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80-mile-per-hour gusts before sunrise. really even hard to stand up. now the winds have died down. every now and then it will feel completely normal. all of a sudden you'll get a big gust, but not nearly as strong as what we are seeing earlier today. i would imagine the gusts have dropped from 80 miles per hour down to about 35, 40-mile-per-hour gusts which is good news. we are on the south side of that storm though so it is pulling away from us. our conditions are just as you would expect. but areas to the north, north and northwest of that eye like daytona beach, all the way up the coast to ...

Which is a faster rate of return than expected. there's still halfway to go. the big concern, st. john's river. storm surge is going to be the story of damage from hurricane matthew and this represents one of the few cuts in the eastern coastline so the volume of water and storm surge will funnel through making this river, which is already about cresting, plus storm surge and tide, another eight to ten to twelve feet of surge that changes the topography here. changes power. and makes things impassable. so that's the concern from here right now. the gusting winds, not such a big deal. they have...

Means that those 100-mile-per-hour winds are going to be right onshore, if not further onshore, carol. >> all right, jennifer, thanks so much. she's reporting live for us this morning from palm bay. i want to head to the weather center now to check in with chad. so chad, currently this storm is a category 3. how strong are the winds? >> the winds are 120. we just had a wind sustained from the hurricane hunter aircraft at 116. so they are measuring that 120 still. the reason why it's not 140 anymore, or 145 like it was forecast to be is because there's not an inner eyewall anymore. we went thro...

Right now, let's get to dr. bob sheets. he was in charge of the national hurricane center when we were dealing with andrew back in 1992, i believe it was. '92. you know, dr. bob sheets, andrew was a word we kept hearing in the last few days about a potential analogy to what matthew could be. can you explain that to us and in terms of any of that expectation coming to fruition yet? >> well, they were totally two different storms. in this hurricane, it's a very large hurricane. it's not nearly as powerful as hurricane andrew was because there the winds were 175 miles per hour. you would not see ...

Those warnings, chris. yes, the winds have been incredibly gusty. what's eerie about it almost is that right now absolutely nothing. not even a breeze and then all of a sudden it will come out of no where and almost knock you off of your feet. that's the nature of these hurricanes. they're ferocious and this one is continuing to push up the coast. we're going a be in this for another couple of hours. very intense wind and then it should start to slack off by later on in the morning, which is good news. and then you can get out and the emergency crews will be able to get out and kind of assess ...