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♪ >> welcome back to our continuing coverage of hurricane dorian. winds are hammering the east coast of florida as dorian continues on its path to the north and perhaps the west. joining is now at the very latest on the ground in jupiter, florida, jacqui heinrich. >> john, we last talked to you about 15 minutes ago and from then until now we lost about 20 feet of beach. i just want to show you how high up the way if they are out. you can see her this little line in the sand, we just had one that almost took our camera. we might have to move the next time we see you. looking back at the retai...

>> good evening, shannon. the outer band of this storm are absolutely here. we have seen gusting wind, pelting rain as intermittent bands pass through, but the storm surge is really the story. i'm going to step out of the way so you can just see how violent the surf is. look at those huge swells just pressing that retaining wall. we've lost about 20, 30 feet of beach in the last couple of hours and the waves have really begun to kick up. so for the coastline here has largely escaped 185-mile-an-hour winds that ravaged the bahamas. the prime minister of the bahamas saying at least five people t...

Rough. the wind beginning to pick up. that's going to be the main thing, the rough seas, the wind from that in the rain might not be too bad, but the ground already saturated there, so anything that they do get is going to be an issue. >> jon: it meteorologist adam klotz in the fox extreme weather center, thanks. south florida already feeling the effect of hurricane dorian tonight. it will get worse in the next 12 hours. we just heard from jacqui heinrich, she's back with us from jupiter, florida, just north of west palm beach, what's the situation there now? >> well, john, actually want to st...

>> jacqui: it has tried to fly off. the crests are 3, 4, sometimes 5 feet high, the swells cresting over that retaining wall. we are in a mandatory evacuation zone because this is one of the low-lying flood prone areas. that means people who live in this area have been asked to move to higher ground. the other areas under hander to evacuation orders include d.c.king -- under mandatory evacuation orde orders, this is what we're experiencing. over the last hour or so, it has cooled down and the winds have picked up. we just saw, recorded in juneau, six miles down the road, gusts

If you are on the beach like i am. right about 12 miles down the street from where we are is a significant shower right now. it's producing 50-mile-an-hour gusts. we are feeling that 12 miles up the road. so you can imagine what it's like in other places where they are feeling the greater part of those bands. take a look behind me. you could, at one point, walked to the other side of that retaining wall. you can't do that anymore. low tide was that 6:30. so, the tide is coming in. but also bear in mind, the sun, the moon that affects the gravitational pull. even without the storm, we expected ...