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You know where randi and bill were all day today, they received multiple reports of winds topping 120 miles per hour, and they have been battered since around 2:00 and 3:00. those winds should start to die down now in the coming hours. you can see the back side of the storm now starting to push on shore. and tomorrow morning, the west coast of florida will actually see sunshine. the rest of the state is going to be in for a long night and a rough morning tomorrow, as we continue to see rain. we ...

Sun here and there. it was a ferocious storm. it meant business from one end of the storm to the other. usually on the back side of these hurricanes, the first, the front of the hurricane comes through. thats usually the worst wind. it was almost on the back side in fort myers this evening. i was getting blasted by winds there in fort myers just about maybe even an hour ago, and its just now in the last 20 minutes or so has started to die down a little bit. >> aaron jayjack, i appreciate it. tha...

Theres a little bit of a lull and then it picks up again. so, you just never know what to expect, as you know. earlier we were seeing there was a piece of a building that came off. there was a stop sign. theres been some debris as well. you can see across the way theres some twisted metal just in the yard. but those are the only lights that are on right now because we put them there in downtown punta gorda, where we are, because there are major power outages all around here. so, certainly thats ...

Passed. it will be dark out not just because of the loss of utilities but also just the lateness of the hour. you brought something into the conversation we havent been talking about. those are the recent storms you have already had and how much standing water you have and how inundated your area already is. with just a few seconds left, tell me about that. >> we went through hurricane ir ma a few years ago. it was dry in southwest florida at that time. the back side of hurricane ir ma. broke do...

Portions of florida. we are including tampa and orlando. even though you are not right in those 150 mile per hour winds, you could get huge impacts from the rainfall. >> my other question right now, jennifer -- i will have them throughout the show. when should bill and randi expect the storm surge, that flooding from the ocean? when will that come? >> its going -- they are going to have to have a shift in the wind. i dont think theyre going to see the storm surge that was predicted. the storm is...

Direction. its going to try to push that water back in a little quicker that it should. its called a reverse surge. theyre not as big on the back side as the front. naples, you are almost five feet above where your tide should be right flow and youre nowhere near high tide. you may go through two high tide cycles before we get out of there. here is the storm zooming in, still seeing the eye rather well. the hurricane hunter aircraft flew through it earlier, thank you for your service. they found...

Curfew then you dont have people out there potentially stepping on a live electrical line or, as weve seen so often, people get injured on the back side of a hurricane. because there is so much rain associated with this storm, its going to be raining for a while, theres going to be fresh water flooding and that also can become a serious problem. nicolle, you know, this is an ongoing story, its still developing, it is not over, and for all those who are hunkered down, going through this, it can b...

Little bit. but the streets, its amazing. we still have not seen that storm surge, although they have told us that it would come possibly on the back side of this. as you know, earlier, within about an hour ago, there was the eye passing over us, wolf, and it was so much calmer than what we are experiencing here right now. the rain is actually painful as it hits you. im glad nobody is out on the street here. whoa. oh, boy! huge gust. were okay where we are. we are just at the edge of this parkin...

Petersburg where we just were about sewage. because the sewage system there was really antiquated and was spilling millions and hundreds of millions of gallons of sewage into the aquifers even before this storm happened. they did start to renovate it back in december, but this was going to be a major test of whether that sewer system in st. petersburg was going to hold up. and so well see if it did, wolf. >> how far are you from tampa, st. petersburg, largo, down in florida? >> were just north o...

Bit. now he is on that back edge. you hear us talk about it all the time where we have the eyewall come through, which is the nastiest part of the storm, and then youre in the eye. things get calm and then you have to get ready for the back side of this. so bill is basically in round two of hurricane ian and he is experiencing winds very strong, possibly more than 100 miles an hour yet again. i know he is inside his safe place. but just outside could be experiencing winds of that magnitude. he h...