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In miami. yesterday she was figuring out the situation at the airports, a lot of people there were frustrated, pricing too high, availability too low. worries about getting out. where are you now and what are you seeing? >> chris i'm in downtown miami right now. you can see the skies are gray. every now and then we get some increased wind gusts, but for the most part conditions are good here. one of the big concerns in downtown miami are these cranes, construction cranes, there's about 20 to 25 construction cranes, that dot the miami skyline. officials tell us that they couldn't move them. the...

The winds aren't that bad right now and get out and finish putting up your shutters. for most of the week, it was about the center and eye of the storm going up through miami, fort lauderdale, west palm beach, up to daytona and jacksonville and suddenly the west coast of the state is looking to have the exact same effect of the eye going up the west coastline, bouncing north. so, friends of my wife, who have three little kids, they drove and evacuated to tampa several days ago. now, they are packing out of their hotel room to get back in their car and drive back to miami. now that they see thi...

To bring him with me. >> reporter: downtown, officials are worried about construction cranes. experts tell us in hurricanes, they're designed to spin to avoid toppling over. >> tom, you first pointed out last night that a cat 5 hurricane on the ground is much different when you're up that high? >> reporter: the higher up you go, the stronger the wind gets. this is how it works. just above us at 30 stories, it will be 50% stronger. at the top, at 50 stories, it's 55% stronger. so, if it's 140 miles per hour on the ground, up there it will feel like 220 miles per hour. >> tom, thank you. we wi...

To get to shelters at this point if you can even get to him. jon? >> jon: the construction cranes can really be terrifying when super storm sandy hit new york city, there was one that came untethered and had folks scared. 150-mile-an-hour winds, four stories up, you can easily see that in miami. let's hope those cranes live up to their billing in terms of what they can take. bryan llenas, thank you. we will head back to daytona beach. rick leventhal is there where it appears to be getting worse. rick? >> the winds are gusting here, jon, but we are at least four hours for the tropical storm. 48...

As it comes in, they will actually have the movement of the storm plus the rotation contributing to the winds. to be in the stronger winds and the strong storm surge as well. >> this is very, very frightening. i've got to tell you. all right, stand by, louie is going to be with us. other breaking news in the meantime continues. we're going to get a live update from miami. what will hurricane force winds do to the many construction cranes dotting the city sky line? we're also getting new images of the incredible devastation the storm left in the caribbean. the cnn crew has just landed in antigu...