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City of orlando. i assume most of orange county. what are you -- what do you need to tell your residents, what should your residents know? >> well, they need to be in place at this point. we have encouraged people not to be on the roads after 6:00 and to be prepared to weather this storm for a good 12 to 18 hours. we anticipate that the most dangerous part of the storm will be in our area in the 3:00 a.m. to 6:00 or 7:00 a.m. tomb frame. but that we'll have tropical storm-type of conditions both before and after that. so it's going to be a long storm event for all of us. >> orlando was uniquel...

Hurricane joaquin will hit the mainland u.s. after slamming through the bahamas. however, residents up and down the eastern coastline still have to brace for potentially unprecedented rainfall and life-threatening floods. nbc's gabe gutierrez is live in kill devil hills, north carolina, for us this morning. first, meteorologist bill karins is live with the very latest. bill? >> thanks, jose. we are watching, we are approaching high tide now on the east coast, especially the jersey shore, down towards the outer banks. it's going to happen over the next two hours, so the water levels are really ...

And right here you'll see there's a huge bulldozer that's been building a berm of some 10 to 12 fight. can you see over in that direction there where they've been doing that? any of that. we talked to the mayor here a little earlier. matt dougherty, to get his sense of how prepared they are and what they're doing. here's some of what he had to say. >> we're going to prepare for a direct impact, and we're going to hope that this makes a right turn and goes out to sea. but whatever comes our way, we're going to be fully prepared, better prepared than before sandy and any storm since. we learned ...

Headed for folks along the east coast. meteorologist janet dean is live with the extreme weather on your behalf. i want to say to our viewers, don't shoot the messenger. >> i know, i need a bulletproof vest t. amount of times we said that, same trip, differ day. we are dealing with the potential of severe weather, though, with this storm event. the potential for hail and damaging winds and isolated tornado. so we had a severe thunderstorm watch in effect. we can see hail and damaging wednesday across portions of texas up into oklahoma and you know what we could see several inches of rain, a sh...

Of atlanta. we got our streets cleaned, we kept our hospitals open, we kept your people safe and the city of atlanta is running again. >> reporter: and the mayor's media tour will continue. he'll appear on morning joe and later he'll appear on the today show. as you well know, if a politician messes up in a storm event, it could cost them their political career. he may be trying to clear things, who knows. >> he's definitely trying to repair things. so in all the ai don't see, stories are surfacing of the people who came to the rescue. it started with stores opening their doors. others brought...