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Ground, we drop it from the airplane, this information is telling us exactly where the currents are and how strong they are and feeds into the computer models and can take this information and get a better forecast out and so these tracks as theyve been shifting west, they have been using our data and theyve been help to go hone in on the west coast of florida and east coast of florida and over time it seems that it will be proven true. abby: anything you can tell us about the storm itself, abou...

Irma, dropping -- in all were going to drop 32 drops into the storm and around the storm from an altitude of 45,000 feet. and this is really, really critical information for the computer models to get that really fine scale detail thats necessary to move that track a little to the left or a little to the right. what we do is we drop these instruments, and again, theyre sort of the opposite of a weather balloon. they fall by parachute from the bottom of the aircraft and they transmit pressure, te...

That purple shaded area right around the beautiful parks there in northern sections of florida. 10, 11 inches of rainfall. that is going to be devastating. all right. we go back towards the board, give you a little bit more information as to what we can expect. who is going to see the eye move over them? well, it does look like the computer models have said more so if we were -- i did this yesterday. if we drew a line right down the center of florida, those computer models were trending more so ...

And then you get that forward speed, that storm surge that pushes that water onshore. but not just on this coast. were also looking on the coast for -- from naples all the way down towards key largo and key west. we could see a storm surge there of 8 to 12 feet because its a little shall lower here. weve also done -- ill ask my own question. people have wonld erred couldnt it just go across the keys and into the gulf of mexico? it could, but the computer models, which are very sophisticated, hav...

Scenario for miami with this westward shift in the storm track. but it does not bode well. the latest storm surge map pretty ominous for places like naples and bonita and ft. myers and even sarasota tampa. theres going to be power outages into orlando. the whole state is impacted. where do you send people? >> thats an issue. look, the thing about andrew is it made a lot of people in florida understand how powerful and important these storms are. whats your sense of it? are they more powerful now...

Thats where were seeing the 160-mile-per-hour winds right now. >> no matter where you go, its not going to be good. its slowed down to 12 miles per hour? >> yes. which isnt surprising. when you see the eye interacting with the northern portion of cuba, it slowed down. but that turn is coming. and it will turn to the north. >> the reason i asked that, is when we were talking about harvey, which was really slow, the pace of walking, that is what hurt the state of texas and louisiana so much. and i...

That live throughout the state of florida. pretty much, unless you live on this extreme western edge of the pan handle, everybody is going to be affected by irma. and what michael said earlier about irma is so frightening because we dont know exactly whats going to happen. the computer models can tell us all kind of information. we know what hurricanes so. we know it slowed down a little bit. it was barlg along at 16 miles an hour, now its 12 miles an hour. its frightening to think this may slow...

Florida officials warn there is no safe place in the keys area. cars are bumper to bumper as cars head north. irma has claimed 23 lives so far. eefg little more than splinters, extraordinary images there. >> lets get the latest on the storms strength and position and perhaps where its headed. moolg joining us from atlanta with that. >> still a category 5, even though it made land fall in cuba about two or three hours ago. then its going to wind its way, make the trajectory more toward the north ...

At first it was going westerly. now its west-northwesterly at 12 miles per hour, and i was really watching that because, unfortunately for cuba, boy, i mean, the torrential downpours and the hurricane force winds have been relentless for cuba. particularly on the north part of the island. now were getting some of those feeder bands. the very outer feeder bands coming into the keys right now. winds are picking up. current winds as far north assist west palm up to 25 miles per hour. the winds are ...

Stretch further off to the east, including miami at this point. that could change again. but right now, we are looking at covering mooe of the west coast of florida. thats not to say the east coast of florida wont be impacted because this is such a large storm. take a look at this. the computer models have shifted to the west and theres a good consensus that turn to the northwest will occur sometime tomorrow. see tow heightly packed the lines are? that way you know nay ear more in agreement. mos...