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have our fox news chief meteorologist rick reichmuth with us. rick this has been rough so far. >> really has. three things, the storm surge that broke records in fort myers and naples as well by a lot by the way, three feet higher than we had ever seen from any kind of storm surge in the past. that obviously causing all that flooding right along the immediate coast. then we have the winds, actual verified winds of 140 miles an hour in cape corral. a lot of this wind was really prolonged because it's such a slow-moving storm and then you have the rainfall. because it's so slow we get ...

Eye wall and is now in the eye. now, to get a center landfall declared by the hurricane center, you need the center of the eye to kind of go over land. we may have to wait a little further up. but this right here, this area, this bright pink in here, the dark red. this is a heavy band. this is the northern eye wall. this is what's left on the powerful eye that once had 185 mile-per-hour wind. now it's down to 90. we could get hayer gusts in here and get some damage. higher tide was between 1:00 and 2:00 on the outer banks. now we're heading towards low tide. so we're not worried about that. by...

Southern gulf of mexico. the national hurricane center has just released its updated forecast on tropical depression alex. meteorologist jackie jaris. it is still a threat? >> it is still a threat. and the models have quite a spread on it meeting our kst confidence as to where the storm is going is a little smaller. the accuracy has been so incredible in the last five to ten years. but this time around, it's a little different ball game because of the high pressure ridge which is in place and very little steering on the storm down the line. so there you can see how large the cone is down the l...