britta merwin is in gainesville. we opened up the day and rain bands shift in and threat of severe weather could make way further inland. >> when you consider landfall site and the fact of the topography for making landfall, the reason for people to leave because it is so low lying, we could have more people in the impact zone dealing with conditions that are not going to be the top surge, but conditions of extreme wind, tornado risk, inland flooding. population is more inland that have greater number of people being impacted. i'm in gainesville, close to the university. the university has 60's,000 people. they are the top employer, them and u.s. health. i showed up last night and people were grabbing food. folks are wary of the wind, it is rare impacted by more than tropical storm strength wind. we know the eye will get closer than they have had in the past. i don't think we will see hurricane force winds in gainesville. right now, not too bad. take you on a little walk. the trees are moving, we have a breeze. rain

erica headed to a different college in gainesville, santa fe.edro planned to take classes near his home in miami. and, as graduation neared. more life decisions. erica broke it off with pedro. she didn't want a long distance relationship. after all, they were just 18 years old. the big wide world was ahead of them both. >> i wanted him to find someone and fall in love with them, and live alone normal life. i just didn't think he was the one for me. >> they were barely unpacked. classes just starting, when a sudden change of plans. pedro didn't want to be left behind in miami after all. as the fall semester started, he showed up in gainesville as his friend robert remembered. >> he just visited and ended up signing the lease and enrolling for classes at santa fe college. >> maybe there was life after hogwarts, for pedro, erica, and christian. could the friendship be renewed? survive a five hour moves up the interstate from miami? if that was indeed the hope, it was dashed with some awful news on september 21, 2012. >> we were tense, we were nervo

yes, things have improved drastically here in gainesville.unate not to have been in the direct path of the storm. it looked like when we went to bed last night, when i left the emergency operations center, it looked like we were going to be in the path of the storm. when we got up this morning, the path. the emergency we were very fortunate. not that we didn't have some damage. we certainly continue to have some trees down here in gainesville. power lines down, but compared to what happened both north and south of us, with the storm surge around crystal river and further south, the enormous damage in the path of the storm north of us, we certainly came out on the better end of this. i have an update on our total utilities customers out. our municipal utility, we have about 100,000 total customers and only 250 of those accounts are still without power. >> that's good. >> so fantastic work by gainesville regional utilities to restore power as well as they have. working to get the last 250 back on as soon as possible. but really tremendous work

nbc's guad venegas is in gainesville this morning, what are you seeing?nado warning about two hours ago just south of gainesville in marion county, and we are, of course, under that tornado watch that's going through 3:00 p.m. local time. so that's what's worrying authorities here, the tornado watch for most of central florida. we got a lot of wind and a lot of rain overnight. obviously the dangers here are different than those where you're at on the coast where the storm surge is what's been worrying authorities. county authorities say they've already had reports of falling trees in some part of the county, and also there's power outages. we've seen these power outages that have been reported all across the state, jose, more than 250,000 customers affected. here it's about 15,000 customers last i checked. that's about 10% of customers in the county here that have been affected, and authorities want people to wait, even though conditions have improved somewhat here, we've seen some residents come outside and take a look at the conditions, jose, and what y

from gainesville.occur after the storm passes because precisely what you are talking about. the fact that you come out to your backyard and you don't see the power lines that have been covered up by leaves and debris. you step on them. they are hot. there are so many potential dangers, even after the storm has passed, including the issue of water, which in our case hasn't subsided much in the last two hours that we have been here. i want to go to marissa in tampa. how are things there? >> reporter: you can see, we talk about water, i'm surrounded by it. this is bay shore boulevard. if you know tampa, you know this is a main thoroughfare. there's no difference between tampa bay and the streets here. it's completely flooded over the seawall which tampa bay is no stranger to having a little flooding. people here are telling me, one, this is more than they are used to. two, this is coming at a time -- we call it king tide. they see it once or twice a year. extremely inconvenient. the tampa mayor has been -

