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Beach and many of the roads will have branches that could be obstructing the way. but we ve done a lot of preparation. and so the most important thing is for folks to stay indoors. realize that the conditions are going to deteriorate as the storm progresses. how have people been responding? it s fantastic in the fact that people have taken it seriously. i think they ve paid attention to the media and they realize the potential consequences of this storm. and if you look at the streets, i was out earlier this morning and the main street of vero beach looked like a ghost town. so that is good. but what we don t want to do is say, okay, you know, we can take a breath and go out, because really now is the time to make it across the finish line, stay ....
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 on but luckily nowhere near the eye. they are a decent distance from the eye. you saw the live pictures we were showing you there. let me go to my next view and i can show you my distance tracker and show you how far away tallahassee is. here s where the storm made the landfall. this was the gray line, the path it took. it s been edging towards the left side of the forecast path after landfall whic ....
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 wait. wns once it goes through the keys we ll know a lot more about how it s going to go. the next 24 hours, what are you going to be watching as the storm progresses? we ll look at the until keys. ....
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 for you, elizabeth. i can t imagine what it s going to look like tomorrow and monday. we will see as the storm progresses, thank you so much. hurricane harvey we saw social media to try to ask for help when 911 was overwhelmed. hopefully it doesn t get to that. in florida as when i irma s trak shifted west, people went from a place people sought refuge where a city in bulls eye, boy, matt, ....
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. it doesn t get much better, these numbers may be upped as well as the storm progresses. right now tampa bay 5 to 8 feet. this is the rain concern and the headline with the storm and likely prove to be the most devastating part of the storm as tomorrow and monday moves on. now, current wind gusts, we re seeing tropical storm conditions ....