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That usually doesn't happy until the storm gets picked up by the as far as the heaviest rain in the next couple of days, we are going to be looking at totals anywhere from two to as high as 4, 5 inches and perhaps isolated areas in the next 24 to 367 hours. right now, moving through biloxi and now you're seeing that erie, calm eye right on top of michael savidge there. >> i suppose you look at it in the context of this hurricane season and certainly what we saw from irma and maria, this could have been a lot worse. >> this was never going to be an irma a and two things that favor

Landfall in florida as a category 3 on marco island. you think about all the folks that are now up the street from this, you know, from marco island, naples, up to fort myers. fort myers, you're next. from there to sarasota, from sarasota to st. pete, tampa, clearwater, and then straight up hitting florida, so there will be very few areas along the west coast of florida that are spared from this. in fact, i don't think there will be any area along the west coast of florida that will be spared from this. as intense as it gets, we could get into these eyewalls. so when you look at the whole stru...

Else why you're on the third floor and what you expect in the next two hours? >> so that's the back-up plan i have. if there's a storm surge, that's where i'm going. there's actually multiple spots on the island that i can go to immediately when that storm surge and if that storm surge happens. i'm pretty sure it will as soon as the eye passes by, so i've got multiple back-up plans on the island here, multiple parking -- for me to get to safety in order to avoid the storm surge. >> now, scott, one thing that a lot of our viewers may not know is a lot of the storm chasers out there actually act...

The zero line. we are going to see this line ten to 15 feet higher than that pink line. it's hard to have cameras. we're not going to put our crews out on the beaches to watch these storm surges, so the government has these tidal gauges out here. we will know by watching this red line just how bad that storm surge is. right up the coast we have gauges in clearwater beach, in sarasota, and, brian, that will be the story and tell us how bad the damage is going to be and how many lives will be lost from the people that decided to stay in the evacuation zones. >> and our worry is when the water do...

City of naples and now the strongest winds are right in the middle of bonita springs and we'll shift this right into fort myers in about an hour from right now and we'll send it after that even further up the coast and we'll talk about port charlotte. port charlotte is famous because that's right where hurricane charley came onshore with 145-mile-per-hour winds and devastated that area. >> head back over here and see if we can open up mike bettis' mike because we've been focusing on a shot that's been blown out. the important part of the shot is what's happened to the weather. >> i look at a l...