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They believe that the vast majority of people from this county and this area heeded those warnings and evacuated. not just today but earlier in the week as well, even when hurricane irmas landfall havent been pinpointed just yet. because of that the threat of it a lot of people took off and headed north. there are people who are staying back, in fact we ask the police chief down there on marco island, for anyone whose decided to get cold feet as this storm get closer, is it too late in his opini...

Even when we have a near-miss hurricane potentially. still a lot of work to be done before we can give the all-clear. before its time to go back to the status quo. >> on your on earlier point on complacency for those people still dithering, still undecided on what to do, what do you say to them? >> well, at this point, its too late to evacuate. well be getting probably the strongest of our tropical storm winds rooifing in the next couple of hours and theyll be here until, you know, much of tomor...

And currents. in the red shaded area, the entire peninsula of florida even over as tallahassee there are hurricane warnings. the impact, even though were along the east coast a lot of people say, oh were not staying here to miami in this area were going to move to the west coast, and now the beg threat is to the west coast, miami is seeing a wind gust of 53 miles per hour. theres wind gust on fisher island that has winds 57 miles per hour. ft. lauderdale, 40 miles per hour, at kind dendal almost...

Because we know just how fickle irma has been. i want to show you one other thing before my time is up here. this is a storm surge where you see the red, zoom in and all the way from the florida keys, the highest point is about 12 feet of sea level. you can see a storm surge of 5 to 10 feet, itll be underwater, marco island. all these areas could be inundated with 10-15 feet of water. this is an estimate at this point. then as we go up the coast towards port charlotte this beautiful area where a...

>> yeah, weve been hearing about the storm surge, a lot of people up there in the west coast, florida worried very much about storm surge where you are. its not exactly high ground. how concerned are you about that surge? >> well im not concerned about it for us, because like i said were on the fourth floor. storm surge is not an issue for me. im sure once daylight get here and irmas done doing what shes going to do well go out and clean up, access the damage and mess and well help to rebuild an...

And welcome back to orlando, florida as we continue our coverage of hurricane irma. miguel marquez joins us now from pen that gorda on mores west coast. bring us up to date on whats happening there. i know theres been a lot of people that have gotten out of dodge. but whats the situation? >> reporter: the winds are growing stronger, the rain the coming down harder. its just increasing every moment toward when the main brunt of that storm will get here. this is an area that is very very sensitive...

Far, that should change as we head into the morning hours here locally. thats when the police and fire will start to pull their emergency services from the street. if you did not heed the warnings for evacuation you are ultimately on your own. i did check the miami beach police and fire twitter accounts and they are still actively responding to service calls. in fact, there have been numerous calls. a lot of alarms have been set off and tripped in some of the buildings here. they did rescue an i...

There. it looks like the florida keys are going to be battered for hours. its still 90 miles per hour. we have this great vulnerability and its looking very impressive on the satellite imagery by the next advisory we may see this creep back up to a stronger hurricane. theres a lot to be said. numerous power outages reported across the keys, particularly key west. the storm surge but lets zoom in across the region here are the florida keys, essentially the everglades. we go up toward marco island...

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Accessible. then we begin assess the damage to public facilities and homes in that process. obviously, were a strong tourist economy. we want to try and help that hospitality industry get back up as quickly as possible. those are important jobs in the area. try to get back to normal as quickly as possible. hopefully there wont be any recovery or rescue issues. well have to assess that as well. mostly cleanup and resuming trying to get the economy going back quickly. kids back in school as soon a...