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Tampa. like in a microsecond, they said it's going to port charlotte incoming data across your county. we saw her with it damage on the east side of the county and we were prepping on the left side. you can never, ever say you are safe until the storm is all the weight on. trailing train for this will start a key west, mark all the way up to state that the buzz saw, every one of florida touched by this. >> they absolutely are. the storm surge very important to remember because water kills. one of our local meteorologists said you hide from the wind, you run from the water. that is what we are ...

Cuba. let's go to bill weir, he's south of miami, on key largo, one of the first stops on u.s. 1. if you're headed all the way to key west. what are you seeing there? and are people heeding the warning, the guidance that we saw from the national weather service there in the keys that this is as real as it gets, get out of the keys? >> reporter: victor, let me tell you, i think that message finally cracked some of those hardened conch skulls down here. this place is famous for being stubborn and independent. i was her for wilma and saw how many people rode it out then. some of them not only com...

Andrew made landfall as a four, and thn they upped it to a category five at its ten-year anniversary. that's just some factoids for you. now to address your question. where that was coming in, so much smaller, which made it like a buzz saw. by the way, very much like charlie, which a lot of people will remember on the west coast, which is also a good one to talk about. that was small and a buzz saw, category four. it just kind of goes right over an area and moves out. andrew went right over south florida, destroying homestead like a buzz saw and kept going. the difference with this is this is ...

Threatening storm surge in the next 48 hours. it's likely we'll upgrade that to a warning. >> tom, ed just referenced this, the last category 5 storm to hit florida, hurricane andrew. talk to us how it compares to what we're looking at with irma? >> first and foremost, there are many ways to compare them. the track is a major comparison. coming up from cuba, from southern and due north direction, you're going to really have more damage across the entire florida peninsula. if you take a look at what andrew did 25 years ago, it came in from the west. and so, again, just kind of like a buzz saw, ...

Parts of the caribbean. we're looking at the damage now, wiping out 95% of some of the islands in its path, 95%. now in this country, that same storm is about to bear down on the florida coast with 7 million people sitting in harm's way. so how do officials in this country prepare and recover from a disaster of such a magnitude? for this, we're joined by the former director of foreign disaster at usaid. and allison hill. let me ask you about what we're seeing in terms of the evidence so far of the power of this hurricane going from east to west across the caribbean. >> so in the area it's made...