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Better than worst fears. we'll put it that way. david bullock, town manager of longboat key. good luck. be strong during this long night. bill karins is here with us at the desk. >> happy to hear him say, he made a good point. the next high tide cycle is around 4:00 in the morning. and the winds will still be coming from the gulf towards the shore. so now we're heading towards the low tide. high tide around 4:00 this afternoon. 3:00 to 4:00 ish. another couple 12 hours, another six hours is about the low tide coming 10:00, 11:00 and the next high tide cycle, where we're hoping the storm is eve...

Rescue unit. when you see first responders who have driven across this country on go where they thought the need would be the worst, i hope there is a limited number of occasions where they are required. i know the coast guard is going to have to go to work tonight and tomorrow, but what you said about high tide, it really gets your attention. especially if levels have just been slowly but precipitously rising in just the time you've been down there. >> not to mention that but just about ten minutes or so ago, we had more rain. we had another band come through. frankly, the last thing this are...

Start to approach i-4, that's very highly densely populated areas up here that are -- they're going to be going through this almost until daybreak tomorrow. still have to watch out for tornadoes, too. we've had a couple tornado warnings with this band over here near the titusville area. we'll continue to monitor that, too. the wind story is going to last into tomorrow with those power outages spreading to georgia. this was a huge storm. even though the eye is starting to weaken, the wind field is so huge, it's going to take a long time for this to wind itself down and it only takes 50 to 70-mi...

Police chief has cleared police officers to conduct a kind of triage on the street and see where the need is the most urgent. we can't believe the story that the storm surge, which was one of our great fears today is not going to materialize on the high end. i mean, everybody has all the water they can handle. but boy, let's hope that holds all night, huh? >> yeah, that will just make an enormous difference. and one of the things to think about is that that height number equals distance from the shore. so when you're adding feet, you're adding hundreds, thousands of yards that that water is go...

Storm you can handle right now. >> yeah, we are, brian. but i'll tell you, what we're hoping as chris hayes was talking, you've been talking, we're hoping that as this thing makes its way north right now, 105-mile-per-hour winds, category 2 storm. but it hopefully is going to start to break down a little bit. the storm surge. look, tampa has not seen a direct hit on it with the hurricanes since 1921. and with any luck, this thing is going to go to our east. and with a little less ferocity that was originally forecast. and believe me, we're happy about that. because tampa is a city that is very...