it will be one steady rain here in gainesville. we're going to see hurricane force winds. a big concern obviously with the university of florida campus located here, those students don't have class. i mean that's pretty clear, but they're also being told to either get out of the area, and if you haven't done that at this point to shelter in place and make sure to ride this thing out. what will we see when it happens, this is an area heavily populated with trees. we'll see trees pulled down, power lines pulled down as well. national guard troops have been deployed and they're ready to move in when this storm clears and all the power teams stay just outside the strike zone, and they'll have quite a task once this thing clears and gets out of the way. right now everything focused on the coastline and seeing this storm make landfall in the next couple of hours and bringing with it you talked about really an unprecedented storm surge as the forecast holds 12 to 16 feet, water taller than a first story building. that's something catastrophic as the hurricane center says of damag

that's the very latest from here in gainesville on j grey. while he was president, type items, as the government is helping with relief efforts, a federal change on the ground, they're going to continue to work with the 1st responders in florida, georgia, south carolina, north carolina, to get people to safety. you've all been reporting this issue, not television or number of rescues already taken place. as i walked out of my office a moment ago to begin to recover from the impacts of the store has hope to have corresponding like highlight here is that the white house for us. and like i said by them is driving the message to him about the climate crisis after a sunroof, usually extreme weather. indeed, yes sir, it will present. and by then has been briefed in the course of the moment morning by the administrators of the federal emergency management agency, fema at the end criswell and she also brief the media on what is happening then also simple bite and has instructed her to go to florida to investigate and inspect on the scene exactly what

that's the very latest from here in gainesville on j grey president joe biden says the government is helping with relief efforts a federal change on the ground. they're going to continue to work with the 1st responders in florida, georgia, south carolina, north carolina, to get people to safety. you've all been reporting this as soon on television or number of rescues already taken place. as i walked out of my office a moment ago to begin to recover from the impacts of the store. and mike hannah is at the white house. the biden administration appears to be doing everything possible to show that it is doing everything it can to help the states deal with this current crisis. as the president that has directed the administrator of the federal emergency management agency, fema, to travel to the area, to assess the damage, to see what the federal government can do in terms of assisting local administrations. and then to report back to him. now she again chris will be administrative, also brief. the meet you on the situation along with reading the president. throughout the course of the mo

jay gray reports from gainesville in florida. >> conditions in gainesville have changed dramatically driving rains and strong winds. that has given way after the storm pushed out of florida and moving into georgia. what it left behind is pretty severe damage. in this area, we have some power outages from trees that were do you understand. a lot of power has been restored. but along the coast that the storm did its most devastating work. flooding out many of the towns along the coastline and you have that driving wind, 120 miles an hour that made plannedful, ripping. and still causing serious problems and causing issues there and push into the carolinas and eventually turn out by the end of the day and back out over the water. one other thing that is concerned and still a concern here, tornadoes. there are warnings and that will continue for some time as well. i'm jay gray. >> president biden said the government is helping with relief efforts. >> federal teams on the ground are going to continue to work with the first responders in florida, georgia, south carolina and north carolina t

and this one continuing to push in, were there in gainesville. we're a bit in land and we saw it. tons, heavy rain and wind, gusting overnight and into the early morning. as the storm has moved through, things have kind of cleared up not over here by any means, but perhaps the worst of it has gone at this point. we know i've just talked with some officers who have been assessing some of the damage here that there are power lines down in some areas that we have 3 lands and entries that have been pulled down as well. and so that's something they're dealing with in this area is that strong does continue to move right now. it's pushing through florida. already a portion of this storm is in the georgia and causing some serious flooding there. it will continue that move to the north and the east and up the coastline. there a testimony to just how strong the system is. it's remain the hurricane is right now, even though it's been over land for a couple of hours. so this was a very intense, very well formed hurricane and continues to again, cause those p

. >>> guad is in gainesville, florida. there's a lot of cleanup, what are people there telling you?d have been i just was listening to the mayor of gainesville speak, originally he was prepared to have the storm come right through gainesville, he left the emergency center came back and then the hurricane had gone in a different direction of course he was glad. we got the wind, lot of rain overnight, we arrived here last night and this place was a ghost town. everyone had hunkered down, a large part of population are college students from the university of florida, the university had a lot to do in preparing the students, asking everyone to stay indoors as the storm made its way through, we're also under a tornado watch earlier today also keeping people inside their homes. at one point we had a tornado warning just south of us, but all of that has passed. conditions have improved. some wind and some rain. now the message for residents is to be careful when they do go outside. lot of branches and debris on the streets. there are some reports as well of some power lines that were damag

