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Right side of the eye. thats where the strongest winds will be at landfall. the hurricane center hasnt changed the forecast path. yes, the intensity has been getting worse. but the path has been almost right over the top of panama city here for 24 to 48 hours at least. the right side of that is down near towards apalachicola. mexico beach area. thats the area of most concern. but we still havent ruled out anything. were still watching this closely from destin to fort walton beach down toward pan...

And this is all going to happen tomorrow in real time during the afternoon into the early evening. so, let me give you the latest, in case you werent with us at the top of the hour, for the 11:00 update. the next will be 5:00 in the morning. 125-mile-per-hour winds, were almost up to a category 4. its been strengthening all day long. and you can see on radar, the green here, theres the eye. thats what we will track, you do not want to go through that eye wall. you dont want to be on the right si...

Noon today, the hurricane force winds shown in red. then we get the landfall, everythings on shore by about 3:00 p.m. as far as the gusts go, right now were about 49, 31, nothing compared to what were going to see in two or three hours from now. the storm surge also is very threatening. if anyone stayed in harms way, its -- i mean, hopefully everyone got out of the way. lets just put it that way, stephanie. i mean, 13 feet of water with wave action on top of it. stephanie, about three hours ago ...

Going to be swamped with water, with wave action on top of it. so, thats really from cedar key back to where we get the landfall here, areas near panama city. the winds, the timing. when you wake up tomorrow morning, dont expect to see the worst of it yet. it will just start to be getting windy at 8:00 a.m. as we go through the day, thats when things really start to ramp up. look at this. by 1:00 p.m., theres the eye, so, were going to be close to a landfall a little after noon, local time here....

River. so it was constant wave action. beating up against basically our flooring with water seeping in through the sliding glass door and up on the deck and coming up under the flooring. the conditions right now have allowed to us actually take a breath. the wind has died down. weve still got a lot of rain but conditions are actually a little bit lighter in comparison. >> what have you been seeing through the day outside your window? >> it is just unnerving. lots of debris. there are refrigerato...

Lieutenant commander and what theyve seen and how its changed over the number of flights that hes had. what do you make of his assessment and what hes got? >> reporter: i think what is definitely interesting there is the expansion in size. despite the lessening in speed there is a substantial expansion so the kinetic energy is still there. thats what drives this surge, when you have the very large storms and theyre coming ashore. even despite a weakening with maximum winds of 100 miles an hour, ...

First of all, that wave is there because the storm was moving, it was trapped in winds pushing in the same direction. as that gets here, what we know now is there is a wall of water associated with this storm. usually as this storm is bigger, so is that wall of water. with the eye getting bigger, the wall of water gets bigger. and we know that wall of water is going to end up someplace, the storm surge along the coast. transfer that 83-foot wave down to about 9 to 13 foot storm surge. were prett...

The coastline, that increasing surge thats going to take place, that wind-driven wave action, the heavy amounts of rainfall. and of course if this thing stays over water, its not going to cut off its fuel supply line, and its just going to siphon all of this ocean water up onto land. so that is a big, big concern. the latest with this model here puts it where we expect, pretty close off the coast of wilmington, the european model. then does make landfall. this is friday at 2:30 in the afternoon....

When you spin a top on a table, it can only sustain that strength and that centrifugal force for so long. its got to go through these cycles. but what happens is that tight eye starts to wobble, and it throws the winds out, and it creates an outer eye band. once that outer eye band forms, it tightens back up, and it gains its strength. but this is interesting. each time it goes through one of those cycles, which could be 8, 9, 10, 11 hours to take the process and take it through, it pushes the w...

Usually as this storm is bigger, so is that wall of water. with the eye getting bigger, the wall of water gets bigger. and we know that wall of water is going to end up someplace, the storm surge along the coast. transfer that 83-foot wave down to about 9 to 13 foot storm surge. were pretty darn sure thats going to happen because there is that much wave action. >> tom, one of the reasons were looking at this and trying to figure out what it means, numbers can be deceptive. this is the regular he...