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Rescue officials are no longer responding to 911 calls. it is just too dangerous for america crews to be on the phone. joining us from brfevard county emergency management. why have you ceased emergency management calls? >> a couple reasons. the winds have peaked 75-miles-an-hour, our peak gusts are 74-miles-an-hour, and we have live power lines down. there's kind of a good side to this if you want to call it that, because the storm is really hitting us in the late hours of the night, early hours of the morning, there's not much traffic on the road any way, so that's -- you know, that's kind o...

Better. this has been all along where the strongest winds were located. a small eye, only about 8 miles across. then over the last 12 hours, this outer eye wall has been developing. and as happens, this will begin to shrink. it's starting to close in, and kind of dissolving this, by the time we wake up in the morning, this one will probably be absorbed into this northern wall. we'll be left with this big eye. so we're going to have a bigger eye, which means the hurricane force winds will be more spread out from the center. that's why it's not as intense, that's why we've seen it go from 140 do...

Latest updates on this topic from reliable sources.

Latest updates on this topic from reliable sources.

The water and the potential for some really high storm surge, potentially catastrophic, still being forecast here for the northeast florida coast. i want to show you the radar and the current information, still a category 4 hurricane. hurricane hunters are in there right now, brian. as i was telling you earlier, there's an inner ring and an outer ring of thunderstorms, the ir inner eye wall and the outer eye wall. the outer eye wall is taking over, suggesting weakening may be happening, but the outer eye wall is larger than the inner eye wall. the way i liken it is, if you're in your swimming ...