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However, some good news at least for jacksonville folks that have been experiencing the incredible amounts of rain. the good news is the majority of that rain is well out now. you should actually start to be seeing some clearing there in the short term which will allow folks to get out and assess some of the damage in those regions and begin the cleanup process. south of jacksonville as you go further south into florida. look at these rainfall totals that we had. nearly 16 inches in fort pierce, around naples and a foot of rain fell into georgia. as you cross over north from jacksonville and g...

160-170, potentially 180. naples, fort myers, bonita springs. beyond serious. are you confident you've been able to evacuate all the neighboring towns that are evacuated? >> sean, i am very confident in that. we've been moving people out. many of them on a voluntary basis. now more aggressively to shelter. i'm happy to report that we are getting a lot of cooperation. we are moving people to keep them safe. >> sean: i have so many friends down there, it's disheartening. as the governor of florida, he said it we can replace property. we cannot replace human lives. i know the sheriff of lee count...

Closer. folks that are still in southern florida right now to be not noticing things, they will start to deteriorate on saturday and then we have our landfall on sunday morning. >> sean: let's talk about the exact, direct hit? my second home is in naples, florida. i have a lot of friends, lee county, colliers county. with the direct hit if you had a guess no? >> if our latest models, we are still waiting for that turn. i will put two models and motion for you now. we are running up the coast. this is where you have to know when exactly it will turn. currently the models are bringing it in. rea...

Moving along the north coast of cuba. this is going to weaken the storm a little bit. the more powerful a storm is, the more slight disruptions could naturally reconnect. i don't want people to think that it will not be a severe hurricane because what happens is this, it will get over the very warm water in the florida street and the mid-upper levels. then i the dynamics. what's happening here, we've been preaching this for a few days. instead of letting rita and katrina, they weakened from 5 t, this one is liable to go the other way. as he said, it will go to a 5 before he gets to the florida...

Expect in all these cities. walk us through the entire path of this storm. >> i believe the landfall is going to occur on the southwest coast. i'm not trying to downplay the miami area. i think miami and sunday afternoon, that's when it is worse in miami. we will get wind gusts up to 10. the devastation in the florida keys, i was watching those people in the florida keys, they may get cut off. it would not surprise me if some of these bridges out there got washed over. that's how severe this could be. that's what happened in 1935 with the labor day hurricane. we are looking at wind gusts up to...