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West palm beach. she is fearful this street is going to get flooded. we see some water on the street now, but were just now getting to the beginning of the wind activity and the storm surge on the intercoastal waterway, which is just over here. were really getting nailed here with some intense wind and rain. also, jake, i just talked to one of the top fire chiefs of west palm beach. i asked him about the construction cranes that are right near here. you might be able to get a glimpse of one over...

Longer are they going to be going through this? and this isnt even the eye of the storm or close to it. >> this is not the closest approach of the eye of the storm here. i would say we get this for another six hours before it oven starts to go down. and thats the real reason we dont want you ipyour home if its not a strong house. this is a long duration. this goes on and on and on. now, i want you to just think about this for a second. grab a cup of coffee and blow on the top of a cup of coffee ...

Is lapping over right now. we actually have seen a dock detach and into the bay here. so thats what weve seen in terms of water. as far as the winds, jake, this is as strong as ive seeb. i mean the wind has not blown like this yet here in miami. and chad says were going to see another 10 to 15 miles an hour over the next couple of hours. thats going to be pretty strong. >> and we know kyung law is covering the storm from the hotel, right outside the hotel. but shes staying in that hotel, and tha...

Predicting as much as 6 feet of storm surge. but there are some mandatory evacuations for some 600,000 people in miami county, jake. and those people were told to evacuate because of storm surge, not the wind. theres nothing you can do. once the water starts coming, if you live on one of the bottom floors, the water is going to come into your participant. if you live on one of the higher floors, you wont be able to get out and first responders wont be able to get to you. hopefully, again, most p...

Pushing this way on the other side. we have a 4 foot inverse surge in naples. the water is down 4 feet from being sea level. and that will rush back in as the eye goes by, and then the water will rush out of miami. for now we have at least five or six more hours of miami with the water rushing onshore, pushing in the same direction with more water trying to drain out. thats never going to drain because the rain is blowing from this direction so hard. and then we get up toward tampa, sarasota, th...

Ryan todd is enduring the wind of one of the outer bands of the hurricane. hes in west palm beach on the east coast of florida. bryan, what are you going through there? >> well, jake, were inside the window now of one of the most intense hurricane force activity we were probably going to get for the next several hours. and were also getting pop up tornadic activity. if you look behind me, the intensy of the wind. it looks like that palm could come down. the palm fronds along with the coconuts ha...

And the streets look like a river. that surge has arrived. >> it absolutely has. heres the map that i made three days ago. what we expect with a 6 foot surge. all of downtown miami will be covered in this blue color that you see there. thats the water depth if the water goes to 6 feet. right now its 5 1/2. thats where the water is at this exact point and still going up. >> berman, the water where you are obviously the water the deadliest force in all of this. as horrific as the winds are, it is ...

In brickell, water waist-deep in some areas there. and starting to flood the streets. the wind just pushing the water up into the streets. and behind me i dont think if you can see right now, the jetsties. the water lapping up the dock right there. there are all these docks you cant see. and the water creeping up ever so slowly here. the other story here in downtown miami is the wind. all over getting reported wind gusts of 100 miles per hour in the tops of high rises. and that now has had a con...

Unfortunately, you can also see a few people trying to walk through this water. its not recommended, of course. but for people who are familiar, this is the area where the grocery store publix is. weve been trying to get the best position out here, jake, to show you the ponding and the surge. you can also see lots of water on this end. it a lot of the skyline from miami you can see also here. a lot of these residential buildings. but this is a huge problem, of course for miami because these road...

>> the wind is picking up. the gusts are measured in excess of 70 miles an hour, the rain has been constant. this is what the vets would call the snap crackle and pop phase of the hurricane. youre starting to hear these eerie sounds as branches and part of the structures start to give away. you here the crackle of the transformers as they start to fail, and youre starting to hear the sounds of the trees falling around you. and its a little eerie because you have to figure out where these sounds ...