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Patterson is up the coast and st. petersburg. he's up joining me now. steve, how is it looking now? >> you know, you could say that this area with all the modeling, of course, i have a storm here as of yesterday, 24 hours ago, this is where the brunt of the storm was supposed to land. that didn't happen. that doesn't mean that this, that this area couldn't face it is a faster. we are feeling it right now, the wind in the rain significantly picking up as the sun drops. we expect more to come. a surge is still possible. you can't see it now, but tampa bay is basically just over my right shoulder...

Cars. are the homes in a similar situation? what is your sense of assessing that damage? >> well, we definitely know, we don't know what's going on in the barrier islands. we don't know anybody who was there if they got out or were meant to get out. this store kind of storm has in western florida in a long time, since charlie. so we don't. now the police are trying to figure out. they say if you have internet service or phone service, let us know if you are on some of these barrier islands. we don't know, but we know fort myers was hit by 150 mile an hour winds. we have seen structural damage....

We can see it on our screens right now, when you get water dumped at this rate, it is always shocking when you are around, it how quickly that water will get on you, whether you are in a car or out. the flash flooding gets to people before they realize what's going on. you can see the sheer volume of water. as you said, outer bounds, orlando is going to get a ton of water before this is over. that's obviously a densely populated area which people haven't evacuated and are going to be sitting this out. i hope the power holds, which it looks like right now it. is >> yes, and, again we're talking...

In orlando. my rule of thumb is that once you get gusts from 15 to 16,, that's enough to get downed trees, power outages. we're seeing that happened in central florida. as far as overnight, we're going to continue with those gusty right winds, and i'll follow up with that forecast path that is going to take you overnight towards orlando, over to the space coast. and then off the coast with another possible landfall on friday. somewhere between savannah and charleston, maybe even as a hurricane once again. a cruel storm, and as we all rapper evenings up, think about those people that are still ...

A lot of wind here, too much wind for rescuers to get out there, certainly too much for those 42,000 electrical workers to get out and start fixing the powerlines. we have reports of 1.8 million people already without power. as bill said, this storm is above orlando now, a highly populated area. it's going up to jacksonville. it's going through the st. johns river, which always floods and puts people out of power. then it might make a turn and come back as a category one. this is a remarkable storm, and chris. it has done a great deal of damage. probably the worst is over, but for some people ...