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Afternoon, and in to friday. and as the public knows, hurricane matthew is intensifying. and could be a category 4 hurricane when it reaches the south florida coast. so of course number one priority is public safety here in the emergency operations center, and were going to continue monitoring from here. >> all right. miguel ascarrunz, thank you so much for joining me right now. and just to reiterate if youre under a mandatory or voluntary evacuation and youre hearing from your local municipalit...

Flashlights, batteries. we could probably handle five, seven days without electricity its more -- im looking at the winds and its getting more scary. >> were hearing 140 to 145 miles per hour possible there. how many people are in your position where they were planning to stay or is it just you. >> theres a full parking lot here. >> okay. a full parking lot. so im assuming theyre prepared as well is there a possibility you miss your window with your fiance working at the snopt. >> absolutely. yo...

Coming, you know. we feel its not going to be a direct hit, but our message has always been the same. we prepare with three days of water, and food, and we gas up our vehicles and we shutter up our property and then, you know, we dont have any evacuation orders, we have asked that folks that live in mobile homes to voluntarily evacuate to shelters. we have opened up shelters with capacity of about 1,000 people. we have about 300 people that have taken advantage of that. the way that this storm a...

Some of the graphics. its up to a category four. we thought it was intensifying and now the winds start to pick up. so no longer category three. its now category four. 140-mile-per-hour winds. northwest at 14th. that increase in full speed is anticipated. everything is on schedule. nothing has changed as far as the current initial conditions as it pulls away from nassau. the updated path and the track and start analyzing this. now we get into the crunch time here. so here we are. thursday at 8:0...

Thats why the water in the carolinas is so warm, because its really out of the caribbean. category 4 hurricane trying to make landfall here somewhere in the overnight hours. a sleepless night for anywhere from about ft. pierce, west palm, all the way up to melbourne. its that peak wind, its that peak gust, wolf, that were worried about, if we get 145 on land with the eye wall. thats where the devastation will happen. here is one of the models. here is a graphic presentation of what a model looks...

These states. this is an expected huge event. >> sure. and this is the last minutes that florida residents will have to take those precautions. there will still be more minutes for georgia and south carolina but at this point in time, thats it. if youre from ft. pierce to stewart and about cocoa beach, you dont have time left you cant put in sheets of plywood when you have bands of weather bringing in 60 mile per hour wind gusts and thats what well have for the rest of the day. the gusts inside ...

Make this forecast track as accurate as possible. thanks for jumping on the phone with us. what part of the storm did you fly into? >> well, we have penetrated the eye of hurricane matthew four times and then also, we flew around the storm trying to collect information, the steering flow to help the national hurricane center figure out exactly where its going to go. how strong its going to be, how big its going to be when they get there. so you have the center that might make landfall but its no...

Very low elevations. they have the intercoastal waterway. everyone will be off barrier islands except maybe a couple emergency personnel. hopefully well save lives there. we wont know until saturday how devastating that storm surge was to the businesses that line up and down the east coast of florida. youll see all of the high rises most likely west palm beach northward all of the hotels with 145-mile-per-hour winds, tho buildings are meant to withstand winds that strong but well have windows th...

>> dylan, you are talking about the eye and the concentration of it. its gotten so much smaller. >> it wont expand. if it were to expand, that means the eye wall is its strongest twins. if it does start to expand, that means that even if the storm stays, i am sure you are going to see the e if he cans along the coast because thats where you will get the 145 miles per hour winds. you can see we are seeing the outer bands of rainmaking their way into the area. the torrential downpours is just the ...

Just to the west of the island, great news there. cable beach got some damage to the south, got some damage, i have see tree fronds down. havent noticed anything bigger than that. the eye wall is about to make a run at florida. the eye wall at 140 miles per hour may skirt the florida peninsula, the east coast of florida, for many many hours, for many hundreds of miles potentially. 145 mile per hour storm off the coast. still making huge waves, lots of lightning, a lot of beach erosion, but heres...