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Morning, everyone, i'm kasie hunt. It's wonderful to have you with us. Hurricane milton is racing toward florida's gulf coast and is expected to make landfall as a dangerous category four storm. According to the latest update from the national hurt hurricane center, more than 12 million residents across central florida are under hurricane alerts with parts of 14 counties issuing mandatory evacuations ahead of the storm. A storm that could become one of the most destructive in state history. You want to pick a fight with mother nature. She is winning 100% of the time. And individuals that are i...

This storm wobbles to the west, the more intense the weather conditions become, especially along those coastal communities and they are so susceptible to any wobble of this particular storm. >> yeah, you're absolutely right. thanks for joining us. let's go to nick as we mentioned further north in melbourne, florida. and, of course, we're talking about these storm surges and flash flooding but you were mentioning earlier that people now that they realize the trajectory of dorian will maybe take it away from the coastline, people aren't as worried but they should be, shouldn't they? >> yeah, the...

The radar shows you it is a little farther off shore. this storm wobbles. people think that hurricanes move in a straight line, that never happens. they wobble as they migrate. the concern is that it is going to push away from the virgin islands. good for them. for puerto rico this is a strong category 5 as it approaches by 8:00 in the morning. look at the storm surge, 7 to 11 feet. that can push up to the second story of your house. that's what we are talking about across the entire island of puerto rico with the storm surge up to 9 feet in spots. and a storm that is different than irma in th...

You finally have flights coming back in to ft. lauderdale. very slowly business trying to get back to usual. it's interesting how long it will take because of the power outages and gas shortages to get out there and assess the damage and get the recovery part of this started. gas prices, by the way, rising across the country because of both disruptions because of the refineries with harvey, and then irma, it's $2.71, and $2.27 is what it was just last week. >> and the cost estimate for the damage is nowhere near the $200 billion? do we know that for sure? >> you saw really high damage estimate...

This shows anything greater than 15 inches in this very dark color, now they have changed it. now the national weather service has added 20-30 inches, that is the purple color, and areas of greater than 30 inches, that is the light color here, more than 30 inches in the two side by side, all of this area right here, southwest louisiana, up into the mississippi, tennessee, arkansas, all going to get rain. this is not over. somehow, harris, they are expecting another 2-3 inches in houston command more to come depending on where the storm wobbles and starts heading to the north and east by thursd...