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Carley: janice dean is tracking the category 2 storm, still in florida but heading north. >> northwest at 8 miles an hour. this was stationary for days across the bahamas. we are getting the devastating images the storm is historic in terms of the catastrophic damage in the bahamas and now starting to move. we are seeing tropical storm force windss moving onshore, tropical storm force windss extend 175 miles from the center of the storm, hurricane force windss 60 miles from the center of the storm and the storm is 80 miles offshore of florida. let's look at future radar. one of our forecast mo...

Monday, 8 p.m. hasn't moved all that much. by tuesday 8 p.m. just east of mel bubourne melbourne. continuing to basically threaten florida but also now begin to move to the north. what is critical here is that it has not gun its northern movement and until that happens, florida is going to continue to be in the bigger threat as far as the impacts. the models still have the center of the storm east of florida. remember, the hurricane force winds extend out and the tropical force winds extend out 165. this is something we have to watch for today. that turn is going to be crucial. it's going to i...

I have to tell you, we may not be able to get a live shot from patrick ottman, but if we do, it will be incredible. he will experience the 165-mile-an-hour winds which is where we are right now. gusts to 200. that wind is going to come from the north and then it's going to go calm. you can see the stars in the sky from that center of the eye zero in and then on the back side, 180, 165 at this point-mile-an-hour winds coming from the other direction. so no matter how you slice it with an island, you're going to get a storm surgeon the other side. this is not as populated as freeport is. 20, 25 ...

Up above. once this is done with the bahamas, it will be devastating to see that. there's the center. 45 miles out. we have hurricane warnings that are now in effect from boca raton down to cape canaveral. 24 hours here, 48 hours to the north and then tropical storm watch in effect for central florida, disney world might be seeing some tropical storm force winds by the time we get into the middle of the week. this is a slow mover. what is horrible for the bahamas may be good for florida. the longer this waits for the steering currents to pull it to the north, the further away from florida it i...

There are evacuation orders in effect along the coastal area in palm beach, correct? >> remember, this storm is heading north so we don't want residents to get on the highway and head north on i-95 and get stuck on the road. so if any of the residents want to -- we want the residents to shelter in place. if they have substandard homes, we have shelters that are now open. we have nine shelters open. we have a special needs shelter in palm beach county that's open. i believe we have over 200 residents in there now. if any resident wants to leave, we prefer them to head west instead of heading no...