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>> reporter: and asking people to always pay attention to their emergency management. >> 100%. we all hope we're wrong. we all hope the estimates, all the guesswork is exaggerated. you have to prepare for the worst. and just to remind people, the kind of men and women who do this work for the rest us, you heard jack casually go past the fact styles it reaches 0 g in the airplane. that means no gravity. and things start floating around. can you imagine? being on an airplane and all of a sudden there is no more gravity. let alone talking about it that casually. thank you for the dedication. than...

Radius of maximum wind. how low is the pressure in the center of the storm. we have to get up close and personal. in a lot of cases we're targeting drops on instruments in the strongest wind, followed by the central pressure and the opposite side, strongest winds. that's where we get the most action, too. so everybody has to be strapped in and yet still launching these probes, taking these data and getting them out to the various important people. hurricane center and the modelling centers. >> and people in florida, they're very concerned. they're hoping that you go into this storm, jack, and ...

Our concern this time is it will likely be all three of those things. that's why we're so concerned. >> that's bad news. we're focusing on florida because that's where it's going. other states are watching this as well. >> well, yeah, in the short term, georgia and the carolinas need to watch it. they'll get a lot of rain and will cause localized flooding. a lot of models are indicating that it exits somewhere towards the outer banks and meanders and maybe makes another landfall around the canadian maritimes or eastern maine. not as such a strong storm but that's probably say 10 to 12 days fro...

Data and better predict these storms. he went up on one of those flights earlier today. he joins us now. jack, you're busy. i've give us an idea why you go in and check out what this storm looks like? >> we're putting a t-3 aircraft in the storm twice per day. my colleague was in this morning's flight. i'll be out there this afternoon between 6:30 and 10:30 p.m. this evening and we'll make multiple crossing patterns around the storm. generate three dimensional winds using the noaa doppler radar. those three-dimensional fields of wind go into the forecast model to continually improve the foreca...

Safe and keep the airplane safe to go out on the 5:00 a.m. mission. i'm going on the 5:00 p.m. mission. we have to keep our noaa $150 million airplane safe. and the quality of the data is everything. those are the things i'm looking at. >> yeah, we greatly appreciate it, the work that you do. best of luck on your trip. jack parrish from noaa, thanks. >> thanks, trace. >> just ahead, joe biden responding after "the washington post" disputed a personal story that he told about a war hero. that and more on the storm is coming up. this heinz mayonnaise is so creamy, one day you'll tell your grandk...