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So, listen, youve been -- youve done this before. youve flown over hurricanes. if you look at dorian and you look at the eye and how its intensifying, the open water, how -- what kind of damage if it continues along the path that its -- its on now, what kind of damage could folks expect down in florida? >> you know, the path four days down the road, you know, the average air in there is something like 150 miles. so its very hard to pinpoint where the worst damage could occur in roughly four days...

People, so everybody just has to keep paying attention to that, those hurricane center updates and reports from the aircraft. we just saw an entirely different storm today than yesterday. yesterday it was a mess. it was very difficult to make any structure at all out on the radar. today it definitely looked like a hurricane. >> jack parish, our hurricane hunter. thank you very much, sir. be safe. well check back in with you. i want to get to san juan and captain eric king of the u.s. coast guard...

The work of our next guest and others. hes somebody who heads straight for any hurricane he can. in fact, he and his team fly over into and through them. jack parish is a flight meteorologist and project manager with the national atmospheric and oceanic administration. he just landed. he joins us now by phone. jack, if you could just walk us through what you were able to see today from the air about this storm. >> well, hello, anderson. our team from the noaa aircraft operations center in lakela...

Dont expect it to crest until tuesday. that gives you the length of time that folks are going to have to be very aware of water on the ground and concerned about moving around if they are able to even move around very far. weve been getting the up-to-date forecasts, and thats all made possible because of hunter pilots who are helping to track the storm, putting sensors into the storm. flight director jack parish is in a jet that drops these probes to measure winds and other conditions that are s...

A jet drops these packages that weigh about a pound, they give you pressure, humidity, wind speed, were recording that data in realtime and we make sure all the data is good. send it out in a message and it goes right into the computer models that are telling us how quickly florence will go ashore and how strong it will be when it goes ashore. >> jack, we appreciate all the work that you and your crew are doing. thank you very much. i appreciate it. >> anderson, the pleasure talking to you again...

Missions youve flown on this hurricane. >> good afternoon. were -- weve gone through the west side to the east side, one pass so far, we are currently very near miami and about to proceed straight south, going for the second pass. very important information were getting today is the eye fixes and most especially when does the center of irma move off of the north coast of cuba. so thats our number one priority is to get multiple fixes and to capture that moment of when it starts to move more towa...

N.o.a.h. 49 is drop ago lping af expendable probes in the center and a combination of those data give you the strength of the high and the low thats supposed to -- north. so its a combination of the aircraft that are giving that influence of the storm going more from the east coast to the west coast. >> jack, for you and your team specifically on board this aircraft, how rough has the flight been trying to collect data on irma? has it been bad? >> good question. we have already done one pass. it...

Then i think n.o.a.h.s flights will be concluded when our jet landed about 8:30 this evening. at that point, we have to evacuate the airplanes because our home base in lakeland is kind of ground zero. >> all right, so, a little over three more hours for you and your team above irma right now. the flight director on board one of the hurricane hunting flights that is live above irma right now, jack parish, thank you, sisi sir, i really appreciate your time and insight. its fascinating to think abo...

At. this potential for just disaster here. so one guy has a homemade boat he says hes going to get in. another woman said shes blowing up air mattresses and she could float on those. so, really, a dire situation as time now does run out to get out of here. >> kristen dahlgren reporting over in fort myers, we know that there are over 320 different shelters that have been set up in place with the governor saying that 450,000 people are in them, so if these people need to get out, hopefully they wi...

Strength of this storm. >> jack, were seeing images right now of team members, hurricane hunters also visuals from what it look like up there. just explain to us from your see and say vision what are you literally looking at right now out the window or ahead of you? >> good question. at the moment, im looking at a huge breaking waves down below the aircraft. we can barely see the surface because its raining so hard. what were flying through. and more importantly, im looking at the -- at our n.o....