Wind Meter News Today

just after 3:00 p.m. east coast, the eye crossed over a barrier island near ft. myers, florida. this is a live look at the satellite right now. you can see the immense size and strength mof the hurricane. the winds are 150 miles an hour. thats just shy of making this a monstrous category 5. this was the scene just ahead of landfall captured by a storm chaser in pine island, florida. these conditions are expected to worsen in the coming hours, believe it or not. more than 850,000 custom...

like a freight train. were seeing record-breaking and terrifying storm surges throughout florida and ft. myers, the water is so high pickup trucks are almost completely submerged. water levels have risen more than 6 feet in the last switch ho -- seven hours. lets get to tom sater in the cnn weather center. an updated forecast should come any minute now. what should we expect? >> it was just handed to me. forgive me for reading off. we still have a category 4 hurricane and five miles ea...

When they come through the intersections here. they have a police sergeant. they have a wind meter with them. they basically stop before the intersection. they whistle them through and make a run through the intersection as theyre trying to get through, but a lot of these balloons are scraping along the road. look, trying to go through an intersection right now. well see how it does. but the wind has been a little squirrely. sometimes gusting, you know, probably in the 20s or so, but its very, v...

215-mile-an-hour winds gusting, and thats when their wind meter broke. they have no idea. it is something like they have not seen and they are trying to pick up the pieces of their lives as you can imagine. i want you to hear now from sherri roberts, just one of dozens of stories that we heard about trying to get through the storm. take a listen. >> its not just us. >> no, its everybody. >> everybody is hurting. were not any worse than anybody else. everybody is hurting. and we thank god for lif...

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We have become very good friends. its the first time i can say, jim, i think you really saved me here. it was a precarious moment i was holding myself unable move because of the wiptd. when it caught me, it took me over to the concrete pillar. jim grabbed on to me, he was able to at least steady me. as i slid by the way into an area with a wall protective of the wind. he found himself balancing himself against the wind. we have a wind meter out there. if you told me that wind was 135, 145 miles ...

Have a last minute decision to try to get out. if they dial 911, craig, you know, youve heard it before. the fire officials, the police say youre on your own. well deal with you afterwards, but not during. >> hard to believe half the city according to their own estimates, decided not to evacuate. for our viewers who are watching, kerry, upper left-hand corner of the screen theres this wind meter. can you tell us exactly what that is? do you have the wind meter on your person? you dont have it? >...

Bad. if it were as bad as some of the models showed it, you would not survive staying in the coastline. at the end of the day it is for your own safety. >> yeah. mike tyson joins me now. mike has been kind enough to give me his wind meter. i have been wondering why -- this wind is really picking you have. this is as strong as weve seen it in myrtle beach, right? >> oh, yeah. the winds have picked up over the last several hours since i arrived here. i think the winds are going to continue to incr...

The water and the chanlz. maybe more than just live on the edge of the beach. frors >> thats really what weve seen with the rescue we apprec you times and you just thought maybe theyre underestimate thing storm and the devastation but you realize when it comes to health or financial situation and. >> and i want to go to wilmington, north carolina. when i saw you yesterday you were holding up that wind meter. it looks like its picked significantly since then.

We were going to try to walk to the beach but thats not happening. i promise you im not over dramatizing the strength of the wind. can you can over and show how hard, they told us to expect 75 mile-per-hour winds sometime overnight. i cant hold the wind meter right now but it certainly feels like were getting close to that if not overnight. this is pretty intense. >> i give you another look down atlantic avenue which is deserted right now theres very little to show you accept some water, good ne...