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Has not been impacted by a storm this strong since 1898. definitely concern here. not so much the winds, with the eye staying offshore, the northeast quadrant will stay offshore, but the devastating storage surge, so we expect to see it throughout the day. the winds are expected to pick up here, bringing this water on to the shore and the question will be, how far east will it track off the coast and how devastating will the storm surge be, so, again, right now we're seeing winds about 15, 20 mile an hour and starting to see some of that rain. in the next coming hours there's a lot of concern ...

450,000 people just east of the intercoastal waterway as well. some of the evacuation zones, they had water and sewers shut off to protect the integrity of the systems. we're bracing for the impact of the storm. this is a storm that is so strong, this area has not seen something like this since the 1800s. 1898 is the last time they saw this type of storm. the concern, again, is that storm surge, even if it stays offshore, and even if the wind damage isn't as bad as was expected here, and again, as those communities further in south florida and miami and ft. lauderdale and west palm, even thoug...

Hurricane quite this size. the last time a hurricane impacted this area was 1898. with it taking a bit of a different track, that may limit the wind damage in this area as bill karins has been talking about. concern is for double digit storm surge. behind me is st. john's river. we expect the wind and rain to really kick up in the early afternoon into the evening hours. back to you. >> gabe, thank you. coming up, from political ads to early voting, hurricane matthew is already impacting the 2016 election. we'll have that plus the latest on the storm's path straight ahead right here on msnbc. t...

We have them all over the place. let's see if gabe gutierrez in jacksonville is up and running. take it away. >> reporter: good morning. we are in between rain bands right now starting to see a light rain and the wind picking up just a bit. earlier we've been seeing wind gusts of 20, 25 miles an hour but we expect it to really pick up in the early afternoon. that's when we expect to see wind gusts here about 80 miles an hour or so in the afternoon. as you've been hearing and as we've been reporting, major concern here in the jacksonville area will be this potentially historic storm surge. doub...

Electronic devices and brace for these power outages that they expect in just a short time. local officials, emergency management officials are set to hold a briefing within the next hour or so. what i can tell you, the current conditions, we've seen intermittent rain over the last few hours as we get outer rain bands of hurricane matthew. right now in between one of them. we'll see the wind pick up every few minutes or so. i think i'm feeling a bit of a wind pickup right now. behind me is the st. john's river. the key thing here, bill karins has been saying it over and over again, potential f...