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As it moves on shore, it causes all of the coastal areas to see the effects of the rising water so you have your low tide, the high tide and the extra water piled on. so it indates areas along the mediate coastline and continues to flow further and further inland. it is not just a coastal flooding situation but the inner areas have to deal with the flooding. the water has to go somewhere, it continues to move inland. this is an exaggeration of what could happen in an extreme storm surge event. what we're focusing now is now is the time of high tide in the jacksonville area. now the storm is cl...

Ground here. >> mariana, what are you seeing, behind you it looks like a river of water down the street. is that what we're seeing all over daytona? >> reporter: that is what we're seeing as we drive up the coast all along daytona and again, it is worrisome that we don't know how the people on the other side are doing. many people who actually didn't evacuate are now stuck on those barrier islands but we can't even access that. we'll try to do that, also keep the folks we see along the road, to see how they're holding up and we'll inform you as we keep driving north following matthew as it goe...

We're following social media and seeing how many people are posting that we did everything we could last night to try to advise them to get out of there. we did start off our morning briefing with we're calling on our fire chief is calling hopefully optimistic, the briefing we had last night was devastating. it was stark proportions, threat of life. that is why we're trying so hard to get them off. this morning, we woke up to a little bit of a category 2 situation that we're projecting maybe 50 miles off the coast. if you told me i would be happy to hear that we have a category 2 hurricane, 50...

To get the fire, rescue, ems, law enforcement responding out there to do search and rescue and check on the conditions in the community. it was reported earlier, you know, it is blustery out there. a lot of standing water. we've got over 200,000 currently without power so you know, very, very serious condition for volusia county. we have a lot of damage reports, again, as your reporter reported out. lots of trees down. we have roofs off homes. >> all right. thanks, jim. i think we just lost your connection there. that was jim judge with the volusia county office of emergency management. hurric...

At business.ny.gov this hour, we're looking the high tide hitting the stretch of coastline we've been talking about all day from hurricane matthew. the big concern right now for officials is the storm surge when the big winds push coastal waters inland. it is tricky to predict. i'm bringing in my colleague dylan dreyer, how do you know how big the storm surge is going to be and what can you expect here? >> we've been throwing the numbers out. seven to 11 feet, it is all on top of the regular high tide. think about how big the storms are. it is not every day you get a hurricane that is close ...