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Here to see how they rode the storm last night. how are you? i understand you were here for the storm. can you let me know real quick? how was it? there was a lot of tree damage. >> i want to talk to you and show people your house if you walk with me. and shawn did creative things and duct taped his roof and i wonder if the camera man can pan over here. >> tie downs. the ratchet tie downs. the anchors into the five-foot stakes in the ground. they are not coming off. >> for shawn over here, that strategy might have worked. we are in the middle of the street so i want to get out of the road here...

Approaching brevard county so we're looking for peak wind gusts of 90 to 100-miles-per-hour, so i would anticipate a lot of tree damage, some manufactured homes and mobile homes that are, you know, in harms way and roof structures and things like that. i mean, it's -- you know, unfortunately, when the morning light hits, if it -- when it does, it's really going to be when the peak part of the storm will be over the central part of brevard county. we know the wind is traveling at 14-miles-an-hour. our county is 72 myles loile s >> we know that eye wall, where it's hugging the coast, there's so ...

Sends push notifications during the storm, do not ignore, it could save your life, according to the governor. let's get the latest on the storm, we bring in meteorologist bill karins. where is it now and how slowly is it moving? >> moving north/northwest at 13 miles per hour. that's a decent clip, not too slow, not too fast. overnight the trend was just a little further off the coast. we've really spared the disaster we were afraid of from the space coast, southwards. we have minor damage, tree damage, roof damage, but not extensive damage, and we avoided that storm surge. that's great. 120 mi...

So i've been working for the last -- we've been following this for over a week. just gut getting out there in three places told, just getting out the word, evacuate, evacuate, evacuate. do not, not, take a chance. go to safe ground. we've got shelters open all across the state. we have hotels. we have pet shelters, special needs shelters, general population shelters. i called up the largest number of national guard members, i've never called up 3500 members. we've predeployed assets. we are ready, but you've got to take care of yourself during this storm. we cannot send in rescue people during...

Across much of the united states with about a half an inch, some areas three quarters of an inch expected to accumulate, especially south of chicago. a lot of people don't think that's a significant amount, but look how the numbers translate when it comes to a quarter of an inch two half an inch of ice. tree limbs break. widespread tree damage. and expensive power outages. a lot of people traveling. this is expected to be one of the busiest travel weeks of the year as people head back toward their original point of starting, and this is a major concern with ice being widespread over this regio...