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Watching jennifer gray's live shots from. mayor, where are you hunkered down? >> i'm hunkered down with my family in our home. the chief of the fire department is at the eoc. they lost power there and that's the southeast section, but they're running on generators. they have radio, 800 radio power for cell phone and communication and we're hunkering, hunkering down. i'm listening to the winds. as you're stating, i can tell because i've been up the whole time. i've been listening at 2:00 in the morning it got really intense and right now as you're mentioning about cape canaveral. those wind hit...

Of course. incredible. >> mayor, you're coming in and out. you're all on stand by. you're hunkered down and as you say the emergency responders, the police, the firefighters. have you been getting distress calls from people who maybe did not heed the evacuation warning? >> we are not receiving any distress calls as of yet. we are watching basically through the windows and we cannot respond until the winds die down below 39 miles per hour. at that point, we can go out. if we tried to go out now, it would be disastrous for everyone. not a good situation. >> yeah, why is 39 miles per hour the tip...

Everything, but not get too exposed if possible. all right so that's what's going on in daytona beach. that's the present. which is a look at the future of what's going to happen up the rest of the east coast and here in jacksonville, carol. that's why the governor was saying the i-10 corridor which cuts east to west is open and passable. now is the time to move while you still can. >> now is the time to move. unless you live in st. augustine. because we just talked to the mayor there. she wants people to stay inside their homes. there are bridges there, too, going to be shut down shortly. whe...

While the getting is good. the i-10 corridor is open, you can drive west, you can get to safety if you're in the evacuation zones. it's easy enough to find out. go to the websites for your local authorities. the word is out on your local stations. we are putting it out as well. the concern and the story of matthew is going to be storm surge. it's not so much about the winds as it was with hurricane andrew. people make the mistake of saying well, that was a more powerful storm as if this will certainly be better. we don't know that, because as the water volume comes in here with the increasing ...

Slowly at 120. but not like spinning with her arms in, at 140. that's the only difference. the pressure is the same. the risk is the same. the storm surge is the same. it's the same size storm. it just doesn't have that one inner core wall to make 140. new smyrna beach you're in the way right now. that storm is about to come onshore for you. playa linda, oak hill getting slammed with 100-mile-per-hour winds. and then farther up toward daytona beach we are seeing one more band come in for boris. i suspect in the next 45 minutes when this outer wall right here at about new smyrna gets to him, he...