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Be a major rebuild operation given the type of damages weve seen before. >> what is this comparable to? is it comparable to what you saw leading into andrew 24 years ago? >> andrew was a very compact storm. it didnt bring a lot of storm surge. this one is kind of our -- one of the scenarios you dont want to see is off the coast and strong, damaging winds. the i-95 corridor from florida up into south carolina. so, if youre east of that, thats the area were concerned about, how much wind and how f...

The impacts you can expect. heavy rains, damaging winds and storm surge and even tornadoes. lets break it down so you can plan ahead if you did not heed the warnings of evacuation. your window is narrowly starting to deteriorate. this is what we expect. miami-dade county will start to feel tropical storm-force winds by thursday evening. storm surge for miami north, 1 to 3 feet potential. rainfall, 1 to 3 inches of rain. as we go forward into the overnight timeframe, thursday into friday morning,...

if youre in the projected path of this hurricane, you have to take precautions now. >> 65 million people in danger. >> to all the people in eastern north carolina, good luck and our prayers are with you. >> mandatory evacuations, time to get out right now. >> you have to get out. >> weve never done a mandatory evacuation before and we wouldnt be doing it now if we didnt think this storm had the potential to be very serious. >> were tracking this monster minute by minute and going live ...

Center adjust the cone a little bit toward the west. the point is, when you see one run like that, dont like to see it. it could jog back again. bottom line, everybody in south florida, you got to watch this. if this ended up happening we would probably watch hurricane-force winds extend the length of the peninsula. force force winds extend out 70 miles from center, both sides. thats about 140 miles. this right here is 90-100 miles wide in south florida, probably splitting it with hurricane-forc...

Storm-force winds extends out 250 miles from the center of the storm as we see some outer rain bands moving into new york city. hurricane warnings all the way into the cape for massachusetts. we have seen no sign of change in this at this point. as we move on here to the path and what we can expect on this next point, we want to underscore that north carolina is seeing the worst of it right now. as we head into tonight its about delaware, maryland and new jersey with some of the largest impacts ...