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Now. we are expecting 5-10 feet of storm surge. not just that. on top of that, you are going to have very tall and destructive waves. it's not clear it's a survival situation for anyone still there in the keys. >> thank you very much, acting director and rappaport. we are going to have a lot more on this. where it's heading, impacts when we get back. >> shepard: that's our south florida new station, wvsn 7. they've never seen a hurricane like this. hurricane andrew was scheduled at one point, the mayor of palm beach county, predicted coming into palm beaches. the most recent forecast before th...

Turn to another direction. as you may know, we were feeling the direct hit of matthew, than we did in. 25 years ago, we were supposed to be the direct hit for andrew, and andrew hit further south. these storms are very unpredictable, and we are preparing right now for the worst-case scenario. >> shepard: meta-mayor of the palm peaches. i want to listen and to our new station in south florida down in miami where ann rappaport is talking about local conditions for them. let's listen. >> coming on the left side out of the north coming out of florida bay. on the east side, coming up out of the atl...

St. louis. >> shepard: be careful, my old friend. >> thanks. >> shepard: let's get to the senior center from the state of florida now. bill nelson is on the line now live in orlando. senator, nice to talk to you. >> hey, shepard, do you remember when you first interviewed me? it was in the aftermath of the monster hurricane, hurricane charley. >> shepard: a long time ago, senator. i've been covering these for a many years. this little jog to the west they are, looks like southwest florida may get a crippling blow. just winds and rain and storm surge for your whole state. are they ready? >> the...

>> shepard: coming south on the other side, we see a lot of big mac trucks, some of them with police exports -- to prove the >> that's logistics at work in some cases. i don't know particularly if those are our trucks or not, but i can tell you that our logistics folks have been moving a tremendous amount of commodities almost three days worth into the state. and we have the priest is commodities and other portions, so we have commodity states from alabama and all the way to new jersey. we are loading barges in new jersey and ready to send them down to puerto rico once jose gets out of the way...

Southeast. visible satellite images still begins, continues this storm being missed so long , -- in the satellite era. usually, these strong storms, we see in the pacific ocean impact in places like the philippines and such, those super typhoons. seeing this here right on our shores is certainly frightening. but florida under the gun, a daytime storm, when these storms happen at nighttime, it's a very scary thing for those who stayed, which hopefully most people did not. but if you are there and it's happening in the daytime, that will feel better as you are doing a. >> shepard: talking to fol...