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Pounded. let's bring in chad myers right now. you're hearing it and i'm hearing people are saying this wind isn't that bad. it hasn't been that bad. first of all almost every locality has not been able to do impact assessments yet so they don't know what has been done. as you keep saying, still got a long way to go. >> and as you just said, there was a little wobble to the left. and you saw it, too, on your little radar you can look at on the phone. there has been just a slight wobble to the left and now that the eyewall is completely on land here, right along the cape, that's like playa linda...

Camera guy just a few moments ago. it's just a mess out here. the wind continues to just pound this area. i'm sure some of these palm trees are going to start falling over at some point. i've seen them bend pretty far. you can see behind us there are still people driving through this. i can't imagine why. the dangers in these kinds of hur kans are numerous. you not only have extremely strong winds but you have the debris that they throw around. power lines that get knocked down. you also have extreme flooding. we're at the shore here. the ocean is just on the other side of our hotel and with t...

To take flying debris and turn it into projectiles and so that's an unfortunate part about the wind, but when you combine that with the surge, with the water, that's what can make these storms so incredibly de deadly, chris. >> jen, i don't want to get you soak today early. all day to go here. i will check back in with you a he little bet. let's go to chad myers. chad, in terms of what we're seeing as we get the latest advisory of gusts of 100 or so at cape canaveral and we see the eye at its closest point so far in the western wall, how does this square with what was expected? >> it square be...

Of 50 and 60 miles per hour and only because that eye wall stayed just off shore and just to the east of where we were. we were talking about all week. everything will depend on how close that eye gets to the coast. luckily for us it stayed a little bit off shore. it was good news for us. just to our north, cape canaveral have been getting pounded by that outer eyewall for quite some time now with winds of up to 100 miles per hour just to our north. and, so, not only the wind, the storm surge, of course, as we move forward, as well as the rain. especially for you. you know jacksonville has som...

Miles per hour on the cape canaveral coast right there, very close to where the eyewall is on land. the eyewall, the outer eyewall is absolutely onland moving into new smyrna beach. that's where the sustained winds of 100 miles per hour will be likely. hurricane hunters found a wind gust to 115 at the surface. that was in this little squall band here. guess where that squall band is going? that is going right in to daytona. that will eventually move to the north and get into your area as well. it is the push of the water, and it's the rain that's going to come down. i have rain fall to your we...