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And welcome back to orlando, florida as we continue our coverage of hurricane irma. miguel marquez joins us now from pen that gorda on more's west coast. bring us up to date on what's happening there. i know there's been a lot of people that have gotten out of dodge. but what's the situation? >> reporter: the winds are growing stronger, the rain the coming down harder. it's just increasing every moment toward when the main brunt of that storm will get here. this is an area that is very very sensitive to these hurricane. 13 years ago, hurricane charley came through here, much smaller storm and ...

Far, that should change as we head into the morning hours here locally. that's when the police and fire will start to pull their emergency services from the street. if you did not heed the warnings for evacuation you are ultimately on your own. i did check the miami beach police and fire twitter accounts and they are still actively responding to service calls. in fact, there have been numerous calls. a lot of alarms have been set off and tripped in some of the buildings here. they did rescue an individual who was stuck yan within the elevator shaft for an hour because of the power failure. we ...

There. it looks like the florida keys are going to be battered for hours. it's still 90 miles per hour. we have this great vulnerability and it's looking very impressive on the satellite imagery by the next advisory we may see this creep back up to a stronger hurricane. there's a lot to be said. numerous power outages reported across the keys, particularly key west. the storm surge but let's zoom in across the region here are the florida keys, essentially the everglades. we go up toward marco island and naples florida, we can zoom in and show you marco island, it's beautiful, gorgeous, but the...

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Accessible. then we begin assess the damage to public facilities and homes in that process. obviously, we're a strong tourist economy. we want to try and help that hospitality industry get back up as quickly as possible. those are important jobs in the area. try to get back to normal as quickly as possible. hopefully there won't be any recovery or rescue issues. we'll have to assess that as well. mostly cleanup and resuming trying to get the economy going back quickly. kids back in school as soon as the schools are clear. one critical element after a hurricane, our building inspector will send...