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words. chief mike chitwood of daytona beach. i appreciate you taking a little time tonight. thank you very much. thank you. we re, of course, continuing to track the path of hurricane matthew as the outer bands start to hit the florida coast. the latest ahead. [ crowd noise ] whoa. [ gears stopping ] when your pain liever stops working, your whole day stops. bujust one aleve try this. has e strength to stop pain for 12 hours. tylenol and advil can quit after 6.
of coast going up into south carolina and even north carolina. joining me now on the phone from orlando, u.s. senator bill nelson. democrat from florida. and senator, have you been in touch with federal authorities and what, how does the response look to you at this moment as you await landfall? i ve been in touch with everybody. including the top man of fema who, by the way, is a floridian, and who had helped us get through that massive number of hurricanes in the 1990s and then in 2004 and 2005. and by the way, just another historical reference point, the fellow that you had on, bryan norcross, he was the hero of the worst storm that this one is being compared to, hurricane andrew. it was a monster.
yeah, basically in the morning when it s calmed down a little bit. we can t go out in it. reporter: 2004, 2005, i know this is a community that was rocked by at least tropical storms, ivan doing among the worst. are we expecting it to be that bad this time around? we ve been listening to the weather reports and they re saying yes, we are. reporter: thank you for sharing again. yeah. reporter: be safe out there. thank you, again, for the geographic correction. you guys, we re just outside melbourne. thank you. reporter: thank you, jeff. chris, that s the latest from here. all right, craig, melbourne, florida, please don t stay out there too long. okay, craig, get safe. joining me now, nbc news ron motte who is in daytona beach. ron, you re driving around daytona beach which is also, as i understand it, an area under mandatory evacuation. what are you seeing? reporter: well, we re just we decided to take a quick ride while we can still do this, chris, so we re o
if it happens to go a little more off the coast all night tonight, we don t get the historic to catastrophic damage, i d be more than happy to take people piece calls and say it wasn t that bad. keep your fingers crossed. thank you for that. joining me by phone from weston, florida, near ft. lauderdale, congresswoman debbie wasserman-schultz representing parts of ft. lauderdale. congresswoman, how are folks in your area doing? well, we re in the midst of the tropical-storm-force winds that you guys were just talking about. we have pretty heavy gusts here. i, you know, weston, which is my hometown, is inland from the coast. about 20 miles. just along the everglades. and, you know, it is pretty significant wind, but not nearly as bad as hurricane-force, and so our area is not, it looks like, going to be hit directly by the hurricane-force winds, but it is and has been and continues to be an important