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Some steady progress but this is a monumental task. this is a crew from floridas biggest power company, florida power and light. weve seen crews like this all around the area today. that man up in the basket up there, he is repowering that line that had been struck by tree limbs and that will be reestablishing electricity to around 500 businesses and homes. the ceo says that his crews are working 24/7. he has called this the most widespread damage in the companys history. they have so far restor...

Manager, bill moss. bill, thanks so much for joining us. as you know, naples is facing right now enormous clean-up. most of the city is still without power. what are your most urgent needs? >> well, wolf, we had all of our employees stationed here in the city all day yesterday and throughout the storm. so that we were able to mobilize quickly at daybreak this morning. our priority was to clear streets of downed trees and tree limbs so we could provide police and fire rescue to our communities an...

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...

Little quicker, help us with the cleanup. we would like nice dry weather out there. we dont want gusty conditions with the broken tree limbs. the cloud shield extends from west virginia there are clouds and showers to the keys. an enormous storm located 60 miles north of tampa, its headed back to the west. let me show you the new updated forecast path and intensity a. lot of people in georgia were worried what we will deal with, if people will lose power. a lot of big powerful pine trees, the st...

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...

Are, 63-mile-per-hour winds sustained. definitely gusting over 74 miles an hour. the threshold for hurricane force. the national weather service from broward county said that hurricane force winds should be expected this morning and into this afternoon. im in miami-dade county on south beach and it certainly feels hurricane force here. classic hurricane conditions behind us, trees, palm trees, there are signs that have been completely knocked over. were protecting ourselves here because these si...

Like this come blowing through. irma is definitely here. please note that winds are coming from my back. theyre blowing from the east coast to west coast. the concern is when the eye passes north of us, when the winds start to turn from west and blowing towards shore from the gulf of mexico, thats when were going to see storm surge. right now, there are power lines that are down because we drove to this location. there are also lots of trees and tree limbs down. no major destruction yet, quite f...

We have gotten closer to the eye as it continues to move north. winds tend to relax. those with the strongest winds, we have been looking south, they carry hurricane force gusts. next few hours, we have more of this. at any moment, you have to drop and hunker down for winds to pass by. just to tell you about the damage, we have a parking lot below us, and cars havent shifted, theres no movement down there, good, solid, steady. tree limbs, i see metal pieces coming off roofs. it adds to debris co...

And tampa and ft. myers, they want to know what percentage is the southern half of the eye compared to that northern eyewall. because they want to know what theyre going to go through after the center passes. >> reporter: okay. so if i follow, again, it is noisy, i think you said folks north of here, up in ft. myers are probably already beginning to experience some of the eyewall, i would think, at this point. then sarasota, and then further up into tampa. the strength of the wind is, at least f...

And take a look at what was going on, rain was much lighter, wind was much lighter. we have seen tree limbs, easily four inches snapped. 8 inches, down. also seen tops of palm trees snapped off. pauk trees are pretty darn resilient, kind of made to bend in these kinds of winds. when you start to snap tops of those, you realize youve gotten into higher gusts. where jacob was towards naples is about the position of the storm we were earlier this morning. bill is absolutely right to give him the wa...