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Then all of a sudden, yes, youre into ft. myers. so theres no question that at the 5 clock advisory if this thing doesnt start turning the hurricane center could slide that higher surge on up to ft. myers for sure. and its not out-the question that this thing gets into tampa. thats why i need everybody on the west side of the state to watch this. youre still in the cone, tampa, and youve never been out of the cone. ft. myers never been out of the cone. cape coral, never been out of the cone. so,...

Thats where we have hurricane warnings in effect. for barbuda, jose is just another blow. >> lets hope it will stay away from the mainland. and the new cone with the latest information that you got in, is it better for the united states whether it tracks farther to the west or east in that cone thats possible? what will give the least amount of damage to florida? >> i wish it was east of the eastern most shore of florida. unfortunately, thats not the case with the track likely to work its way to...

Have standing by for any possible scenario, mayor? >> well, we have a skel cal staff that will be right at point sinai where i will be and have been all day. that is our command staff center. its a hurricane-proof building. and the majority of our resources are in miami across the bridge. clearing the roads is the first step after the storm hits. >> mayor levine, whatever happen, our thoughts and prayers are with you. and thank you throughout this, you have been so terrific in spending your time...

The good news is it slowed down enough that it will probably miss high tide. so the storm surge that will probably be anywhere from this side of florida will be anywhere from 8 to 12 feet wont have the high tide to be on top of it. but we do expect winds to come in at about between 150 and 175 miles per hour coming in here. folks have made lots of preparations, boarded up windows as we drove in last night we saw boarded up windows. interestingly enough we were able to stop at a 7-eleven and get ...

United states. so its quite incredible to see just how ferocious this storm has already been and will continue to be as we go forward. of course, we continue to talk than slight shift to the west. and that is so critical in terms of a meteorologist forecasting where the strongest winds will be. being a meteorologist myself, we look at all these different ensembles pieces. karen was talking about that earlier. some of them showing slight eastward track, some of them showing a westward track. but ...

Get hurricane-force winds. they will. see the red zone? first lets look at the yellow. those rts tropical storm-force winds. and that is 390 miales wide of tropical storm-force winds. so when this center of this storm is almost 400 miles away, we are in those tropical storm force winds and were in it through the duration until we get to the other side of that storm. and in the middle of all that, that red zone, that is more than 70 miles in radius there, that is hurricane-force winds. so that wi...

And of course we were all watching that cone of uncertainty of where the hurricane is going to land. and we saw what it did in the caribbean. and just looking at these images thinking its difficult for me to leave my home. i dont want to displace myself. but this is going to be a big storm. and its going to come in, right in at miami. so we would watch. we would wait, we would watch. we would hope that it would sort of veer to the right or go out to sea. and at one point it just became apparent ...

To pass through. lets look at the latest statistics. i mention the location. max winds 160 miles per hour. its a category five. its interalkting with cuba, because its so large its not weakening. the movement it to the west at 12. they extend up the coast to jacksonville now. a hurricane watch. along the coast there. and of course a hurricane warning. and for the bahamas as well. dealing with strong winds. lets take a look at the track. that shifted. things have changed a lot in the past 24 hour...

There is the center of the eye moving away from land. it is now able to breathe again. its going to use that warm water in the florida straits to get stronger. were going the see band after band across parts of florida. that red box right there, thats a tornado watch box. not only will you see wind, every storm that comes in can spin. just a watter spout coming onshore can do damage because waterspouts can be 100 miles per hour. not like well see for tomorrow. well see the storm move right up ac...

Changed from a track up the east coast to now the west coast but it could still change back again. is that their explanation for deciding to stick around? they thought, well, it wasnt going to really hit us? >> you know what, alex, ive been here on the ground for a few days and this area has been in that cone of uncertainty the whole time, so its not like anyone said its definitely going somewhere else, its always it could come here, you are in the range of places. so a lot of people were gettin...