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all right, everybody. one of the innumerable news conferences by governor wreck sco rick scott. he s been working around the clock. he started by saying it s here. right now he said parts of the keys are being affected by this 170 mile-an-hour winds off the coast of cuba but those winds are very expansive and they re already reaching key west. he s saying six to 12-foot storm surge is possible. a storage surge flows in very powerfully, very quickly and then leaves just as quickly and it takes everything with it in its wake. that is why he s saying everybody get away from any ....
Right and that s where i m going to be. it has to start the first minute after the winds subside. what is your biggest fear when you look at a storm here that is several times the size of hurricane andrew. it is going to get stronger as it hits the warm water. what is your biggest fear? obviously a storm surge is the one that kills the most people, the storm surge. and the reasons for evacuation is because the storm surge mappmap and i want to make sure those folks move out because there could be a deadly storm surge coming from this hurricane and it could push a large amount of water inland. obviously you have to worry about property damage. first thing, obviously, loss of life. but outside of that storage surge is loss of life, property damage and then our economic ....
Has come ashore. meteorologist adam klotz tracking it all as we look at the live pictures. the storage surge coming up. adam, for our viewers watching over the past couple of hour, we ve seen the storm diminish in the live shots coming from our reporters, whether it be rob schmitt or lauren blanchard, matt finn, all say the same thing, the wind has died down. seemed like a pleasant night in corpus christi. is the danger over or the danger just starting? . adam: well, in corpus christi maybe the danger is winding down, we ve seen a little bit of a shift in this system. but i do think there is plenty of areas, luckily a little more unpopulated but if there s folks in these areas, yeah, it s still a big one. it started as a category 4, now a category 3, it shifted down a little bit. that doesn t mean a lot if you re in the areas where the winds are intense. the category 4 would be 130 ....
Has not been impacted by a storm this strong since 1898. definitely concern here. not so much the winds, with the eye staying offshore, the northeast quadrant will stay offshore, but the devastating storage surge, so we expect to see it throughout the day. the winds are expected to pick up here, bringing this water on to the shore and the question will be, how far east will it track off the coast and how devastating will the storm surge be, so, again, right now we re seeing winds about 15, 20 mile an hour and starting to see some of that rain. in the next coming hours there s a lot of concern from local officials about how matthew could impact jacksonville. back to you. let me ask you very quickly, how long until you think you re at the worst of it? if i look at a map right here of the coastline and with it right now bearing down on the melbourne, cocoa beach area, there s a way to go and this ....
Storage surge. so that s why maps like that are very important. again, brand-new, but all the information that they re gathering right now, and i ve heard him really pounding away on the keyboard, putting together that forecast, that new update, that as you say, will come out just a few minutes before 11:00 eastern time, brian. all right. chris jansing. her golf whisper is because of very important work as she pointed out is going on in that room. to our viewers, chris showed us that 19-year veteran in the corner. you think you have a lot of responsibility in your job during the day, and maybe you do, but that man, that public servant, that forecast and his colleagues make predictions in that room that brief, that presidential briefings are made ever, that national guard deployments and evacuation orders are made of. billions will either change hands or not in the business world, amusement parks and so ....