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That usually doesnt happy until the storm gets picked up by the as far as the heaviest rain in the next couple of days, we are going to be looking at totals anywhere from two to as high as 4, 5 inches and perhaps isolated areas in the next 24 to 367 hours. right now, moving through biloxi and now youre seeing that erie, calm eye right on top of michael savidge there. >> i suppose you look at it in the context of this hurricane season and certainly what we saw from irma and maria, this could have...

Landfall in florida as a category 3 on marco island. you think about all the folks that are now up the street from this, you know, from marco island, naples, up to fort myers. fort myers, youre next. from there to sarasota, from sarasota to st. pete, tampa, clearwater, and then straight up hitting florida, so there will be very few areas along the west coast of florida that are spared from this. in fact, i dont think there will be any area along the west coast of florida that will be spared from...

Else why youre on the third floor and what you expect in the next two hours? >> so thats the back-up plan i have. if theres a storm surge, thats where im going. theres actually multiple spots on the island that i can go to immediately when that storm surge and if that storm surge happens. im pretty sure it will as soon as the eye passes by, so ive got multiple back-up plans on the island here, multiple parking -- for me to get to safety in order to avoid the storm surge. >> now, scott, one thing...

The zero line. we are going to see this line ten to 15 feet higher than that pink line. its hard to have cameras. were not going to put our crews out on the beaches to watch these storm surges, so the government has these tidal gauges out here. we will know by watching this red line just how bad that storm surge is. right up the coast we have gauges in clearwater beach, in sarasota, and, brian, that will be the story and tell us how bad the damage is going to be and how many lives will be lost f...

City of naples and now the strongest winds are right in the middle of bonita springs and well shift this right into fort myers in about an hour from right now and well send it after that even further up the coast and well talk about port charlotte. port charlotte is famous because thats right where hurricane charley came onshore with 145-mile-per-hour winds and devastated that area. >> head back over here and see if we can open up mike bettis mike because weve been focusing on a shot thats been ...

Rising. >> yeah. the sanitary sewer system wont be able to contain that. >> the water had blown out of naples by about five feet weve now almost replaced all of that water in 30 minutes. remember we showed you the pictures in tampa earlier because the water had blown out. its 30 minutes for four feet of that water to come back. and its just starting. watch for a wind shift in direction where mike bettes is. its been --? the crew in the upper right-hand portion is our crew in downtown naples. the...

Dont want to send anybody out when its dark anyway, even if it did let up. so it will be early in the morning, and then we can -- well start seeing what there is to see. and, no, certainly no first responders are going out. >> mayor bill barnett, naples, florida. thank you, sir, for taking the time to join us, where we again hope for the very best when naples comes through the other end of this and emerges stronger for the experience. thank you very much for joining us. bill karins, our meteorol...

Into their crew vehicle. smartly, this is now the -- look at the vortex of all the forces that was hitting him from the back. as we said, these storms want to squeeze the air out of your lungs. >> and its still going. were watching monitoring here with kerry sanders, were waiting painfully -- >> now weve lost their feed. >> theres kerry. kerry has been in this eye for almost 15 minutes now trying to get through this northern eyewall. the center is almost like slowed down a little bit. it looks l...

You can see where they are snapping off here. mother nature designed palm trees in the hurricane center, they handle well, but for the people living in this area and did not evacuate, its pretty miserable. i did speak with somebody down in marco island a short time ago. he tells me that at this point he is at least with his wife holding her hand going through something miserable but feels safe in because hes three stories up. he hasnt seen the storm surge yet because hes inside with storm shutte...

Slightly more punishment. >> but it looks like things might be lightening up fairly soon. >> while were waiting there for -- >> bill, youre finding it might be slipping to the east of them. >> might be slipping to the east. thats why naples is now on the western eyewall. they went through the north, as the storm passes just to the east, they have to go through the eyewall in the west and havent gotten to the south part of the storm, so thats why we havent really seen it clear up in the naples ar...