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earlier demonstrated just how powerful those winds can be. >> there is the wind speed, as i am standing next to the building. -- i will take a knee. oops. i'll have to take a knee there. >> -- >> okay. you guys got it -- i'm going back out. >> the powerful winds created record level storm surges in areas like fort myers and naples, florida. over 2 million are without power tonight. and flash flooding is still a major concern, with potentially up to 30 inches of rain predicted in some areas. let's go now to nbc news meteorologist michelle grossman for the latest on hurricane in. miche...

Allowing a lot of rainfall. we have a lot of tropical alerts, storm phase, this is really rare to see a hurricane warning going across the entire peninsula. we've got warnings from southern florida all the way up to portions of georgia, into the carolinas. because this will be the next story as we head through our time here. but we do have tropical storm warnings. still, that means we are going to feel tropical storm winds. we are feeling them right now. also hurricane warnings, that means we are feeling those hurricane winds right now. so the radar showing us that we are looking at heavy rain...

Carolina. but it is going to get worse. because of all of the rainfall and the water coming downstream from both north and south carolina, it will converge in that area of northeastern south carolina so we think the peak of the floodwaters may still be a couple of days away. and it will take some days to -- to recede. so we're anticipating a long-duration response. >> look, it is always going to be in phases. right now we have this phase that is just the straight storm phase and then the sitting water. there is a lot of problems with what happens with sitting water. how long it takes to reabso...