So when you get on a motorcycle and you have 750 pounds of metal, steel, and chrome and you go on the road, if you don‘t wear a helmet, you have nothing but air between your head and the road and when you hit the head on the road, I split my skull open and I had traumatic brain injury.ĬOSBY: Yeah, Gary. Because helmets are a lifesaver and the man wears a helmet everyday to work. Gary, what goes through your mind when you hear about Ben Roethlisberger and what happened to him today? Right now, I understand that we have NBC‘s Jay Gray, who is right in sort of the thick of it all, right there in Florida? Jay, what‘s the weather like right now? Bill, thanks so much.Īnd everybody be sure to keep it right here on MSNBC. Please come back to us if that is the case. And if it does become a hurricane, we will be the first to let you know.ĬOSBY: Great. We‘ll have a new update, Rita, form the hurricane center during this hour. The actual path of the storm-still could become a category 1 hurricane as soon as this evening, if not it could be in the early morning hours. We‘ll take the bull‘s eye, it‘s going to be about six inches of rain here in this dark maroon color, Jacksonville to Gainesville, Florida. This storm is going to track up through southern Georgia and portions of South Carolina. The big problem is going to be the heavy rains. The center of our storm located south here of Apalachicola and we‘re going to continue to track northeast as we go throughout the overnight hours. Now another band is getting ready to slam onshore with strong, gusty winds and even the possibility of isolated tornados as we go throughout the rest of the evening. It‘s also, further to the south, right around Tampa, you have been dry all afternoon and evening. Right now they‘re going through the strongest band wrapping around the storm, they‘re getting winds right now up about to 40, 50 miles per hour, that storm surge is pushing on shore as we speak and we‘re going to continue to watch this band raking the coast. That‘s where we expect some of the worst flood to be and also some of the strongest winds. I want to show you, we have a lot of our NBC News correspondents here in Cedar Key. We have got the hurricane warnings in place because of our strong storm. So as we head towards probably the mid morning is when the storm is actually going to make a landfall. So the storm is only now about 100 to 130 miles away from the coast and it‘s moving at about 10 miles per hour. The worst of the storm is hitting for them as I speak. Up to the north, Cedar Key and a lot of the small towns here in this swampy area are going to watch a large storm surge moving in right now. Yes, the storm is going to hit a highly unpopulated area, just missed the Tampa region. That is really tall waves that are now heading towards the coastline with the center of the storm. I just saw one of the buoys out here reported 20-foot waves. This is as strong as you can get for a tropical storm. And the upper level winds once again took hold of the storm and are ripping it apart all afternoon and evening long. Looked like it was turning into a monster. We‘ve had a few reports of tornados in Florida because of this storm. Bill, what‘s happening?īILL KARINS, NBC METEOROLOGIST: Well, Rita, we‘ve been watching all sorts of weather today. Let‘s go live to NBC Weather Plus meteorologist Bill Karins who has been tracking the storm for us as we speak.
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