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Hit -- to make landfall on long island or near connecticut. sunday afternoon before moving into central massachusetts and berkshire county. while long island and connecticut will likely see the worst of this system, massachusetts will still see significant impacts with heavy rainfall and gusty winds across mainly western and central regions of the state. residents and counties west of worcester to the new york border late sunday into monday may find roads that are impassable due to fallen power lines, tree debris, and flooding. drivers should be especially mindful and avoid driving into flood ...

Look at all the tree debris you have in this neighborhood. trees brought down lines in many cases. we also saw lines where just whole rows of them were just sort of laying over to one side. 6.6 million households. so that's many, many more people across five different states are affected by this. florida power and lights says that they hope to have most of the service restored along the coasts by the weekend. but here in palm beach county, for instance, about 53% of the county is without electricity. this is also in the interior where we are now. places like punevertheless county, lee county, ...

We'd like it to be faster, but that's what we have to deal with. this is a wind event and surge event that is beginning now. that's why we have the flash flood emergency for the marco island area. >> control room, show us the weather channel for a second. there our meteorologist is at ground level in naples. 88 mile an hour sustained gusts to 131. >> now starting to see things slide, right? starting to see tree debris. you can barely see anything down u.s. 41. s with intensity of the wind and the rain right now. this is a category 3. this is what a category 3 is.

>> daphne a reporter with the palm beach post. thank you for that. >> we want to go south to phillip mena remains in ft. lauderdale with us. how is it shifting now with all the rain and wind? >> reporter: it's still pretty intense. it's coming in waves but they are re frequent and they are more intense. one thing i noticed, some of these palm trees behind me as the morning as gone on they're getting thinner and thinner. they're losing branchs left and right here. we know we're seeing a lot of tree debris. we notice that pool, that parking lot that's kind of looking like a pool now, the outages...

Saying basically stay off the roads so we can try and clear them. i'm at the corner of what was woodbridge and woodhaven. obviously you can see the street signs down. you can see the tree debris in the yard and you can see what i'm standing in, which is about 12 ichlnches of water. but as far as the people here, most of them decided to wait out the storm. they felt like they've been through before. they put shutters on their windows. they did everything they were supposed to do, stocked up on food but that still didn't stop the water from accumulating and that's really what they're going to be...