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Land. lets go to bill karins with the latest. where the the storm right now and where are we expecting it to make landfall? >> were getting the breaking news stories from this storm. i was saying all along it was from sunset today to sunset tomorrow that a majority of the damage is going to be done from this storm. were hearing reports that the abc station, newbern area is evacuating. pamlico sound, the winds have been coming out of the east all day long. theyre piling the water up. the storm su...

>> reporter: yeah. andy is going to look at the palm tree thats being held up here. an interesting point is i made the point were ten miles away. when we woke up yesterday morning and said, boy, were far away from where this storm is going to strike, especially when they were looking at the fact the eye was no longer going to hit miami, our thought was we wouldnt see much of the storm. where we were based at, theres a main water inlet, when you fly into miami you see them, lakes, other water inl...

Can you see yesterday 99-mile-per-hour winds uprooted trees along the road here around the airport. you can see the roots when we swing back over here, these are significant trees the palm trees stayed up. over here on the other side are the inlets. you can see different water inlets, we saw was suddenly a lake turned into waves. ultimately, that wind pushed these trees up and over in the area. more than 85% in miami, dade county has no power. so a lot of people are using places like these hotel...

Miami sees. if you fly into miami, youll see the water inlets scattered around the city. to give you perspective of where we are in miami, were ten miles away from where the coast actually is. were about two blocks away from miami international airport. yesterday morning when we realized we would be stuck by this tree, we didnt think we would get too much of the brunt of the water wind until the storm came in. 99-mile-per-hour winds, which led to these trees coming down. we are watching what is ...

Path of least resistance. it will go around these buildings and these seawalls and head into these access roads that lead back up to atlantic avenue which is the main north-south drive along the coast here in daytona beach and run as far as it will go. the real worry of all of the water inlets leading into the intercoastal waterway. that water is going to head toward the intercoastal waterway and will come up very, very quickly depending on how close that eye is to do daytona beach and how stron...

Anywhere from 7 to 11 feet. obvious la, the hope is that were closer to seven and not toward 11. now, whats going to happen here is this water is going to easily breach some of these seawalls along the ocean front, and start chasing up these access roads that lead to the main north/south drag, atlantic avenue. the concern, of course, all the water inlets that lead to the intercoastal waterway. a lot of property up and down the intercoastal waterway. one minute, the water in folks backyard will l...

Mentioned, flash flooding is very dangerous. ive been in it before and im seeing people out here who are not first responders driving around the streets in the middle of this, tamron. that is not something that officials would like to see. there are lots of water inlets off the ocean heading towards the intercoastal waterway and a lot of people live along the intercoastal. those folks if they still have power somehow, generators and watching the broadcast here, they should be prepared for water ...

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