jorge: jessica delgado estÁ en gainesville, nos habla de cuÁndo y con quÉ intensidad idalia va a azotarta el horizonte, el cielo ha comenzado a oscurecerse y las tormentas comienzan a acercarse, a esta hora lo Último, 5 millones de personas estÁn bajo aviso de huracÁn, desde florida hacia las carolinas estÁn bajo aviso y vigilancia de tormenta tropical, nos vamos al cono de trayectoria, seguirÁ su trayectoria hacia el norte, para maÑana se convertirÁ en un poderoso huracÁn de categorÍa tres a medida que se aproxime como un poderoso huracÁn, despuÉs se dirige hacia georgia y hacia las carolinas, hablamos de riesgo de inundaciones para hoy y para maÑana desde florida hasta las carolinas, experimentaremos un fenÓmeno astronÓmico maÑana, la segunda sÚper lona del mes, la Última del aÑo traerÁ una situaciÓn bastante peligrosa porque traerÁ una marea muy alta en combinaciÓn con la marejada ciclÓnica, hablamos de inundaciones costeras que posiblemente cobren la vida de muchas personas, estaremos hablando de fuertes vientos, posiblemente destructivos, tornados durante el transcurso de esta noch

here in gainesville right along the path of that storm or east of the dirty side of the hurricane, we're going to see hurricane-force winds and driving wind that will continue for quite some time. we're talking hours for these types of conditions. this is an area that's populated heavily with trees. we're going to see tree pulled down, power lines pulled down. we know that power crews from the country are already staged out of the strike zone and they'll move in. it may be a while before they can get to this area. it's also the home of the university of florida. so you've got a lot of students here, a lot of faculty. they've been told move to higher ground, and those who haven't now don't have that opportunity. we've seen the outer bands of this area moving through. you've covered hurricanes, so you know what that means. heavy bands, heavy rain, heavy wind and it drops off and it clears and the next band. it's go ing to be a full-on storm in the next couple of hours. we expect landfall around 6:00 to 7:00 eastern time. >> you and i were on the ground for hirks ida a few years ago. let me

but we begin with abc's mireya villarreal in gainesville tonight. >> reporter: gainesville is a collegef the florida gators. we have spoken with a number of college students who have told us that they have not experienced a hurricane. they don't know really what to expect. so for residents and especially for these students, local leaders are recommending that they have three days of food and water ready to go. so we did see a mad dash at the grocery stores over the last 48 hours. while it is fairly calm behind me right now, we have seen rainstorms come through, bands that are starting to come through. flooding is expected in this area, and some major winds, up to 100-mile-per-hour gusts at its height. cedar key is about 40 miles from where i'm standing. they are expected to get hit very hard. we spoke with business owners and residents who are extremely concerned. evacuation orders are in place. they were boarding up those homes and businesses. many of them are very worried that they will not have anything to come back to. that is how strong this storm is. >> in places like cedar key, i

c. news correspondent j grey has the latest from gainesville, florida. what a difference a day makes a beautiful evening, sir, in gainesville, if you would have told me that this morning when we were writing out this go my i just wouldn't believe it overnight into the early morning we saw heavy rain strong winds. but this storm once it got overland accelerated and moved through pretty quickly, allowing teams to get out allowing repairs to started happening along the coast line. that's where the value made. it's most serious mark in florida. it really ravaged the areas where it made landfill. a wall of water in some places 10 big higher more. and there was that when the 125 miles an hour sustained, that roofing of parts some of those coastal communities as well. this was a well organized and 10 storm. and we know that because overland pushing into georgia, it was still a category one hurricane there. significant damage flooding down creek and a mess, and george as it continued to push through and the carolinas. now taking the beating, we've seen throughou

jay gray has moved from gainesville while we continue to see the outer bands of adel, you're moving through this area. and with that you get some significant rain at times. a bit of a break right now, the wind does pick up. that's all going to change dramatically over the next several hours here when it will be constant. hurricane force when pushing. what is a driving rain into this area? an area that has a lot of free, so we expect to see a lot of down trees and power lines. that's going to be a problem along the coast where this thing makes land fall. expect the 3rd well to 16 feet, a wall of water moving into that area. that could be catastrophic, obviously, 5500 national guard troops have been deployed there in place and ready to move in. we've also got power crews from across the country. they're stage just outside of the strikes on and they will be coming in to help out and repair what is expected to be a pretty serious problem with the lack of power. and that could extend for several days and some of the low lying areas, if not weeks, the university of florida is located here in gain

