That Storm Surge could be the worst part of this storm. So we will be on that during this hour. Ill be watching. Thanks alex. Thank you. We are going straight to bill karins. Msnbcs meteorologist. Nbc News Meteorologist for the latest on the situation there. Bill, what can we expect now in florida . This is when all the damage is happening. We cant show you where the worst Storm Surge is. But we know it is moving in. We have had reports of a ten foot Storm Surge in sarasota. As we go down the coast, all the way to naples, its been at least five to six foot Storm Surge. That is higher than helene in most cases so we have new significant damage that is being done tonight. As the storm is moving inland. The winds are still pushing that water against the coast. It is still rushing in. The other thing you will notice, the black line is the center. Just north of the center which has been the past five hours over tampa, torrential rain. We are talking two to three inches per hour. Now that is
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Property, no doubt. What else are they doing . How nervous are californians about this, guam . Alex, Today Is The Day to prepare for people here in Southern California. , so you have a mix of people who are concerned, and others that arent really preparing, because they say they live in an area that doesnt flood. Others dont really know what to do. So, possible flooding. California is an area that has a lot of hills of not. And so, people who live in low areas understands what can happen when they get a lot of rain. But people that ive spoken to tell me they have no idea what a Tropical Storm means in terms of that rain. Some of received say they might gets about a years worth of rain in just a few hours. So, they just know it might be an overwhelming amount of water. You see some of the people who are collecting sandbags. Theres locations like this set up all over San Diego County for people in those low areas who, months ago, experienced a lot of rain in california and now the proper
i want to bring in cnn correspondent brian todd who is in st. mark s, florida, just south of tallahassee. brian, how are evacuations going where you are? we have been talking about all the areas of florida, they have been asking folks to get out. the hurricane is now just hours away. it is just hours away, a, b the evacuation orders, we are told, are going pretty well. we talked to emergency management officials here in waukesha county, where st. marks is. they said that they had a pretty good response where people who are urged to get out. they are under mandatory evacuations. they are told that at deputies went house to house in st. mark s, where we are, and in the surrounding areas knocking on doors. they cannot, even in a mandatory evacuation, pull you out of your house forcibly leave but they can strongly urge you to and that is what they have been doing. i have been asking one emergency management official what he would tell people who elected to stay. he had one word answer, h
strong as a category three in recorded history, there is no barometer ville how this area is going to be able to absorb the hit of the storm when it comes ashore. but, again, we are told that between six and nine feet of storm surge was expected to push this water from the st. mark s river, kind of like a snowplow, up into the town of st. mark s. again, as i just said a moment ago, the entire town is expected to be flooded at least to some degree in the coming hours. there is an emergency evacuation order in effect, we were told that sheriff deputies have gone door to door in this town trying to get as many people as they can to leave. and, we are also told that they did get a pretty good response in waukesha county where we are, from residents in the coastal areas. one of the emergency management officials told me that they got a good response as far as the number of people who decided to take the advice and leave. i asked one emergency management official what he would tell people wh