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These lowlands here, and a lot of this construction is not built for a storm surge over ten feet. they had a six foot storm surge here back in 2016, and we talked to folks who rode that out and they were shocked by the speed at which that wall of water just came up and rearranged everything. so violently. the idea that it could be 12 feet around here, really frankly scares them. we met a couple folks who refused to evacuate, they do the calculation at so many floridians do, if i get out will i be able to get home? it's -- there's always a percentage of the population who will ignore those mand...

People to the west of where i am who are going to be without power. and brianna, these are still the same people who are recovering from hurricane ian last year. this is a hard-hit region. already people very much impacted by last year's devastating storm. and this certainly won't help. not nearly as powerful a storm as what florida is going to face in the coming hours. but quite an impact it left here all the same. >> yeah, we can see that in the pictures for sure. patrick oppmann live for us from havana. thank you. i want to bring in cnn's carlos suarez who is live for us in tampa, where the...

Trauma center, this is everyone who has the most serious of injuries. they come here. and it is expected to stay open throughout the storm. so people, if they have any injuries, during the hurricane, would come here. so what they've done is installed what they call aqua fence. barriers all around the hospital meant to protect them from up to 15 feet of storm surge. we're looking at about four to 7 feet here in the tampa area. now, in terms of how residents are feeling, it's interesting because i've been here for about 24 hours now. i would say it seems like the people most worried, yesterday w...

Will help to reduce deaths from heart attacks and strokes. we can find out what the weather has in store. the sunflowers are clinging around, what about the sunshine? some of us will see sunshine. cloud in lincolnshire. thanks to ian's for sending this picture earlier. if you have an allergy to pollen, levels are high. it is not a particularly cold start. these are the temperatures. we are talking pollen for england mostly being high, and we are talking wheat today. we have a weather front moving southwards and another across scotland producing rain. that will move south. showers ahead of it a...

I do feel that you know, our community, we have gotten the word out there. let them know. but i think probably the most impactful for our community was ian. as you know, we were in the cross hairs for ian and it took that dog leg turn into fort myers beach and devastated that area. so that really i think hit home for a lot of our community that what if ian had come in to our area at that same speed. the devastation that we would have seen. so that's probably the closest to a real life scenario that our community has seen in a while. >> again, that is fresh in your memory because that was only ...