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brian: all right. kevin guthrie executive director of the florida division of emergency manage wanted and joins us live. kevin, what s your greatest area of concern right now. hey, good morning, guys. appreciate it, brian. right now our greatest area of concern is going to be that big bend area where we just had landfall. that 947 pressure with 125, 130 mile-per-hour winds. that s a really strong cat 3 hurricane. just coming down from that cat 4 that we saw about an hour ago. storm surge, the 12 to 15-foot of storm surge along the coastnot a really populated area but nevertheless we still got some fish camps and things like that in there. lots of people in manufactured housing. that s a concern. and then moving inland with these 120 mile-per-hour winds, 120 mile-per-hour gusts bringing down that live oak canopy. i know, brian, usc up here in the tallahassee area you know there is a really strong live oak tree canopy here. that s going to go into power lines. take down power lines a
I fully expect and we all expect here for us to have impact, lose power and, again, as soon as it s safe we will be out and respond. you re correct, the governor and the eoc is located down the road and had a great working relationship and appreciate the governor staying in constant contact with us and the state folks have been great to work with as well. we re all in this together. and speaks to the power of the storm to clear up into tallahassee well inland you may still see hurricane-force wind, tallahassee mayor john dailey, we re thinking about you all. hope things go well for you today. appreciate your time. thank you. bill karins, that is extraordinary, is it not that that far up after the storm has made landfill, you still might see category 1 force winds from this storm. yeah, the tallahassee area, you know, they were so nervous yesterday. they re watching the storm. it was headed due north and they were like, please, turn, just turn, don t hit our city. and it s going