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Take a look around me. this wind is serious, and we have not even hit the eye yet. we are two to three hours away at last check for this. and already debris is moving, debris that by the way, much of it was still out from hurricane irma just days ago. >> this particular hotel we're in an intense concrete structure that provides us security has taken a batterying too. we're yet to see the full extent of the damage. there's some trees down there, made a mess of a palm tree near us. but we are in a safe structure. >> reporter: these are winds that are taking down debris, take a look around me, yo...

There is. back to you. >> thank you very much. let's go straight to meteorologist bill karins with a check on the storm's latest track. bill. >> good morning. typically, after huge storms like this it takes two-to-three days to get a proper assessment of how bad it was and the damage is. we are 24 hours after that. we will get more pictures today. it doesn't help the whole island doesn't have power a. 50 miles wide, lashing the dominican republic t. story overnight was the torrential rains would not stop over the island t. entire island, which is 100 miles west to east is under a flash flood w...

With the eyewall. you have the back end of the storm to deal with afterwards. this is a slow moving storm. so you have hours of this in front of you. how does it seem to be holding up outside that window? >> reporter: i'm trying to put my head around this wall and i have to immediately retract it because of all the saltwater. that's indication of how much the sea is being involved here. we're here in a very supportive concrete structure.

We are in a pretty good concrete structure here. >> nick, let's try to get that answered for you. chad, if you're still standing by, nick wants to know how long this is going on for? you said it is a slowmoving storm. >> nick started feeling the effects five hours ago. so another hour and a half. the wind shifts direction. as the wind will come in from the south. then finally from the southwest. i'm concerned about that. it will be just like this. and sometimes worse for 90 minutes. >> chad, what about the rainfall total. you already warned about the storm surge to expect between six and nine ...

This building we're in, pretty sturdy concrete structure, buffeted by high winds, peaking around about 6:00 or so. and then some winds of a ferocity i frankly cannot describe. it's been tearing bits of the rooms nearby off, tearing trees out of their root iing. a phenomenal sense of force and power. what we have not seen so far and what many have feared was the storm surge and flash flooding that they could, they warned, meteorologists, get up to about 9 feet. we've been seeing quite ferocious winds in the last hour or so, but it feels that things might slowly, we might be starting to see tend...