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Close and right now several counties are under mandatory evacuations. Other parts of the south are under Storm Warnings as residents brace for days of heavy rain, dangerous winds and Life Threatening Storm Surge. Joining us now nbcs Marissa Parra from pinellas county, Florida And Nbc Meteorologist Bill karins. How are people there preparing for this . Reporter well, you can see some of the preparations happening behind me, and im going to go ahead and give you a little bit of a walk and talk, a show and tell if you will. These are Sandbag Preparations w we always see this when there is a hurri...

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50-mile-per-hour range. maybe even down towards bar harbor. the other area of concern and we'll talk a lot about this this weekend into next week, this development zone here. right now it's not a storm. it's just beginning to form. it's too close to land right now. but by the weekend it could form over the warm waters of the central caribbean. all of our computer models show this becoming a big powerful storm, likely a hurricane next week. our american computer model has it near cancun, north of cozumel. and the europe al model has it near western cuba. as far as all of our spaghetti lines, we...

That is used to having to deal with hurricanes, but it doesn't get hit as predominantly as the caribbean or as louisiana would, those states in the gulf. it's for that reason we've seen folks here sandbagging low-lying areas, covering up those windows as we expect gale-force winds tonight into the early morning hours. that's when fiona is expected to sideswipe bermuda as it passes by to the west. it could still be a serious situation here. there is a hurricane warning in full effect. we are starting to feel the winds start to pick up here. the minister of national defense is urging everyone to...

It can still cause considerable damage. >> yeah, morgan, you look at that intensification over the last 48 hours or so and this storm is still on its way north. bill, that's why we bring you here to give us a sense of who's most at risk here and how bad this could be for the folks in newfoundland and that area north in canada. >> there's a chance this could be the strongest storm ever to strike canada. you hear that, you're like, whoa, they have had hurricanes before. but the pressure on this when it makes landfall or approaches nova scotia could be the lowest ever recorded in canadian history...