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Of their ships, theres a bunch of help coming, but they just need the storm to leave and then they can get in there. and that will happen. i mean, i imagine by the time we get to wednesday morning the storm will be all the way up here off the daytona beach area. so that should be far enough away that the seas will get low enough and the seas will die off enough. maybe by the end of today they can try to get some of the emergency response people in there. i mean, theyre going to need help for so ...

The entire island. the storm hovered over the island for several days. this is a category 2 at this point, mering the southeastern coast of florida. before we move on to other topics in the show, as promised, an update from meteorologist bill karins with nbc news. bill? >> were watching the storm closely. its still right on, about 80 miles off the east coast of florida. the heaviest bands are now rotating closer to the coast. and this will be the peak of the storm from areas of volusia county ...

Make. now, as we go to the north and also the east, the cone of concern does include the coast at this point by wednesday, thursday, friday. so now by thursday were getting into south carolina, category 2 storm, right off the coast. i mean, painfully off the coast. and, you know, with this storm its been very inconsistent. the consistent thing about it is that its been so inconsistent. so they wobble back and forth. and we do need to have those players in place thats going to steer it and they c...

60 miles per hour. 74 miles per hour. that is a cat 1 storm. we are moving at 13 miles per hour. that is good news for puerto rico. we will move pretty quickly over the eastern part of the island. here with he go with tracking dorian the next several days. we expect 70-mile-per-hour winds. close to a cat 1 storm. there is that increase. we are over very warm waters of the caribbean. that helps to give the fuel to the storm. thats what we are expecting now. were not expecting it to make the land ...

Were sorry they did. >> yes, when we were covering hurricane florence, i was in new bern where there was a significant amount of flooding, it was catastrophic, and i heard people say my homes never flooded before, thats why i need to evacuate. if you were on this island here, you knew you were going to get slammed here. category 2, and category 3, you know youre going to get slammed. but there are reasons why people dont evacuate, but everybody needs to get to safety in a couple of minutes. we k...

Roof damage to go around with it, as well. this is what happens. and of course, it was a downgraded storm as it came ashore, category 2. it was initially had forecasts to make it to land at category 4. it shows you the damage that could have been done further to what we saw. upwards of 30 gauges. expect to report flooding and major flood stage for the vast majority of them. the water levels will peak later on wednesday. and a gradual drop is forecast towards the weekend. >> thank you for keeping...

From reaching the east coast. lisa: radar showing the powerful category 2 storm thats expected to unleash 110 mile-per-hour winds and storm surges up to 13 feet high. pete: the cajun navy, my second favorite navy a volunteer group now sending more than 1,000 people to the carolinas and virginia to help. steve: janice dean is tracking florences path and yanice, it is such a wide storm. janice: yep. steve: this is going to pump a lot of atlantic ocean water into the carolinas. janice: right. when ...

Many others have taken to facebook to offer spare bedrooms, couches, cars to those fleeing the storm. there are ways you can help. please, visit redcross.org or habitat.org and donate. every dollar, every penny helps. these are our friends. these are our neighbors. these are americans. that wraps up this hour. im stephanie ruhle. ill see you again with my partner, ali velshi. lucky me, im in d.c. >> i get to talk to you in person. >> well see you in an hour, steph. that is good news, by the way....

Storm all the way up to the great lakes because it would be picked up by a cold front and as it does so we could the potential for several inches of rain. the storm will be weakening, it will be a depression later today but it will be absorbed in a cold front, meaning potential for heavy rainfall not only for the gulf coast but all the way to the plane states and the great lakes over the next couple days. it will be a relatively big deal. a lot of these areas are saturated. anymore rainfall will...

Coast, it could be a category 3 storm. now its a category 2 and growing with sustained winds up to 100 miles per hour. theres warning of devastating flooding thats issued storm surge warnings for the texas coast. up to 35 inches of rain possible in parts of southeast texas through next week. mandatory evacuation orders in effect for multiple cities and counties in texas and louisiana. harvey is set to be the biggest storm to hit new orleans since katrina. >> we just got the update. the 7:00 a.m....