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That means that this hurricane had strengthened after being out over the open ocean. the storm is now over naples and is moving north toward fort myers and it is on pace for a direct stake on tampa. a low-lying and extremely vulnerable city of nearly 400,000 residents. more than 2 million people were without power as of 4:00 p.m. today. that number has surely increased with the winds that we've been watching. the storm is downing trees. it's tearing off roofs. it's flooding roadways even in areas that are nowhere near a direct hit. nbc news meteorologist bill carons is here with the latest. i ...

About it tracking a few miles this way or a few dozen miles that way, are those not going to make a material difference for this giant a storm. question one, how good are the predictions of where it's going. question two, is the sheer size of this storm so overwhelming that the subtle differences in the tracks don't matter. two more questions. third, i know there are people who don't understand this part but i do not. i don't get the relationship between sea level and wave height and storm surge and tide and what the national hurricane center is now describing as water height above ground in i...

>> jon: thank you. now this fox news alert, authorities ordering mandatory evacuation up and down the texas coast. communities brace for hurricane harvey. it is expected to intensify into a category three storm making landfall with life threatening force. officials urging residents to heed their warnings. >> storm surge has gone from predicted for to 6 feet to a possible 10 feet. at 10-foot water height, you'll be cut off from the island and there's a good chance if you've got that much water, you won't have any electricity. so you'll be on an island with no electricity, no air conditioning, n...

Which is now only five, six miles off the coast. that is why the winds have been increased a lot and the worst storm surge is located to the north of here now. daytona beach, the water is blowing away from you. palm coast is getting the worst of it towards saint augustine. here are the models and the forecast track taking up to south carolina is what you mentioned, the concern with the path is not only the wind and the hurricane force winds but it is going to be the storm surge as we go throughout the afternoon and this evening and as the storm winds get closest to you, that is when we'll see ...

Concerned. want to show you video out of cincinnati. the water definitely starting to take over parts of town with the tremendous levels of water height. again, this has been an ongoing event. we know the snow has been melting rapidly, and the flooding now going down stream. in fact parts of the mississippi river have seen the waters rise on the order of a foot every single day now going on ten days. impressive sight when it comes to all of this happening rapidly. there you go. we had 3% of the united states with snowfall on the ground as of the 1st of march. the seasonal maximum in place. fas...