florida coast, past jacksonville, savannah and all the way back into the carolinas. adam. leland, do you have me? one thing to make a difference here in the storm, the national hurricane center is the dirty side of the storm. at least appears as they will stay away from landfall. hey there, leland. i was following along with you, getting my mic worked out here. the storm is tracking and the worst side is always on the eastern side of the storms and it looks more and more like that s going to stay out to sea. a big storm either way. and winds 150 miles gusting up to 185 miles. you see the defined eyewall and that s how powerful the storm is. i ll show you the forecast, as it continues to drift more and more to the east and the center of circulation closer and closer to the bahamas. as it moves, it s going to stay a powerful storm over the bahamas. some folks there may be in
yet, still in the cone of uncertainty. what is your advice for them? well, this is a very dangerous storm and uncertainty still remains and it s travelling slow, even though it s turning to the north and curving off shore, we re going to get wind gusts and we re going to get tropical force winds and heavy rain and we ll get flooding and for sure we re going to get power outages. so, we re asking everybody to stay calm, be vigilant. we re not out of the woods yet because, remember when irma came through, it was not supposed to hit south florida, but it did. so we re still watching. we re praying for the west and preparing for the worst. congresswoman, you are on the transportation and infrastructure committee. i m curious when you have to deal with the mass evacuations
klotz is in the weather center with the latest. adam, what s it looking like now? (inaudible) give you a little idea of what we re talking about. he maybe tried to turn his microphone on. the storm as you can see is 400 miles or so to the east of west palm beach, florida. what adam is going to be talking about here is the track and the track has moved a little to the east and turned up north. so whereas a couple of hours ago, it looked like it was just going to slam into that area north of west palm beach, brevard county, florida, somewhere along the space coast, it now appears that the track of the storm is turning a little bit east and then north. so you can see that curve up in which would go up along the
and once you got there, with the infrastructure, there was a huge difficulty. any v, yes, but national guard and reserve troops involved. everyone flying in, the hurricane hunters as well, something you do everyone. real quick, do you have do you feel like at hurricane katrina, now there s a doomsday with the storms. you never want to say that it s not going to happen, but it turns east. is there a fear in congress and other places every storm is going to be the big one, you ve got to get ready, cancel school, flights canceled, airports shut down that it becomes a little too routine? it does and this is a fine line. i don t think there s really a scientific answer to it, but you want people to be prepared and if you don t express, hey, this
and i know the thoughts and prayers of those in miami with your fellow floridans further north who probably will get more of this and we will keep watching the funky trajectory. by the way, we are here to support them as well, contact with the mayors of orlando, tampa, jacksonville and be supporting of them. leland: nothing brings people together especially floridans like a hurricane in terms of bringing out the best in them, thank you, sir, we appreciate it. you got it. leland: all right, this is an important one, in addition to all the tools that officials use to track hurricanes, there s also an unofficial scale that is used and this is true, it is called the waffle-house scale, fema officials say whether the restaurant is open, closed or serving in limited menu is pretty good indicater how bad the area was damaged by the storm, waffle house first ones to close and first ones to open and covered many hurricanes. my hat is off to those at waffle