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storm that is 200 miles closer, what that could do to the lovely town of st. mark's. here you go, 110 miles per hour. we still have the eye, the storm is continuing to intensify and i am very much looking forward to the flight through the eye with our reporter there, our producer reporter. because this is the most important thing that we can see now for the next few hours. how strong will it get? every successive flight, they fly through, they make a triangle, they fly back through, they make a triangle, and they fly again. and they just keep going. you think that there is turbulence when you're flying over the rockies, well that is going to be a turbulent flight. 115 miles per hour, likely even higher as it does make landfall. it is the surge with all the water that the storm is bringing with, it it is also the potential for tornadoes down here with this one arm of the hurricane, the outer band coming on shore. there you can see the eye on radar,. which rarely ever happens. something else that rarely ever

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i want to bring in cnn correspondent brian todd who is in st. mark's, florida, just south of tallahassee. brian, how are evacuations going where you are? we have been talking about all the areas of florida, they have been asking folks to get out. the hurricane is now just hours away. >> it is just hours away, a, b the evacuation orders, we are told, are going pretty well. we talked to emergency management officials here in waukesha county, where st. marks is. they said that they had a pretty good response where people who are urged to get out. they are under mandatory evacuations. they are told that at deputies went house to house in st. mark's, where we are, and in the surrounding areas knocking on doors. they cannot, even in a mandatory evacuation, pull you out of your house forcibly leave but they can strongly urge you to and that is what they have been doing. i have been asking one emergency management official what he would tell people who elected to stay. he had one word answer, he would say don't. but, if you do, you have to

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CNN Tonight

state with this hurricane. it is going to be the new benchmark bar, joint fort and history we have never seen this. we are in uncharted territory. >> jeff buttress key, think you so much. please stay safe, keep us all informed. our next guest is john hines, i want to go to him right now because he is a local in owner in st. mark's, florida who has decided to stay, in spite of a mandatory evacuation order. john, thank you so much for being with us today. we have video up right now from inside your hotel. can you tell us how you are preparing right now? >> right now, it is just a waiting game. there is not much that we can actually prepare anymore than we already have, excuse, me i'm sorry. you know, the building is 100 years old, concrete walls, and has withstood everything that has come so far. >> is that why you are staying now? you have been through storms before, but you have said that this feels, perhaps, different.

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Anderson Cooper 360

but, laura, time has pretty much run out. this place is about to get inundated in the next few hours. >> it's so powerful to see the image, the calm before the storm. just seeing how it ebbs and flows. tallahassee is a huge college town, by the way, as well. schools coming back to session, we can only hope those students are safe as well. brian todd, thank you so much. hurricane idalia is now expected to slam into florida as an extremely dangerous category four storm. let's go to st. mark's, florida, where public information officer for the ocala county sheriff's office, jared jeffery arturo joins us now. officer, thank you for being here because ocala county could actually see some of the worst storm surge. are people still evacuating tonight or is it too late at this point? >> well, it certainly is not too late, depending on where you are out and where you are intending to go to. but we are getting to that point.

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CNN Tonight

the entire storm zone, we've got chad myers in the cnn winter center, carlos flores is in tampa, brian todd is in st. mark's florida, and gloria pazmino is in clearwater. i want to get right now to the brand-new forecast with chad myers in the weather center. what is happening? >> just the new banner from the national hurricane center, just saying that this will be 130 mile per hour category four at landfall. so, it is not going to change the surge much. some surges have gone to 10 to 15, now they have pushed them up to 12 to 16. let me show you where they are. there is the eye, it is a dangerous eye. when you see an eye on a hurricane, it is either remaining very, very strong, or gaining strength. because we haven't seen an eye all day, now we know that this is in the gaining strength category. hurricane hunters are flying back and forth through it, but look at that impressive eye right there.

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of st. marks, about 20 miles south of here because that town is going to probably get to at least nine feet of storm surge. when that happens the issue there is that that town lies between two rivers. the st. marks and the wichita river. when those two rivers converge, right near that town, it is very low lying town. we have also got the apalachee bag, which has never seen a hurricane of this strength in recorded history. so, we have got the history coming up that, by we could be cut off if we hadn't pulled out of the town. we're going to try to get back to that town as early as we can tomorrow morning. there are emergency evacuation orders for the residents of st. mark's, a lot of people did heed those orders, but still several people stayed behind and emergency officials are

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sometime tomorrow morning into the early afternoon. laura? >> anywhere from 2 to 6 feet of storm surge. carlos suarez, thank you so much. brian todd is here with us in st. mark's florida, where the national weather service is warning that hurricane idalia is an unprecedented event, like no storm ever seen before in that area. brian? >> laura, in just a matter of hours from now this place where i'm standing is not expected to be very safe. we are in st. mark's florida, and local emergency management official told us a short time ago that the entire town of st. mark's is expected to be flooded when the storm is at its peak on wednesday morning. what we can tell you is that we are right by three bodies of water, this is the st. marks river, the walk a little river is just down stream and the apalachee bay is down beyond. you could may be some flashes of lightning over my shoulder as the storm approaches here. because of the apalachee bay has never seen a storm as

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strong as a category three in recorded history, there is no barometer ville how this area is going to be able to absorb the hit of the storm when it comes ashore. but, again, we are told that between six and nine feet of storm surge was expected to push this water from the st. mark's river, kind of like a snowplow, up into the town of st. mark's. again, as i just said a moment ago, the entire town is expected to be flooded at least to some degree in the coming hours. there is an emergency evacuation order in effect, we were told that sheriff deputies have gone door to door in this town trying to get as many people as they can to leave. and, we are also told that they did get a pretty good response in waukesha county where we are, from residents in the coastal areas. one of the emergency management officials told me that they got a good response as far as the number of people who decided to take the advice and leave. i asked one emergency management official what he would tell people who wanted to stay here. he had a one word answer, he said don't. but, if you do, make sure that

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The Source With Kaitlan Collins

>> aston officials hear what he would tell residents in the town of st. mark's where we are. what did he tell those people who decide to stay? it one word answers, don't. he did also say that if you do elect to stay. make sure you have at least 3 to 4 days worth of provisions. ryan todd, cnn, st. mark's florida. >> it's not just about the coastal communities here. in that photo counties are preparing to get hammered by the hurricane. the emergency management director for columbia can florida joins us live. good to see you. breakdown the difference for us. i think a lot of people get caught up in where this is going to hit, how it's going to hit coastal communities but many inland counties especially where you are. forecasted in the direct path of the hurricane are still bracing for major impacts. >> that's right. thanks for having me on my. appreciate it. >> the difference is that a lot

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as you can well imagine there could be severe flooding in the low-lying areas. it's all low-lying areas. i've checked the elevation of a number of cities. we go through time, and here we see some of those bands still moving onis for for tampa. still affecting gainesville. still affecting st. mark's apalachicola lab, tallahassee, gainesville. we will see widespread trees down already some 40,000 customers without power across florida. that number is going to go exponentially. well, as i mentioned, we'll have another update at the top of the hours from the national hurricane center and allison chinchar will be here to update you. >> karen maginnis, thank you so much as always. now south of cedar key florida is wikiwachi. that's where i find the chairman of the county board of commissioners. john, lay out the picture for

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