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Category two storm with maximum sustained winds of 105 miles per hour, and is making its way very slowly across northeast florida. the hurricane isn't expected to reach the atlantic ocean until late tomorrow. and even then, it will continue north in a week and form. states of emergency have been declared as far north as virginia, into dissipation of what the storm may bring in the coming days. in florida right now, nearly 1.9 million households are without power, as wind and water, knocked down trees, and power lines. curfews will be in effect along the west coast. the greatest danger is the s...

This is in an area where the storm will have weakened when it reaches us at its full force in the hours to come. it is still hours away, and already we are seeing this. i can tell you, just in the last ten minutes, things have deteriorated rapidly here. thankfully, at this point, we still have power, cell phone communications, and the power outages in the area appear to be minimal. at this point, as officials have warned throughout the day, wherever people are, they should be planning to hunker down. the threat here isn't so much the wind. we're not looking at storm surge here. there will be g...

Walking speed. we're doing that tonight from fort myers all the way up to somewhere near the space coast, and that portion of the storm, the northern sector of it, in the northwest, is where all that heavy rain is, beginning to arrive in the orlando area, the disney complexes, universal studios, that is where we will see the heaviest rainfall during the overnight hours. chris, we had crazy winds. under it didn't underachieve, cape coral hundred 35, captiva 1:26, and even in punta gorda, up to 1:24, and as i mentioned the, rainfall totals have been 17 inches, and some reports of as much as 20. ...

And you can see the warnings lighting up here as the system marches. those are rainfall rates you don't typically see. >> how long do we anticipate that this is going to take to get out of, move quickly enough that you can deploy both emergency personnel and folks to start working on the grid? >> that's one of my biggest fears. normally you would deploy assets immediately on the back end of a disaster. because of the slow motion of the storm, you can see, it basically, it takes all the way until thursday afternoon, maybe even into friday, to pull away from the florida peninsula. the lingering ...

Again and make another landfall later in the week? we >> yeah. i'm glad you bring up this point. i don't want all the coverage to forget about what might happen here in coastal georgia as the center moves back over water as a tropical storm and hooks back into coastal georgia, south carolina. this portion of the coastline is very susceptible to storm surge. we should get another round of storm surge here along the coastline of georgia and south carolina. >> all, right jamie rhome with the national hurricane center. we have learned a lot. thank you. let's go now to orlando, florida, where as yo...