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this is don lemon tonight, you're watching our coverage of in, making its way up the florida peninsula. we have all the news coverage this evening, it is dumping rain on this entire area. lots of water. but also the wind, pushing the wind all across the state of florida. our crews are out in the field, we're covering it all for you. we've got bill weir, bill is joining us from punta gorda florida, also brian todd is in -- is in derek van damme is in breaking tin for us. i want to other meteorologist, our expert, mr. tom seders in the weather center. tom, i am getting so much rain, lo...

It happened a little before 3 a.m. on Elm Street in Lockland.

People be on the ground. and that will start giving us a sense of what's been devastated. but we still get a storm going through the state, we're gonna have more power outages, more trees down, and we've got more potential as you are right now seeing, extremely heavy rainfall, and that is forecasted to produced potentially life-threatening flooding across central floating in the north parts. this storm is not over. the wind is coming down. the rain threat has not decreased. >> yeah, the ground is saturated, right. i understand this is a rainy season. we're gonna see trays that are down and obv...

Risk that we're trying to mitigate. as soon as residents are able to get back, we're going to let them back. that's our goal. don't want to keep people out of their neighborhoods or their homes. last night there was a boil water announced for city of lewisville. that now extends to the town of superior. the issue is water pressure was lost in those communities and water is potentially contaminated, even domestic water, will need to be boiled in those areas in the southern part around lewisville, superior, and in superior. i want to stress trail heads east of highway 93 and the chasm to the sou...

Concern here. snow is one thing. but when you put 50-mile-per-hour winds behind it you have visibility issues. be you also have power line issues. and then obviously the temperature as far as the icing on the lines can bring the lines and polls down awful fast. how big of a concern is that with these conditions? >> you probably notice in the new york city area, ed, yourself, it was warmer earlier today. we had rain, the sleet and stuff mixed on top of it. the temperature was around 32. so the heavy, wet snow fell first. and now the temperatures are going to fall and the winds are going to pick...