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Patterson is up the coast and st. petersburg. hes up joining me now. steve, how is it looking now? >> you know, you could say that this area with all the modeling, of course, i have a storm here as of yesterday, 24 hours ago, this is where the brunt of the storm was supposed to land. that didnt happen. that doesnt mean that this, that this area couldnt face it is a faster. we are feeling it right now, the wind in the rain significantly picking up as the sun drops. we expect more to come. a surge...

Cars. are the homes in a similar situation? what is your sense of assessing that damage? >> well, we definitely know, we dont know whats going on in the barrier islands. we dont know anybody who was there if they got out or were meant to get out. this store kind of storm has in western florida in a long time, since charlie. so we dont. now the police are trying to figure out. they say if you have internet service or phone service, let us know if you are on some of these barrier islands. we dont ...

We can see it on our screens right now, when you get water dumped at this rate, it is always shocking when you are around, it how quickly that water will get on you, whether you are in a car or out. the flash flooding gets to people before they realize whats going on. you can see the sheer volume of water. as you said, outer bounds, orlando is going to get a ton of water before this is over. thats obviously a densely populated area which people havent evacuated and are going to be sitting this o...

In orlando. my rule of thumb is that once you get gusts from 15 to 16,, thats enough to get downed trees, power outages. were seeing that happened in central florida. as far as overnight, were going to continue with those gusty right winds, and ill follow up with that forecast path that is going to take you overnight towards orlando, over to the space coast. and then off the coast with another possible landfall on friday. somewhere between savannah and charleston, maybe even as a hurricane once ...

A lot of wind here, too much wind for rescuers to get out there, certainly too much for those 42,000 electrical workers to get out and start fixing the powerlines. we have reports of 1.8 million people already without power. as bill said, this storm is above orlando now, a highly populated area. its going up to jacksonville. its going through the st. johns river, which always floods and puts people out of power. then it might make a turn and come back as a category one. this is a remarkable stor...

Category two storm with maximum sustained winds of 105 miles per hour, and is making its way very slowly across northeast florida. the hurricane isnt expected to reach the atlantic ocean until late tomorrow. and even then, it will continue north in a week and form. states of emergency have been declared as far north as virginia, into dissipation of what the storm may bring in the coming days. in florida right now, nearly 1.9 million households are without power, as wind and water, knocked down t...

This is in an area where the storm will have weakened when it reaches us at its full force in the hours to come. it is still hours away, and already we are seeing this. i can tell you, just in the last ten minutes, things have deteriorated rapidly here. thankfully, at this point, we still have power, cell phone communications, and the power outages in the area appear to be minimal. at this point, as officials have warned throughout the day, wherever people are, they should be planning to hunker ...

Walking speed. were doing that tonight from fort myers all the way up to somewhere near the space coast, and that portion of the storm, the northern sector of it, in the northwest, is where all that heavy rain is, beginning to arrive in the orlando area, the disney complexes, universal studios, that is where we will see the heaviest rainfall during the overnight hours. chris, we had crazy winds. under it didnt underachieve, cape coral hundred 35, captiva 1:26, and even in punta gorda, up to 1:24...

And you can see the warnings lighting up here as the system marches. those are rainfall rates you dont typically see. >> how long do we anticipate that this is going to take to get out of, move quickly enough that you can deploy both emergency personnel and folks to start working on the grid? >> thats one of my biggest fears. normally you would deploy assets immediately on the back end of a disaster. because of the slow motion of the storm, you can see, it basically, it takes all the way until t...

Again and make another landfall later in the week? we >> yeah. im glad you bring up this point. i dont want all the coverage to forget about what might happen here in coastal georgia as the center moves back over water as a tropical storm and hooks back into coastal georgia, south carolina. this portion of the coastline is very susceptible to storm surge. we should get another round of storm surge here along the coastline of georgia and south carolina. >> all, right jamie rhome with the national...