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I want to go to south florida now. it now appears that hurricane irma packing 120-miles-per-hour cat 3 winds is headed on a direct course to marco island. dave is riding out the storm in marco island, he says his home is 150 yards from the water. dave, how are you and who is with you? >> im fine, thank you, and im by myself. my wife and dog and mother-in-law evacuated yesterday. >> do you have electricity? >> actually i dont have electricity. i have a generator that powers the house. [inaudible]...

Focussed on miami and miami and points south that prepared. the storm has changed directions. and its causing people to have to scramble who thought they were in good shape as far as the predictions. we have to remember is the cone is called the cone of uncertainty for a reason. because that hurricane can switch back and forth and go either direction chblt the good news is, we have good communications, everybody is still talking, and everybody is connected. my theory is that we could be right ba...

Bill: how do you think the states cone so far? >> its -- done so far? >> its fantastic. its a great response. we had plenty of lead time in this one. some of the other hurricanes, especially gulf hurricanes, you dont have quite as much leeway time. this time we did, and i think the state, federal government, united states coast guard have all done an outstanding job preparing, and i think theyre really postured for an outstanding response as tough as its going to be. bill: bad luck to you, sir, ...

Maria mariana intenso is doing. mariana, how have conditions deteriorated there? >> brian, im at a point in the beach thats the southern most part of miami beach, the southern most cone of miami beach. this is where the big condos are. i want you to look at the scene behind me. thats how big things are. i have never seen the big palm tree, which are new, and they actually had reinforcements installed to avoid this from happening. they just completely gave way. because conditions are worsening by...

Flori florida. then i glass at my phone and see the radar images, and the other parts of florida and you realize there it is coming. people can be lead into a false sense of security or a sense of denial, but you only need to look at the pictures here and again they have a bit of luxury of time. some time in the overnight hours. >> were still about 90 minutes away from the newest report of the track of the hurricane and the cone. the hope, of course, that is stays out of the way. the mayor said ...

Is around 7:00 this evening. and i think thats the one that will have the most imminent storm surge threat. winds 130 miles per hour, upgraded to category 4 storm. and this is the old intensity forecast, but the reason why i wanted to show you is because of the threat for the storm surge this evening. the hurricane right off of ft. myers here, 8:00, so remember that, high tide at 7:00. that water will be funneling in with the back side of the storm. so naples, down to ft. myers, marco island, ve...

Off of tampa/st. petersburg. this is where the forecast gets really tricky. notice the cone. weve been talking about this the last couple of days. the storm could be on the right or left side of the cone. thats going to drastically change the impacts whether this storm is closer to the coast, thats going to bring in the inundation of water. further offshore, youll still see severe impacts but not quite as devastating. this is an hour by hour situation. we have to watch this storm as it wobbles. ...

This one is going right up the peninsula, so we have never really seen anything like this. and, again, the damage will be extreme. well be tracking this eyewall and its destructive winds and surge all the way through the morning and all the way through today. >> i want to ask you about the state of georgia, certainly not the focus for many people right now. we know all the way back on thursday, governor nathan deal said all of you on the coastline in georgia, you need to heed evacuation orders, ...

And figured i didnt want to not on risk her health but when these kind of things happen, the on thing more dangerous than mother nature is man. being out on the road at kid and maybe having to stay at a restaurant overnight, it didnt seem like something i wanted to do. >> i dont want to put you on the spot here, only answer what you want -- >> absolutely. >> how are you feeling now about the decision? >> i dont want to -- i mean, i dont want to diminish whats going to happen to our brothers and ...

Florida. so for those folks who focus on the eye, dont do that. look at the cone of uncertainty when you see that track. it will affect both coasts as it makes it way up the coast, chris. >> thats the concern, weve been talking to officials, we heard it and i mentioned it earlier and we were talking to a reporter from the "palm beach post" she said once they saw the tracks had changed a lot of people decided to stay and yet as im reading the headlines in the miami nups theyre saying even though ...