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Evacuation. i was told about a handful of residents decided to ride this thing out. officials have been patrolling the streets, have not seen them in a bit because things are starting to get pretty dicey out here, jon, so it is not safe to be on the road. >> jon: the ground is as soft as it apparently is after all that rain, when those trees get hammered by these kinds of winds, a lot of trees are going to be uprooting and toppling over. that is going to be making it horrible for the power compa...

Counties with acting as agents. they can begin the deportation process immediately and not have to wait for federal agents. >> martha: good to see you tonight. thank you for being here. >> pleasure. >> martha: lets bring in our panel, charlie hurt political columnist for the washington times and also drives a truck i believe. and has a gun i think. >> thats him, not me. >> martha: both are fox news contributors. charlie, wow. those make donald trump look kind of genteel. maybe this is good for t...

House video that collapsed into the ocean. it was a house protected by dunes. the dunes got eaten up by the waves and the storm surge and the house is now down in the tide and in the waves getting ripped apart. thats the worst damage ive seen to any home outside of the keys in irma. thats in south of jacksonville near st. augustine. to put it into perspective of whats going on. the storm itself, the whole southern half has weakened. this is good. there are power crews streaming down i-95 and i-1...

The next stop for the wind coming back around is the back side of naples. thats the wind youre seeing now. chris, you had 141 earlier on the top side when you had the storm itself, the thunderstorms as well. youre not going to get 141 on the back side because there isnt much of a storm system there. you know how ever time the band comes by the wind picks up? theres no band there anymore. your wind is going to be 80 or 90 miles an hour, almost what theyre seeing on the east coast. the important p...

Ground, we drop it from the airplane, this information is telling us exactly where the currents are and how strong they are and feeds into the computer models and can take this information and get a better forecast out and so these tracks as theyve been shifting west, they have been using our data and theyve been help to go hone in on the west coast of florida and east coast of florida and over time it seems that it will be proven true. abby: anything you can tell us about the storm itself, abou...

Closed, but theres capacity to accommodate patients in the southeastern texas area. 26 nursing homes remain closed, but the capacity has been aable to handle patients moved from the nursing homes. hhs has had over 5,000 patient encounters since the beginning of the storm there, and the vast majority of those unrelated to the storm itself, but needing to have attention and mostly minor health activities. cdc is working with the state to work on a mitigation plan for mosquitos and the vector. that...

Hey, alison. just watching this storm system in the last few minutes here, the track shifting just a little bit. we want the talk about this because hurricane irma still sitting in an incredible category 4 system, just about 10 miles shy of what would be a category 5. the models suggest the oceanic and atmospheric environment is such that this storm is not going the weaken. it retains this category 4 or maybe gets stronger into a category 5. the timing, we think thursday into friday it pushes in...

Earlier. and he said that because most of these boats do not have lights, they are not allowing them in the water at night. now, of course, some boats do, but not all. so, i think if you are in a home right now that is flooding and the water is still going up, you may actually have to wait until tomorrow. what a frightening thought if you see the water still coming up. i see the storm getting stronger, jim. and this happened again on friday night and again on saturday night and this is typical...

In the direction of the way its turning. if they are taking broadside, its going to rock the ship a lot. thats where more damage occurs. obviously people get seasick and all that can happen. >> i was going to say, in terms of the storm itself, this blew up seemingly overnight. a couple of days ago it was not forecast to be this big. it really was not forecasted to take this track. what happened? >> it went over warm water. not only on the surface. its quite deep in the gulf. it has so much energ...

Locally was saying that there were so far before this even has made official landfall yet that the storm surge in parts of the coastal areas of texas were already at 1.5-2 feeds. that was over the projected stage for this early in the game. so clearly, that is of concern when you are talking about the actual storm itself, not making a direct landfall where we are, but its going to hit just south of us. and then you also have concerns that you are seeing such dramatic conditions this far out in a...