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love to go down there and vacation with families. a lot of our viewers know that area very well. steve: thank you very much. janice dean tracking the storm. we saw that house behind griff on stilts. they prepare for this. a 12-foot storm surge would go right over the road. janice: even higher than that the new storm surge maps are coming out we are expecting a strengthening storm as it makes landfall. 145 mile-per-hour sustained winds. that s what s predicted in the next couple of hours. so a strength storm is not good news for the east side. for the big bend of florida. which could get, perhaps, upwards of 12 to 15-foot storm surge, that s going to inundate towns. going to put homes under water, unfortunately. here it is now as far as textbook hurricanes go this is it. all four quadrants filled out. really defined eye here. strengthening storm. tornadoes with ivan they had reports of 120 tornadoes with hurricane ivan for this area. so we re concerned about
exactly? we are in naples. so behind me, four miles that way is the gulf coast. that is the part that s right now going to get the sort of fullest brunt of that storm. the eye will hit that gulf coast. that s where you ll see, according to the national weather service, we ll see the highest storm surge there, particularly if it comes at the 2:00, 3:00 p.m. at high tide. the storm surge maps show a surge flooding in several miles. we are on a little bit higher ground, we re on a structure right now on the sixth floor, we re pretty high up. there s a whole part of coastal naples and obviously this is the coast, right? that s the part that s built up the most, that s the part that has some of the most valuable property, that s are lt biggest businesses that service the tourist industry, all of that part is in the highest level of storm surge zone. you can see how quickly the rain band comes in. this is what we ve been going
through, this rapidly accelerating rain and it ll ebb just as suddenly. it doesn t seem too windy, though. no, we re, okay right here. one of the things right now, i was talking to a scientist yesterday as we were going through the storm surge maps. the particularies, sam was talking about that in terms of where that storm hits tampa and how that counter clockwise motion is pushing, whether it s pushing up into the bay a at that moment. we re in a situation where the wind is coming toward us this way becae the bands are coming from that direction, the cycle is going like this, the bands are coming that direction, it s shielding us largely from the wind right now. all right. chris hayes joining us from naples. i m going to ask the director to put the picture up of fort myers because the wind looks a
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