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like a freight train. were seeing record-breaking and terrifying storm surges throughout florida and ft. myers, the water is so high pickup trucks are almost completely submerged. water levels have risen more than 6 feet in the last switch ho -- seven hours. lets get to tom sater in the cnn weather center. an updated forecast should come any minute now. what should we expect? >> it was just handed to me. forgive me for reading off. we still have a category 4 hurricane and five miles ea...

mornings too, but a little cloud, leapt the light slowly sleep in, cup of coffee, quiet house -- rachel: that sounds liken fantasy. [laughter] pete: my if wife is, like, turn the lights on. i like to keep them off. let the natural light come in, let the morning soothe in -- will: its not an operating room. i dont need harsh overhead light. i hate badminton. [laughter] rachel: that looked so fun. will: i was so humbled just now. i mean, i broke mine in tennis, i i now play racquetball w...

From the keys up to the panhandle. i just remind people from hurricane irma, it hit southwest florida around naples, but we had massive flooding in downtown miami. so its going to impact the entire state. we are super saturated from months of rain that have been going on here. we are going to have trees down all over the state. were going to have local are oohized flooding all over the is state -- localized flooding. thats why we have all 67 counties ready for and preparing for a disaster under ...

Our team was all yesterday. you saw chris cuomo, literally in the eye of the storm for some time after being hit by 140 mile-an-hour winds. on the phone with me that was bill barnett, the mayor of naples and thank you so much for being with us, and i know its hard to get a sense of just how bad the damage is. it does take some time, but i do hear you are finally having some data to tell us about. what have you learned? >> you know, and id like to make a really quick statement about people wading...

Been waiting to hear all day. a lot of us were very worried about what might have happened to naples with the severity, the storm surge was the major concern going in. you havent seen any impact from that? is there any lingering water, flooding left over? >> well, we have some. sure. it was a little bit above normal, but it is receding and as i say, none of the business district streets were impacted and we are just -- we are fortunate, but yeah, well have water for a little while, but nothing -...

However, some good news at least for jacksonville folks that have been experiencing the incredible amounts of rain. the good news is the majority of that rain is well out now. you should actually start to be seeing some clearing there in the short term which will allow folks to get out and assess some of the damage in those regions and begin the cleanup process. south of jacksonville as you go further south into florida. look at these rainfall totals that we had. nearly 16 inches in fort pierce,...

160-170, potentially 180. naples, fort myers, bonita springs. beyond serious. are you confident youve been able to evacuate all the neighboring towns that are evacuated? >> sean, i am very confident in that. weve been moving people out. many of them on a voluntary basis. now more aggressively to shelter. im happy to report that we are getting a lot of cooperation. we are moving people to keep them safe. >> sean: i have so many friends down there, its disheartening. as the governor of florida, he...

Closer. folks that are still in southern florida right now to be not noticing things, they will start to deteriorate on saturday and then we have our landfall on sunday morning. >> sean: lets talk about the exact, direct hit? my second home is in naples, florida. i have a lot of friends, lee county, colliers county. with the direct hit if you had a guess no? >> if our latest models, we are still waiting for that turn. i will put two models and motion for you now. we are running up the coast. thi...

Moving along the north coast of cuba. this is going to weaken the storm a little bit. the more powerful a storm is, the more slight disruptions could naturally reconnect. i dont want people to think that it will not be a severe hurricane because what happens is this, it will get over the very warm water in the florida street and the mid-upper levels. then i the dynamics. whats happening here, weve been preaching this for a few days. instead of letting rita and katrina, they weakened from 5 t, th...

Expect in all these cities. walk us through the entire path of this storm. >> i believe the landfall is going to occur on the southwest coast. im not trying to downplay the miami area. i think miami and sunday afternoon, thats when it is worse in miami. we will get wind gusts up to 10. the devastation in the florida keys, i was watching those people in the florida keys, they may get cut off. it would not surprise me if some of these bridges out there got washed over. thats how severe this could ...