beach, maybe robby s marina, worldwide sportsman. i go there every year. there s the wind through the central part of lake okeechobee. watch the flooding possible here. we talked about the governor lowering the level of that lake. with the wind gusts over 100, who knows what s going to go on. monday a little after midnight, the entire state covered by hurricane-force gust. not one person will not see probably a hurricane gust across parts of florida. then it gets into georgia and south carolina. significant onshore flow, flooding in charleston, savannah, jacksonville, just like we saw with matthew. back to you. chad, i eel tell you, i have so much respect for what you do. but i ve never wanted you to be more wrong than i do right now. i know the models are telling you what they re telling you. you make a good point that we heard from the first responders yesterday. there piece so much water down here and it can get weapon
that could produce 100-mile-per-hour winds. now, you re also getting closer to this outer band. this will arrive in the next hour. only 12 miles away is the first hurricane force gust that you will see. 70 to 80 miles per hour. this will be strongest winds we ve seen in populated areas in the united states since the storm started for us. you re very close to that. you re close to getting storm surge as winds begin to pile up here. very strong out of the east and out of the northeast. are you noticing the water levels coming up at all yet? in fact, we are. it s come up a good 15 feet just in the last five minutes. it s swirling. so you can see out in the distance there lots of white caps out there and the water is coming close to the seawall here right behind the swimming pool and then swirling back toward the south so we do expect to see more of this water start to rise here over the next four or five hours again with that high tide
and then by this evening, it will shift down through areas around los angeles. those wind gusts could be strong around l.a. later today. it probably won t be widespread power outages in los angeles but there still will be some. in areas of the northeast, the pictures out of western new york have not been pretty. this lingering nor easter. now we re on day three of it. has really caused a lot of problems early with heavy snow around the buffalo area. if you re trying to drive near elmira, all the way back to erie pennsylvania very difficult conditions. there s still a lot of snow squalls over connecticut, massachusetts, upstate new york even new jersey. be careful if you re still out there this morning. i know the morning rush hour was slick. the good news is the northeast will be improving dramatically during the day today. for california we can wait for tomorrow. already at 96 mile per hour wind gust. everybody loves the term hurricane force gust. that would be like a category 2 hurri
welcome visitors back. thank you, mr. mayor for being with us. i know you ve been up all night. another guy who has been up all night is jim cantore, glued to his post at battery park, new york. jim, what happened it s kind of like the fist of this storm. as it came up, it looked like the back end was taken away. with that some of the force. what do we credit for the fact that the storm surge did not come in at a level over your head in lower manhattan? you can credit the weakening, without question. dealing with a weakening category one, which some argue may have been a tropical storm because at the time it came into new york there was not even a hurricane force gust, much less a sustained wind which is how a hurricane s strength is defined. we could have easily had a category two hurricane come into the exact position.
lost a little strength overnight, but i don t want you to folk cows on five miles per hour because i can t tell the difference between 185 and 180. the big story here for florida is that everyone in florida, it doesn t matter what side you re on, except maybe pensacola will see a hurricane-force gust, 75 or greater. will you see 150? that s the true question. where does it go from here? everybody gets a hurricane. but who gets devastated? there s the storm right there. the dominican republic towards the turks and caicos. that s where it s going right now. that s what we already know. here is the question. after it makes its way all the way through the islands here, when does it turn? or does it turn? the turn is very important to miss the u. schs. skirting through the bahamas, if it s east of the u.s., that s