and n b c. news correspondent j grey has the very latest from gainesville florida. as for a damn adjustment too early, according to officials here, they still haven't made their way into some of the hardest hit areas. but we know that there is significant damage, especially along the coast line, where the value of made landfill earlier this morning with a wall of water pushing into areas. it's never been before with severe winds ripping a part, the small communities alone, coastline there. and again, there were teams and, and power crew staged outside of the strikes on things have cleared the storm, thankfully move through relatively quickly. and so they've got in and started their work. in fact, we just saw some power cruise here. moving through the area in gainesville, they, they've got a lot of work ahead and, and especially again in some of these harder hit areas where they're still standing water and, and teams can't get into that. they don't know what's floating in that water or maybe underneath. and so that's going to take some time. was still a head on l 0.

well, nbc news correspondent j great jones has no life from gainesville, florida. j update us on damage assessment in florida. that's one and also where the storm is headed now. we heard georgia, how are they preparing for this? yeah, and there is a state of emergency not only in georgia, but the caroline is as well right now. sterile as for a damn adjustment too early, according to officials here, they still haven't made their way into some of the hardest hit areas, but we know that there is significant damage, especially along the coast line, where the value of made land fall earlier this morning with a wall of water pushing into areas. it's never been before with severe winds ripping a part, the small communities alone coastline there. and again, there were teams and, and power crews staged outside of the strike zone. things have cleared. the storm bank fully moved through relatively quickly and so they've gotten in and started their work. in fact, we just saw some power cruise here moving through the area in gainesville, they, they've got a lot of work ahead an

. >> meanwhile, a scary scene on an american airlines flight from charlotte to gainesville, florida,surization issue. oxygen masks were deployed and flight records indicate the jet dropped more than 15,000 feet in just three minutes to get to an altitude with breathable air. no one was hurt. the jet did land safely in gainesville with no reported injuries. >>> when we come back, no school for nearly 100,000 students. the bus snafu that's keeping them at home. hi, i'm katie. i live in flagstaff, arizona. i'm an older student. i'm getting my doctorate in clinical psychology. i do a lot of hiking and kayaking. i needed something to help me gain clarity. so i was in the pharmacy and i saw a display of prevagen and i asked the pharmacist about it. i started taking prevagen and i noticed that i had more cognitive clarity. memory is better. it's been about two years now and it's working for me. prevagen. at stores everywhere without a prescription. are you tired of clean clothes that just don't smell clean? it's been about two years now and it's working for me. downy unstopables in-wash sce

moving through the area in gainesville, they, they've got a lot of work ahead and, and especially again in some of these harder hit areas where they're still standing water and, and teams can't get into that. they don't know what's floating in that water or maybe underneath, and so that's going to take some time. the still ahead on now is, is there a must go dollars revenge. as you plan launches of the largest wave of the drum strikes deep inside russia. and $500.00 days since the death spine is really slight palestinians, remember algio gentleman's shooting of accents and continued to come for justice. the lot of ground to cover yet again for the america is on thursday. we'll be getting towards the argentina pompous to patagonia with a northerly wind. temperatures are running on the high side here. santiago at 22 degrees. temperature is also once again on their way up in the now. so walter was sunshine for you. 36 degrees fairly. what though, for the pacific coast of ecuador and columbia central america, now that it's major, hurricane e dahlia has moved away. it's still left behind a l

