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To escape. because of the storm surge and the wind blowing off the ocean and the rain bit up flowing into the river. we got like a trifecta of heavy storm surge, heavy flooding and high tide at the same time. jacksonville is in the middle of about to experience the worst flood by three feet than anyone else alive has ever seen. >> irma now a tropical storm, no longer a hurricane. the weather channels reynolds wolf is there in jacksonville for us, reynolds. >> reporter: willie, the rains have com...

Once the forecast went from being maybe focussed to the east side to the west side of the state, i think folks may have breathed a sigh of relief and said oh, okay, well, not so bad. but what we were trying to tell people is dont focus on the track. look at the cone. if youre within that cone of uncertainty, you are vulnerable. and i think maybe folks on the west side of the state didnt focus -- didnt listen to that as well as maybe they should have. and all of the sudden when it shifted back to...

When we thought it would break and go straight up the coast whom. would have thought that the winds in orlando would be worse than the winds in tampa? >> thats right. look, the best we can do is give you the probabilities. and we show you the cone of uncertainty and that line. but i think we keep trying to tell people dont focus on the exact path. dont focus on those spinning symbols with the numbers in them. look at this cone of uncertainty. and youre always best served with that and its borne ...

They have made a statement saying they still believe that after the midnight hour, were looking at more of a north/northwesterly track. that track seems to the west, but im going with the national hurricane center until we get more information. they are the best in the world. this continues to have that cone directly half off the coastline and half on. but our center point has changed somewhat. thats why its going to be critical to watch and see what happens when the new track comes out a little...

Is going to live up to it? and should we, you know, pay attention to this? and i said yeah. gosh, i mean, bill, look, you were doing as much forecasting, more probably than i was. you know, youre looking at the spaghetti strands in the beginning. it covered the entire state from the gulf to the east side. and then they started to kind of constrict. but they still were -- the spaghetti strands were still covering the entire state. and we kept saying you got to look at this. if youre within that c...

Will travel to an area affected by the hurricane. and burglary and looting and a curfew in effect until 7:00 a.m. reynolds wolf is in jacksonville, this morning. >> the situation is dire here. were standing near the landing of the st. johns river where two days ago the water was about three feet down. its come up. we have not gone to the river. the river has come to us. its a story of whats happened in the past, the instruction, the trail of destruction, and this massive system left and parts ...

But keep in mind that eye wall is expanding as it becomes less and less organized. and those stronger winds are going to have to be pushed out. even though the winds are coming down a lot larger of a land area will see those higher gusts of 80, 90 miles per hour than 23 it were just a tight core of the eye. so less and less about where the center goes, and know that this is going to be a statewide storm from west coast to east coast, all are fair game to see those gusts well over hurricane-force...

As this eye wall came ashore. lets pan in here. the naples/marco island area, certainly hardest hit. wind gusts of 142 miles an hour. inland seeing wind gusts up to 77 miles an hour in the everglades. 93-mile-an-hour wind gusts in miami and homestead. you saw sam champion get bumped around in those wind guses here today. mike seidel as well. 90-mile-an-hour wind gusts in west palm beach. the ironic part was that eastern florida wasnt even in the cone. thats how expansive the storm was. the cone ...

Tighter and came up through the gulf and into the harbor. so with irma, weve had days and days and days where we were in the cone of uncertainty. so we were preparing and doing as much as we could in all of that time to get ourselves prepared for whatever path she may take. >> so how much damage is there? how many have you been able to assess at this point about what happened in your community? >> with charlie, i can tell you total houses were lost. roofs were blown off. pool cages were gone. bo...

Full of good news and beyond expectations. how about that? >> were certainly praying for that. we want to be able to help other counties to the south that fared much worse than we did. and we are keeping the rest of the state in our prayers, as you said. now its central florida and orlando area. earlier we thought they were out of the cone of uncertainty. and now its coming for them. keep on going as quick as possible and get off the state and hopefully back out into the water. were thinking tha...