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cuba saw significant flooding and, is just now getting power back in some areas after nearly the entire island was plunged into darkness. now this morning, is ethans world toward tampa, residents woke up to this eerie sight. nearly all the water had receded out of tampa bay. the storm pulled all the water from the shore as its winds whipped around, counterclockwise, before shoving it back towards land hours later. around the same time, the natural hurricane center increased their predi...

Average, storms are moving a bit more slowly. even more important that we havent touched on, the fact that warmer air holds more water vapor. when a storm comes along, as they always do, there is more water vapor for that storm to dump on us than it was 50 or hundred years ago. although you mentioned that any given hurricane is not the result of climate change, we are able to put numbers on just how much worse climate change made a specific hurricane. with hurricane harvey, it is estimated that ...

I do want to stress that this is just right where we are in a very low area. we have plenty of escape routes over here right now, and so we are not flirting with danger in a way that some people might think. i want to make clear that if we think we are seeing flash flooding coming our way, we will not be wasting time in getting out of the way of that. that is something that is a concern in orlando. when you go overnight and morning hours, were looking at the worst of whats left of being here in ...

Patterson is up the coast and st. petersburg. hes up joining me now. steve, how is it looking now? >> you know, you could say that this area with all the modeling, of course, i have a storm here as of yesterday, 24 hours ago, this is where the brunt of the storm was supposed to land. that didnt happen. that doesnt mean that this, that this area couldnt face it is a faster. we are feeling it right now, the wind in the rain significantly picking up as the sun drops. we expect more to come. a surge...

Worried about being life-threatening, the storm surge, now beginning to recede, and we still dont know exactly how bad. we know it was worse and for myers, vinita beach, down to naples. that was where the peak storm surge was. we dont know how high, possibly 10 to 12 feet in fort myers. if so, that was catastrophic. we will see those pictures tomorrow. the water will be gone but youll see how high the water goes and the damage did. they just issued a flash flood emergency. this goes from sarasot...

Back and do some damage. whats really combined. the area already saturated with rain, kerry sanders and weve also saturated with rain and you combine those factors alone it could lead to substantial flooding. so evacuation has been heavily advised. not everybody took the advice as you know, as well find out in a few hours, but for the most part, driving through st. petersburg and the whole of tampa bay, this area specifically is a ghost town. most people heeded the warnings, most people got, out...

A lot of wind here, too much wind for rescuers to get out there, certainly too much for those 42,000 electrical workers to get out and start fixing the powerlines. we have reports of 1.8 million people already without power. as bill said, this storm is above orlando now, a highly populated area. its going up to jacksonville. its going through the st. johns river, which always floods and puts people out of power. then it might make a turn and come back as a category one. this is a remarkable stor...

This is in an area where the storm will have weakened when it reaches us at its full force in the hours to come. it is still hours away, and already we are seeing this. i can tell you, just in the last ten minutes, things have deteriorated rapidly here. thankfully, at this point, we still have power, cell phone communications, and the power outages in the area appear to be minimal. at this point, as officials have warned throughout the day, wherever people are, they should be planning to hunker ...

It. which is, a lot of people are looking at what has been happening or not happening in florida. prior to this hurricane, we have actually had a fairly normal season in the u.s. this year. theyve only been a few main storms. for people who are climate skeptics, how do you explain the role of climate change in a year like this? >> the way i explain it is like this, we know that hurricanes are a natural phenomenon. climate change is exacerbating them, making them worse, like putting them on stero...

This moment a little bit of a lull. you can see through the lights how heavy the wind is pushing the rain, and in a distance, you might be able to see this fountain out there that were seeing from our photographer tony. you might be able to see how the wind is blowing. that as well as these trees out here. i just saw another flash of lightning. this is mild compared to what we saw in the last 20 minutes or so, and this is also hours before we expect to see the worst of what is left of in here. t...