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Political noses. ill start with you, michael. does your nose tell you -- i can tell on thursday before an election i can tell which way the wind is blowing and i dont think theres any velocity or direction but people are telling me its in trumps direction. how do you read the wind right now? >> i would read the wind that way and the objective or information i can rely on is the car on the way to the airport, i was talking to the driver and he was going on about hillary and im thinking this guy i...

Dont like donald trump, dont ke his rhetoric, dont really relate to him but also want to see the first female president ever elected. they really like the idea of a woman. they can relate to hillary. they can see themselves to some degree in hillary, especially the older women and theyve seen her over years and years and years change as they have changed and grown into the workforce. >> ron, do you have a sense of which way the things -- everybody does their anecdotal polling. we all do it. my -...

Northeasterly direction. as that eye wall runs parallel with the florida coastline, we see a change in the wind direction basically from a more southerly direction or perhaps more offshore. things really get whipped around considerably as this continues to ride and scrape, basically the atlantic seaboard of florida. so, where is the storm headed? you can see it is moving in a generally northwesterly direction at 45 miles an hour, still, a strong category 3 hurricane. this is the latest radar. yo...

Southwards. yes, 300,000 people without power, but that should be downed trees and minor roof damage. havent seen extreme destruction from winds. if were going to get it, its that there. thats one of the stories during the day today. this red shows where the gusts are currently located. were going to take this and move it up the coastline through the morning. also ahead of it, see the red arrows, thats the wind direction. the storm surge is starting to be more of an issue than earlier because th...

>> reporter: yeah, thats right. where were standing on daytona beach right now, were on the opposite side of the beach just outside of our hotel. we do have power at this hotel but were one of the only ones on this street that have power. hurricane matthew, the eye of this storm, is to the northeast of us but were feeling wind gusts all morning long of more than 60 miles an hour. i want you to take a look at some of the damage across the street here. the roof of this building has been blown off....

Cocoa beach on the phone joining us. mr. mayor, can you hear me? >> yes, i can. >> okay, great. when we last checked in with you a couple hours ago, you were hunkered down in i believe the fire station with some other first responders on the radar there. it looks as if the eye has just passed you to the north. what are you experiencing? >> it has. >> mr. mayor? gosh, you know, even though the eye has passed -- >> you hear me? >> now i can. go ahead. >> not much has changed except the wind direct...

County, just with thunderstorms. but the track is interesting, as we talked about last hour. a closer inspection, it hasnt changed much. some models want to give us a 6:00 a.m. landfall at cape canaver canaveral. if it just hugs the coast, its going to create tremendous damage. west palm beach, maybe hurricane force winds, but theyre not going to have the surge. thats from the storm center northward. this is where the winds start to extend outward a little bit and cause more problems with the st...

Sheer a look at some of the nasa energy that we have from tuesday. all the white dots are clouds. notice we fast forward just one day. now you start to see this grayish brown color. that is smoke from the initial fire sparked by lightning. fast forward one more day. notice how quickly it spread. again, these fires doubled in size overnight because the wind direction that we had really helped enhance it. then we fast forward one more day. again, its hard to see because now you have all of these c...

Homes and businesses within this area. 7,000 people were at one point without power. hundreds of power poles just burned, and that was the cause for a lot of those power outages. the one good news is a change in wind direction. the last couple of days its been coming offshore. its been coming toward the west. you get the dryer air with that, but its going to change over the coming days. thats good news. another thing to talk about is how much rain theyve had in the northern end of the country. l...

During the previous and after the previous three nuclear tests have not stopped pyongyang so far. but we know that japan has sent two aircraft into the area of the sea of japan, or the east sea, which is just east of north korea where they believe any radioactive material would have been blown given the wind direction. theyre going to collect that dust. theyre going to analyze it and find out if that gives any clues obviously that the amount of kilotons that have been used would suggest how big ...