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Or so. i'm going to send it back to you. again, getting intermittent rain bands at this point. >> thanks, gabe. let's bring back bill karins, nbc meteorologist who has been tracking this storm for us for the last 24 hours. bill, give us an update. >> the update is we're so precariously close to the daytona beach, oak hill area, new smyrna beach. the outer eyewall went over the top of cape canaveral this morning, a couple hours ago. that's where we had 102-mile-per-hour wind gusts. that's the potengs sxl hot we feared yesterday would be over the top of all land areas. the path a little further ...

Decade, complacency, because we haven't had a major storm in more than ten years. so getting that, and getting people to heed those warnings, to get to safety is the biggest challenge, because they don't -- these people say oh, i rode out wilma or andrew, i'll be okay. you can see devastating damage up and down the east coast of n. >> jennifer, thank you. be careful over there. jennifer gray reporting. i want to get more on the storm right now. the deputy director of the national hurricane center ed rappaport is joining us. how powerful could this hurricane be by the time it hits? >> right now...

wolf blitzer is off tonight. i'm joe johns. you're in "the situation room." >> i cannot stress this highly enough. if you are in the projected president of this hurricane, you have to take precautions now. don't wait, don't delay. we all hope for the best, but we have to be prepared for the worst. we' how is it going in new york right now, mary? >> you just heard the president speak about this hurricane. new york had asked the president to declare emergency assistance. and the president did have an emergency declaration for new york, meaning the city and state will get federal help. ...

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Instruments. what have you learned about hurricane matthew that makes this one different? >> well, one of the most important things that we saw tonight is that the storm is always changing. that the structure of the storm continues to reorganize itself. the folks around cape canaveral, the melbourne area, caught a little bit of a break with the storm making a slight turn to the right that spared them the worst of the eyewall. but, these storms can be very tricky. and they can veer back to the left. and reorganize and so this is still a very, very dangerous storm with winds well in excess of 10...