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Idalia is expected to rapidly intensify into an extremely dangerous hurricane before making landfall on Wednesday with storm surge of up to 12 feet in parts of the Florida coast
There. >> it is ahead of the storm which is what you are say your message is to residents, is to get out and make a plan and do it before -- before first responders can't get to you. when do you think that point is going to be, when people won't be able to get out any more? >> it depends on the tracking. that is changing. but it is -- it is early wednesday or late wednesday or perhaps thursday, at some point we which we get to the 30, 35 mile an hour winds we will not send first responders out. you should have your storm kit and you should know your evac zone and if you don't go to storm.pinal...
Eastern coast where you are and the effects for the carolinas and all of these states of emergency in effect for your state and north carolina and south carolina and what have you. sounds like from the latest tracking models, mayor, to your point, that is the region that could get the brunt of this. >> absolutely. look, our beaches right now are on a hurricane watch and a storm surge watch. our inland area is on a tropical storm watch. both of those are incredibly dangerous situations if that event happens. whether it's a wind event, a rain event or water event, if you're in an evac zone, you ...
That. we're in the middle of it for a day or day and a half more. that duration is what is so concerning to so many people. that is here in north carolina. south carolina hasn't begun. i don't think it has started to rain yet. let's go to chris cuomo in myrtle beach, south carolina. chris. >> no rain here, j.b. we have not had any significant precipitation. palmettos are starting to get their blow on at 45-mile-an-hour gusts. there was a mandatory evac zone. a shingle from the roof that fell off. you don't want this to hit you in the head. little things make a difference. with time, as you say...
Force. they've been doing the job of keeping people out of that evac zones. tough for folks that have evacuated and come to where we are, about 20 minutes outside of the evac zone. we've heard stories of people who have had to leave their homes behind with the lava flows. a very at the situation. >> i've been to helo, that old sugar town on the island. what are figures saying what might happen next? how well can they forecast what happens next? >> reporter: not well at all, david. it's almost impossible to tell the length and duration of volcanic ak tctivity like this. it's nearly impossible t...