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Elevated. it collects more than it usually does, making the rainfall even worse. shepard: mark demaria. how are you guys holding up down there? >> it's a bit of a marathon. we are holding up. shepard: we appreciated so very much. mark demaria and all the votes of the national hurricane center, thank you again. landfall is coming again. landfall this morning after 9:00 in the lower keys and now there is another landfall on the way. where will it be? no one is certain of that, but it looks like marco island, everglades city and up into naples somewhere. will be the storm that his marco island? w...

...to find you the lowest price... ...on the hotel you want. go on, try something fresh. tripadvisor. the latest reviews. the lowest prices. >> when hurricane irma barrels toward florida the entire state is watching the storm's path. and dr. mark demaria, the acting director at the national hurricane center in miami. thank you for joining us. everyone is asking is there an update on the path, more of a westerly direction or still hovering over cuba? >> what we're seeing right now from the satellite image right here is that irma has been skirting the north coast of cuba, but it looks like at th...

News coverage, hurricane irma joining me now is mark demaria at the national hurricane center. thank you for being with us. is there any change in the track? what do you know? >> right now, it is irma is still continuing on its west/northwest track and we're anticipating that turn to the north toward south florida. basically no major changes since the last advisory. >> and at this stage, is it too soon to say where it will hit next? are we looking at south carolina, georgia? what is the next vulnerable area of the u.s. mainland? >> well, our thinking here is that our best thinking is that is g...

Something like this. we're going to go dry off for a few minutes in the car. i'm going to send it back to you in d.c. leland: go get dry, casey stegall. it looks like it could be a while longer. appreciate your work, my friend. >> thank you, guys. elizabeth: we're waiting for the press conference from the governor of texas, greg abbott so we'll have to wait for that. in the meantime, where is the storm headed? we talked to casey who said the rain is still coming down. the national hurricane center has the very latest, so, joining us now from the national hurricane center is the deputy director...

Winds and takes a while for a storm to spin down, 12 to 24 hours, so it's gradually spinning down, but because it started as a category 4, it's of hurricane intensity. in terms of the steering, the system is moving around a large high pressure system, the bermuda high. there's a competing center in the rockies. it's trapped between the two. elizabeth: before i leave you, mark, what's your biggest concern? it remains flooding? >> yes, the big concern is the flooding and the course of the next several days, we're far from out of the woods on that. elizabeth: any last advice? i just want to get s...