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>> that's right, don. earlier we spoke with the mayor of fort lauderdale. the main concern he had was that storm surgery. we're just 25 miles to the north of miami. we were expecting the same storm surge here around five to ten feet. as you heard from karen there, irma is now taking a path and is going way off to the left which could spare fort lauderdale to some extent. they're expecting this storm surge to drap to around one to tee. they're expecting these winds that are now picking up to drop from a category 4 to a category 1, dropping around 50 or 60 miles an hour. now, of course, as every...

And in slidell. increasing water levels are preventing the pumping stations from removing water as quickly as it comes in. coming back to our live shot i'd like to show you the mississippi river just to illustrate the strong storm surge that was associated with isaac before the storm arrived the usgs confirms that the storm surgery versed the flow of the mighty mississippi for almost 24 hours on tuesday. jon, back to you. jon: john a than that serrie. thank you. jenna: just want to go straight to janice dean for a little bit more on what we are expecting over the next several hours. >> reporte...

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Center. and this is a right sided storm, very east loaded storm. and so what is on the east side is the peninsula of florida. so as it eventually makes landfall wednesday morning, we'll see a lot of impacts across the east coast of florida. the sea surface temperatures are quite warm ahead of elsa, however there is wind shear out ahead of it. and wind shear is the change in wind direction and speed and tropical systems don't like that. so we don't expect this to become a big hurricane or anything like that, it should remain a tropical storm as it pushes up the west coast of florida. and we exp...

To 15 foot storm surgery. one spot was about 17 feet and that was on the other side of houston bay as we headed towards the coast there. that area saw houses that were on stilts that were literally washed away. this right here is what happens when you're on a barrier island beach like we have on the west coast of florida when a 15 foot storm surge comes ashore. you can barely even tell where some of those houses were be located. that is what it's going to look like in southwest florida. that's why they're delg you to go get out. don't die on the coast. plus if we get high tide on top of that, ...