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off. this is going to be a significant and ongoing threat. reporter: we re getting the gusts, you know. i m at the naples pier. the gusts are starting. i m going to actually keep my hand on the railing as i come down here because it s just you don t know when the gust is coming. and a sight in tampa that even long-term residents had never seen. hurricane irma pulled a huge amount of water out of hillsboro bay. meteorologists call this a reverse storm surge. thomas roberts has been reporting on this monster storm all day long, and he joins us now from tampa. thomas, what can you tell us? reporter: cynthia, you make a great point about what meteorologists were concerned with when it comes to the fact that there was a pulling of tampa bay into irma for its energy. this is the hillsboro river, and you can see right here how there is beachfront that is shown by these rocks. people that live and work here have been telling us by this seawall, that typically the water is up to the wal
experience unlike anything we ve ever seen, particularly given the magnitude of this storm. shelters are filling up. we still have some availability. what i am concerned about is given sort of the right shift of the storm is the impact is going to be more severe than we anticipated three or four, five days ago. now we re the ones that are in the eye of the storm, and we now have to execute our plan, anderson. the storm surge, the latest estimates i ve seen for tampa, and it might change, was five to eight feet down in naples they were looking at ten feet. what is that going to do to tampa? it would hit us pretty hard. we are a low-lying city right on the hillsboro bay. our downtown is right on the water as you well know. there are reasonable areas in it, one of which is mine. my family is evacuated.
we are learning more about the message the gop is hoping to send. the overall theme is a better future. each day there will be some things like we built this and we believe in america. this gives us four days to focus on that and deliver. we expect upwards of 40 million people to be watching during prime time and during the day. we could see numbers as high as 20 million. reporter: you may be able to hear some of the boat horns going off in the back of the live report. tampa and where the convention center is and the forum, it is right on hillsboro bay. it is all on waterways, and that raises the concern about flooding, but it presents a unique security concern. we have seen coast guards patrolling the boats and patrolling the areas and these forums that sit right on the water, heather. shannon reporting from tampa. you will be there all week with our extended coverage. have fun with that. thanks so much.
the former here is jon scott. the eagle has landed. i think perhaps a plan plan to be sent to the lunar surface. it s very challenging. for a pilot it was a wonderful experience. reporter: on july 16th, 1969 neil armstrong blasted off to the moon. his voyage would take him where no man had ever landed before. traveling had women had edwin bus aldrin and michael collins. after landing they had hours to stand there 15 feet above the surface. long before we actually got out on the surface we already pretty good appreciation for what the moon was like. it s one small step for man. one giant leap for mankind. armstrong made world history when he stepped off the eagle and set foot on the moon on july 20th. hundreds of millions of people gathered in front of television around the globe to witness it. they became national heroes. president praised the heroics with a special long distance call. hello, neil and buzz, i am talking by telephone from the oval room at the w
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