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Are seeing right now, this is something that i saw last night in melbourne as well as the drive of these downed stoplights. simon, officials spent the better part of three or four days encouraging or if not begging people to stay out of harm's way to evacuate and get the heck out of town and you go in and you have been doing it for 17 years. why? >> i have a deep passion for weather, really the science and the dynamics that have played and going on, hurricanes are probably my favorite to document and study. i really like tornados a lot as well. and i am into blizzards, too. experiencing these ...

Live for since i was a child. >> we thank you for your work and we appreciate it, sir. be careful out there, okay? >> simon brewer at bapalm beach florida. a look at the storm. tracking its path and power, up next, we'll take you live to daytona beach city and taking a beating format few rig matthew. governor rick scott is making it clear that the coast is far from clear. >> when everybody survives and when we get our people back to normal lives, i am appreciative of hard work of our national guards and utilities and the fact that fema has been helping us. i mean, we still have a lot of work t...

And staying inside. as the weather is picking up here in downtown jacksonville, craig. >> reporter: thank you, jacob, we'll come back to you in a bit. joining now by simon brewer, he's a meteorologist who's been chasing storms for 17 years. you are in palm coast, as i understand, what are you seeing there? >> the biggest problem is wind damage. i cannot get to the coastline because there is trees blocking all the roads, just like the one behind me, it is crossing two lanes going from the end of the woods to the other of the woods. a lot of the live oak trees, those really large trees that look...

>> reporter: there were multiple injuries. drivers who remained in cars and trucks that were tossed and turned. meteorologists juston drake and simon brewer were working the danger zone and say it is simple physics, get out of the car, run to the closest ditch, lie at the lowest spot and cover your head and neck. >> because cars are death traps whenever a tornado is coming toward you and hits it. >> the winds are rushing by. as they are hitting the car, they are going under the car and it could end up a half mile down the road. >> reporter: a ditch is low. it's the basement of the highway wher...

Time of year but they're not unheard of. there have been f-5 tornado in october. in fact, there was an f-5 tornado in the state of iowa. quite a few years ago, i believe it was in the 1960s, if my memory serves me correctly. so they're not unheard of, but they're very rare. and they have to have a special situation, kind of like yesterday, to occur. >> wow. all right. meteorologist and storm chaser simon brewer. good to have you with us this morning. >> thank you. >> as we look at some of these pictures and get a better idea as the sun comes up over nebraska. >> we want to tell you about more ...