Wind Meter Out News Today

Rick leventhal is there. how is it look something. >> its better than it was, shep. were still getting buffeted by high winds. i had my wind meter out. clocked a gust at over 50 miles an hour. the cover came off and i went to pick it up and it took off. that is gone. the way stuff flies around out here in the wind. we do see a utility pole that came down and a couple trees. what is remarkable to me, how many trees are still standing. look at the forest beyond me. most of the trees are still up. ...

heres what hurricane irene looked like when it hit the bahamas. new yorkers might see it here and soon. here is the view as irene began moving up the eastern seaboard, and as it did emergency plans started to kick in. airlines began cancelling flights. hospitals moving patients. and here in new york mayor mike bloomberg issued the first evacuation orders in city history for low-lying areas, including the one, the area that we are standing in tonight. and for the first time in modern me...

Its a second whip right now coming through, this one much more powerful than the first. and were hours away from getting the bad stuff. as you can see, mike, ill pull my wind meter out, hold on, this is the biggest gust weve had so far. i want to see what this is. we were sustained, right now were sustained, it says a 4. it says 45. so, and its gusting more than that. so thats where were at right now, guys, and its going to be going on for some time. the biggest worry for authorities wasnt just ...

Life-threatening conditions along much of southwest florida. i want to bring in adam houseley. he is one of our correspondents, and he is down in key largo. adam, what can you tell us? are the conditions getting worse? >> reporter: yeah, elizabeth, theyve gotten significantly worse the last three hours. power went out locally around 10:30 in the morning. ive got my wind meter out, were on the ocean side of key largo towards the south about 55 miles south and west of miami if you were to go that ...