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>> yeah. we have been shuterred for two hours. we have widespread tree damage and wires down. we will tackle that with the road crews. we have chainsaw crews out with heavy equipment that we use with your s.w.a.t. teams that we will clear roads with to get them back open quickly. >> reporter: god willing, youre going to be wrong in terms of your worst concerns. but what are they right now? in terms of before she rolls through in ernest, what are you worried about? >> like your reporter touched o...

I put an x on the map where the disney complex is located. just to the north of there is seaworld and the universal studios. this center which we thought was going to be going over the top of tampa 24 hours ago is now almost heading for the disney complex in the orlando area. it looks like the highest winds. we still have a category 2 hurricane thats over land thats doing significant tree damage and some roof damage. you just watch the center of it. head into the north here and it looks like its...

Take a look over here. these are downed tree limbs everywhere. a huge number of people in orlando. 600,000 people are currently without power here. and that is because of all these tree branches that are down and debris. so this is the parking lot of a shopping center. as you can see, the whole thing is sort of torn up at this point. awning, tree limbs down. there is a curfew here in orlando until 6:00 p.m. we havent seen many people venturing out. obviously a lot of folk, families, tourist, are...

Power this morning. close to 80% of customers in miami-dade county. cars are not allowed to enter the miami beach area at least until tomorrow at noon. and throughout this time. msnbc weather contributor sam champion has been in the miami area, in miami beach, monitoring the storm. i know that you and i talked a lot over the course of the last couple of days. whats it looking like this morning for you, sam? >> hey, chris, good morning. its nice to hear your voice by the way on this, the day afte...

Back and appear sooner than that. so thats the head lean here in the tampa bay area, what could have been much, much worse, an area that hasnt been hit by a major hurricane in nearly a century, will wake up to much better conditions, a lot of cleanup, but not as bad as it could have been. >> all right. thank you. all right, so we have been tracking irmas path for you over the past couple of days, as you can imagine. the question this morning is about the wind gust. bill karins, talk to us about ...

Of naples. the winds have died down enough where we can show you what we experienced here. look -- thats to be expected. those tree limbs there. this is part of the -- this is part of the tile that came flying off the roof of the building that were in there and now weve gotten a little bit better view and you can really start to see a little bit of, you know, the tree damage is to be expected. as soon as all of this passes through and now its starting to kick up again. we had a break there to gi...

Sanctity of this big beautiful wall that will probably kiss at the end of this thing. well stay out of harms way for now and just let you look at the wind from this vantage point, chris? >> reporter: god forbid, stay safe. ill check back with you in a little bit. tell the control room if i need to come back to you sooner and well get right back to you. bill weir, he beautifully chronicled the decision making process of a unique subculture down here known as the conks. the people of the keys. he ...

To evacuate. what about those who have not been told or not under mandatory evacuation orders? is it any way possible they could leave the state by driving out, or is it too late for that? >> certainly not too late at this point. the conditions right now are kind of okay. again, getting towards midnight tonight into the morning, the winds should pick up and the rain should come and its going to be just too dangerous to travel. so, of course, people didnt evacuate, were asking to find a safe plac...

Heavily fortified house. we can hear the wind howling outside. however, were not feeling any of the effects inside the house. but we can tell that its blowing. i think the winds are 109, 110 miles an hour right now. >> that has got to be pretty frightening and pretty loud if youre able to hear it there. talk about what you expect to see when you are able to open the door of the house in which you have hunkered down, what do you expect to see in terms of remnants after storm surges? >> well, befo...

Lauderdale. the wichbd winds are picking eye on miami. swrid i dont showing strong winds there, as well. waves ahead of hurricane irmas landfall. joining me now is sam champion. sam, what are you looking at there? >> reporter: well, weve been trying to show folks a little bit around the miami area. we just came off the beefach. along the beach, we saw a lot of tree limbs down. so already in a couple of the wind bursts, weve had some tree damage. came here because i wanted to show you some of the...