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Turned upsidedown and have to rebuild from scratch. they went through wilma and they said this was far more devastating. >> this was just a giant storm. were waiting for the governor rick scott to give an update on the damage out there. jacob, the water table is already so high to begin with in florida, and it is such a flat state, what is the expectation for when that water is going to recede? >> well, the big question is as our colleague chris hayes has been talking a lot about even with ali v...

Night in naples. by the looks of it, what the folks in everglade city went through or returning to is truly first of all, devastating and second heart breaking. > and it was the late turn, relatively late turn of the storm to the west that caught a lot of people unprepared. they swiftly had to revamp. but it wasnt as much time as the rest of florida had given the changing trajectory. >> thats exactly right. many of these people say they went through wilma. and that this was far worse than wilma....

Again, we are just getting a look at some parts of the state of florida. we know 6 million people are without power but the damage starting to come in. weve seen some scenes from down in the south of floridas everglades city. that was inundated with floodwaters. jacob soboroff just back from there and he joins me now on the phone. jacob, what did it look like? >> reporter: chris, i dont know if you can see the pictures we are sending you -- >> were looking at them right now. >> reporter: yeah, i...

To the control room, id like to -- can you first take the weather channels correspondent in -- we just lost it. lets go to jacob rascon in st. pete. the very same city. we were just talking to the mayor. jacob, how have conditions worsened there in the plast cas couple of minutes? >> we were talking in the last hour. the wind gusts, almost impossible to see, but there are parts of treesal over the road and sidewalks. the rain has been really steady for hours. and the wind is up and its down. i b...

The reasonable historical record which goes back about 50 years. certainly i think thats kind of what sets it apart. when wepeople in the leeward island, you know, this is the strongest storm weve ever seen, i think in the last 50 years or so it bears itself out. >> phil, thank you so much for weighing in on all of it. i appreciate that. hurricane irmas threat extending inland now to georgia and beyond. that is where mandatory evacuations are under way. jacob rascon has the latest from savannah....

Perhaps this is more to the north. >> we dont know exactly, but its 15 miles wide. from the radar edge, it looks like all of marco island is going to go into the eye, so id say if we have this shot and were still getting it up in the next five to ten minutes when we return to this shot, those palm trees will just be barely blowing in the breeze. >> we have jacob soboroff is standing by. he is in naples, florida. jacob, what do you have? >> at the place we were sheltering, we came outside to see ...

Virgin islands, places decimated, people need to take this seriously. >> and honestly it just sort of is an issue of people not listening to their local elected officials. its even more galling the honestly when i you talk about the idea of climb change. a place like miami. ali you and i were talking about this. theory signs out on miami beach that show the sea level rice and how catastrophic it could be over a long period of time. when you see it happening when you see these crazy winds and whe...

In 10 to 15 minutes from now. just to prepare you. 10 to 15 minutes until you will see by far the strongest winds youve seen so far. >> jacob, question for you. we usually set up live locations especially in a hurricane where theres a corner you can turn and where theres a wind break you can come to thats safe. do you have both of those? >> reporter: yes. let me ask dana roker. can you stick that camera out of the vehicle a bit, brian. we are essentially under a parking garage here, concrete str...

Of people. i was with greater naples fire rescue yesterday. the idea that a fire department has to have a boat at the ready just in case of something like this is an extraordinary thing to think about. fire department, nobody is on the streets. first responders decided to go inside, to stay inside because it is the point of no return for residents. nobody is getting rescued now in this stuff, and as it progresses worse and worse, brian, and theyre going to wait for this to pass and hit the stree...

It is actually remarkably clear visibility right now and given how blind it was earlier. you are asking me what it was like and now it was a couple hours ago. before we had the eye and which we basically had drizzle and a remarkable thing. it was almost white out conditions and as if you were looking out snow from a blizzard and rain wind was coming in and now strong gust of winds with all the dry and rain that we have seen before. i feel like any of the moistures that we are getting right now i...