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Away but most of the florida coast is empty tonight. fox s jeff paul is in the popular tourist town of cocoa beach, florida. what are the conditions there like right now, jeff? yeah, since the last time we talk with you, the wind gusts out here have really started to pick up. no rain right now, but this is all from those very, very outer bands of hurricane dorian, which is really, really far away, and that s what emergency officials are trying to stress to people, that they are starting to feel the effects of the storm and it s not even close. and it s supposed to be just right outside their barreling up the ocean maybe if forecasters are correct. so for many people have gotten those provisions in place, they ve been buying the items at the store, they ve had several days to do this, some of the people we d spoken with say that yes, it is a little frustrating that the forecasts have called it to come to the area earlier and then it hasn t. they appreciate the time and they also have ....
martha: thank you so much, ashley. take care of your dog. be ready. our special hurricane coverage continues throughout the evenin evening. tucker will be back tomorrow night. a fox news alert for you. it is 9:00 p.m. on the east coast of the united states, where the eye of hurricane dorian is hovering just above the florida coast. our special coverage of hurricane dorian continues. state of emergency declared and florida, georgia, north carolina, and virginia. millions are bracing now for impact. joining us with the very latest on the ground in jupiter, florida, jackie. jackie. see for john, dorian is still about 100 miles east of us. we just went through one. the rain has been pelting. ....
About 100 miles off the coast of florida. it is such a testament to the investment in technology that we have had. you could have a cap 5 hurricane. now, cap 4. to the north of that, we have it. we are going to see the chance for hurricane conditions right here along the coastline come up toward jacksonville. that s what we ll likely see. we will see the worst of any winds. that said, it should stay off the shore. we won t see that direct hit. what we will see, though, is all for states. florida, georgia, south carolina, north carolina. they will be impacted by the storm. very strong wind. storm surge as well. with that storm surge, we will see the flooding along the coas ....
People have left. it s basically a ghost town right now. john: so much of the impact depends on the tides. but this is such a slow moving storm. it sounds like you are going to have a couple of high tides, along with a still a very active hurricane. jeff: yeah, about four or five tides. we are going to have three or four high tides. it s definitely higher than normal. you combine all those together, and areas that normally would not flood arsine flood waters. it s going to come up quite a bit over the next 24 hours all along the florida coast. ....
john: hurricane dorian continues to creep along and perhaps toward the florida coast. it joining us now with the latest on the ground in cocoa beach, florida, jeff paul. what are you seeing their? john, not too much rain right now, but the wind gusts have definitely picked up as the outer bands start to move through. we are standing here right along the coast of cocoa beach and you can see the water has been coming up higher and higher and that is the concern right now, the storm surge. no matter how close the storm gets to land, even just a little bit, a lot of that water, 4-7 feet could become happier and when that water comes up here it could rush into homes, hotels, businesses, so that s why this area and a lot of the areas, the low-lying areas are under mandatory evacuation zone. the emergency responders that we have spoken with her hoping that many of these people have their things in place so when the ....