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You, erica. >> all right, patrick. we will take it. it is remarkable. glad you and the crew are staying safe there. we lost john's shot for a minute. but i think you're back with us now. there he is. >> i am back. you can imagine, erica. with the water and the rain and the sand and the wind, sometimes the equipment goes on the fritz here. but we're back up and running. i have to say patrick oppmann, it was amazing to get that forecast there. i want his team to stay safe. let's bring in the captain of the national hurricane center ken graham. i understand this storm is doing exactly what you fo...

Please be careful. keep the people in ft. pierce careful. thank you so much. thank you for standing out here in the rain with us. you're a true floridian. this didn't scare you at all. >> no problem. thank you. >> thanks very much. all right, erica. as you can see here, again, it's raining. it will be like this now for days. we the rain coming in and out. by later today, it's going to come in and it's just going to stay and pour. 4, 7 inches of rain on the coast and that's best case scenario. the winds as you were hearing from chad myers by tomorrow morning expected to pick up to near hurrican...

Situation. and we need to go out and rescue them. >> i have to tell you, even driving here this morning before the storm really passed over, they've had so much rain in southern florida over the last several weeks, the road is just saturated. there were puddles and standing water in so many places. that was an important warning. don't drive other it. chief, thank you, as always for your help understanding this. stay safe. you have your work cut out for you over the next few days. >> thank you, john. you stay safe. >> while i've been talking to the chief here once again, this is one of the oute...

Path. correct? >> correct. if it's closer, the number will be higher. but it doesn't have to go over the dune to get into the inner coastal. it's going to go through the cuts where most of the boats come out. so the water will get back there whether it goes over the dune or not. there will be a 4 to 7 foot surge inland simply because the water will go through those cuts. and the water may be going through there at 40 knots. never would you get a boat out of there nor would you want to put a water in the boat at this point in time. but that water will fill in whether it goes over that dune or n...

This is going to sit where it is muchl of the day today and then approach you on the morning of wednesday. so those waves are going to build and build and build and then every time a band goes by, you're going to get what you had about an hour ago where just the winds were 50 or 60 and then that's when the winds begin to come down with the rain. when it doesn't rain, you don't get mixing. you don't get the atmosphere to mix in it. the winds blow over your head. when it rains, that's when the wind brings in with the rain the 60 mile-per-hour gusts. we are seeing the eye where it was about 12 ho...