of florida, the gulf side of florida after we had quite an eventful day in what is turning into quite an eventful evening. we have a matter of the storm surge coming in over land. we saw it in the city of miami the extent to which a lot of people didn't believe was coming. we saw the wind. 142 miles per hour while we were on the air. that was clocked at naples out at the airport. it's been an eventful day of coverage. i am joined by our meteorologist bill karins. >> i have the best news to tell you that we are -- >> we are on receive. good news we can take. >> the storm surge forecast is done by the national hurricane center. they have a computer model that estimates. they put in the size of the storm, strength of the winds and they give us these estimates of how high the water is going to be. we are still early in this but i am going based on what happened