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Until sunday night around this time, around 8:00 or so. i want to go to tampa right now and talk to the mayor, bob buck horn who woke up to a differentiate situation to what many in tampa were hoping and praying for. they were hoping this was more of an eastern storm. mayor, i'm wondering what your day has been like. i know a number of people left miami and came to tampa thinking that was going to be a safer area for them. i talked to one person who was considering driving back to miami or what they should do. hour things this she stated? what is the situation right now in tampa. >> you're abs...

That capacity is dwindling fairly rapidly as this storm gets closer. i would suggest to anyone in flood zone a, if there are sustained winds of more than 40 miles an hour, tampa fire and rescue can't come and get you, we cannot put those public safety personnel at risk in those conditions. so my suggestion to you is you still have probably 12 to 15 hours to make this decision. get up in the morning and move. you don't have to go to georgia or tennessee. just move to another flood zone. it may be a couple blocks away or two miles away, but just get out of flood zone a and let us do our job. >> ...

We spent a lot of money after the '04, '05 storms. even a 15-foot surge, where do the people have to be? where are the danger areas for that kind of surge? so we have those identified, locals know where they are and quite frankly, they're moving people to the safer areas. >> thanks so much. that is one thing different here from storms in the past. the storm surge warnings, the technology gives people those warnings in so much more specific, so much earlier. all we can do, anderson is hope that people are paying attention. >> yeah. and, of course, we're waiting later tonight, tom saider is goin...

The magnitude, 185 miles an hour, the anxiety level was skyrocketing. it looked like it was shifting away from us, and became weaker. i'm hoping that people -- they heed the warning and they take this seriously. stay inside because we will have cat 1 or cat 2 so far, unless this thing shifts again. cat 1, or cat 2 hurricane winds hitting us at some point tomorrow between 4:00 and 8:00. it will start and it's going to last. it's going to be a long-lasting storm. we will be out of it completely till monday morning around 5:00, 6:00 a.m. in the morning when the tropical storm winds subside. it is...

So he even has the energy to take the long way home. keep it up, steve! dr. scholl's. born to move. we're back with our continuing coverage of hirnl. the images there out of fort lauderdale. we're giving you as many vantage points as possible so you can see where the storm is as the outer bands move across various areas of very light rain here in ft. myers whereas earlier you saw heavy rain in miami and certainly looks like a lot of wind there in fort lauderdale. as i said before the break, this is a slow-moving stofrm, 8 miles an hour or so. so even if it hits the keys, starting with hurric...