absolutely. millions were -- thank you very much, griff. millions were in mandatory or voluntary evacuation areas. i read, i think in the miami herald this morning that 170,000 people spent the night overnight in a shelter. the big question is, for instance, in miami where the curfew is from 7:00 to 7:00, will people at 7:00, its now 7:05 down in miami, will they give them the okay to go ahead, go see what your house is like but you have to come back. ainsley: people picking up up...

Folks with elderly, people who are caregivers, people with children, pets, there is a whole lot of discomfort going on. >> part of the reason i can associate well is i was a forecaster in the orlando local market in 04-05. i got to see first-hand in six week tlz were three hurricanes. the week or two afterwards is cruel because some people have power, some people dont. i will never forget sitting in the newsroom and you can tell the people and see the people that had power that looked normal and...

We spent a lot of money after the 04, 05 storms. even a 15-foot surge, where do the people have to be? where are the danger areas for that kind of surge? so we have those identified, locals know where they are and quite frankly, theyre moving people to the safer areas. >> thanks so much. that is one thing different here from storms in the past. the storm surge warnings, the technology gives people those warnings in so much more specific, so much earlier. all we can do, anderson is hope that peop...

Difference with just a slight shift in the track. everybody in this hurricane warning area needs to be prepared for the possibility of the core of the hurricane moving over them today into tomorrow. shepard: i remember back in 05 when wilma hit as a cat three and then the year before as a cat four, the tracks were not similar, but you had a better idea of where they were going. with this one, a little east of fort myers is one thing, a little west is another. same with tampa. >> yeah. this area,...