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Mass from sailboats. while youre talking, were looking at a street scene in miami that would be unimaginable on a normal business weekday. >> absolutely. we have already seen some of that. we were passing by this marina, and you could see where the boats came loose and it started to slam fences. we spoke to a man who spent an entire half a day trying to secure his boat with 16 lines. he had three anchors in the water, and it was tied to posts, and he tried to keep it center. he said some of the ...

Storm surge coming down. it was only two to four feet there, and when you consider the surge on the backside of it is significantly worse, and if the storm surge is already beginning, and now it is beginning in unpopulated areas of the everglades. here is the eye, and the winds with the eye go like this. we see them going in this general direction. the backside they go in this general direction. we will see in pictures, tampa, and ft. myers beach. that is because the wind is blowing off of the c...

Number one, lets go quickly to the weather channel to show their correspondent in almost waist -- this is business district in miami, and locals will perhaps recognize this intersection. lets listen for just a second. >> this water is going to be gone by tomorrow morning, and the wind is going to back off later on tonight and first thing tomorrow morning as the hurricane continues to move north faster and weaken. lets go to mike getting a pretty good storm itself in the naples area. mike, whats ...

Any indicator, well, it wasnt. so were getting through some of the thick of it here in ft. lauderdale, but tornado warnings and watches are from earlier today. you can see why that was in place, because now were getting this very significant wind all coming off of the beach and coming off of the ocean and coming inland. >> yeah, were looking at radar, and i know it feels it to you, but youre just about parallel now with the northern eyewall over on the western gulf coast, and it looks like its a...

To bring tons of wind and rain. we are standing in the middle of cyprus creek road, one of the main thoroughfares in ft. lauderdale. im going to take you across this abandoned street here, brian, and show you what weve seen. we have some newly downed trees right here. we have some pretty significant swaying of signs, and what you need to know about this area is that this is the outer band. not prevented some pretty significant damage, major winds, pelting rain, and ft. lauderdale continues to be...

Highest elevation is 13 feet. bonita springs is 29 miles. youre roughly two hours, two hours 15 minutes from being in that eye wall. and as we start to get to sunset, that is when the worst will be going up there. it is a cat 3, we think it will probably remain cat 3. youre about four hours away from now getting into that northern eye. we have sam champion on often. we have strong wind gusts on the eastern shore. we will not see anything worse than we are right now. the storm if you draw a line ...

More on that than on the wind. right now the wind is the biggest concern for life and property. here is the eye here. it has been drifting. maybe you will get a little break, and maybe we will get you in that eye. you see the southern tip here, south of marco island, trying to get into the eye. that would be nice, brian, to give them a little bit of a break. it wont make much difference with the storm surge though. >> is it an interesting -- i was going to say say an interesting forecast and i d...

Update. it is a category 3 now, but minds at the center is 120 to 150. >> if we officially get land fall, it would be a category 3. it was a four in the keys, this would be a three now, im not going to pay too much attention to the category, because im still most concerned about the storm surge. the wind on tv that destroys stuff, it looked good, the thing that will kill people the most is the storm surge nap . that is coming on the backside. do you know what elevation is below you and will you ...

It is a very dramatic example of how the wind coming from the east coast to the west, has pushed the water out. the reason it is so important to understand is that we are pretty close to high tide here. and the water is gone. what is going to happen as bill has been reporting is when we get the wind from the other side, well see the opposite affect of the water being pushed out and that is when the storm surge will come in. when i sthau picture, i was like that is a great demonstration. >> were ...

Serious conditions. but there is something blocking them from heading to hawaii. i will show you in a second. this plane is rough leave the weight a vehicle, 2300 kill grams or roughly 5,000 pound. any cross wind over 4 knots, 7 kilometers an hour. that thing is not taking off. by the way no insulation on this plane. so -- the pie lot could endure if there was a breakdown in his, his protective clothing, talking about temperatures between negative 40 degrees celsius and positive 40 degrees celsi...