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Six and nine-foot storm surge in this area. think about that. six-foot over my head. if it's going up higher than that it's going to fill the first floors of any of these low-lying areas. so we have seen some businesses sand bagging, some tunnels around this area have also closed already. they don't want anybody driving underground. then you got the causeway at interstate 10, a major traffic road in this area, a lot of people driving on that as well and people really being warned to get where they have to be early on. this is going to hit in the overnight hours so warning from officials we're ...

Get supplies. maybe there's no electricity and no water? >> reporter: you know there's a flor idian spirit and i've seen it heard and talked about as we've seen people sand bagging and boarding up. they have a certain resiliency and to some, like collins who packered up and left. he says they're being tone deaf to what we're trying to tell you on the news. so that is a definite question. what happens to her and her two kids when you can't drive anywhe anywhere? when you can't escape until it's too late? this is as devastating to homestead, fll fll as the models are showing. >> we'll see you so...

I've been following jacksonville twitter office and they're telling people to go infaninsid. telling people to go inside. please heed the warning. pictures of their officers sand bagging the substations as the flooding begin where's they are, trying to protect their resources as well the this storm is of course battering the east coast of florida and there's been one-related death. don't forget about the hundreds of people killed earlier this week in haiti more than 280 people who lost their lives from this storm and the expectation is that that number could go higher. let's go to port au prin...

This water is going to rise anywhere from six to seven, upwards of 10, 11 feet and then on top of that, whatever waves are breaking will head inland. so for all of those folks who live along the intracoastal water way, they have to be concerned about this. within a matter of minutes you can have water that looks at the level it should be and suddenly, it is in your house. we saw a lot of sand bagging over the past few days so we know that people have been sand bagging. we'll just have to see how well those sand bags hold up to the surge. the surge is always the real culprit of deaths and fatal...

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