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Because we are worried about construction cranes in miami where we've had to bring some of our cameras into shelter. is it safe to say they've had their peak gusts already or is that to come? >> i think there's more to come. we're seeing these rain bands, but there's many more behind this, tends to come in waves in these hurricanes. and that the eye is still south of miami, so we expect gusts, hurricane force gusts to continue throughout the day. >> all right. mark, thank you so much for joining us from national hurricane center in miami on one of the busiest days there in record. we're going ...

County officials they've arrested 43 people for curfew violations. if you can believe that in these conditions. we saw actually a couple of cars driving by here not long ago. not smart. not smart. not only are you risking driving through storm surge and getting hit with a projectile, like a branch or a coconut, but risking arrest. another factor here we have to talk to you about. these cranes behind me. large construction cranes. i know we've talked about that all day. you've been reporting in miami about the crane that cracked. that's a danger here. just assured by a local fire chief that the...

Whole lot of people. we see people walking their dogs in the high-rises. we have more than two dozen very large construction cranes right now in the air, which we can show you one right now. each one of these construction cranes because there's a lot of construction, lot of building in miami, weigh at least 30 tons. right now they are just swaying around in the wind like a pendulum. construction crews cut the power to them and left them up because they take two weeks to deconstruct. right now they're swinging and swaying around the wind and people live in the high-rises near these construction...

At this point, we're definitely talking about -- in many cases when we're expecting a big storm, you try to crews go through and take the big interstate signs down. anything that could be a projectile in this wind that could damage people or property, if you have time, you really try to undo it. it's one of the things i know the conversation has been had several places this morning about all the construction cranes in miami. it takes about two weeks to take one of those cranes down. one of the most impressivenings i noticed yesterday we did a survey, we went all the way out on the mcarthur cau...

It doesn't seem as if miami will get a direct hit from the eye anymore, although it feels like we're going to get hurricane winds and a storm surge. what's your sense if people are still being as careful as they need to be or ling up at all? >> not at all. all of my friends i've talked to are in secure houses, they're together, in good humor, but they're taking it seriously. i've never seen the community take it more seriously. >> you have to, the storm surge could be over 6 feet, on the west coast they're talking 10 the 15 feet and for a while they were forecasting strong winds in miami. and ...