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Highest winds have yet to arrive? >> looking at the progress of the storm, its location, we're expecting them within the next few hours. the storm will pass us slightly to our east. and then we'll start to see the real -- the significant storm surge to whatever level it is. it's largely a function of wind speed at this point. we also have our high tide at 4:00 in the morning. so it's kind of several things coming together to, you know, potentially give us a storm surge that will be problematic. >> yeah, and, of course, you just won't know until you know. here you are in another town's emergenc...

Closed the beach off now. we have people in our evacuation shelters. we're just standing by for the storm to pass through. we're confident. we were looking at a category 4 or category 5 storm. there's a substantial difference between what we were thinking we were going to get and what we're going to -- what's going to happen to us. so we feel blessed even though we know we're going to get some damage. >> we were surprised and had a lump in our throats over marco island and naples earlier today. for folks not familiar, especially with the gulf shoreline in florida, you are on the outer edge, th...

Cities, the conditions can vary. we saw a lot of that throughout the day. let's go to the east coast, maya rodriguez. let's check in with her again in miami. i want to continue to emphasize that while we're talking about the gulf, the east coast got, in many ways, more of this storm than a lot of people expected because the story line and those spaghetti lines in the forecast really shifted dramatically west so you couldn't blame people in miami for thinking they were perhaps out of peril. >> in fact, when we spoke to some residents in miami, they were basically breathing a sigh of relief. we ...

And manatee county have a lot of people in them. thousands and thousands of people. we expect the winds are kicking up strong as the storm is approaching, it's going to pass to our east. that will cause some amount of storm surge. we don't know how much yet and that's a big concern for barrier island like long boat key because we're basically a strip of sand that stands between the mainland and the gulf of mexico. so right now wind and surge is the biggest concern. our electricity, some is on, some is off. it's hard to predict what it will be like when it's all over. >> for folks who don't kno...

Year. that really caught me off guard. that would be for monday afternoon. can you speak at all about the people in coastal georgia, in south carolina, with what kind of surge they can still see from this? >> we're still talking about several feet plus there because of the very large size of the storm. matthew is large, too, but for the most part, they were on the other side of the storm. on the west side of the storm as matthew veered off and away. this is a case we'll have the onshore flow coming with the hurricane, tropical storm force winds but accompanying the hurricane farther to the nor...