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How good you think you are or how many storms youve seen, youve never seen one that pushed water over like the 1935, the one that just completely destroyed the train they were building there in 35. just pushed everything, completely to the other side of florida bay. there is the eye right now. it is undergoing a kind of reconstructive surgery, if you will. the middle part of the eye blew off overnight because an outer eye replaced it. the winds went down. when that outer eyewall becomes the inne...

Its actually getting smaller. its going through another one of those, what we call eyewall replacement cycles, where theres a double eyewall right now. that outer eyewall is forming, that has a wider diameter than the inner eyewall. and its contracting in towards the center. and normally what that does is it actually weakens the storm briefly. so what you might see overnight is you might see the hurricane bottom out in intensity, maybe weaken just a few millibars. but then once it completes that...

Near. again, chris, i cant believe im saying this but there are people in the street right now. im not sure who this guy is, but ive seen several cars pass since weve been standing here. i saw one guy walking around earlier. it is just so, so poorly thought out to be out in these kind of conditions. especially when they are going to get worse. so if you are out on the street, i mean, the best thing you can do is get inside and find a safe place to be right now. before this eyewall gets closer an...

Palm bay just outside of melbourne, and the eyewall came very, very close to us. within just a couple of miles. and its crazy to say, but that made all the difference when youre talking about the proximity of this powerful storm, and the coastline. with that eyewall staying just offshore, it spared us winds that could have been 100 miles per hour, which is -- which can cause much greater damage than winds of about 80 miles per hour. and then unfortunately, just to our north, cape canaveral, as y...

In right now. and then we have a p-3 orion, which is a four engine turboprop plane that actually does the real dirty work flying into the peak of the storm down at 10,000 feet. thats the one that actually penetrates the eyewall, and hits the really nasty ride. we get a lot of turbulence up here at 45,000 feet. because this is where all energy from the storm flows out. its called the outflow region of the storm. so it gets pretty turbulent up here, as well. but not nearly as turbulent as we get g...

Pounded. lets bring in chad myers right now. youre hearing it and im hearing people are saying this wind isnt that bad. it hasnt been that bad. first of all almost every locality has not been able to do impact assessments yet so they dont know what has been done. as you keep saying, still got a long way to go. >> and as you just said, there was a little wobble to the left. and you saw it, too, on your little radar you can look at on the phone. there has been just a slight wobble to the left and ...

Camera guy just a few moments ago. its just a mess out here. the wind continues to just pound this area. im sure some of these palm trees are going to start falling over at some point. ive seen them bend pretty far. you can see behind us there are still people driving through this. i cant imagine why. the dangers in these kinds of hur kans are numerous. you not only have extremely strong winds but you have the debris that they throw around. power lines that get knocked down. you also have extrem...

To take flying debris and turn it into projectiles and so thats an unfortunate part about the wind, but when you combine that with the surge, with the water, thats what can make these storms so incredibly de deadly, chris. >> jen, i dont want to get you soak today early. all day to go here. i will check back in with you a he little bet. lets go to chad myers. chad, in terms of what were seeing as we get the latest advisory of gusts of 100 or so at cape canaveral and we see the eye at its closest...

Of 50 and 60 miles per hour and only because that eye wall stayed just off shore and just to the east of where we were. we were talking about all week. everything will depend on how close that eye gets to the coast. luckily for us it stayed a little bit off shore. it was good news for us. just to our north, cape canaveral have been getting pounded by that outer eyewall for quite some time now with winds of up to 100 miles per hour just to our north. and, so, not only the wind, the storm surge, o...

Miles per hour on the cape canaveral coast right there, very close to where the eyewall is on land. the eyewall, the outer eyewall is absolutely onland moving into new smyrna beach. thats where the sustained winds of 100 miles per hour will be likely. hurricane hunters found a wind gust to 115 at the surface. that was in this little squall band here. guess where that squall band is going? that is going right in to daytona. that will eventually move to the north and get into your area as well. it...