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Update. it is a category 3 now, but minds at the center is 120 to 150. >> if we officially get land fall, it would be a category 3. it was a four in the keys, this would be a three now, i'm not going to pay too much attention to the category, because i'm still most concerned about the storm surge. the wind on tv that destroys stuff, it looked good, the thing that will kill people the most is the storm surge nap . that is coming on the backside. do you know what elevation is below you and will you be able to show the storm surge and water below you when it comes in? >> this is the challenge. we...

About the strongest winds moving to southwestern florida, moving up the coast. this is why miami and hollywood and dell ray beach are not out of this. sure, they may not have the catastrophic winds. when you have tornadoes for a land fall is not uncommon. we had over 200 with harvey. this will be the threat throughout the evening and throughout the day the next couple of days all the way up the coast. chris? >> the wind numbers get the headline, but the number one cause of death in a hurricane is drowning. and that's why storm surge is so important. before i lose you, if i still have you, we'r...

All weeks long we have been trying to get the word out until irma makes a turn to the north, we can't do that. i thought by now the system would have made the right turn. sure, there is a northerly component, but it is west worth west. if this continues on a west northwest track, we may barely get a land fall in key west. at some point it will turn north ward. notice the color of red. higher cloud tops. notice how it broadens off this coast. this is getting stronger and the first category five to make land fall in cuba since 1924. now we have got tornado warnings. we've seen quite a few of the...

Everybody is talking about charlie. that has maximum winds from the center only out 25 miles. these maximum winds are about 70. and it will go to about 100, which we had the other day. i am concerned about tampa bay as we get the system north of you because that's when the storm surge would come in from a north and westerly track. i'm also concerned about jacksonville because some of the accumulation rates for land fall put quite a large amount. as you get the bands of rain in here, significant flooding in jacksonville and what is i believe st. john's river. so we will continue to watch that. ...

Means once that secondary band forms it tightens up and spins. the winds that's sustained, only 5 miles an hour away from category four. i have more confidence it will become a category four. notice a tornado watch. these bands are moving in at four or five hours john, it will start to come down on you. land fall is only considered land fall when half that eye crosses a land mass, all right? if this passes key west, let's say by daybreak, we need to get some kind of wobble in towards the east to have fort myers land fall which could be somewhere around 2:00 in the afternoon. if that doesn't ta...