of power outages. kelly: i recall hurricane fran hitting north carolina. we were living 100 miles inland and we watched fran come up the coast and into over land mass week here seeing irma do over florida and still strike everything all the way up into the virginias. into the virginia area. so to the people watching this right now and living in those areas you just mentioned, they need to be on guard, right? that s exactly right. once you get into southern georgia and eastern alabama as the storm moves north. there are a lot of rural areas. we ll see trees down and power lines down. folks in those rural areas. it could take a few days to get power back in some of those
east coast today had better start thinking delay. i think that i do have some suggestions. they should check with their airlines and go to it the airline website and most of the time if there s something big going on they will have a splash on the homepage of the airline website to let you know where to go. call your travel agent. remember, even if you booked your ticket through priceline or expedia or orbitz or travelocity, you have a travel agent. there is an 800 number on the website. call them, find out what s going on, whether or not you re flights are delayed. if you are planning on going through st. louis, forget about it. you are in trouble now. and they re going to either have to reroute you or the flights will get canceled. it s going to be a big mess across the country. is this the kind of thing that people right now should be getting on the phone to rental car agencies, hotels, just kind of have to do this over land. well, either you re going to have to do it over lan
of florida, the gulf side of florida after we had quite an eventful day in what is turning into quite an eventful evening. we have a matter of the storm surge coming in over land. we saw it in the city of miami the extent to which a lot of people didn t believe was coming. we saw the wind. 142 miles per hour while we were on the air. that was clocked at naples out at the airport. it s been an eventful day of coverage. i am joined by our meteorologist bill karins. i have the best news to tell you that we are we are on receive. good news we can take. the storm surge forecast is done by the national hurricane center. they have a computer model that estimates. they put in the size of the storm, strength of the winds and they give us these estimates of how high the water is going to be. we are still early in this but i am going based on what happened