as you ve seen in the live shot, active in the center of the state and reaching farther to the north. there is the eye north of ft. myers, from tampa stretching up towards tampa, orlando, gainesville, all the areas where outer bands are bringing heavy rain, all of the areas under a tornado watch. there is big thunderstorms, we re going to spin up tornadoes through the overnight hour, waiting for the eye to slowly drift up the coast. here s where that is as you re seeing the spinning, still in the eye wall where the winds are the strongest. north of the ft. myers area, but the winds shift. once you are in it, it moves past you, suddenly the winds come out of the west once you are south of the storm, that starts to push all the water from the gulf of mexico onto shore and that s when you see the storm surge and that could be when things get the worst. here s what we re looking for storm surge forecast, and again, it s always the most active south of where the storm is, so the numbers beg
up. ed, if that s true, pipe up, let me know what you re seeing from where you are. reporter: yes. i m here. i think we got cut off a little last time, but fixed up our microphone situation a little better. as we were saying, chris, earlier, the winds you re seeing on the north side of the storm pushing from the east towards the west is what you re seeing right now. and as the eyewall of this storm gets closer, the winds will only intensify them. if the eye comes right over where we are, we ll obviously have that lull in the system for some time, but that does not mean by any means that the threat is over. then the winds shift. we ll be on the back side of the storm. the winds will come from the west to the east and that is the concern of the storm surge. officials here have been saying over the last couple of days that storm surge could reach anywhere 10 to 15 feet. we ve seen waters start to rise in some neighborhoods. the question, where is all that water going to go and how hig
moisture from cuba and the gulf of mexico. that s why the east side, chad talked about the east side is so dangerous and that s why miami is getting it so bad. but the eye wall, the heart of that storm has still yet to go into marco island and on the west coast. so it s going to be a long day and a long night. yeah, as devastating as this is, this is just the beginning. and let me show you these pictures if we can put those pictures back on the west side of the screen of downtown miami, flooding in those streets. it looks like a river. and it s 100 miles away, but those east to southeasterly winds continue to pile it up. and if the core goes just to the west of tampa, once those winds shift around, it could be like almost a tidal wave of water coming in later tonight and unfortunately, 2:00, 3:00, 5:00
the supreme court tossed out the conviction of former virginia governor robert mcdonald last year. now, jake, last week the trial judge in this case rejected an attempt by the senator to try to get the trial schedule altered so he could participate in critical senate votes such as issues on the affordable care act and tax reform. so because of this judge s ruling, it may very well be the case that menendez actually misses several days of this trial. jake? it s going to be tough for democrats. they need every vote. laura jarrett live in new jersey, thank you very much. millions in the suburbs are still on edge after altoona threatened burbank. officials say there is no active fire threat, but if the winds shift, latoona could rekindle. flames are tearing through other parts of the state as firefighters work on 23 wildfires. one of the difficult fights is the helena fire in northern
winds shift. over 60 acres scorched near the university of colorado. the fire is 50% contained as of late last night. much of colorado battling drought conditions with new mexico and kansas and nebraska. it is that time of morning. 47 minutes past the hour. let s see what is coming up on new day. chris cuomo joins us. hold on. i m getting my face put on, christine and dave. it takes a village. yes, indeed. i heard you talking about gorsuch earlier. this is a big day. a lot of hype for weeks now about what are we going to find out about gorsuch. is he going to be a political hostage somewhat to situations going on? specifically with the executive order? and what will fbi director james comey say? he has two big questions coming his way. the beginning of the intrigue. will he answer? remember, technically he is not supposed to talk about ongoing