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Approach land and get closer to landfall which by the way might actually happen in the next 48 to 72 hours. let's take a look at the future radar, this is wednesday, coming very close to coastal georgia, south carolina, and north carolina and this computer model has it very close to brushing, if not making a landfall and then close to the outer banks on friday. still talking about a hurricane, finally moving out to sea on the weekend to the canadian provinces. here is the latest track as of 5:00 a.m. still a category 3. the cone of uncertainty has moved offshore, that's still good news. we don...

So you have got that on top of that. griff: that's right. we are about four hours away from a higher tide. this water is going to get much higher, steve, you are right. are when you go from here all the way up 200 to 300 miles to jacksonville, south carolina and north carolina with matthew a king tide with a storm like this is going to create a water event that no one wants. and officials here, eric gill, talking about saying, listen, if it gets to be worse than it is now, and we fully expect it could, getting to people who are possibly in danger, that is going to be a big challenge. interesti...

We'll get more rain that can cause flooding. overprepare, don't under prepare. >> what's the challenge of evacuation orders when you don't know where the storm is going and where it's going to head? >> it's like matthew a couple years ago. we had to evacuate and overprepare. if it turns it's too late, you can't get out. have your water seven days, food, medicine. but if you think there is any chance you are going to have to evacuate. do it now and get ahead of the game. chris: as governor of florida, you are a veteran at this. you preside over a number of hurricanes, just last year hurricane m...

We'll get more rain that can cause flooding. overprepare, don't under prepare. >> what's the challenge of evacuation orders when you don't know where the storm is going and where it's going to head? >> it's like matthew a couple years ago. we had to evacuate and overprepare. if it turns it's too late, you can't get out. have your water seven days, food, medicine. but if you think there is any chance you are going to have to evacuate. do it now and get ahead of the game. chris: as governor of florida, you are a veteran at this. you preside over a number of hurricanes, just last year hurricane m...

That. it was a top priority after matthew. if you don't need to be on the roads, don't get out. again, there are power lines and all sorts of things like that that we're working on. let me just go on down. i've never needed to do this before. the u.s. navy -- the navy and coast guard will be providing resources, the "uss iwo jima" and "uss new york" to provide search and rescue and other things. power outages, we have 65% of the state without power. it's going to take us a long time to get power back. i've been talking to the utilities and i've having daily calls with the utilities to get powe...