among the 40 across the u.s. and caribbean that were kill kd ed hurricane irma. this morning about 150,000 people here in the city of jacksonville are waking up without power and that is among the 6 million across the state who are without power. the governor said we have about two-thirds of our state that is waking up without power. just behind me, there is the st. john s river. there is no longer a barrier between that river and downtown where i m standinging. the river is part of us. and this is what people are battling because this was record rainfall. we saw about 15 inches saw. and so with the record rainfall means record flooding. it s destroyed people s homes, property, and an entire residential complex. take a listen to one couple. have you ever seen anything like this? no. not this bad. i mean, i ve been through some
there are 85,000 veterans in that city of jacksonville. and donald trump is making a big play for voters with a military background. what are you hearing there? what are you learning from people you are talking to? reporter: andrea, i m here hanging out at the annual air show. this is jacksonville beach, florida. the blue angels are set to perform later this afternoon. that s why you are going to hear it s very noisy here. i have been talking to veterans for the past couple of hours. this is where mitt romney edged out obama 51% to 48% in 2012. as you mentioned, tens of thousands of veterans live here in the city of jacksonville. veterans like donnie who i want you to get to know. who are you supporting and have you voted yet? no, i haven t voted. it will be trump/pence. reporter: why are you
overnight, it s the coast georgia that gets hit and as we go into saturday, it s really south carolina that s going to deal with the brunt of the storm. it should weaken to a category 2 but still looking at possibly 100-mile-per-hour wind gusts and even north carolina, not going to see the center of the storm but looking as much as 15 inches of rain. between the coastal flooding and the threat of very high wind gusts, we could certainly deal with damage throughout the rest of the afternoon and that extends to at least saturday night. tamron? at least saturday night. down to jacksonville with the biggest concern right now is the storm surge, you heard dylan reference jacob soboroff is standing by with the latest on conditions there. jacob? reporter: hey, tamron. so yeah. we ve heard the governor say over and over again the people have to be careful about low lying areas here in the city of jacksonville because the st. john s river, which you can see maybe one, two, three blocks
wind will be dying down as we head into the afternoon hours. we ll have sunshine and temperatures right around where they should be at this time of year. so not too bad for president s day. a lot of you will have it off. a lot of sunshine expected and generally dry conditions in the northeast. florida, if you re headed down there for president s day, today will be a cold day down there. look at these current temperatures. in the 20s across portions of the florida panhandle. 20s in the city of jacksonville, orlando at 35 degrees. very cold out there. we have hard freeze warnings in effect this morning. no fear. by tuesday, back into the 80s across portions of florida. otherwise we have a storm system that s developing across portion of the north central, producing blizzard conditions. temperatures today in the north central, not too bad. 30s in minneapolis. also in rapid city, otherwise a warm day in texas, 79 in san antonio. nice warm day there. steve: allall right. not here though.
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