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Theres a tornado watch. until 6 am for the west coast. the peninsula of florida. rightfully so, here you can see some of the bands filling in right around this hurricane. producing some of those bands that produce some activity capable of doing that. here is the center of the hurricane. now we are looking at the push of water. not reena, getting the rain bands but as we see the storm surge, now the inclusion is 12 to 16 feet in these very low lying areas. cedar key has about a five foot elevatio...

Were about 800 feet up that way and the beach was about 800 yards when we first got there and it got cut in half for sure and i was wondering where that storm surge was coming through -- and a couple of people came in and we said, listen, we sent st. thomas, our producer to go take a look and thats where we picked up our tracks and came back in here and this is where it is, because its actually pinched in the beach. >> its less than 200 yards we got here. >> now theres no beach at all, so storm ...

Boarding up homes, packing up their things, and moving down to higher elevations. staying with people who are higher elevation. where we are in crystal river elevation are generallyjust crystal river elevation are generally just about 11—5 feet above sea level. the worst—case forecast here is that the water could rise anywhere from seven to 11 feet. depending on the exact path of the so, with that in mind, people had been preparing. they have been heating those evacuation orders and one of y...

Concerning description that you layout, very visceral to some degree. how many people do you think have stayed behind particularly those that were the reason for your decision to stay behind? >> so it is hard to say, but id be surprised if there were fewer than 100 people on the island. i think that there are probably between 50 and 100 people here. and, you know, some of those are just the grizzled islander types that are going to stay through any storm. but some are folks that i think didnt ha...

The water up to about here on this deck where i am now. the storm surge of six feet went up to about here. so imagine what ten feet would be, and then 15 feet. well over my head. twice as high as i am right now. thats what it could be like here in eight hours, which is why people have been told to leave. sheriff deputies have been going door to door to houses here to get people to go. theres not a ton of people who live here, its not a very populated area, only a population of 500 to 1000 people...

Of the major intersection there is a median that divides where the bay is and it starts to go up in elevation and get to the high-rises but really only a matter of a couple of feet it does continue at a very rapid rain with the wind gust it is not out of the realm of possibility a lot of these high-rise buildings we see that they are filled with sandbags. its hard to believe that the water could get up to that le level. >> ian: can you see that street sign? are you at the bottom of howard? it lo...

As the one im here in crystal river, because we are in such low lying area here. i want to get to our bill weir who is in steinhatchee, florida. tell us what you are seeing there as the outer bands of the hurricane are slapping into you. >> reporter: yeah, it is just beginning here. the winds have just started to deck up. we lost power about 20 minutes ago or so. keeping an eye on this big tree behind us. the actual steinhatchee river is just behind us here. were about 28 feet above elevation. t...

Everything between here and there floating, being pushed upriver now. i saw an entire dock, sailboat still attached, going upriver. concern for the few sailors who decided to ride it out on their boats just around the bend here. we did our morning shots down where the white buildings are, around the other side where the water was at its normal level. now its over the road. we are hiding from the wind behind the cedar block motel and are ready to run from the water. thankfully we have a way out o...