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A SEVERE WEATHER ALERT from the Boston 25 Weather Team.

Prepare each of the facilities for days leading up to this. that is the key for us, it is having the preparedness bring all of our leadership and staff together to ensure that our facility is ready for any type of wind damage that could occur, and localized flooding that may occur. truly, our goal is to care for our patients during normal times as well as adversity like this. here at the enterprise command center, as our facilities are preparing to care for those patients, we mobilize resources ...

Carrying. tornadoes, possible wind damage, the storm surge, all of that is what we are watching out for here in clearwater beach. now, clearwater beach is part of pinellas county. this area is about two and a half miles long, there is a big, long beach that is right in front of us in this direction. it is very flat and that is important. what does that mean? it is flat and that ocean is shallow. you can walk about half a mile into it and the water might just be barely up to your waist. so that c...

Bend region. local officials say this storm is unprecedented and perry is 20 miles inland but still expecting some of the worst wind damage from this storm as it comes ashore. so, again, we still have power at the hotel where were staying but as you can see were starting to get hit with rain and really were expecting winds to pick up in just a short while, willie. >> so, tell us a little about perry, gabe, if you would. we know as bill said that big bend area is a natural wildlife area as a matt...

Time. water issues far into the north here up the south carolina coastline then tomorrow morning this thing exits just south of cape fear in the wilmington area. a zoomed in view of the eye. notice its falling apart. the northern eye wall is moving onshore and the hurricane center will declare landfill when the center of the eye, so if we do the circle like this, it would be right here so were about ten miles from shore. and its going to come onshore south of perry here and this is what you dont...

Were talking about a matter of a couple of miles an hour here. >> mostly just for the history books, it doesnt look like well get a category 4 at landfill but looks like well have landfill of a strong category 3 major hurricane. again just for the history book, doesnt really matter, this is perry, florida, where our crews are located. the northern eye wall, the strongest winds are now approaching this area, and this is where some of the first extreme wind damage will be occurring so well keep an...

>> yeah, bill, you know, were really taking this minute by minute as we often do. when were out here covering the storms we try to find a structure that is secure. we do have, you know, have the ability to go inside this hotel that is open. you know, theres several other reporters here, several other local residents here decided to leave their homes but stay here in this hotel. so we have access to a secure structure if things get too dangerous hoot here, we will move inside. right now, were jus...

Likely to see, you know, a high level of wind damage here. >> all right, gabe, with that warning from bill and mine well let you go duck inside. the eye wall headed your way, bill says, in the next 15 or 20 minutes with some incredibly powerful winds and let you and the crew take cover. we appreciate your reporting this morning. thanks so much. again, hurricane idalia, a category 3 now, but just by a few miles per hour of wind is it not a category 4. incredibly dangerous storm set to make landfi...

In case because its a close call. things are looking better by the hour for our friends from tampa and south words. for the big bend area, the forecast is worse for you, and it has shifted to the west, and its expected to make landfall approaching category 4 strength. i am starting to add little cities we are most concerned with. the most populated centers, tallahassee and gainesville, and across the georgia border, and these areas, we are not worried about storm surge because its far enough inl...

To work its way to a category 2, over very warm water and it is pretty much heading up to where my hand is right here, almost going to go due northwards from here. and thats the current motion at about 14 miles per hour. this will give us landfall tomorrow morning, roughly around about 8 to 10:00 a.m. or so. now, as far as the hurricane center, here is the 8:00 a.m. position off the coast, 125-mile-per-hour winds. thats a strong major hurricane, bordering almost getting up to category 4. so the ...