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A lot of people putting in a lot of work to continue to provide -- >> and i do want to point out how important that work is because it helps save lives. just explain sow everyone fully understands how the work you do, which seems so dangerous, crazy to fly into a hurricane, how that can help inform people on the ground. >> cuply. we're able to actually go into the storm and find the specific center to be able to help forecasters determine where the exact center is and they can ingest that into the models to get better outcomes. as everyone knows weather a very challenging to have a good initia...

Jacksonville. we'll start to see the tornadoes throughout the day and they could cause structural damage. let's look at the wind fields. the tropical storm force winds extend 200 miles from the center of the storm. this storm is about 400 miles wide and the hurricane-force winds extend 60 to 65 miles from the center of the storm. the hurricane-force gusts. we think the closest approach to a landfall, remember landfall is the center coming onshore and the lowest pressure point. just a statistical matter. we like to look at the potential for landfall. the last time we had the cat 3 make landfall...

Right now, category 2 storm, but we tell people don't pay attention to the category. while it's important, you can get a lot of damage with storms that are not a 4 or a 5. this is a category 2. 105 miles east of ft. pierce, florida, with 110 mile per hour winds. and now its forward speed moving northwest at two miles per hour west palm beach all the way up past charleston. we've got hurricane watches all the way to cape hatteras. inland we've got tropical storm watches as well. that speaks to the size, the growing size of the storm. even though it's in a sense weakening down to a category 2, i...

Chief, thank you very much for joining us. what's the greatest risk to life when this hurricane hits? >> wolf, thank you. the first thing everybody speaks about is the wind and the wind fields are potentially damaging. this is true. and could cause some serious injury potentially. but really what we found in all of the storms that we've responded to through our federal task force is that water is the greatest hazard that we see. that could be water due to storm surge. it could be water due to rain. but it could also be impacted by what we're experiencing now in miami which is a ting tide which...

Wind fields here. where you see that purple, 60 miles an hour. where you see -- there's no color, that's in excess of 100-mile-an-hour winds. then we look at tuesday and they're saying they shut down the public schools already for the beginning of the week in many sections of georgia because, frankly, there's a lot of uncertainty as to what will happen with category 4 hurricane irma. there is still this tornado watch out for the most dynamic part of the hurricane right now. this is very typical. and there is almost this east/west component where some of these stronger bands are coming on shore...