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Move to higher ground quickly. this is a very dangerous situation still playing out in the carolinas from the flash flooding. >> all right. thank you so much, fema administrator craig fugate, such an important person, such an important administration or part of the administration during these very tough times, as we go through hurricane matthew. thank you for what youre doing. next, well return to presidential politics. donald trump sending out this tweet. "certainly has been an interesting 24 h...

Talking about, thats going to be significant, already in jacksonville warnings for flash flooding. theyre saying evacuee evacuate to higher ground. big concerns if the eye gets a little bit closer. >> thanks so much. joining us senator marco rubio thanks for joining us. what are conditions on the ground where you are. >> well theres been some damage obviously your reporter was just talking about it, again i dont want to minimize it but not a big deal now that it made land fall. theres some focus...

Making landfall somewhere near charleston as we go into tomorrow, its the storm surge thats going to cause significant damage because you have just so much water and its almost a race against time because were starting to notice that the high tide times are beginning around 1:00, 2:00 this afternoon, and as the storm moves northward, its happening all at the same time. by the time it reaches the coastline of south carolina, that water has had a chance to build up and thats what could lead to sig...

Right now up to jacksonville and dealing with the high tide right now. now, within the next two to two hours. as we go further to the north where the storm is headed, thats where we are looking at six to nine foot storm surge including the coast of georgia and up to hilton head and eventually, we are looking at charleston, south carolina closer to five or even feeseven. you are not dealing with this on top of that high tides. that should help with coastal flooding a little bit. i want to point o...

The damage to the coast, the beaches, the erosion. i saw houses that were on the beach front that had been lifted up and carried 100 yards away and plunked in the middle of the road. you can only hope thats not going to happen in this case but sandy, at at this point when it hit new jersey was a tropical storm. this is a hurricane. derek van dam is joining us now. derek, where we are right now we are seeing this was the bulls eye for hurricane matthew, but maybe some good news? >> yeah. its all ...

Like in jacksonville, youre a little bit of a bridge city there. a lot of people have those overpasses to deal with and they become really hazardous to go through and a lot in jacksonville shut down at 40, 45 miles per hour. if you make a wrong choice, your ability to correct and get out of there is limited, right? >> absolutely. absolutely. our big fear is the storm surge. you know, we have the intercoastal water way on one side of the peninsula and the atlantic ocean on the other. high tide is...

Of the question, as it is now, staying right off the florida coast. looks based on forecast track closest point of approach if it makes landfall, south carolina. but as my good friend former director of the center max mayfield used to say dont focus on that skinny black line. hurricanes are not a point on the map. this is an area of impact over a large area. storm surge, heavy rains, talking potential with the weather service about heavy rains in north carolina causing tremendous flash flooding....

Causing flash flooding, but if you survive that, something else could happen to you. a car accident, youre injured and authorities cant get to you. you have to evacuate if youre told to go. it could save your life. and you just mentioned, you might have to change your location. what an excellent example that should show everybody. if youre evacuating. this is what evacuation looks like. come with me, lets get out of here. >> absolutely. and they are telling us here the local authorities that the...

Friday, when conditions will deteriorate across those particular locations and you heard sara mention, how critical it is if this storm wobbles east or west that is the difference between a category 1 hurricaine along the coast of florida and a strong category 3. we have already realized hurricaine-force winds across many locations so these are really the impacts going forward basically from the storm -- from the cape canaveral region, the space coast northward, and into georgia and south caroli...

Its a race against the clock because high tide in jacksonville is 1:00 or 2:00 this afternoon as the storm is getting closer. so you have the combination of that storm surge affecting jacksonville at the time of high tide which is why we could see as much as 11 feet of additional water on the coastline. the storm surge of 4 to 6 feet tomorrow. thats whats going to cause coastal flooding but we also look at the threat of flash flooding. when you have a tropical system, the rain comes down so inte...