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Not be taking a direct hit, or experienced the storm surg e can see how big that wind field is relative to traditional hurricanes. and as that moves up and over the florida peninsula, up into the southeast united states, you can see this big area, blue area of tropical storm warnings. so, it's really going to be a big event for not just florida but also for georgia and south carolina. >> listen, florida's coastline, as we discuss every time, there is, you know, one of these huge storms, florida's coastline has been massively developed. as this impending storm a warning about that, given the st...

Katrina, not a small wind field of charlie and i just hope people got out of the way because you need to run from the water, kind of hide from the wind, if you can, but, you know, 2 million people have been evacuated with this or have at least been told to evacuate. how are they -- are they leaving? >> that's actually the concern here in charlotte county when i asked the spokesperson a minute ago. we asked do we know if they evacuated? they said, no, we don't. they don't ask people to check in and say we've evacuated house number 23 on this street. they have absolutely no way of knowing, which...

The wind field stands about 200 miles out. it could see some tropical winds on the western event and given the fact this track usually gets typical characteristics. there's a massive frontal boundary that kind of shifts the system away from the united states and possibly far enough away from bermuda to not have any direct impacts on it. gusty winds, heavy rainfall in store before the system weakens. winter weather forecast radar speaking to how cold it is going to get for parts of canada. this system in a couple of days the moisture associated with it will bring in snow showers to parts of can...

Tom. how uncommon is that, and how does it happen? >> this is extremely rare, and there's a lot of dynamics to it. but i mean it's so rare, maybe it happened a little bit with katrina when it moved in. but if we go back and look at the wind field at landfall, you have to have the exact approach and angle of these strong winds and waves, and the force of the water to push up into the mouth of mississippi. plaquemines parish. this reverse flow, we call it, on the mississippi river lasted for four hours today. it's extremely rare. you go back to where we are now, and those winds are still impedin...

Rain trying to flow outside ward through the rivers and it's going to impede the process. the water is going to build up and the rain totals are 15, even 20 inches. >> it's just remarkable and tragedy that this is happening 16 years to the day that katrina hit. >> yes. >> can you talk about the similarities, maybe the differences between the two storms, but how much better the area is now, right? >> i'm glad you brought that up. i think what katrina as well as sandy did was unvail our vul neshabilities. ida, the national hurricane center had a bead on this. where was it going? louisiana. katri...