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Duration of this week. >> mayor, thank you very much. we know you've got other things to worry about but we do appreciate the time you've given us in the news media trying to cover this story and can't stress this enough. good luck to you and that beautiful city as this storm progresses. >> thank you so much. and god speed for everyone's recovery. >> mayor of tallahassee, florida. bill, if i can trouble you to go over to the map. show folks what's already -- where the storm has already been and, for example, tallahassee off to the right edge. that's the edge of a hurricane you don't want to be...

Expected to be out for an extended period of time, how do you determine which areas are hit the hardest and which areas are needed the most of. >> we follow governor scott. they know their states best. they work with their regional commandsers and public works people. we go and continue to responds to them. reporter: at this point are you in a wait and see position, waiting for this storm to work its way through to see what's next for you to do? >> there are forecasts and we can predict some things. the eastern part of the state way the winds go, we'll have a lot of winds, but we do have to wa...

Launching app, this shows weather alerts, how you should prepare, where shelters are and where you can share your disaster photo. fema launching a rumor control page on its website to help people navigate some of the missed information that are out there and there are a lot of them. social media definitely a big part of the story, the governor of florida has been tweeting out emergency messages and comcast also using social media to let people know where their free wi-fi spots are. we would like to see photos, you can send them through twitter, we will look for those and get them on the air fo...

Now here is the latest storm surge update. we are talking about a storm surge warning for most of the coast of florida. because of the track changes, the storm surge looks to be a little bit less for the east coast, so some numbers have dropped there. in fact for miami now we're looking at a 4 to 6-foot storm surge there and less, around 2 to 4 feet as you head north of miami beach up the coast. those numbers are nothing in comparison to what we have here now. for the keys, cape sable to card sound bridge, this is where we see the potential for a 10 to 15 foot above ground level storm surge. i...

The people in the u.s. virgin islands, puerto rico, and the other caribbean islands affected by harvey already are in the middle of acute life-saving, life-sustaining mover them out and reposition them for harvey. right now we're employing them in the islands to save lives and we will maintain a good footprint and posture as the storm progresses. i will come back to some of the path and the tracking forecast in a moment. i would like to suggest that we take this very seriously.