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Todd: randy, a recreational fishing company in the florida keys. we have been in touch with him since saturday. he joining us now by phone with an update. randy, ive got to ask you, how you holding up? >> oh, guys, were doing good. you know, we rode it out with no problems. the house stood strong. a lot of tree damage. that seems to be the biggest problem for us in the you were keys was a lot of downed trees. did i not see any structural damage. pretty good flooding on the oceanside, which was e...

The east side, we drove down to mile marker 54. were on the ocean side. you saw the damage. the east side on the west side or the bay side, youd see tries down, which is significant. trees down everywhere. wind gusts up to 35 miles an hour. this is called the boatel. when we were hear friday, they just closed down. the locals were telling us a great place to get a fish fry on a friday and a cold beer. the sheriff told us about. it was well known here. you can see it didnt fare well not only with...

Scenes look that cbs -- that they are giving the local viewers there. as he watched, the upper keys in the damage from sky for 7 and the fox helicopter that is up in the sky. we were expecting for some damage after the storm yesterday. were not expecting homes to be destroyed, and that sort of thing. theyre supposed be taken out out of the boats with something the local officials were expecting. lots of storm surge damage. sure enough, this is from the florida keys. the upper keys, not far from ...

Adam housley is there. he is live in key largo. >> we passed the dhs crew, department of homeland security, they are taking a pass south to get communications there. make the issues down there. they are on the ocean side of the keys, and also wind damage on the bay side, but the ocean side, you are destruction. this was a restaurant we stood by on friday if you came here. the shares of monroe county teles base to come here and get fish fries. as you can see the place is completely trash into the...

Closely. we have assets everywhere that this storm is going to be. bill weir is on key largo with his team. he has been living the reality down there, and the bands have been coming one after the next, one stronger than the next. how is it now? >> reporter: its the battle of the bands. each one trying to outdo the one before. its really getting violent right now, chris. the treetops snapping, swaying, the boats bobbing up here. i dont know if you can see the one over my shoulder its not moving b...

Kind of weather. there are 29,000 customers of the keys energy services, the power public utility here and 29,000 customers without power this morning. they have about 190 line workers from around the country who have come in ready to mobilize once the storm has passed, but it looks like the extension cord that plugs into the mainland and powers the florida keys went out last night some time around 11:00 p.m. they tried to re-energize it remotely but no go. so were lighting up this shot off a ca...

Shepherd because we spoke to you last only about maybe a hundred yards to my left is the bay out there. we talked about the phenomenon where the storm is swirling counterclockwise so were getting hit now from the east that will eventually come from the west but where the water gets sucked out it gets sucked out of the bay and it will come back. i had a chance to take my phone out there and get a couple photos i e-mailed to your staff. take a look. this is the bay outside of key largo. the water ...

Where they are getting hammered is key west. this is where the storm made landfall. key largo, the key closest to florida, is where bill were is. hes chronicles about their rugged individualism. he sauce some horrible storm conditions this morning. at least hes been to have his jacket out. i see some sunshine behind you? >> no, i gave up on the pa,a. it doesnt matter. i might as well be more breezy, but we moved over to the other side of our sheller carport. were looking at the bay side of key l...

Whats the situation? >> reporter: i can hear you, chris. its really cranking up here as irma huffs and puffs and tries to blow us all down. ive become increasingly thankful for building codes in south florida, many of them stiffened after hurricane andrew. we are hunkered down in a concrete -- whoa, condominium complex. i just saw a huge branch come snapping off this tree right around the corner. we dont want to move our camera out to the spot to show you but take my word for it, irma is trimmin...

70,000 are still in shelters. they still need nurses to help with the elderly and infirmed. so many of you have stepped up and thank you for that. we have seen people stepping up to help one another, it is one of the most beautiful and essentially components of recovery. he said they are expecting up to two feet of rain in the keys. lets get to bill. bill, two things spoke to your situation. one was the governor was worried about the amount of water you are going to see there and, two, he hates ...