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Hitting us, but dont touch downed power lines. dont get close to downed power lines. >> florida governor rick scott giving a briefing this morning, reminding that were only halfway through the hurricane while southern florida has missed much of the damage they were concerned about. half the state is still facing the storm. storms that could be coming through saturday night. jacksonville, he brought up, could still face significant flooding. hes very concerned about a storm surge. there are 145 s...

Equipment out of the way. do you know anything about that, out of harms way? >> well, we not only moved equipment, we moved people. when we have a hurricaine ride-out crew, we usually have them around the space center in the different critical facilities so if something happens then theyre there to respond or react to it, and help stabilize the situation, then report back to the emergency operations center. when you get up to category four, category five storm, its not really safe to have people...

Assessments. both property and people. we do the same thing after her mine. they have not reported any is e issues yet. highway patrol has 150 troopers on public safety patrol right now and another 100 on standby. they have not reported any issues yet. we have over 145 shelters open. we have over 22,000 people in our shelters. i checked all night, and we dont have any major traffic or road issues at this time. we have been checking, and thats one thing i think that worked with our evacuation so ...

At this point in time? but this storm will make an eye wall landfall. whether the center of the eye stays offshore there will be enough wind along the coast of 115 to maybe 145 miles per hour with that eye wall right onshore that anyone from fort pierce to stuart to in the atlantic beach to daytona to new smirma all the way up the coast this is a category 4 hurricane. the eye is getting smaller right now. the pressure is going down which means the storm is still strengthening. and this is where ...

Category 4 coming ashore in southeast florida tonight. >> dr. knabb, hey, its chad myers here. overnight in the 5:00 advisory, the closest approach to florida went from 135 to 145 mile per hour storm and people thinking that is only 10% difference. describe why 145 is more dangerous than 130 or 120? >> its not a linear relationship between the strengths of the wind and the damage it can do. rather exponential. but either way, we dont know exactly what the wind speeds will be at any one location ...

I was very proud of his strong language. he did not mince words. get out. that is our message, and that is our hope. worry about your possessions later. take care of your life now. you only have one life. >> yeah, yeah, so excellent message. were watching a split screen as you both are talking. on the right side, i mean its almost becoming obscured by the rain and the wind, but that is west palm beach and you can see just how dramatic the wind is, thats the just the outer bands of this storm. ob...

A sleepless night up the east coast. winds still here from melbourne to fort pierce, 130 to 145 miles per hour. moving north up there to cape canaveral, and then finally, exiting the florida coast somewhere around jacksonville but making a pretty big impact on georgia, as well. >> absolutely. chad thanks so much for keeping an eye on it and warning everyone who is listening to us today to be careful and evacuate if you are in the zone. this is whats headed in your direction. these are live pictu...

Difficulty contact their emergency operations center so they can get out of harms way. the storm surge is going to be incredibly powerful and in many ways, is the risk that we will feel after the wind and the rain. so we really need folks to head west. >> mayor shaver, i dont think people realize that matthew could become a category 4 hurricane. that means sustained winds of 145 miles per hour. i think when you say a number like that, people dont realize how strong those winds are. >> i think yo...

Something like that. but, were told the core is actually very close to us. there is a storm chaser who is here at the hotel with us and he says its just moving so slowly but its so close. so amazingly, the conditions here are going to get even worse. back to you. >> the conditions will get worse because as she said that hurricane is moving very slowly. its moving toward the northwest, towards the united states at about 10 miles per hour. it could become a category 4 storm, which means it will ca...

Category 4 storm with winds of about 140 miles per hour may be gusting up to 165 miles an hour. how much damage can that cause? >> devastating. the same damage we see from the same storm when it was just as strong when it hit haiti. we showed you the pictures of haiti, how devastated that was. i know our buildings are stronger but theyre not any stronger when you talk about 145 mile per hour wind. it just went by nassau, headed toward freeport and eventually on up to cape canaveral. the close ta...