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Expect remnants to move up into the tennessee and ohio valleys by midweek and become a rainfall threat. the big threat today to is going to be storm surge. this area from cape coral to cape sable has a risk of seeing 5-10 feet of storm surge as the winds from irma pile water into this very sensitive area along the southwest coast of florida. we could see 5-8 feet of storm surge inundation farther north, in the tampa bay area. everybody along the west coast of florida should be evacuating if you've been told to do so by your local officials. once you get north of lake okeechobee, you still have...

Whether it is one degree or five degrees west of a place like naples, correct? >> five degrees west would be significant. we don't expect that much deviation. we are fairly certain this will have a big impact in southwest florida, whether the eyewall makes a direct hit or a little west. we are anticipating that significant storm surge from cap teef a island down to cape sable area coming in later today. >> has anything surprised you thus far this morning about its behavior, its direction, and do you feel justified with all the evacuations that were ordered? >> yes. i think what we showed was p...

Now here is the latest storm surge update. we are talking about a storm surge warning for most of the coast of florida. because of the track changes, the storm surge looks to be a little bit less for the east coast, so some numbers have dropped there. in fact for miami now we're looking at a 4 to 6-foot storm surge there and less, around 2 to 4 feet as you head north of miami beach up the coast. those numbers are nothing in comparison to what we have here now. for the keys, cape sable to card sound bridge, this is where we see the potential for a 10 to 15 foot above ground level storm surge. i...

Possibly sustained of hurricane force, also storm surge up to 5-8 feet in that area and, again, very heavy rainfall with totals up to about 15 inches. what we've seen in terms of storm surge is that we were anticipating the values of 10-a 15 feet from the captiva area down to cape sable, and what we've seen so far is that the naples pier, we saw an observation of the water level, and it rose about 4 feet in about a half hour. and at that point we lost connection with the observation. so that anticipated, rapid rise of the water is actually occurring now as we speak. as we look at the, back to ...

Move up the west coast of florida with significant impact. we have hurricane warnings for essentially all of florida except the western panhandle. the timing. south florida will continue to be under the gun for the rest of today and tonight, and we'll see the impact spreading into the tampa area tonight and continuing up the coast into the georgia and south carolina area. the storm surge, we are expecting values of 10-15 feet from the captiva area down to cape sable. at this point these conditions will be coming on that area in the next couple of hours. the high tide is expected around