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onto land. now, look, there is a great hope that we don t get the kind of storm surge that was expected here which is between six and nine feet, which would be far over my head from where i m standing which would mean the entire city here that s about 3,400 people would be flooded, all the way up to city hall. at this point we re not seeing major flooding yet, but the storm is clearly not over, still a category 3, and we are starting to see the water move in from these incredibly intense bands of wind that come through, and every now and then you get that pelting rain as well. i know that we have someone who s about 20 minutes away from steinhatchee in cross city. we ve got eugene o neill who is sorry, edgar o neill who is in cross city. what are you seeing there? what are the effects as you chase this storm? caller: right now incredibly
hour, and those will continue to increase here in the next hour or two. we also have the tornado watch in effect for portions of both florida and georgia. we ve had about a dozen tornado warnings already so far today, that number is going to go up. keep in mind, when we talk about tornado warnings, the safe place is always the lowest level of your house, say a basement for example, but a basement is not where you want to go if your home is being inundated with flood waters, you want to go up. keep that in mind because that makes your safe place very tricky on a day like today. here s a look. again, we do repeat that for me one more time? monica, i believe, yes, we do have landfall. they have just confirmed it. we have landfall as of right now. so the center of the storm has officially crossed into florida as we speak, as a category 3 storm near keaton beach. so repeating, we do have official landfall near keaton beach, florida as a category 3 storm. again, these impacts are going to
people who live here, they are not used to something like this because this is almost a once in a lifetime event for them. but they are very aware of what can happen with the flooding. and look, here is the absolute truth, that there will always be people who say i m not leaving my home, this is what i know, whatever happens happens. but here is the problem with that. if you have never seen an event like this, if this turns out to be 7 to 9 foot storm surge, those people will need to be rescued. and that is why authorities are saying we cannot come help you during this storm when it is at its height, when waters are rising. we don t want you to be in a position where you are literally trying to save your own life, going on the top of roofs for example. so they are trying to get people to understand that they may never have seen something that is this extreme. and you make that point in terms of the intensity and scale of what we re looking at right now, lack of precedence certainly i
you run from the water, you hide from the wind. hopefully people have heeded the warnings, as this storm gets closer, and keeps pushing this water onto land, this could end up being an extremely dangerous flooding event. it is already starting to flood, the area where we are, which is normal because we are right near the water. i want to get to tallahassee now, i think where john berman is standing by. john sorry, where derek van dam, we re going to first you know, i have to talk to john, he s my co-anchor. but derek van dam, in tampa, half under water, in a place that s normally dry. what s happening now and where is the storm? reporter: i think people can excuse the technical mishaps we have here, we re in the middle of a dangerous hurricane but we re on bay shore boulevard in tampa bay, just off of tampa bay, the city of tampa, directly