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Carlos, i ll start with you. tampa is already looking at potentially 4 to 7 feet of storm surge if idalia shifts in its track, obviously that could get a lot worse. what are you seeing there, what are people preparing for? reporter: well, we know there are two-man todayer to evacuation orders that have gone out here in hillsborough county which is home to the tampa bay area as well as out in pinellas county which is to the west of where we are, that is home to the clearwater st. pete area. as you mentioned, the concern in this part of hillsborough county, the downtown tampa area is the flooding associated with this hurricane. as you noted, we re talking about a storm surge anywhere between 4 to 7 feet and when you take a look at the bay here behind me, you can see it won t take a whole lot of water out here in order for some of the flooding to take place. this time tomorrow, we ll have taken into the account the rain which has already started to fall and as well as high tide and the ....

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