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Eye just as intense but the winds in the other direction coming west to east. so all the telephone poles that are in the trees that are bending in one direction, several hours later will push in the other direction. so again, it can only take so much. and that's what's going to give. that's the eye making its way from south to knot across the entire peninsula. we do expect the eye to start to collapse, it's not going to be over water. we're cutting off the fuel line of the system. it's not like harvey when it was able to feed off its own rainfall. harvey moved so low it didn't need to be over ...

People are going to be on their own in the time of emergency. we can't put our responders in that situation. so, yes, power at some point will be cut or drop on its own. which creates a another set of hazards. >> there's always a concern. they face this if harvey in texas. do you keep the grid on do you keep the power on? if there's a lot of water on the ground that brings with it concerns of electrocution and things like that. >> that's the million dollar question. we have emergency operation centers, so we have a city one that i'm staffing. as the commander. and we're interacting with partne...

Irma. smaller, compact the eye is tighter. the wind radius of damage wasn't that kind of damage 20, 30 miles out. when you look a the track, take a look at this. it was a year later when it first made land fall and devastated the southern portion of the florida peninsula. it went into the record books as a four. took almost a year of research and looking at the winds damage to put it in the record books as a five. my point is this. there's not a big difference. a four is massive. a five as well. you won't be able to tell that much. we're going to get hit. $26 billion of damage. and 56 fataliti...

Serious. we're not -- we forget we're not used to seeing tropical category 3 hurricanes making landfall in places where people live. this is a big deal. >> yeah, it is. we haven't had a major hurricane landfall in the texas coast in some time. the conditions seem favorable for harvey to continue organizing, it strengthened last night into this morning. it's going to be moving across as it moves northwest towards the texas coast. there's a warm area of water here, warm he haddy that's broken off from the gulf of mexico. the storm is going to be moving over and that could allow for that intense ...

The national weather service warning the storm surge alone could be a life threatening situation. harvey could dump between 12 and 20 inches of rain and in some isolated parts of the texas coast, 30 inches through wednesday. this is complicated. we're going to explain this in a second why this is more than just a storm hitting the coast. right now a hurricane warning is up for 700,000 people along the gulf coast and at least 6 million are under a tropical storm warning. >> that was 700,000. in beau mont, residents and volunteers are packing sand bags to protect their homes and bottled water fl...