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Southern bahama islands. nothing at all that's going to break the storm apart and this brings us to saturday morning. still a very well-defined storm. all the forecasting shows it will maintain category 5, may be category 4 strength through the interaction in south florida. a lot of that is because the water temperature is incredibly warm. it's going to be going over the warmest water and its life span so far. plenty of fuel for the storm. you take a look at what's happening. storm surge, maybe 15 to 20 feet across the islands in turks and caicos. a lot of those islands aren't that tall. were ...

Farther to the east, not as significant but still with us. much of texas still in towards southeastern oklahoma and the mid-mississippi river valley and ohio valley and the great lakes, a very big area. sunday, it pulls to the east, but it's all the big cities and the big population zone in the mid-atlantic for your day on sunday. >> that's a major concern. rick, quickly, what should people do if they encounter flashflooding? >> thataddage of turn around, don't turn around. flooding causes the most fatalities of any weather event each year. we had flooding. two fatalities in arkansas from it. ...

South carolina, it's about 1500 miles. this is the big population zone along i-95 back towards chicago, the precipitation is less significant than last night. lighter rain, not like the heavy rain we saw yesterday. the snow is lighter as well. a couple of things you notice on the radar, still a couple problems. in right here across parts of new england now, there's been some very heavy rain and a bit of flooding and the threat for severe weather, even tornadoes across parts of new england during the evening hours tonight, but the snow continues to fall as well, and we might see about another s...

New york harbor, here in manhattan. we will see 6 to 11 feet coming down the long island sound. right there, those two areas meet with the east river on the east side of manhattan. water can't get anywhere, once it funnels into both of those sites. there is nowhere for it to go. and because of that, the mayor has ordered the evacuation in zone amptle of this map. there you go. if you want to go back to the map, let's show you, a lot of areas in red, a lot of population zone here, that's manhattan. these are the boroughs here, staten island, brooklyn, queen, anywhere in the red, people have tor...

Of us here have never experienced anything like this, part of that means a lot of us don't really know exactly what some impacts are going to be, we have to go on our understanding of what a storm of this pressure will do and that's what we're basing this on. not a lot of us, pretty much nobody is working in this industry at this point has dealt with a storm of this magnitude and coming toward the new york city area and the population zone, long island, north jersey, new york city, connecticut coast line, all of this is kind of a worse case scenario and we always talk about what is a worse cas...