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Steve: he is standing out in a hurricane and it looks as if some of the rain actually impacted his microphone. jeff, have lost your signal. the audio portion. brian: if it pops back. actually sitting there on the rocks. in fact, he can hear us now. hey, jeff, you were saying you forget this is the gulf. >> exactly. this looks more like an ocean to me at the moment. [audio faded] steve: we tried. he has been in the rain for the last 48 hours. brian: your sun is beginning to come up. you are begin...

And the carolinas. were going to watch the vulnerable beach areas across georgia and south carolina for the potential of thighs on shore winds bringing up the storm surge. not done yet. category 1 storm still hurricane, 75 mile-per-hour sustained winds. it is over land it is weakening. but we are still going to see the potential for the storm surge for the heavy rainfall upwards of 4 to 6 inches. and the potential of tornadoes. and this storm is going into georgia for the first time in history, ...

Not only for the west coast but the east coast. this storm is so large, guys. were going to be watching it throughout the day today as it continues to weaken but still widespread impacts all along the southeast coast line back to you. steve: pretty much everybody who is awake right now eastern third of the united states. janice: i read 35% of the state of florida has no power. ainsley: how long does that normally take for them to turn about t. back on a week? steve: depends on the extent of the ...

Coast. they got the brunt of it on that side. i knew people in palm beach county a couple we know went to kentucky. ainsley: friends went to nashville. best friend who lives there going to elevated higher ground. then i called her at 4:00 in the morning on saturday and i said have you got to get out. she took all of her boxes, all of her pictures. she was in tears. she put them in a hotel room and then she got in a car with her three kids and they headed to south carolina. steve: the point of my...

Great. thank you for that live report japan miss dean is tracking the hurricane. jacksonville is northeast quadrant thats the one with all the rain. janice: storm surge is happening on shore winds coming west coast of florida. but we also have storm surge warnings extending up towards the coast of georgia and south carolina. this is going to be ongoing situation for the duration 6 to 12 hours. jacksonville has as we heard the reporter say a record storm surge water rise of 4 feet st. johns river...

>> were still dealing with tropical force winds and pounding rain here. we are in high tide. the water behind me inching closer but as you can see we have not witnessed and we are probably not going to see any catastrophic storm surge here, which is excellent news for people in this area. this was a part of the mandatory evacuation zone. we have been here now for about 24 hours and very little humans in sight. people abided by the evacuation. in fact, one of the fire chiefs here saying that peop...

The authorities, guys, are telling people to stay sheltered in your place. and if you were evacuated, absolutely do not try and get on these roads and get back to your property to assess it, because its a dangerous situation right now. brian: all right. thanks so much, griff. well see. and a lot of those people in naples, they pretty much were hit first and relatively surprised. if you told people on thursday naples is going to get slammed they will say no, its really on the east side and ends u...

♪ heather: hurricane irma battering florida, bringing more rain, wind and damage. ainsley: massive storm blamed for at least five deaths, including two police officers. >> the storm now down graded to a category 1 storm. the danger is not over yet. >> look at this sign thats down here. huh. look at that strong current. danger. no joke. but i tell you, we are not done with this storm yet. its still whaling pretty good. >> wherever hurricane irma goes, we will be there first. >> i want everybody...

Going to be dealing with this into tuesday and remnant low and sits and spins across the tennessee river valley. there is the radar right now. you can see the core of the strongest winds right here. then we also have the offshore flow. so tampa you are still going to get the potential for heavy rain and that storm surge moving. in it wont be the incredible storm surge amounts that we were predicting yesterday. but, still, very vulnerable coast line and the potential for, you know, water levels t...

Became the surge. brian: go ahead, steve. steve: meanwhile in palm beach county on the east coast deputy danny cunningham saved an american flag battered by the hurricane. claim egg he couldnt just bear to watch it get blown apart. he got out of heir car and did the best he could. ainsley: that is great. brian: we saw a lot of the water retreat. when the water retreated. it exposed a lot of sea animals, one of which was a manatee, stranded by hurricane irma after the water got sucked to sea. the...