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Numbers should not allude to a weakening or a downgrading storm. this thing you could fit two hurricane andrews inside it? >> absolutely. i will tell you. i was here in '04 when we had storms in succession and we had terrible damage. i hope that we have learned a lot from that. where i live projected to be on the northeast side as it comes through tomorrow night, we are preparing, everyone is preparing as native of florida, i can tell you this is a devastating storm and it's coming our way. julie: you sound that you're getting a bit emotional there. >> i worked with the eoc centers, i've been ...

See, look at the well-defined eye, this storm is strengthening. the water in the florida straits are about 90-degrees and the fuel with these storms need is the warm water of the gulf of mexico, the florida straits and nothing in upper level of the atmosphere to tear the storm apart. ithas still maintained structure and i think that that's what we are going to see in next advisory with new track coming out. sea service temperatures, some of the warmest water ahead of it with nothing in its way, that's why we are concerned with the west coast of florida, that's vulnerable to 12 to 15-foot storm...

13-foot storm surge here and tampa's fire chief telling irma is the worst hurricane to hit the city in a generation. here is more of what he had to say. >> in my 35 years of preparedness i have never seen a storm or system that's of this magnitude out and operating under this velocity. all special needs folks and vulnerability population, they need to have evacuated already because they are looking at a very horrific conditions. >> we are at water hole where lots of people who are sticking it out are stopping by for drinks. not everybody wants to be necessarily. christian, you're from miami, y...

>> back to miami hopefully. >> you will stick it out? >> actually we were in clearwater, evacuated and now luckily we found a hotel here and from here i guess we are going back to miami. >> christian, we wish you well. you wanted to get out of town and had flat tire and couple of things that went wrong and you will stick it out to help friends and loved ones after the storm. >> exactly. i tried three times to get out of town. i got a flat tire, i tried to pick up my youngers son up and his baby and get them out of town but then his car breaks down and then the third time there's an accident so...

Of advice told by the national hurricane center at the 2:00 p.m. choppers. take a listen. >> very concerned about storm surge, there's a potential for catastrophic life-threatening storm surge on the southwest coast of florida from cape stabel, flooding aboveground level certainly enough to ground somebody, water in the first floor of your home. if you live in the area shown in pink and asked to evacuate, please do so. >> that remains a very critical issue here for miami beach which is expecting anywhere from a 4 to a 6'storm surge over in tampa bay. perhaps tomorrow or the following day, it c...