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They're in good shape. and i think one of the experts said that people hadn't evacuated these buildings next to the cranes. well, some people did evacuate. there were under a voluntary evacuation notice. some of them got out, some did not. but the people who did not those living in these apartment buildings have told us they're concerned it's going to hit their apartment buildings. but right now the chief has told me right now they're going to stay in place. >> appreciate that. and places like tampa and all the cities of florida have seen such a real estate boom over the last couple of years. ...

So as those higher winds come in, there's more water in tampa bay now than in previous decades, to come inland in part of that storm surge. so there's certainly a lot of concern, and it's justifiable concern. we don't want to make things sound worse than they're going to be, but this is not a storm than anyone here in tampa has seen and what it might do to this city, to clear water, to hillsborough. you've got to keep in mind there's some 700 miles of coastline around tampa bay. it's an extraordinarily beautiful area, and a lot of homes are built-up very, very close to the water. not very rais...

It is going to spread inhand for city blocks and maybe miles before it finally stops. as the storm goes by, the wind changes direction. and this is what the weather service, the national hurricane center has been so concerned about. in fact, they gave us a perjury phone call and said we want you to stress this. yes, this is it. yes, things will get knocked down by the wind, but the surge will kill people. and they want everybody to know that. this is the real deal. 10 to 15 feet on top of what should be mean sea level. which, for chris, it's already 4 feet down because winds blowing the wrong ...

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Depending on the force of the winds there can be waves on top of that, correct the. >> the waves will come in from the ocean off the gulf of mexico at about 100 miles per hour. the backside of the eye never recovered from hitting cuba. and i guess we're going to thank some stars for america, but we're going to have to help cuba, because they got hit by a 160 mile per hour cat 5 that took the stuffing out of this storm. that's why we're not talking 160, we're talking 125. big difference in power, big difference in damage. the northern part of the cuban keys were really destroyed from this storm...