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mike is in jason, florida we start with bob van dillen on the east coast of florida. bob.t do you see? >> you know, it's really interesting right now, guys, because we have the southern duquesne eye wall the strongest part of the storm right over us right now. about a hour and a half ago winds were relatively calm. we were in the lower fringe of the eye, calm winds. the wind hasn't been picking up the rain at all. plain old gust, tropical storm force. daytona beach 83 mile-per-hour wind gust that was just clocked in the last half hour. you talked about the tornadoes threat, i'm on the space coast right now, the east coast of florida. we were getting crushed all day long yesterday starting about 2:00. we had a tornado rip right across this region go, right through the parking lot and take off roofs of houses behind me on the opposite side of the street. we saw that go right by. it was amazing. 26 tornado warnings for florida. 55 issued by miami national weather service. that's the most they had to do one day in any month ever. macy amazing. tropical storm force wind area. h

. >> steve: show us where bob van dillen was. >> janice: cocoa beach. space coast here. >> steve: we know where orlando is between the east and west as well. >> janice: daytona beach still at 80 mile-per-hour winds. this is still a hurricane. we are going to get an 8:00 a.m. advisory out. i think it probably still will be a hurricane talked about the tornadoes, record-setting number of tornadoes. look at south florida. i will say fort lauderdale and miami, you were lucky but port st. lucie where we have damage and deaths, fort myers, naples, all the way up toward melbourne 126 tornado warnings. that is a record, most warnings issued statewide in one single day of any day of the calendar year it happened breaks the previous record set in 2017. that was irma, a very strong hurricane that that blew througt region. surveyors are going to be throughout determining, you know, the rating of the tornadoes, seeing some of the visuals, complete destruction, at least an ef-3. typically with these hurricanes we see weaker tornadoes, weak spin-ups but, man, this was

pox weather bob van dillen is live on the ground. describe the situation you're seeing.re in cocoa beach, florida, which is a space coast and a bit south from where we were. if you look behind me we've got series of squalls coming in and they're on the east side of the state of florida. that's atlantic ocean and this is a huge storm and into where i am and the middle part of the florida coast and atlantic side and multiple tornado warningds s plus for florida since early this morning and going for that and it's reported also and where i am right here, it's in the midst of tornado warning ands we've got some off to the west and down to my south and i'm getting battered right now and we have to wipe the lens, it's humid and sea spray from the ocean and it's humid and right through the center part of the state and areas like orlando, you'll get a huge shot of wind also and a lot of rain and then where i'm standing by tomorrow morning late into thursday afternoon, exit off the space coast and moving from the atlantic coast and however, that means the winds are speeding out o