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they're great people, beautiful state. you know about their football team? >> bill: a little bit. >> dana: governor desantis will give a update any moment now and bring it live. florida is bracing for what could be a once in a century storm. >> bill: the current storm track shows landfall sometime on thursday, maybe in tampa. if that were a direct hit, it would be the first major storm to hit tampa in more than 100 years. >> dana: forecasters are predicting storm sturge. people are boarding up homes and businesses. the amount of water may simply be too much to overcome. >> bill: here...

Is not about the heavy rainfall. even the small core of winds of over 100 miles per hour they can withstand it. it is the storm surge. ten feet of storm surge going over one of the most vulnerable coastlines on the planet will be devastating and potentially deadly and why ron desantis will say if you live in the tampa bay area you need to take this very seriously. a storm that is still strengthening. these are the milli bars. consistently rapidly intensifying even over cuba. we have all this warm water the storm will travel over in the next 12 to 24 hours and bill and dana if i can stress this...

Now asuka category 5. it is going to clear to the west and then we expect the turn to happen. by tuesday at 2:00 a.m. category 4 storm still very powerful. it will skirt the east coast but so painfully close. i know we focus on the track and landfall but even though it's still off the coast we are going to have that battering storm surge. that is the biggest culprit for deaths when we talk about hurricanes. water is the second. this cone of concern still includes the eastern coast of florida so no one is out of the woods yet. don't let your guard down. we are going to have another advisory at ...

Per hour. a strong 5. it is expected to stay at least at a 4 or 5 all the way up through the bahamas. so expect battering storm surge, directive winds, images tomorrow will be frightening. then all about the turn. where does that turn happen? and it is just a matter 25 to 30 miles that makes a difference. a billion dollar disaster and a glancing blow. this turn is something we will be watching today, tonight, all the way through saturday, maybe an hour by hour situation. >> thanks, steve, so much for that update. while florida is bracing for hurricane irma to hit, the citizens on the virgin is...