let's bring back wnbc meteorologist steve sosa. we were talking about the potential with storm surges have increased. >> three items here. it's the size, the intensity and the path and all three of them are really coming together for the worst case scenario. the news not better now with the hurricane being a category 4 overnight. so any weakening trends were temporary. it's now a category 4 storm, not expected to weaken too much over the next couple of hours. i'm going to show you what the biggest threat is. unlike harvey where flooding rains were the biggest threat, this will have flooding rains. it's the innone dajs of seawater. it's called storm surge. while the numbers might not seem too impressive, five to eight feet, these are very impressive. in central and southwestern florida we haven't seen a surge like this especially in 100 years especially in the tampa area. 8 to 10 feet from fort myers down to marko island. this is a very heavily populated area. very vulnerable to storm surge. i'm going to take you in and show you how

let's bring back wnbc meteorologist steve sosa. we were talking about the potential with storm surges have increased. >> three items here. it's the size, the intensity and the path and all three of them are really coming together for the worst case scenario. the news not better now with the hurricane being a category 4 overnight. so any weakening trends were temporary. it's now a category 4 storm, not expected to weaken too much over the next couple of hours. i'm going to show you what the biggest threat is. unlike harvey where flooding rains were the biggest threat, this will have flooding rains. it's the innone dajs of seawater. it's called storm surge. while the numbers might not seem too impressive, five to eight feet, these are very impressive. in central and southwestern florida we haven't seen a surge like this especially in 100 years especially in the tampa area. 8 to 10 feet from fort myers down to marko island. this is a very heavily populated area. very vulnerable to storm surge. i'm going to take you in and show you how

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