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Evacuate. others chose to ride out the storm. over on the west coast of florida, ed lavandera has been covering the situation there and have been talking to people that stayed in goodland. ed, what you have found? >> good morning, john. the place where hurricane irma made the second landfall in the united states was in the marco islands, it was where there was 140-mile-per-hour gusts. theres a small fishing village there named goodland, and some people call this home. 40 people decided to ride o...

>> reporter: hi, wolf, here in goodland, florida, there are about 40 people who rode out the storm here, amazingly enough. its a community that sits on the edge of the everglades and the gulf of mexico. this is a community that took a direct impact from this storm. many people would probably suggest no one should have been here behind me. a home where gary stringer waited out the storm by himself. he thought this was all going to come crashing down on him. he described how the roof was crackling...

Coconut telegrams, we are hearing that they are seeing bodies. but imagine that you cant go to the store to get gas for the chainsaw to clear the road or get power back to charge the phone to find out if mom and dad are okay. so we are in for a long logistical chess game here and this is the beginning, but we are getting a boat tomorrow and heading to the keys tomorrow, jake, and we will report everything that we can find. >> bill weir, thank you so much for the amazing reporting. we have ed lav...

Day in american history. i want to go to ed lavendera now. we go, of course, ed from the keys and bill to you where marco island, where hurricane irma then made the next landfall and what do you see there, ed? >> reporter: were on the eastern edge of marco island. this is goodland, florida. a spec of a fishing village if you look on the map, sits between the everglades and the gulf of mexico and as you mentioned, hurricane irma made its second landfall here as a category 3 storm, 130-miles-per-h...