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It's hard to track exactly where we were the whole time. it was definitely barrier islands. great abaco took the brunt of it. >> you'll go to grand bahamas island tomorrow. what have you heard about the damage there? >> i'm trying to get there tomorrow morning. i have heard it's going to be very similar. the storm actually sat there longer surge got higher. the wind feel of the storm was bigger at that point. even though it wasn't quite adds strong. it weakened when it moved over. it was very powerful. i'm expecting to see many of the same thing. and the harder hit are the more populated areas...

And we have high tide at 12:00 noon. so those surge levels could come right back up. >> so water levels could go higher. you just heard me talking -- we were just talking to someone who said they've got a way out of their house but they're not leaving because she sees fridges floating in the street, she sees trees down. if you're not out of your house right now, you need to kind of stay in it and stay safe as possible and get to the highest ground you can. getting out and venturing in your car is going to be more dangerous than staying in your house at this point. >> absolutely. we have just p...

Parts of the coast line here, not to serious, they're not particularly populated, but the populated areas start here and go up into this area. the thin chain of islands, the florida keys, sitting below sea level and southwest florida is going to bare the brunt of this storm. the surge levels could hit as high as 15 feet. i'm under 6 feet, we're talking more than double my height, all this as torrential rains can add another foot of water to the area. the storm surge is the water that gets pushed in by the waves, the rain is the added stuff. again like harvey, one thing we're going to be dealin...

Nervous about what will take place. afghanistan shares a border with china. and as much as we are concerned about afghanistan itself collapsing. the consequences it wouldñr be a safe haven for terrorist that access china, and russia and iran. and that is disconcertaining -- disconcerning. >> and what is our best p move here? >> jenna, for me again, i think we talked about it before. i have an emotional bias, but unless we change our strategy as a country and a president that doubles down and triples down and makes a commitment to go affect change, and we are talking about to the surge levels ...

Getting is a surge that entered long island sound and it takes about four hours to get town here. so the surge you would expect there is much later than the surge that you'd experience if the water is coming up the east river and the hudson river. there has been some flooding already in the battery as well as the fdr and some of the rockaways. we expect surge levels of 6 to 11 feet. a surge of 9 to 10 feet is possible aalong coney island and the rockaways and a surge of 11 to 12 feet may occur at the better monday evening. maximum surge impact in these areas is expected to be in some period pl...