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To see and proud of florida right now. mike: that doesn't mean folks in broward county should let their guard down, right? >> no, not at all. this thing -- first of all, these things can wobble and change at the last second as we all know. secondly the back part of the storm, the dirty part of the storm as they call it, significant winds, high rain, people need to take it seriously. it looks like broward and east coast dodged the bullet for sure in avoiding a direct hit but that's not any reason not to continue to stay hunkered down, stay indoors, we have the cur -- curfew in place for a reaso...

Storm. that's where the maximum radius winds are, storms, intensity, the majority of the storm surge will occur and if i remember my numbers correctly, 80% of all landfall in hurricane, tornadoes and quadrant. but the safest place to be is outside of that storm surge zone and getting to inland area. you know, into a facility that can handle the forecasted winds not where the storm is currently but what forecasters are projicting for areas like orlando and tampa and the one advantage that florida had the 2001 building code. julie: yeah. >> after 2001 new construction was supposed to be built to...

Category 4 hurricane provides four times. now, if you look at the way that this storm has sort of gone back and forth around the florida panhandle as it moves west, just because this hurricane is moving west does not mean that the east coast is going to be free of massive storm surge, as you loo. i ended up in orlando. what happens to the thousands and thousands of people that headed to tampa where they are now actually bearing down for potentially the worst conditions as a result of hurricane irma. >> so the worst place to be is in northeast quadrant of the

Magnitude of this storm there? >> unfortunately i don't believe all citizens understand the magnitude of what's about to happen. allows in warm water as forecast predicting will gain intensity and continue up to west coast and through the states. this is a different angle of attack. this storm is moving from south to north from the state. charlie came from a different angle, closer to port charlotte. basically monroe keys to tampa bay and around the panhandle in florida. julie: right. let's talk about the damage. it goes up.

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