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The five day cone of activity. you need to know if you are in the direct path of this or not. . they always refer to me as master sergeant. they really appreciate the military family, and it really shows. weve got auto insurance, homeowners insurance. had an accident with a vehicle, i actually called usaa before we called the police. usaa was there hands-on very quick very prompt. i feel like were being handled as people that actually have a genuine need. were the webber family and we are usaa m...

Warm. so we are anticipating the potential for a weakening, but still a major hurricane. landfall is possible in the florida keys. perhaps a second one on the coast of florida. this is the cone of uncertainty, evening it could move further to the east or the west. weve seen that with the computer models going back and forth. so i want to let everyone know that this line isnt the exact path of the storm. it could jog to the left or the right. the massive diameter, several hundred miles of the sto...

>> at 8:00 when the thing got even with the seven-mile bridge. >> so the guys ive been talking to from the key, it was the advisory -- go ahead and figure that out. lets not show his pen. >> a lot of the guys im talking to from key west, they saw the 5:00 p.m. advisory and the 8:00 p.m. advisory and thats what did it. >> the 8:00 p.m. advisory when they moved the center of the cone from marathons east side to the seven-mile bridge, it was time to get out. and the category five was going to happe...

Were all in the cone. the state as a whole. the peninsula, the state of florida peninsula is in the cone. right now, all i was concerned about as we were looking at this was a full moon situation, the seasonal high tides that pick up in october and november, a strong east wind that was creating this storm surge that was 5 to 10 feet, which has a huge impact. we have a barrier island, we have as you depicted, hundreds of miles of navigable waterways. we cannot handal 5 to 10 foot storm surge. now...

Science. we get closer. we hone in on the west coast of florida. the computer models trended west. why have they trended west? the ridge of high pressure keeping irma to the south and the west was strong enough to do that. if it had weakened, we would have saw the turn happen sooner. but thats not the case. thats the things we were watching in the dynamics of the atmosphere that change moment by moment. this has been a challenging one. heres the computer models. notice the cone kind of right aro...

Reason for that is? what are we going to say? theres a lot of paper and information. the people in this administration know it. theyre going to try to protect themselves and this president. but they know its for being go friends of the broadcast, great friends of the guest, and we are off topic compared to our usually evening. we turn back because of the urgency of the moment to hurricane irma. for that we go to sam champion whos been with us all eechg. im worried about two different aspects. im...

As a strong storm. if not a cat five than cat four. up the coast of florida. the cone of uncertainty extends into the panhandle monday. the path could go anywhere in the cone. it looks more towards the west coast. models could change. look at the size of florida compared to hurricane irma. this puts it into perspective. we super-imposed florida itself into irma. even though the eye is offshore in the gulf, it will be felt across much of the state in terms of wind and rain. the winds field is lar...

>> definitely entering that now-or-never cone. mariana, thank you so much. joining me in studio, msnbc meteorologist bonnie schneider. lets get a sense of where the >> problem is the storm hasnt moved much in the past coast. looks brutal. >> its been relentless. torrential downpours, the strong winds battering cuba over and . unfortunately its still interacting cuba, not weakening the storm much at all, bringing a lot of torrential downpours i mentioned. storm is. lets take a look at where the ....

You could get 100 mile sustained gusts. >> this is a monster category 5. this has been a record setting hurricane its entire life. those of us who have been in the hurricane business our entire life never take one point in the cone of uncertainty too seriously, this storm will spend the next day dragging its eye wall across the coast of cuba. it was not forecasted to do that. were not sure what shape it will come out. we know the waters between -- the florida straights and the keys are warm, the...

>> thats so true. it has to do with the windfield that were seeing and cone of uncertainty. into saturday night and sunday, look what happens -- it does get wired. certainly into monday -- wider. sbor certainly on monday. people in georgia were concerned. its turning more northwest. the cone is a little bit further to the west, if youre just checking it. yesterday it was a lot further to the east. this line indicates kind of the median between where all the computer models are. thats the forecas...