. >>> joining us now, mayor of gainesville, florida, harvey ward.hanks for joining us. >> thank you for having me. >> so gainesville of course not on the coast, it is inland, and this storm will cross the state of florida. so i wonder what kind of dangers from the storm you are preparing for most now. >> as you heard governor desantis say, we are going to have impacts outside the cone. so i worry when people pay too much attention to exactly where the cone is. the national weather service tells us that even though we may not be inside the cone he, we have a 93% chance of sustained 40-mile-per-hour winds. we have a 40% chance at 47-mile-per-hour winds. we are going to get a tremendous amount of wind from this. we are a heavily forested city. we love our tree canopy, but we haven't had a storm like this in my lifetime. it has been more than 100 years since we had this kind of storm pointed right at us. and our tree canopy has not been sort of cleared out by storms in recent years. so we should -- i urge everyone in our city to take this very, very ser

it also goes through gainesville and right at the coast, number one way we lose life and property is storm surge. 10 to 15 feet. we're talking moving buildings type of water. that is that cedar key area, where we could see that unsurvivable condition, as it makes landfall tomorrow morning. then, it's about the wind, knocking at power to so many people that live in that hot pink color there. you can see 110-p 110-plus-mile-per-hour winds that goes all the way through south georgia. we'll have tornadoes, rain on the order of 6 to 12 inches. and i think that the national weather service in tallahassee said it best. you shouldn't compare this hurricane to any other, because you can't. we have not had a cat 3 or higher hit this part of florida since records began. >> david: you always remind us of that, and the national weather service saying it tonight. you cannot compare it to hurricanes before. take this very seriously. great to see so few people remaining. ginger, thank you. of course, we're thinking about the families going through this. millions of americans in the path of this stor

j grey has moved from gainesville as well. we continue to see the outer bands of the dahlia moving through this area. and with that you get some significant rain at times. a bit of a break right now, the wind does pick up. that's all going to change dramatically over the next several hours here, when it will be constant. hurricane force when pushing. what is a driving rain into this area? an area that has a lot of free, so we expect to see a lot of down trees and power lines. that's going to be a problem along the coast where this thing makes land full. expect the 3rd? well, the 16 feet, a wall of water moving into that area that could be catastrophic, obviously, 5500 national guard troops have been deployed there in place and ready to move in. we've also got power crews from across the country, their stage just outside of the strikes on and they'll be coming in to help out and repair what is expected to be a pretty serious problem with a lack of power. and that could extend for several days. and some of the low line areas, if

thousands of those customers are here near gainesville.w hours, they are asking people to remain at home and not go out yet. now, a lot of residents have come outside to talk to us and ask us what we know about the storm, they want to know if the worst has passed. the message is to remain at home for more rain and wind to make its way through the area, willie. >> nbc's guad venegas in gainesville, florida, home to the university of florida, where classes are cancelled today. we'll see if they can get up and running for the rest of the week. >> let's go to bill karins, our meteorologist. what else can you tell us about where the storm is right now, where it's headed? . >> what's unusual about this storm, we had pretty much a sunrise landfall. we're getting instantaneous pictures from a lot of areas, even the hardest hit areas. a, that's where we have roofs torn off, that's where we have a lot of trees going down, power outages, but the water is just as big of an issue as we thought. you look at the tampa area, we show you pictures all day o

he joins us from gainesville, and florida j. it's pushing a little drive and now do i possibly even see a little sunshine where it is a dahlia housing hottest now? yeah. and this, and this study to as if you had told me that we would see sunshine this morning when we were taking a bit of a beating from this storm. i wouldn't have believed it. it moved through and it moved quickly, which is good news if there is any with this storm we saw through the night and into the early morning here, heavy rain, strong winds at times. and of course, the most severe damage along the coastline where a value of made land fall this morning. a sustained winds of a 125 miles an hour. a wall of water 10 feet high or more, are really pushing into places. it's never been here in teams are rushing in and trying to assess the damage and some of those hardest hit areas as the storm continues to be on the move out came shore as a category 3 storm with those 125 miles an hour went and they held on to hurricane status for hours, even though it was over lab

that little island the closist big city is gainesville but it's out there. and there is one little bridge. >> janice: you are cut off. >> ainsley: 100 residents decided to stay and they say every home could be flooded. and we saw that, remember, with ian we saw was it sanibel island and remember the governor built that bridge back very quickly so he was praised for that but you worry about the families that are there. >> janice: still people can't get into their homes. >> ainsley: sean's his parents had to put him in the home. i had to transport my mom with her oxygen. >> janice: her mom did get out of tallahassee because her father does have respiratory issues and he does need oxygen. they had to move inland. it's a decision that you have to make if you live in florida. you know, potentially with these devastating systems. you have to -- we give you the information, but it's up to you to do with the information and protect your family and your property. >> steve: as we look at cedar key, and that's what you guys were talking about, yesterday and now we have

