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Yesterday we are going to play for you. and also is there a football game or something? >> i don't know. >> the football game. >> vanny at notre dame? >> no, it is alabama and old miss. >> it is going to be impossible to keep joe from talking about. it is one of those days here on "morning joe." a ton is happening all at once and we'll get to all of it. we are live in oxford, mississippi, mississippi is a state no danger to the devastating effects of the hurricanes. on the gulf side seeing the likes of hurricane katrina ravaged the state. let's get to the storm. this may be just the beginning....

Center of the storm. the width of florida is about 140 miles. we could see storm surge and tropical force winds on both sides of florida on the atlantic side and the gulf side at the same time. >> south carolina's governor issued a state of emergency for that state, but it is not just irma, there is also two others brewing out there as well. >> yeah, it's not unusual to have more than one tropical testimony brewing at a time. right now we're not concerned about hojose. there is something called the fujiwara effect, the storms affect one another and it could pull a storm into it's orbit.

Of florida, the gulf side of florida after we had quite an eventful day in what is turning into quite an eventful evening. we have a matter of the storm surge coming in over land. we saw it in the city of miami the extent to which a lot of people didn't believe was coming. we saw the wind. 142 miles per hour while we were on the air. that was clocked at naples out at the airport. it's been an eventful day of coverage. i am joined by our meteorologist bill karins. >> i have the best news to tell you that we are -- >> we are on receive. good news we can take. >> the storm surge forecast is done ...

Was back and forth. think about it, if this is what's going to happen, this is what it's going to be like with all this rain coming down, there's not much any community could do. you'll have streams and buy yous and things like that that will hit their limit. the worry is not so much on the gulf side of everything. they've got a seawall here. they put that seawall in after a huge hurricane here in the year 1900. it was a devastating hurricane that killed thousands of people. at the time galveston was lower to the sea level. they build things up, put up this seawall. the seawall did a decent jo...

From the gulf side. that's where they get really nervous about the flooding, especially in low lying areas. >> i'm looking at cars behind you. i saw one police car. there are a few people driving around right there along the water and along that seawall that you're describing. is it just regular citizens' cars, news crews? what is that that's happening behind you on the roadway? >> reporter: these are pretty normal cars driving around here. people have confidence in the seawall because the surge wasn't supposed to be as high here. even the mayor will tell you, they weren't really worried about...