we will stay in close touch with you as you head south. be careful over there. let s move north. the storm is moving north. we are seeing the worst flooding around jacksonville in the northern part of the state where the storm surge put streets and homes under water. kaylie h kaylie hartung is there. how bad is it? reporter: it looks bad now. in downtown jacksonville we are about two blocks off of the middle of downtown, but it is going to get worse. high tide at 2:00 p.m. the storage surge that flooded the streets will bring waters to six feet above high tide leer. as bad as it looks, it will get worse. this has been interesting to see so many spectators here on dry ground checking out the scene
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all right, everybody. one of the innumerable news conferences by governor wreck sco rick scott. he s been working around the clock. he started by saying it s here. right now he said parts of the keys are being affected by this 170 mile-an-hour winds off the coast of cuba but those winds are very expansive and they re already reaching key west. he s saying six to 12-foot storm surge is possible. a storage surge flows in very powerfully, very quickly and then leaves just as quickly and it takes everything with it in its wake. that is why he s saying everybody get away from any
right and that s where i m going to be. it has to start the first minute after the winds subside. what is your biggest fear when you look at a storm here that is several times the size of hurricane andrew. it is going to get stronger as it hits the warm water. what is your biggest fear? obviously a storm surge is the one that kills the most people, the storm surge. and the reasons for evacuation is because the storm surge mappmap and i want to make sure those folks move out because there could be a deadly storm surge coming from this hurricane and it could push a large amount of water inland. obviously you have to worry about property damage. first thing, obviously, loss of life. but outside of that storage surge is loss of life, property damage and then our economic
has come ashore. meteorologist adam klotz tracking it all as we look at the live pictures. the storage surge coming up. adam, for our viewers watching over the past couple of hour, we ve seen the storm diminish in the live shots coming from our reporters, whether it be rob schmitt or lauren blanchard, matt finn, all say the same thing, the wind has died down. seemed like a pleasant night in corpus christi. is the danger over or the danger just starting? . adam: well, in corpus christi maybe the danger is winding down, we ve seen a little bit of a shift in this system. but i do think there is plenty of areas, luckily a little more unpopulated but if there s folks in these areas, yeah, it s still a big one. it started as a category 4, now a category 3, it shifted down a little bit. that doesn t mean a lot if you re in the areas where the winds are intense. the category 4 would be 130