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Clearwater, florida not too far from tampa, florida where you might just call this the calm before the storm. dorian is a category 4 hurricane right now with winds in excess of 130 miles per hour. this could very well be by the time it hits florida, we're told that could be late sunday night into monday morning. if it follows its current trajectory, with winds excess of 157 miles an hour. already this has turned slightly eastward and shifting more to the carolinas. they're not taking chances in florida, closing down the orlando international airport as of 2 a.m. monday and already seen one cou...

>> so far, as you know, with the exception of brevard county, kind of in the middle of the florida east coast. there have been no mandatory evacuations delivered from florida. officials now, even there, it's for low lying beaches, cape canaveral, some of the others. by and large they avoid that i'm told because they don't know exactly where to tell people to go. it's possible the storm of this size could hang for a while. if they went further inland it doesn't mean they're getting away in florida, they don't know where to go. how would you advise people who are being told to go, where do they ...

Of convex around the center. the other thing we look at, the health of the storm and outflow. you see the high clouds moving out from the center, just a textbook situation of a very strong hurricane here. that's why in the latest update, this is brand new, we're now up to 150 miles an hour on the wind and slowing down, too, moving west at 8 miles per hour. we're getting information from the noaa hunters and the hurricane hunters, flying right into the eyewall. with the hurricane hunters and p-3, we have a radar on board giving us information about the structure of the storm and helps us determ...

Going to feel the disturbance and it's going to take it to the north. it's too close and too early to tell which side of the track it's going to be. neil: but landfall anywhere would be a monday event? how would you describe it? >> devastating with a major hurricane. for the bahamas we're talking conditions going downhill even tomorrow. very devastating in the bahamas. i can't emphasize that enough. 24 hours of rain and battering storm surge, even staying off shore, this is tuesday, not even making landfall in florida, but could get the impacts. depending on the fracture. south and north carol...

Be careful. neil: they don't know where to go. following the katrina model where the hurricane hopped the state and get into the gulf, going in land is pointless advice so a lot of them, maybe i will stay until i know for sure whether -- where this thing is headed. >> you can't wait too long. if you wait to the last minute and everyone is trying to evacuate it will be difficult to get out so that is when places run out of gas so you cannot wait. right now you know you can go west. if you look at if you go west you are in better shape. i follow every day, listen to local law enforcement, they w...