Right here in Brevard County at our Port Canaveral, one of the great economic tragedies of the pandemic is ongoing.
For years, Port Canaveral has been a shining beacon of economic opportunity, but due to pandemic protocols, blanket mandates and failure to act it has been reduced to a hole in the water. Florida needs to invest in restarting our ports or we are in danger of losing human resource talent, physical and financial resources and more precious time.
Investment starts with the $258 million Governor Ron DeSantis has promised to our Florida Ports. This money will go towards keeping security around our ports of entry into the United States.
guard down. here s all the computer models, major models we re watching and the center lines, that s the eye. the circle around it would still be like this for the hurricane force winds but they are looking and trying to move the storm along the space coast with the possible landfall early tomorrow morning. that would be the area right over the top of kennedy space center itself and possibly up will towards new smyrna beach and the storm all day tomorrow. by 8:00 p.m., the center of the forecast is going to be somewhere close to over the top of st. augustine, flagler beach area and amelia island and the strong winds after dark with the areas to the north. one of the biggest problems you get with landfall and hurricanes, or ones like this along the coast for this long is the storm surge. here s the latest storm surge forecast. this area of yellow, 5 feet higher than the normal water levels at high tide. west palm beach in the surge.
with that western eye wall over the south of west palm beach and ft. lauderdale. this would be all through the space coast. the tmelbourne area, new smyrna beach, all are going to be decimated by the storm with the path. let s move it further to the north and see what the update has for you. we re at the space coast at 8:00 a.m. 145 and with that path they come at with now, the last one is further to the coast and had it weakening down to 110 when closest to jacksonville. they still have this at a category four just off the jacksonville coast. this is horrible news for people in the georgia area. just got word they evacuate the coastal sections of georgia for good reason here. st. augustine, flagler county, flagler beach to daytona beach. worst case scenario forecast for you and it does weaken slightly. further to the north, we take it now. saturday, 8:00 a.m. as this white line right in here. that s where near the savannah
a major hurricane on shore. within the hurricane warning area. with a small deviation to the right, could keep the winds off shore. a small boon could mean a lot, the difference between life and death. that s why we have to prepare for a direct hit. so if you re in an area that s still vying, evacuation zone or island, there s no reason to wait. if you wait, that s when lines happen, that s when we have problems with fuel. this is life and death. again, protecting life is our number one priority. the impacts of hurricane matthew could be as follows. heavy rain. expected to produce rainfall of 4 to 8 inches and even up to 12 along the east coast and the keys, 1 to 3 inches. think about this. if you look at prior storms, when there s a band that goes, it could be way more rain than
you. earlier, we were just inside and things do look to be clearing up a bit. that is inside the storm, that video, of course, from the very brave hurricane hunters. i want to take you now though to our own miguel almaguer. west palm is expected to get hit hard beginning about 11 hours from now. this is a community with many, many senior citizens who have been called upon to evacuate. migu miguel, what are you seeing? reporter: stephanie, the weather here is certainly beginning to turn more ominous. over the last couple of hours, the wind speed is picking up. and the folks in the area are definitely heeding the evacuation orders but not everyone is leaving. i want to show you some palm trees beginning to sway here. it s going to be a windy day oth over the next several hours. they have not told people to