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coast of florida. 155-mile-per-hour wind speeds. thats just two miles short of a category 5 hurricane. its expected to make landfall about 100 miles south of here in the port charlotte area. rain 12 to 24 inches across much of the florida peninsula, challenge create freshwater flooding. the impact of this will be felt by millions in florida. already 200,000 people without power. thats before the storm even makes landfall. this will uproot peoples lives. its a life-threatening storm. th...

Into downton. what the mayor is worried about, that neighborhood in there, shore acres, and the waterfront, thats going to be flooded, he says whenever theres a storm of this intensity, that area gets needed. well do a sweep over there in a short time to see what damage they have gotten. weve already gotten word of a structural fire that emergency crews have been responded to, of downed power lines. the mayor says they have a lot of power a outages because of uprooted trees. theyre worried about...

To start getting at here in the next 20 minutes. 30 minutes. a lot harder. this thing is going to move up. hopefully starting to fade a little bit. spinning around and dumping rain. this is a pretty intense storm right now. i mean, i was going to try to show you but i leaned forward to see how far i could lean all the wind is holding me up. i just fall backwards. that doesnt work. this is starting to hurt. rain pellets sting my face. its getting a lot tougher now. since i last talked to 20 minut...

While. they are expecting 55-mile-an-hour gusts today. that is the same power line issue. >> reporter: you know, that is a great way to open this up. we have been getting hit by the winds. forget the snow for right now. everything has turned to a slushy mess. we have seen cars blowing by us knocking all this water and slush off the roads. look here. the real issue may be black ice. the wind is really strong. of course, as we stand here, it is whipping us constantly. it whips in spurts at this po...

The dark rather than incite mass hysteria in the public. the 1880s. that is when the u.s. army signal corp. officially commissioned a study into tornados. shortly after that is when they banned the use of the word, tornado, in weather forecasts. for reasons of fears of panic, lack of tools to accurately predict weather patterns. that ban was essentially in place until 1950 and it was by that time in 1950, radar had been firmly established as the accurate predictor of weather patter patterns. >> ...