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Approach land and get closer to landfall which by the way might actually happen in the next 48 to 72 hours. lets take a look at the future radar, this is wednesday, coming very close to coastal georgia, south carolina, and north carolina and this computer model has it very close to brushing, if not making a landfall and then close to the outer banks on friday. still talking about a hurricane, finally moving out to sea on the weekend to the canadian provinces. here is the latest track as of 5:00 ...

So you have got that on top of that. griff: thats right. we are about four hours away from a higher tide. this water is going to get much higher, steve, you are right. are when you go from here all the way up 200 to 300 miles to jacksonville, south carolina and north carolina with matthew a king tide with a storm like this is going to create a water event that no one wants. and officials here, eric gill, talking about saying, listen, if it gets to be worse than it is now, and we fully expect it ...

Well get more rain that can cause flooding. overprepare, dont under prepare. >> whats the challenge of evacuation orders when you dont know where the storm is going and where its going to head? >> its like matthew a couple years ago. we had to evacuate and overprepare. if it turns its too late, you cant get out. have your water seven days, food, medicine. but if you think there is any chance you are going to have to evacuate. do it now and get ahead of the game. chris: as governor of florida, yo...

Well get more rain that can cause flooding. overprepare, dont under prepare. >> whats the challenge of evacuation orders when you dont know where the storm is going and where its going to head? >> its like matthew a couple years ago. we had to evacuate and overprepare. if it turns its too late, you cant get out. have your water seven days, food, medicine. but if you think there is any chance you are going to have to evacuate. do it now and get ahead of the game. chris: as governor of florida, yo...

That. it was a top priority after matthew. if you dont need to be on the roads, dont get out. again, there are power lines and all sorts of things like that that were working on. let me just go on down. ive never needed to do this before. the u.s. navy -- the navy and coast guard will be providing resources, the "uss iwo jima" and "uss new york" to provide search and rescue and other things. power outages, we have 65% of the state without power. its going to take us a long time to get power back...

Deep south and the carolinas and tennessee and alabama. >> brooshgs -- brooke, it conti break records, and it is just something up into the carolinas and north georgia and records are falling. nice to see the dry air to infiltrate the system and the sunshine for the cleanup efforts, but of course, the rescuers continuing with the aid that needs to get out. as we are taking a look of this, there is a little bit of the wind coming in of course from the west coast, and we have not and will not see ...

Seeing the records broken and the surge is going to continue through the carolina coast. first watches and warnings and notice up here in the jacksonville area, we are seeing the records that surpassed not only matthew last year with the water shoved up into the st. johns rivers and dora in the 60s, but the record missing matthew by 0.02, but in the charlotte area, we are seeing the records well over the b battery and well into the downtown area. again, 9.92 feet which is a half foot above the a...