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You have just entered into it, and it's about -- it's about five miles wide, so you've got about the next 30 minutes or so, 30 to 35 minutes of going through this, then you will clear into the center of this eye. >> reporter: okay, let me see. i don't want to put the camera in the water too much, but just look real quickly at that direction there. that's where the wind is coming from. it's sort of circulating and coming here. way off there you can see sort of the gusts are stronger over there, then we come over here and we catch what is the rain. actually, you know what, this is about the hard...

Know? what's happening, what you just saw here is now happening in bonita springs also to the north. that's that northern eye. here's naples. that's in the clear and that's the eye right here and mike bettes is located near 41 which is in the north side here. so his shot will slowly end and the winds are dying down. bonita springs is the area north there and then we head into forth meyers. we've been trying to give everyone a head's up of when they need to seek shelter and go to their safe areas. now is the time to do that in fort meyers. from the winds we just saw that produced the 142-mile-p...

North to naples. interesting it does correspond with you kind of being just a little bit off parallel with the eye. >> absolutely, and that's the case. in this hand there's the eyewall. in this hand that's that feeder band and they are almost parallel to each other right now. as we are side by side with the eye on the west coast of florida making impact here in the areas that you're showing in naples and fort myers, that rain band is parallel to it in ft. lauderdale and also into palm beach. brian, what i just went through and just showed you, the winds. so there will be more wind from this, a...

Tornado before, and mike bettes, believe it or not, would not be anywhere else in the world right now if it were up to mike bettes. >> i don't know any meteorologist in the country, except storm chasers, that travels more to go in more bad weather across our country, negative 35 in minneapolis, he's there, blizzards on cape cod, he's there, and he's in the eye of just about every hurricane possible. >> that's because all of you guys have a screw loose. >> he's happily married, which is even crazier. >> mike bettes is saying what we're witnessing here is the eyewall. let's listen to him again. ...

Here. >> reporter: quite frankly, as you can see on the camera, it's really hard to see through this driving rain. >> as the point you've made and you and i between us have covered a lot of these, no two of these are alike. there does come a moment where you feel that first gust from another direction. it has to happen some time, and it does happen gradually, but normally it's pretty apparent that it is turning a corner. kerry, finally, about andrew, it couldn't have been a more different storm. if the sheer wind strength of andrew made it look like the earth had just been sanded, bill karins ...