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Out. >> people in southwest florida, this is going to likely make landfall as a category 4 hurricane. there will be catastrophic flooding, and life-threatening storm surge on the gulf coast region. and of course, the highest risk will be in that southwest florida region from naples up to sarasota. there is also potential for flash flooding and river flooding, with 10 to 20 inches across central and northeast florida. >> our meteorologist pedram javaheri is tracking the storm for us. he joins us ...

Tropical storm-force winds were expected across the southern peninsula late Tuesday.

We already have 104,000 in florida already without power and more rain going to come down, this is going to be flooding. pumps arent going to be working, you know, rainfall coming down to 2 feet. high, high risk of flash flooding today, same story for tomorrow. and a tornado watch. let me show you why. open this up right here. all of these storms that are coming on shore, here is palm bay, here -- i mean, all the way through here, west palm beach, here is fort lauderdale. these storms on the eas...

Catastrophic threat and a, quote, historic one. it is expected to bring between 12 and 16 feet now of storm surge to the fort myers area. thats, you know -- poppy, picture that. thats two or three times as tall as i am, right, looking at the water as it approaches. >> thats right. lets bring in fort myers mayor ken anderson. we are all thinking of you and your residents right now. can we address first that great point that jim made. when you look at storm surge of 12 to 16 feet what would that d...

Other areas. were talking about the potential for two feet of rain. even sandy soils will be saturated eventually. this is the first time in five years the tampa or orlando or what we call a high risk of flash flooding. giving the governments giving us a heads up saying that weve had some eye level flooding in these areas. our computers have been hinting at this all week long. someone in here as a chance of getting two feet of rain. wouldnt surprise me if someone gets over that. even today we ha...

On the kind of flooding that were going to see. for the most part the evacuation orders, folks have been following them, were told nearly 390,000 people in two evacuation zones were told to pack up their things and go. the 43 hurricane storm shelters that were open in hillsborough county, no he is are still accepting folks at this hour. we have reached out to the county to see exactly how many folks are there. on my way in from pinellas county yesterday i stopped by one shelter, there were a dec...

Theodore. joining me is steve patterson in st. petersburg, florida. geographically that is near tampa. tell us how things look where you are. >> reporter: yeah, joy, much further north from the eye of the storm. make no mistake, this area dodged a bullet yesterday. they were predicting that the eye of the storm would actually be somewhere close to here, a storm in which we havent seen in 100 years a direct hit to this area. thankfully that didnt happen, but that doesnt mean this area has been sp...

Speeds and also really heavy rainfall. heres a track for you, category four storm and we expect it to become 155 miles per hour as it gets closer to the coast here. it will remain strong as it makes landfall, even through the next, six, seven, eight hours, were looking at strong winds. were not just talking about the coast of florida. were looking at inland portions as well. were going to see flash flooding, flooding rains and even towards the weekend were going to see it pop into the atlantic a...

We were just seeing with bill. the wind picking up, plenty of rain coming down. we are just at the edge of downtown punta gorda. let me just show you these boats, there is a guy walking around out there. there are still people who are out on their boats, some of them were going to stay on their boats that we spoke with, but there of course is a lot of concern about the storm surge, talking about 12 to 16 feet of a storm surge here. we know that the city of punta gorda has actually cut off all em...

Little bit. but the streets, its amazing. we still have not seen that storm surge, although they have told us that it would come possibly on the back side of this. as you know, earlier, within about an hour ago, there was the eye passing over us, wolf, and it was so much calmer than what we are experiencing here right now. the rain is actually painful as it hits you. im glad nobody is out on the street here. whoa. oh, boy! huge gust. were okay where we are. we are just at the edge of this parkin...