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Over again, its been about 30 years or so of me maybe a little more, of me doing this. so one of the things you look for when youre talking about the storm, you have to have full knowledge of the way one of these storms works and then you place your crew in the safest position possible. we do that not only for the people but for the equipment, for the signal, for all of that. put everything in the safest position possible to not have to take the full breunt of the storm. you can see the big diff...

Come up with little bit but still, i would suspect the surge is not more than about three feet, but were going to be dealing with this onshore wind for quite a while. it will be mid to late afternoon as the hurricane goes north of our latitude, thats the east/west line. once it does that, the winds will shift around from onshore to offshore. at that point the surge usually go as way abut were still going to have all this wind. >> the weather channels mike. we wanted to show you something before ...

We dont think were going to get sustained hurricane force winds in miami. i said this is the worst it gets for miami right now. further to the north is the main concern, where it has been for two to three days. anyone that has anyone from naples to marco island, heres the eyewall. northern eyewall. you dont want to go through this. thats where the 120 miles per hour winds are very possible. let me get a different tool to go in closer on this. heres the eyewall. from there, up to naples is now on...

Opportunity where we could, on camera, ourselves, watch the storm surge come in. if we see it here, i think people will fully under stand the power of mother nature and what the water does. >> kerry youre smart enough to know not to be standing in sea level. i want to take the information youve given me and walk over to steve sosna here. right now, the wind in naples is going that way. so if youre on the beach where kerry is, youre not seeing something that looks dramatic. >> youre seeing the wa...

Marco island. >> i am free. >> it is brian williams in new york. >> yes, brian, i can hear you just fine. >> realize youre having a frantic day. appreciate you making a few minutes to talk to us. we have been noticing this little possibly in the eye. we noticed that you have put the direction thanks to your technology and hurricane hunters at due north. where are you expecting the second landfall. we are talking about marco island. >> we are looking at typically with hurricanes, you see little w...

Westerly component to due north. i would say now that center will come very close to going almost over the top of marco island and naples, but unfortunately i think it is going to go barely west of them. i think that region is going to get into northern and northeast eyewall quadrant. >> and if theres anyone, if anyone believes in the power of positive thinking now, the one thing you want to see that eye do is drift a bit north toward the east, drift more. those everglades, natural protected are...

Remember, over the top is better than being on the dirty right side of the storm, for tampa, close call storm surge, it is iffy, maybe not as bad to friends to the north. holding on to category one, to ocala national forest, gainesville area, we could see hurricane force winds as far north as tallahassee, and mentioning tropical storm force winds further to the north. as we go throughout the next couple hours, we have three or four more hours of tropical storm winds, brian, where we see reporter...

We are back as were covering the path projected for this tremendous hurricane irma as its latest path is due north. thats critical because of whats going to lie in its path and where were going to get second landfall here because of this, the storm surge. wind arent a problem and water is not a problem until the storm passes through. it follows the back side of a storm. in a lot of places not built to take it, places that have kind of a gentle slope up from the waters of the gulf that are normal...

Blocked from the north, i am taking no wind now. whats happening at the coast and theres some sort of amazing photos of this, the water is being pushed away from the ocean exposing hundreds of yards of beach. that action then snaps the opposite direction as the storm moves up, starts pushing water to the beach where you get storm surge. at some point this wind behind me will push this way off the water. thats the most dangerous moment for naples when that eyewall moves in. >> you referenced pict...

And that is where the eye is now as it came off the keys. one of the things that ive been looking at about this storm and i was watching your screen as you were talking about it, is that once an eye as interacted with the land, and it is interacting with that right draw. see how that water is -- that air and that rain and moisture is coming all the way across the tip of florida, now look at the eye. look at it wobble just a little bit. the hurricane path has it headed -- hurricane centers last p...