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Tallahassee has had a mostly charmed history with hurricanes, though that's changed a bit over recent years.

As the pressure goes down, the winds go up. it is going to make landfall likely as a category 3 hurricane. not that far from steinhatchee. probably to the north of crystal river. and then even make significant wind all the way into georgia. we're not going to see any storm surge from st. pete in tampa until the storm gets due west of you and the winds come from this direction. because right now they're pushing offshore. pushing that water away. but that's going to change because of the circulation of the storm. six inches of rainfall in places that people may be evacuating to that could cause ...

Make sure you have provisions for about three or four days because you could be isolated. i will show you a little bit why. this is a low-lying area, even the -- you can see behind, me this is the st. marks river. starting seal a lit of rain, raindrops from the initial bands of the hurricane coming this way. if we are lucky, during this live shot, you might see flashes of lightning on the horizon, which are really cold look at at night. it's not cool, of course, if you are being pounded by 80 mile per hour winds and getting a ton of rain on, but that coming in the next few hours. what makes th...

Six and nine feet, possibly of storm surge and local officials did tell us that they do expect this area, this town, st. mark's to be completely flooded at least for a few hours because, again, this water from the st. mark's river already pretty high is going to be kind of washed up here like a snowplow, just pushing all that water with a storm surge. 6 to 9, feet into the town to my right and a lot of low-lying houses and other buildings here are going to be completely inundated with water. so, again, mandatory evacuations are in place. it's getting a bit late to get out right now, used to ha...

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 w...