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miles an hour. it down trees and power lines, even -- without power. created storm surge in areas like fort myers and naples, florida. officials are warning residents about potential for flash flooding overnight, some areas inland could see over two feet of rain. let's go now to nbc news meteorologist michelle gross. michelle, you have been following the storm all day. what is the latest? >> i, there we are looking at really strong storm still. it is moving inland but we are still seeing winds at 90 miles an hour. so it's still moving on to his strength. it was a very -- storm strong...

Winds. we will see hurricane-force winds. and we will see a brief tornadoes. typically with hurricanes we see brief tornadoes. we're thinking back a lot of power, so that is something we are concerned about. winds, destructive winds, of course, when you think of hurricanes why we think the winds. and we still do have a wind story. not quite as strong as we had a couple hours ago. it's going to weaken over the next several hours. but we are still seeing winds gusting up 72 miles per hour in st. augustine. 73 miles per hour wind gust in daytona beach, orlando. 89 miles per hour. orlando, you're ...

Everywhere. a dangerous situation. just to recap a little bit of what we have been talking about with the new bern officials, they are pursuing about a hundred rescues, but they are having trouble with mobility because of the flooding and having trouble finding a place to put the people they are rescuing. they have opened up a building on the marine corps air base. they are trying to assist in every way they can. >> we saw that last year during hurricane harvey. they will hopefully work that out in the coming days. as for your friend, the construction worker, he will be out of work for the nex...

Karins said this perfectly. we walk about three to four miles per hour as we are walking down the hallway. this is at six miles per hour. so it is on pace with how slow we walk and that's where we're seeing all of this rain falling. it does not have anything to do with the winds. i know with hurricanes we tend to think it is a wind story, but this is a -- has been a water story from the beginning. >> michelle, thank you so much. we have amber parker on the phone for us. one of the hardest hit cities is new bern. there are reports that 150 residents there are awaiting rescue. so the craven co...

A storm like this in 25 years. this area got slammed hard by hurricane andrew 25 years ago last month. they knew things would be bad. most of the people who live here haven't even seen yet. it was more of a wind story. winds knocking down big, heavy trees here. this is an entire leafy mess that most people had to stay sheltered in places like this hotel you see here was not opened to the public but they did shelter employees and their families, who live here, giving them a place to escape the storm here. a lot of people just hunkered down. others, of course, left town. look how dark it is. giv...