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Fort myers. by tonight and towards tampa. tomorrow morning up around apalachicola and moving in towards south georgia. >> the concentric circles they show the entire state at one time with the hurricane force wind is something ive never seen before. >> this is a large storm. abby: thank you, rick. train for julian is in tampa as you heard. the storm appears to be headed that way. how is it working? reporter: everyone getting ready. most people got out of town the last couple days. no more flight...

Here. you can no longer see because of the rain. i dont know if you can see this, but you see the down over there. can you see that? now the wind is really starting to pick up again. this is what we see throughout south florida. the type of wind that can tear down certain trees. a area with tons of trees, already down there. power lines down. this has been a sustained way now for about that bad. intermittent but not like this at all. about our in house ever since we started the show with you guy...

This is a steel barrier that keeps the water out and theyve even got gaskets. these are gaskets to seal against the water. when youve been through a cat four storm, ill tell you, you say im going to be prepared for the next one. its really coming down right now. they are patrolling the streets, but you dont see activity. another police vehicle up there. most of this is fair to say has pretty well evacuated and its a good team because we are going to get a whole lot of water. this town is surroun...

Florida that ended up going over to naples. later on today, by 5:00 p.m. the wind will pick up to 100 miles per hour. of course you are prepared for the worst, praying for the very best. what is the worst-case scenario? >> the worst-case scenario weve been talking about is predicting storm surge. it was 10 to 15 feet last night. we dont know until we see it how much damage would be done. thats our biggest concern. >> rightfully so indeed. essential services like medical services, hospitals. are ...

Numerous counties put on warnings and watches as this all began in earnest late last night around 8:00 with the first will have the wind and rain weve been through miami and broward county. there was a tornado blasts that is a mall crowds were spinning and broward. that will be a day long if not today long concern. all of the tornado the swirling brain bands and wind bands category four, category three in hurricane irma as we speak as she marches up. the bottom of the eye wall has crashed over a...

We are now hunkered down to wait out this historic hurricane. true to the florida keys to see the eye of the storm within a few hours. right now to bryan llenas in downtown miami. you are falling over earlier. tell us how things would be right now. >> we always had a safe corner here by three sides, we are not hated by wind right now. well come for safety and now is the most important thing. the bottom line is south florida is very much getting hurricane gusts. most people hear the authorities a...

I am on wall street here on the golf side that way. we do expect the storm surge to be calming down. thats when the winds will ramp up 150 miles plus. that is going to be the next hour or so and will impact u.s. tree into what you expect as far as water? key west in the eye of this. the wind will pick up, i presume you are holding onto something here. mobile to do that longer. >> the water is a big concern, especially key west. and so we do expect that to come piling up the water.

About miami beach being inundated. they said please leave miami beach because we will not get you. it is not dying out anytime soon. that is a completely dangerous situation. weve been in a hotel with the plan to move down for the third-floor conference room. so we are sure that those people are now in the conference room no doubt if they heeded the warnings as to what the hotel was going to do in the conference room right now because weve got cranes all around, 25 cranes. they can take 145-mile...

Are seeing, which is a ton of rain, a ton of wind that could cause flooding, it take down power lines. souther radians get a sense of flight okay, you look at the column, this. three or four. you get the sense you can go into the store because youve been there and done that. thats just not the way people think at all. authorities telling people this is a powerful form. no matter which way it goes, we are still feeling that. we want people to stay inside and heed the warnings because thats the bo...

Probably the most intensed damage we have seen here. the city of 20,000 people, at least 20,000 people in this area are in shelters. its a real headache for a lot to get there and families waiting four or five hours to get in stadiums as we are begin to go see small objects in the air, theres palm branches and this is the strongest we have felt it. im going to have to go to the goggles here. theres a really double hit coming at naples right now boast from -- the storm surge could reach 10 to 15 ...