steve: he is standing out in a hurricane and it looks as if some of the rain actually impacted his microphone. jeff, have lost your signal. the audio portion. brian: if it pops back. actually sitting there on the rocks. in fact, he can hear us now. hey, jeff, you were saying you forget this is the gulf. exactly. this looks more like an ocean to me at the moment. [audio faded] steve: we tried. he has been in the rain for the last 48 hours. brian: your sun is beginning to come up. you are beginning to have a real perspective on what is happening. every time we go out to a reporter it s going to be news worthy because it s going to be revealing what the damage was. ainsley: originally that storm didn t look like it was heading for tampa. it looked like it was going on the east side of florida. all of my friends who live in that area were not evacuating. they were going to higher ground and elevated area. steve: i had friends on the east coast go to the west
and the carolinas. we re going to watch the vulnerable beach areas across georgia and south carolina for the potential of thighs on shore winds bringing up the storm surge. not done yet. category 1 storm still hurricane, 75 mile-per-hour sustained winds. it is over land it is weakening. but we are still going to see the potential for the storm surge for the heavy rainfall upwards of 4 to 6 inches. and the potential of tornadoes. and this storm is going into georgia for the first time in history, atlanta, georgia has a tropical storm warning. we will be dealing with this well into the midweek. back to you. brian: i saw the mayor of atlanta saying yesterday look we are kind of surprised we re going to get 60 mile-per-hour winds and rain. janice: peoplevel evacuated. brian: dense area. place where there is always traffic. hopefully they are doing that smartly. 12 minutes after the hour. ainsley: so jillian started our coverage. you probably saw at the end of last week down in south florid
not only for the west coast but the east coast. this storm is so large, guys. we re going to be watching it throughout the day today as it continues to weaken but still widespread impacts all along the southeast coast line back to you. steve: pretty much everybody who is awake right now eastern third of the united states. janice: i read 35% of the state of florida has no power. ainsley: how long does that normally take for them to turn about t. back on a week? steve: depends on the extent of the damage. janice: keys inundated with rainfall could take months. steve: janice, thank you very much. ainsley: a lot of viewers from the state of georgia waking up a lot of rain today. anything worse that we need, janice? lots of rain? she will keep us posted. steve: regarding florida power and light which has so many subscribers and customers out of electricity this morning. we are going to have somebody who is either their public information officer or vice president with us in about 20 minutes
coast. they got the brunt of it on that side. i knew people in palm beach county a couple we know went to kentucky. ainsley: friends went to nashville. best friend who lives there going to elevated higher ground. then i called her at 4:00 in the morning on saturday and i said have you got to get out. she took all of her boxes, all of her pictures. she was in tears. she put them in a hotel room and then she got in a car with her three kids and they headed to south carolina. steve: the point of my story was she went to kentucky. the storm is going to kentucky and tennessee. so, it is a big storm. ainsley: it s huge. steve: big storm and not done yet. brian: atlanta today. 60 mile-per-hour winds in atlanta. ainsley: janice, says expecting a lot of rain in those areas. america s mayor rudy giuliani, mike huckabee and counselor to the president kellyanne conway are going to join us live. oh, you brought butch. yeah! (butch growls at man) he s looking at me right now, isn t he? yup.
great. thank you for that live report japan miss dean is tracking the hurricane. jacksonville is northeast quadrant that s the one with all the rain. janice: storm surge is happening on shore winds coming west coast of florida. but we also have storm surge warnings extending up towards the coast of georgia and south carolina. this is going to be ongoing situation for the duration 6 to 12 hours. jacksonville has as we heard the reporter say a record storm surge water rise of 4 feet st. john s river there is going to be a lot of threats here not only hurricane force winds not only tornado threat. jacksonville under tornado watch right now. we have potential of tornado warn storms as we go through the day today not only north florida but in to georgia