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coming at the top of the hour we will be live gainesville is important position for seeing some of theseain bands. we want to take you through some of the storm surge. clearwater beach 3.1 feet matches that from old port tampa, st. petersburg. now the wind is coming up, out of the south eventually we will turn to the southwest and that puts us in the danger spot that pushes into tampa bay right into the coastline of st. petersburg then you have the barrier islands with mandatory evacuation orders that have been put into place heating the warnings but the storm surge threat expecting to see 6 feet with a worst-case scenario. we are halfway there with a high tide cycle we are expecting to see low tide emerge in the coming hours, as that comes in we have the push so will that allow the low tide to recede to keep that standing water at a consistent pace. venice, fort myers beach a devastating hit. ahead of schedule from where you are seeing that direct onshore push. hurricane idalia makes landfall this morning but continues through southeastern georgia and coastal carolinas through the day i

right now in gainesville we're seeing a bit of a lull. we're seeing the outer bounds of this storm. they've come through with heavy rain and picked up winds at times. obviously that's going to change dramatic will i in the next cups of hours as this storm makes landfall. we're going to see hurricane-force winds and no breaks for several hours. that could mean catastrophic problems not only for this era but across much of the state. we've got the water. you talked about the low-lying areas and coastal areas that have opinion evacuated that's going to push in. at landfall, this storm forecast to have a 12- to 16-foot storm surge moving in places it's not supposed to be. 655 guard troops have been deployed to move in. you've got the power crews not only from this state but other states. this is a state heavily populated with trees. we expect to see a lot of trees pulled down, power lines pulled down as well. here in gainesville, we're on the dirty side of this storm, so we should see some of the worst that this storm has to offer as it pushes through. again, julianna, we expect landfal

still affecting gainesville. still affecting st. mark's apalachicola lab, tallahassee, gainesville. we will see widespread trees down already some 40,000 customers without power across florida. that number is going to go exponentially. well, as i mentioned, we'll have another update at the top of the hours from the national hurricane center and allison chinchar will be here to update you. >> karen maginnis, thank you so much as always. >>> now south of cedar key florida is wikiwachi. that's where i find the chairman of the county board of commissioners. john, lay out the picture for us. what are you seeing on your end right now, and what are you most concerned with as we approach this potentially catastrophic hurricane making landfall? >> well, what we're seeing right now is fortunately we've had many, a high percentage of our community has heeded the evacuation orders, and they have left the areas where we expect to have storm surge. certainly concern about the storm surge and how severe it will be. but right now the information we're getting is that we have not had the amount of s

tomorrow, fully reopened, gainesville airport will reopen tonight, tallahassee airport will reopen firstthe morning. the ports in tampa and manistee are undergoing assessments. when those assessments are concluded they will be able to resume operations assuming all is well. they anticipate it will be. there are, as of now, no confirmed fatalities. those fatalities are things confirmed by the florida department of law enforcement, medical examiners, we do not have any confirmed fatalities yet. if you have any questions about how things are unfolding in your area you can go to floridadisaster.org for updates and the division of emergency management, we will continue to update that website with all the latest information. we have really good retail in terms of all counties other than the big bend proper, the tampa bay area, things are good. leon county is doing well. we are still assessing what is going on on the ground in places that had the initial impact. i will probably to get down to some of those counties today. a lot of people going in, offering assistance from a state perspective, h

and jay gray isin gainesville, florida home of the university tracking it all for us. hey, jay. >> reporter: hey, tyler and contessa. yeah, we've got a bit of a break here now in gainesville after a day that -- or an early morning and late night last night that was spent with heavy rain and harsh winds. things have eased a bit as the storm makes its way into georgia. i can tell you here that they have got some downed power lines. i think most of the power has been restored to this point. standing water in some of the low lying areas and trees and branches that have been down. much more severe along the coastline where the storm made landfall as a category 3 storm. and just a couple of miles now below a category 4 which it was a bit earlier in the morning. the water, a wall of water 10 feet high in some areas pushing in to places it has never been before. and creating quite a mess. and then the wind at 125 miles per hour tearing up most everything in its path. we still have a big concern when it comes to the possibility of tornadoes. it is something that follows these s

