fingernails, do i need to put my hurricane shutters up? do we need to plan on evacuating? when can we come back? it s thursday/friday for areas of south and north carolina. storm surge problem in florida and up the coastal areas, we ll talk about the problems maybe being a little bit more wind. not georgia but in south carolina, north carolina, we could get more wind impacts out of that. chris, i ve been looking at some of the new model data. it s all in excellent agreement. i do not expect any shifts from the hush center at 11:00 p.m. that is good news. thank you so much, bill karins. you mentioned west palm beach. that s where we find nbc s simone boyce. simone, is the shifting forecast which now, again, seems to be pretty much everybody s in agreement, all the different models look the same. is it changing people s behavior on the ground? reporter: chris, uncertainty is still the prevailing emotion here on the ground in west palm
that can be a real danger in a hurricane. rather than let it fly across here i went and picked it up and held it. i will just dump it in a place where the wind isn t. this is the real danger in a hurricane with things flying around. that is kerry sanders who has watched this thing go from clear skies into the hurricane that you were watching. maya rodriguez is in miami. the worst of it is over in miami. now we are looking at the after effects and the debris and looking at flooding. this is a city that has a flooding problem because of rising sea levels sometimes on sunny days have water coming up through the storm sewers. what is the situation in terms of flooding in miami? reporter: now it s a city that has a storm surge problem. we are in downtown miami and the bay is a few blocks east of us. that water came on up. you can take a look we are walking around and it is kind of
national hurricane center, the people responsible for the latest update on the storm s intensity and path. welcome, rick. so, tell us, where s this thing going to hit and when? good morning. well it is already hitting the bahamas no doubt about that. near nassau and andros island. the outer bands are starting to arrive on the coast of southeastern florida. this morning and mid-day down in this part of the state the last chances people have to take their last-minute preparations both coastal and inland, and our forecast track brings it toward the southeast florida coast with the core of the hurricane possibly coming right onshore in some portion of the hurricane warning area here in southeast florida. but again, even if the center of circulation stays just offshore you could still have the hurricane conditions onland and strong winds penetrating well inland. i live in suburban fort lauderdale in broward county. i ve got my shutters up and my family s not going anywhere today. then you
surprise. well, the last report i heard said 195 miles an hour wind. i knew it was coming. there was a lot of low-lying areas. and yeah, i knew exactly what was coming. they didn t, but i sure did. you rode out part of the storm in the swimming pool. explain that. well, the leyte park resort where i was is elevated 15 feet above the sea level, so there was not a storm surge problem. but we were up higher and we had a clean fetch of wind off the water. so it was full-on wind there. everything it had blew through there. a lot of times as the storm is ramping up, you can move around and get some shots. and that was my plan to get video of the wind going through, the palm trees and around the little villas out back. and i was out there lining up
and yeah, i knew exactly what was coming. they didn t, but i sure did. you rode out part of the storm in the swimming pool. explain that. well, the leyte park resort where i was is elevated 15 feet above the sea level, so there was not a storm surge problem. but we were up higher and we had a clean fetch of wind off the water. so it was full-on wind there. everything it had blew through there. a lot of times as the storm is ramping up, you can move around and get some shots. and that was my plan to shoot some video of the wind going through the palm trees and around the little villas out back. and i was out there lining up shots. and i noticed the water was just blowing horizontal over the edge of the pool and going over. and i was trying to frame up a