. >> mcnamara: woo hoo!er: mcnamara considered these waves relatively tame. they were only 20 to 30 feet high. >> mcnamara: look right there, anderson! rainbow, rainbow! look at that! yeah, holy moly! that's amazing. now it's time to hold on. >> cooper: it's not just the wind and the current that makes the waves here so massive-- it's the existence of an underwater canyon. at its deepest point, the canyon is nearly three times the depth of the grand canyon. it starts about 100 miles off- shore and runs nearly all the way onto shore. >> mcnamara: all this energy, and it funnels in like a "v." so all this energy, it comes down the canyon, and as soon as it hits a shallow point, kaboom! >> cooper: getting hit with all that energy is, acrding to mcnamara, part of the joy of big wave surfing. on this wave in nazareÉ, he ditched his board to prevent it from hitting him. you can see mcnamara as a little speck on the lip of the wave. this is the view from the camera on his board. >> mcnamara: a lip lands on me. i ge

i want to bring in the former fema chief of staff jason mcnamara.ee as the most significant threat of the storm right now? >> well, i think the uncertainty is the most significant threat. you've got a storm that was predicted to, you know, first go right across florida and now it's starting to move up a little bit. it's stationary over the bahamas, and now it's finally starting to make the turn north northwestwa northwestward. the uncertainty leads -- there are a lot of folks in north carolina, a lot of folks in south carolina who have evacuated and they're saying why did i have to do this? the very real chance that you've been expounding upon and others have of this hitting the entire east coast or being big enough to hit the entire east coast. people need to take this seriously. and, you know, the weather service does the best they can, but the fact of the matter is these are always unpredictable. >> our weather team at nbc news says these hurricane force winds can extend some 45 miles from the center of the storm. tropical storm winds 145 miles.

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