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Why it's so dark, and the winds are probably gusting 80 to 100 miles per hour, you know, at the worst of it. >> everyone remembers what angle, what side to side we're watching this, to your point, we'll see it reverse after the calm of what is left of the eye. looking at radar, the eye is getting a little ill defined. >> it will. we may not, especially if you're watching later as they are up the coast in fort myers, kerry and gabe and the crews are in naples have a much better chance of being in a calm eye. maybe -- it's doubtful they may see blue skies, but at least they may get calm. further...

Brian. >> okay, buddy, i understand that. >> by the minute it's getting worse. i'm coming on in. >> can't get worse than right now. >> they are in the middle of the northern eye. >> that zero visibility due to precipitation in the air. >> yeah, eyewall, the rain rates are that intense, yeah, visibility went really low there for a second. i have been saying throughout our coverage today, i think about maybe 20% of the total cost of problems will be from wind, about 80%. i am a little encouraged that this is the worst of the winds that we are going to see. of course, we still don't know what hap...

Stop blowing. >> they've stopped. sitting calm. >> he still has the windshield wipers going, so the rain hasn't completely stopped. >> will we see it brighten? >> we should. the storm chaser we just had on saw some blue skies. this eye has been a little cloud covered, some of the high, thin cirrus clouds have been obscuring it a bit, so we're not going to get the picturesque e photos. it's not going to look like that. there's going to be a little more clouds, but yes, it will brighten up from the shot you're looking at. from what we understand, that's the northern end of marco island and that'...

After the eyewall passes, it's still dangerous conditions here in naples. we're really starting to feel what the brunt of that wind feels like here. >> certainly dangerous conditions in naples. bill karins? >> just waiting to see in case we had the official landfall from the hurricane center. not yet. >> tell us what constitutes that again. >> well, you have the eye, it's 17 miles wide, and they calculate where they think the actual lowest pressure is, where the center of the storm is, and when that crosses, that is when we get the official it has made landfall, this would be for the second ti...

Our crew and downtown naples and we'll see things pick up on the back side and the wins are not as intense and they'll still be pretty strong. >> it's night and day. and it's fantastic. we're not going to end up being in the eye. there will still be some opportunities for windy conditions, breezy conditions, but i look way down the road, and i see flashing streetlights way down there that i couldn't see before, and this is really encouraging to see this coming in, but we do know there's still more of the eye wall to go. how much more do you think we'll have to go through before we can get out ...