Storm Surge Map News Today

good day, everyone. im andrea mitchell in washington. president biden will speak this afternoon about the federal governments coordination with leaders in georgia, south carolina and, of course, hurricane ravaged florida. we expect to hear from ron desantis later this hour. lets begin with nbcs kathy park in charleston, south carolina. residents are used to flooding in that historic district. this looks like its going to be an unprecedented event. >> reporter: yeah. good afternoon. tha...

is almost 10% of the population of florida. that means over 90% of people in florida to have electrical power. the number of people without electrical power is expected to rise as these slow-moving storm cuts across florida with hurricane-force winds. a major concern right now and overnight would be flash flooding caused by the heavy rains. more than two feet of rain is predicted in some areas, officials are warning residents to shelter in place if they have not evacuated. as many citi...

Alabama, mississippi, louisiana as well, and all this moisture is going to travel north. this will be well inland, places that get heavy tropical rainfall. >> i want to that tap into your expertise. you were part of this award-winning team that made critical repair to new orleans after hurricane katrina. what is your assessment of the levees now looking at whats in front of you? >> yeah, really looking at some of this, its about the levees. i want to go back to the storm surge map, and it really...

Thunderstorms here. so sometimes they dpoe from the tropics and being a tropical system to an extra tropical storm. so you can have high extreme winds. >> tell me about surf. you talked about storm surges. the storm surge is particularly relevant depending on where your tide happens to be. >> all the storm surge map is actually showing you, its showing you how much is the water going to rise more than it would have. on a normal day if you were there. here is our storm surge map. they have extend...

Of their ships, theres a bunch of help coming, but they just need the storm to leave and then they can get in there. and that will happen. i mean, i imagine by the time we get to wednesday morning the storm will be all the way up here off the daytona beach area. so that should be far enough away that the seas will get low enough and the seas will die off enough. maybe by the end of today they can try to get some of the emergency response people in there. i mean, theyre going to need help for so ...

Better defined. two close to land to get its act together. once it starts moving, which it can do any kind. this is like delaying thing. people are longer in shelters, without power, its going to take forever. if you were with us a hour and a half ago, craig asked me what about the high tides with the storm surge in southwest florida. heres sunday 2:00 p.m., sunday afternoon. the high tied in naples is supposed to be at 3:00 in the afternoon. i mean, can we give these people a break? so the way ...

Evacuation even before the path shift. >> besides the rain bands, and this is whats important about where you are, chris. this is a storm surge map that comes from the national hurricane center. it is almost based on a worst case scenario about the 90th percentile. everything you see in red is over nine, ten feet. you get into orange and you are talking six to nine. you see where naples is. lets come in a little bit closer. when you look at this area of naples and you think, okay, this is a stor...

Islands. calipari paerry is with me andn how bad the storm surge can get. >> and were looking at tampa bay. this is one of the more recent models and you can see that that water will really come in on shore right here. we heard from jacob soboroff. youve seen this before. this is the storm surge map again looking specifically at tampa bay. and this is a scenario that the government there has run through. in 2010, they did a mock storm calmed phoenix with winds up it 150 miles per hour and they f...

Scenario for miami with this westward shift in the storm track. but it does not bode well. the latest storm surge map pretty ominous for places like naples and bonita and ft. myers and even sarasota tampa. theres going to be power outages into orlando. the whole state is impacted. where do you send people? >> thats an issue. look, the thing about andrew is it made a lot of people in florida understand how powerful and important these storms are. whats your sense of it? are they more powerful now...

My house, will my house exist, that depends where the eye comes on shore. am i going to have roof damage and power out for two weeks but i can go back to my house, thats the entire rest of the state of florida. >> in terms of the am i going to have water in my house question -- >> storm surge. >> storm surge. sea level im aware of but we hear sea levels have been rising over time and the high tide and damaging waves and the storm surge and water above ground, theres all these terms that i realiz...