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Search warrant for the facility. this is a criminal investigation with eight people having died, 145 people having evac its what evacuated. for their part, the facility did put out a statement. theyre telling us the center and its medical staff diligently prepared for the impact of hurricane irma. our staff continually checked on our residents well being. we are devastated by these losses. we are fully cooperating with all authorities and regulators to assess what went wrong. a long-term care in...

Because they needed that emergency provisional housing. so people here are just now trying to get back to normal. theyre still trying to recover. even as theyre trying to rebuild their resources, remember, just yesterday, there were eight dead in a nursing home. there were 145 evacuations. even some of those emergency evacuations still happening as recently as yesterday, as people are trying to rebuild, craig. >> were going to go to the nursing home in just a moment. you mentioned power outages....

It had to be around 140, 145, somewhere in there. but the biggest concern or the biggest danger on the right side of the eye is all that storm surge that gets piled up and just pushes over the island, knocking buildings down. water is way more powerful. >> ive got to ask you, a lot of people go there and vacation, a lot of people live there. how long do you think before -- and were just starting to see the pictures. we had someone last night, had a viewer e-mail and say, listen, the keys are dev...

>> sounds like we have lost david there. but jacksonville is the biggest city in florida. we always think about miami, but not only is jacksonville very big, its got low-lying places and a lot of the houses that are owned by people or rented by people who have not been able to, since hurricane andrew, bring everything up to code. we spent a lot of time talking about people who built their homes to what they call miami-dade standards or the windows to take 145 miles of impact. not everybody can d...

>> reporter: three krans down in southeast florida, showing the damage done to this part of the state was two-fold. number one, the storm surge, can you see the effects around me, the boats pushed up on this marina in coconut grove. five-foot surge in downtown miami. and then the winds. the winds were 100 miles an hour on the tops of the sky rises in the city. weve been told these krans, and there are more than 20 of them in downtown miami, we were told they could withstand gusts of 145 miles an...

I am in a room i cant hear the storm. this is a huge testament to the windows and doors that truly work. >> you said miami dade rated. you are talking 145, 150 miles per hour wind rated. even in tampa the mayor was saying you dont have to leave the city. leave low lying zones, area a. you have letter classifications. its about being wise about it. are you somewhere higher than is in a structure that can withstand a hurricane. >> correct. and are you prepared? dont go out. usually long time ago w...

Cranes. that was going to be a bilbig cn because they were not tied down. they are supposed to sustain the effects of 145 miles per hour wind. we were curious because this lot has two cranes close to each other in proximity. so as we have been observing tonight they have been spinning some and making a small rotation. i went over a couple minutes ago to check it out and they seem pretty stationary, not moving. we will keep an eye on that for you tonight. i did want to bring your attention to the...

Think of is on the other side of to it. but that doesnt mean theyre not getting that surge coming in from the north there, and those pictures are scary. im sure exactly where, like, big pine and up towards cujo key, theyre seeing even worse than this. shepard: yeah, im guessing they are. rick, what do you think? key west gets battered like that for the next three, four, five, six hours? >> reporter: probably about six hours. were going to have winds in that range, in that 100 mile-an-hour range....

Powerful, but youre right. even the smallest thing, whether its the disk on top of a light post, or even a newspaper stand or even a garbage can lid flying down this street at high speed could certainly injure if not kill somebody. >> we do have confirmation. lets walk over here. we have a crane collapse in downtown miami now. we were discussing the number of cranes up there. there are more than two dozen. the arm of the crane has collapsed on top of a building. this happened just a short time a...

Most victims, most fatalities in hurricanes are because of drowning. what is the biggest concern in miami right now? >> the storm surge consistently has been the area of biggest concern in miami beach and downtown miami. thats why they evacuated. the storm surge is what they are mostly worried about and most people or many of the people did move out of these areas. the winds theyre concerned about because of the cranes. there has been a lot of construction in miami. these giant cranes that they ...