jessica delgado, para tambiÉn conocer el panorama en las prÓximas horas, ella estÁ en este momento en gainesvilleo que saber o nada sabemos de ida ya que el huracÁn categorÍa 1 cuenta con vientos mÁximos sostenidos de 85 mph, reportera: ya estÁ entrando sobre el sur de georgia, estÁ muy cerca de una ciudad conocida como maltrata en georgia, continuarÁ su trayectoria como huracÁn categorÍa 1 durante las prÓximas horas, de esta noche y madrugada estarÁ impactando carolina del sur y eventualmente maÑana por la tarde noche, carolina del norte. luego vemos que ella partir del viernes saldrÁ de la costa de estados unidos, y vemos que una cobertura hasta la florida. podemos esperar mÁs de 7 millones de personas estÁn bajo aviso de huracÁn, aviso de tormenta tropical de la florida a las carolinas. estamos viendo unas vigilancias tornados que sean emitidos desde yo ya las carolinas porque este sistema es tan amplio, los vientos de tormenta tropical se expanden a unas 230 millas del centro, y los vientos huracanados a unas 30 millas del centro, es un sistema bastante amplio, normalmente con las bandas exte

i left gainesville early this morning.ng north on interstate 75 away from gainesville, we saw a car that flipped over. we arrived on scene right after the accident. thankfully only one passenger. we did touch base with the driver. he was already out of the car saying he was okay. shook up. as we continued to drive north an interstate 75, we saw the prolific tree damage. this is a huge tree. we're in jasper, florida. again very close to the florida/georgia line. it extends all the way across this highway. we're literally off of interstate 75. they are several large trees that have gone onto the interstate but you can pass them. you have to be really careful because you will see some debris left behind. then we have these side highways that hook into interstate 75. something like this is hard to get around unless you are driving into the ditch. which this is saturated with mud. look how deep this mud is. it is easily -- definitely some treacherous driving conditions at that. looks like somebody is pulling up with a chain saw

this has happened in the gainesville area.ably gainesville is not near the coast. it's central florida. so it gives you an idea of how far-reaching the impacts are. one that has a very broad impact across the southeast. we'll continue to follow that. >>> but also some parts of the tampa area are seeing water recede, but officials are warning that the water is going to rise again in the next hour. our affiliate bay news 9 is in gulf port. >> reporter: actually, we have been seeing things improve here along beach boulevard. this is the main area that takes you into gulf port. we we were walking in water last time we saw you. the water has receded back some. we have lost a good 6 inches. but that's not to say the worst isn't over with yet. we're still expecting the high tide to come in about 12:20 this afternoon. that's according to public information officers that i have talked here with the city of port. they are expecting this water to rise 3 feet before it's all said and done. which means this whole area i'm walking in now is

jay gray has moved from gainesville as well. we continue to see the outer bands of the dahlia moving through this area. and with that you get some significant rain at times. a bit of a break right now. the wind does pick up. that's all going to change dramatically over the next several hours here when it will be constant. hurricane force when pushing. what is a driving rain into this area? an area that has a lot of free, so we expect to see a lot of down freezing power lines. that's going to be a problem along the coast where this thing makes land fall. expect the search? well, the 16 feed a wall of water moving into that area that could be catastrophic, obviously, 5500 national guard troops have been deployed there in place and ready to move in. we've also got power crews from across the country, their stage just outside of the strikes on and they'll be coming in to help out and repair what is expected to be a pretty serious problem with the lack of power. and that could extend for several days. and some of the low lying areas,

gainesville airport will reopen tonight.ssee airport will reopen first thing in the morning. the ports in tampa and manatee are undergoing assessment.concl will resume operations, assuming all is well, which we anticipate they will be. there are as of now no confirmed fatalities. those fatalities are things that get confirmed by the florida department of law enforcement. we don't have any confirmed fatalities yet. if you have any questions about how things are unfolding in your area, you can go to floridadisaster.org. they will update that with the latest information. we have a really good retail in terms of all the counties, i think other than the big bend proper, the tampa bay area, things are good. leon county is doing well. we are still assessing what is all going on on the ground in the places that had the initial impact. we are probably going to be -- i'm going to try to get down to some of the counties today. we have a lot of people that are going in offering assistance from the state perspective, helping these counti

