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Moves up. remember, it's a counterclockwise motion as the eye moves up, the wind begins to turn, and when the wind turns and starts coming as opposed to this direction, which i got to tell you, that really hurts to ta stand there and do that. i've got protective goggles on here, so just bassically ically is exposed. feels like sand. when the wind turns and we start -- wow. okay. hang on. yeah. is bill telling me by looking at the radar we're getting right to that eyewall? because this is the strongest stuff right now. >> kerry, you are smack in the middle of it. this is the worst. this is the ...

A little breezy. >> yeah, that's upper right. >> yeah. it's, you know, compared to what he was in about 45 minutes ago, he is as close to the -- getting to as close to the center of the eye as he's going to get. kind of looks like the eye maybe jogged a little tiny bit east of naples, just by a little, but that's probably why we're not seeing complete calm in that picture. yeah, this band to the north of fort myers, where mike bettes is located, that's a long duration event and the longer it goes, the more trees that fall and the more damage that can be done. the highest wind gust we had repor...

Over 100 miles per hour again, which is why the national hurricane center and national weather service says don't come out and sample your damage during the eye. >> in 1946, before we had the instantaneous news media we have today, there was a severe hurricane in florida, old-timers will tell you about it, people came down during the eye, went back down to the beaches, there were fatalities, because people got caught. they didn't have time to get back to safety, and they were lulled into a false security by the sun in the eye of the hurricane. mike bettes is lulled into no such false security,...

>> looks like it's continuing about what we expected. this system is just offshore marco island, naples area. we're seeing the very high winds, reports up to 130 miles per hour, so we're seeing the high winds. we haven't seen the high storm surge yet, but we feel that's coming soon. >> do you have any reports along the coastline of how quickly the water is coming in? some of the canals in places like marco island have been drained prior to the surge. >> yeah, i haven't seen any reports yet. we did get a report earlier from the naples area of the water actually receding by about four feet in th...

Hotels here in downtown naples. not too far from me is the beach, and again, local residents, they are fearful about the storm surge and it's incredible, the pictures that you've been talking about. we've seen kerry sanders reporting on it, as well, all that water going away, going out to sea, being pulled out to sea. the fear is when this eyewall crosses, what's going to happen when it's -- when it slams back on to shore. so we expect that to happen over the next couple of hours. right now we're getting some really strong winds and heavy rains as we try to stay inside in a safe location and a...