jillian: janice dean, it is busy out there. crazy. in the pacific as well. we are watching what is left m imelda of, in texas, jerry will move north and east of the us and humberto is leaving bermuda. didn t make direct landfall on bermuda but we saw tropical storm force windss for a duration of hours. what is left of imedla in texas and louisiana, storm totals surpass 20 inches. incredible amounts of rain. houston, moses east of you and south of you but look at the additional rainfall and next couple days, saturday and in some cases an additional 10 inches of rain, terrible situation and shows it doesn t need to be a hurricane or even a tropical storm to causing credible damage.
force windss in north carolina and virginia and we could see tropical storm force winds even across long island towards new england. there is the future radar saturday still dealing with potential for tropical storm force windss which extend 220 miles from the center of this storm. as we get into saturday and sunday the canadian maritime will have to deal with this system. greatest risk for flash flooding has been across the carolinas towards virginia, storm surge, 47 feet, low-lying areas. there is the forecast wind gusts, tropical storm force winds, possibly hurricane force winds across cape hatteras. towards new england tropical storm force winds could affect us across cape cod.
reporter: good morning. an atlantic beach we are experiencing strong winds and pouring rain. we have seen our first reports of sustained tropical storm force windss just to ourselves in saint augustine so it is only a matter of time before it works its way north here and into georgia. across the state of florida there are 6000 people in shelters, 115 are open but only one of them is fool. if you need a place to evacuate there is still space. based on the conditions we are experiencing that window to evacuate may be closing. emergency management officials admit after days of hearing warnings about this slow-moving storm numbers of the public are starting to feel impatient and fatigued but that doesn t mean the danger is over. there will be life-threatening winds. now is the time to shelter in place, stay off of the beach
carley: janice dean is tracking the category 2 storm, still in florida but heading north. northwest at 8 miles an hour. this was stationary for days across the bahamas. we are getting the devastating images the storm is historic in terms of the catastrophic damage in the bahamas and now starting to move. we are seeing tropical storm force windss moving onshore, tropical storm force windss extend 175 miles from the center of the storm, hurricane force windss 60 miles from the center of the storm and the storm is 80 miles offshore of florida. let s look at future radar. one of our forecast models as we go further in time coming into good agreement the storm is going to give a close brush to south carolina and north carolina and perhaps making landfall in between.
tropical storm. try not to focus on the wind speeds. the damage right now is going to be the storm surge hurricane force windss and tropical storm force windss and the fact it is still moving relatively slowly. areas that have been affected by matthew in the last three years, those are the areas we expect the impact when we look historically to storms that moved through the same regions. we are getting tropical storm force winds along the coast of florida blinks because the storm has weekend allowed the wind span to expand and that is my concern, the storm is getting larger and that means it will affect more places in land. there is the wind field, tropical storm force windss here, hurricane force wind gusts here and the core of the strongest winds around the center of the storm and the closest we come from a brush