. >> according to flightaware, thursday's flight from charlotte to gainesville, florida, descended nearly 20,000ft in ten minutes, including 50,000, 15,000 in about three minutes. now, the plane did land safely, safely and abc news has learned that aircraft involved had an excellent safety record. >> and another scare in the air happened over the weekend in michigan. incredibly the pilot survived the air show incident, ejecting themselves with just seconds to spare. here's abc's derrick dennis on this morning. >> the thrill of the thunder over michigan air show taking a dramatic turn. a mig 23 performance plane airborne over belleville, michigan. and then moments later. trouble, cell phone video shows the two pilots on board ejecting with a mini explosion as the plane went down, crashing into an apartment complex. parking lot hitting only unoccupied parked cars. >> he was just flying too low, lost him in the trees and that was it. >> the plane bursting into flames as it was absolutely crazy to see the explosion on the plane coming by. ryan jakobowski saw the crash and says the air show cr

gainesville will reopen tonight will stop tallahassee airport will reopen in the morning. the ports in tampa and manati are undergoing assessment. when those assessments are concluded they will be able to resume operations, assuming that all is well, which we anticipate it will be. there are, as of now, no confirmed fatalities. those fatalities are things that are confirmed by the florida department of law enforcement through medical examiners.we don't have any confirmed fatalities yet. if you have any questions about how things are unfolding in your area, go to floridadisaster.org for updates. they will continue to update the website with all of the information. we have really good retail in terms of all of the counties i think, other than the big bend proper, the tampa bay area, i think things are good. leon county is doing well. we are still assessing what is going on on the ground in places that had the initial impact. we are probably going to be, i am probably going to get to some of those counties today. we have a lot of people going in bringing assistance from the s

and this one continuing to push in, we're here in gainesville where a bit in land. and we saw a ton of heavy rain and wind, gusting overnight and into the early morning. as the storm has moved through, things have kind of cleared up not over here by any means, but perhaps the worst of it has gone at this point. we know i've just talked with some officers who've been assessing some of the damage here that they were power lines down in some areas that we have 3 lands and entries that have been pulled down as well. and so that's something they're dealing with in this area is that storm does continue to move right now. it's pushing through florida. already a portion of this storm is in to georgia and causing some serious flooding there. it will continue that move to the north and the gee sent off the coastline there a testimony to just how strong this system is. it's from maine to hurricane is right now, even though it's been over land for a couple of hours. so this was a very intense, very well formed hurricane and continues to again, costs of problems moving on and it

jay gray has moved from gainesville as well. we continue to see the outer bands of vidalia moving through this area, and with that you get some significant rain at times. a bit of a break right now, the wind does pick up. that's all going to change dramatically over the next several hours here. when it will be constant, hurricane force when pushing what is a driving rain into this area? an area that has a lot of free, so we expect to see a lot of down trees and power lines. that's going to be a problem along the coast where this thing makes land fall. expect the 3rd well to 16 feet, a wall of water moving into that area. that could be catastrophic, obviously, 5500 national guard troops have been deployed there in place and ready to move in. we've also got power crews from across the country. they're stage just outside of the strikes on and they will be coming in to help out and repair what is expected to be a pretty serious problem with the lack of power. and that could extend for several days and some of the low lying areas, if

the american airlines plane was on its way from gainesville to north carolina when the crew reported a possible pressure issue. thankfully the plane was able to land safely. hands are like sweating right now. yeah. coming up next, why mark zuckerberg says it's time to move on from a possible fight. >> between him and elon musk. union representatives for ups. workers may have negotiated a historic contract, but it is now up to the workers to decide what happens next. currently, union members are casting their ballots voting on whether or not the deal will go into effect. late last month, the teamsters union reached a tentative contract agreement with ups securing wage increases for the 340,000 workers. represents union members have until august 22nd to vote. >> and it may be time to move on from the anticipated fight between tech billionaires, mark zuckerberg and elon musk. at least that's what zach is saying today. he posted threads saying it's time to move on because musk isn't serious about the fight. he says ufc president dana white offer to make it a legit competition for charity

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