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So, listen, you've been -- you've done this before. you've flown over hurricanes. if you look at dorian and you look at the eye and how it's intensifying, the open water, how -- what kind of damage if it continues along the path that it's -- it's on now, what kind of damage could folks expect down in florida? >> you know, the path four days down the road, you know, the average air in there is something like 150 miles. so it's very hard to pinpoint where the worst damage could occur in roughly four days. it certainly -- the populated east coast of florida is hard for it to hit a place that does...

People, so everybody just has to keep paying attention to that, those hurricane center updates and reports from the aircraft. we just saw an entirely different storm today than yesterday. yesterday it was a mess. it was very difficult to make any structure at all out on the radar. today it definitely looked like a hurricane. >> jack parish, our hurricane hunter. thank you very much, sir. be safe. we'll check back in with you. i want to get to san juan and captain eric king of the u.s. coast guard. he oversees both san juan and the u.s. virgin islands. so glad to have you, captain. dorian barre...

The work of our next guest and others. he's somebody who heads straight for any hurricane he can. in fact, he and his team fly over into and through them. jack parish is a flight meteorologist and project manager with the national atmospheric and oceanic administration. he just landed. he joins us now by phone. jack, if you could just walk us through what you were able to see today from the air about this storm. >> well, hello, anderson. our team from the noaa aircraft operations center in lakeland flew the g-4 jet around several different patterns around michael. we were dropping a number of ...

Don't expect it to crest until tuesday. that gives you the length of time that folks are going to have to be very aware of water on the ground and concerned about moving around if they are able to even move around very far. we've been getting the up-to-date forecasts, and that's all made possible because of hunter pilots who are helping to track the storm, putting sensors into the storm. flight director jack parish is in a jet that drops these probes to measure winds and other conditions that are steering the storm. the data goes into the forecast models that make it all possible. i spoke to h...

A jet drops these packages that weigh about a pound, they give you pressure, humidity, wind speed, we're recording that data in realtime and we make sure all the data is good. send it out in a message and it goes right into the computer models that are telling us how quickly florence will go ashore and how strong it will be when it goes ashore. >> jack, we appreciate all the work that you and your crew are doing. thank you very much. i appreciate it. >> anderson, the pleasure talking to you again. take care of yourself, sir. more than 1100 search and rescue personnel, 300 ambulances are in p...