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like a freight train. we're seeing record-breaking and terrifying storm surges throughout florida and ft. myers, the water is so high pickup trucks are almost completely submerged. water levels have risen more than 6 feet in the last switch ho -- seven hours. let's get to tom sater in the cnn weather center. an updated forecast should come any minute now. what should we expect? >> it was just handed to me. forgive me for reading off. we still have a category 4 hurricane and five miles east of punta gorda. it will stay at hurricane strength through orlando. this will rake the entire p...

Place now than you were but please can't to stay safe where you are and senator scott, we've seen this phenomenon now, these rivers get emptied and then sadly, some people go out there and enjoy the freakish nature of this fact and don't realize that water is coming back and it might come back -- it will come back fast. >> you don't know how fast it's coming back. it will come back fast and higher, right? just don't -- i mean, don't take chances like this with your life. don't take a chance that you put a first responder or your family member at risk. i mean, you just can't do that now. you ha...

Quickly as possible. highway patrol and others cleaning the area to get down there and do it. what you heard, checking the trailer homes and saying is anybody in there? they will do that across up and down the coast they will do that. >> let's go to derrick van dam who assures us that he is in a bradenton. tell us what you're seeing and what is going on down there? >> reporter: jake -- bear with me. i'm not a very heavy guy so these winds are knocking me around very heavily. this violent, violent wind and it stings when it picks up the water from these sheets of rain that continue to blast thr...