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Through a restrengthening right before it gets very close to a florida land fall, if a land fall does take place. >> the next 12-24 hours. it is going to impact georgia and south carolina as well. >> absolutely. if it makes land fall you are talking about the six, eight hours in a confined area where you have devastation. unfortunately because it stays off shore it becomes a category four hurricane as it still is for 24-36 hours to produce this damage. if it stays off shore and the wraparound winds continue to force the surge north of the eye. everything can only take so much and gets washed o...

Open during the storm? or do you know? >> my understanding is that some of the barrier island facilities closed earlier. but i'm not aware of such things on the mainland. that would be a good question for the brevard county people. we haven't any issue of the close yir. there was a rumor about one of the mainland hospitals but i don't believe that was true. >> mike mcneese. appreciate it. the danger of the storm. it's already killed at least 280 people in haiti. and the death toll has been rising all night. in this country it is unclear if matthew will make land fall. but if it does as the cat...

Land fault because it's all about eye wall the strongest part of the storm. if it does could spell disaster. in less than an hour we'll have the latest update on hurricane matthew. from your tracking cities such as charleston, south carolina, they're in a critical state right now. >> they really are because the trend has been for the track to carry it along the coast in northeasterly movement and off shore i really think the forward momentum will most likely make land fall. notice winds 115. this time yesterday was 145. if it just drops by five miles an hour it will be category two. land fall ...

Within 70 michael miles of the coastline. we believe it is going through an eye wall replacement cycle. %-p which hasn't changed a whole lot. even though we have one model with 6:00 a.m. land fall near cape canaveral. an eye wall replacement cycle means this. typically if it loses a little energy you think it is interacting with land. the eye wall cannot sustain this kind of strength, like spinning a top on a table. it can only handle that so long before it wobbles. now we're finding the eye wall, stronger winds are being forced out, creating a secondary band. that is the replacement cycle. on...

Heavy machinery will have to get in to repair the inlets and dunes and buckled streets, those washed away, sinkholes, not to mention power crews coming in from every state from around the area and building materials after thousands of homes may be inundated with floodwaters, will have to be gutted, lumber, drywall, roofing. this is just the beginning of what's to happen in the next couple days. >> you can explain for us again this about possibility matthew could come back and hit florida a second time and what's the likelihood of that? >> usually it's easier to forecast a track than the intens...