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The water will really start to fly up, and our storm urge is coming on just like that right now. it will be the first area where the storm surge will come in below it. we're still about two hours away, brian, from the storm surge. the reason we're so concerned is the possibility of 10 to 15 feet of water. and the last time in our country that some of the storm surge with sandy on the jersey shore was 10-12 feet, ike had it in the peninsula. and as i have been mentioning, high tide in this area is three to 4:00 this afternoon. it would be nice if we could get past the peak of high tide, at leas...

Landfall at the core of a major hurricane on the florida peninsula during the day on sunday. >> what does that look like? what are you expecting the damage to be? >> well, category 4 and 5 wind damage is catastrophic. you can see total building failures. you can see trees -- total tree failure. major damage to infrastructure. power lines, things like that. in addition to the wind hazard, we're also expecting -- not expecting but we could see life threatening storm urge everywhere in this pink area from jupiter inlet southward, as the governor of florida just mentioned, everybody on both coasts...

Go because when we thought this storm was hitting the east coast a lot of people from the atlantic coast went to the gulf coast and then people in the gulf coast realized it was hitting them and orlando is right in the middle of this thing. this is an interesting place for things to happen. of course, the attention remains on tampa. as much as those storm squalls, those storm urge surges are not as serious as we thought, tampa has a lot of low lying area around it. i want to go to thomas roberts in tampa. he has been there since it first started to rain and get windy. what are the conditions i...