for days now. from the standpoint of fema, trying to muster some kind of response for this, to be prepared for contingencies, how do you handle that uncertainty. fema has had folks in florida, they ve got foelks in georgia, north carolina, south carolina. the way they approach this is they assume the worse case. they didn t just immediately shut down florida and move north. they have resources in florida. they are moving resources to other states. the real focus is on the evacuations. go back to this error of uncertainty. in 2004, hurricane charlie, everybody thought it was going to tampa. it hit punta gorda south. people were surprised. they were in a hurricane warned areas. the hurricane warnings are the things people should be focussing on. less about the cone of the track. if you re in those evacuation zones, you re in a warrant area. that means the possibility can occur, and you can t discount that this storm may wobble a
storms before. they re not fun. as far as some of the winds go, the possibility of the high risk of the strong winds, coastal areas of florida and the carolinas and georgia. we could extend further, if we see the forecast does get closer than that. the rainfall, if it s along the coast, the rainy side are offshore to the east and to the north. if we have any potential problems from any heavy rainfall and flooding, i d mostly be concerned with the sounds, the fear river region here, that s what we re going to have to watch as far as rainfall goes. the biggest issues appear to be the rough surf, wave, storm surge possibilities and wind. now let s go to nbc in popular beach, florida. reporter: it s a little windy behind us. we are expecting rain bands from dorian later this evening.
chief meteorologist is in the fox weather center. rick? i wish i could have been on record forecasting it a couple of days ago. it hasn t changed that much. it will be a strong storm. problem a category-3, 4 or 5 right up the coast of florida. we have confidence it will get right there and every guidance falls apart. this is the latest look at the storm. it s an organized storm. not super big, but it will probably grow in size and the strength and how far out from the center, the strongest of the winds go. where we lose our certainty is what happens? we are good here. bahamas will get socked with this storm. that looks like a given. then where does the storm make this turn and get pulled up to the north? we can t say. most of our guidance still just gives a big spread somewhere here to the westside of florida to the east side of florida to the center part of florida. we know we will have a strong
next week. chief meteorologist is in the fox weather center. rick? i wish i could have been on record forecasting it a couple of days ago. it hasn t changed that much. it will be a strong storm. problem a category-3, 4 or 5 right up the coast of florida. we have confidence it will get right there and every guidance falls apart. this is the latest look at the storm. it s an organized storm. not super big, but it will probably grow in size and the strength and how far out from the center, the strongest of the winds go. where we lose our certainty is what happens? we are good here. bahamas will get socked with this storm. that looks like a given. then where does the storm make this turn and get pulled up to the north? we can t say. most of our guidance still just gives a big spread somewhere here to the westside of florida to the east side of florida to the center part of florida.
outside port st. lucie. winds downing power lines, sending this trampoline airborne. tropical rains now extending all the way to the carolinas. in polk county, north carolina, two people killed, after a falling tree struck their vehicle. and rob marciano joins us now from panama city beach. the storm now onshore. rob, what can we expect next? reporter: well, tom, this storm is going to bring a whole lot of moisture across a huge swath of the u.s. look at the big picture here. we re watching the moisture even now get as far north as virginia. also going to keep an eye on a tornado watch for eastern colorado and nebraska. but the track of what s left of alberto is going to track across the panhandle, through alabama, the tennessee valley, and then up through the ohio river valley. it will weaken as far as the winds go, but the rain is going to be there. so, we ve got flash flood watching that are posted for as far north as southern indiana and across the carolinas. could see two, thr