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Mass from sailboats. while you're talking, we're looking at a street scene in miami that would be unimaginable on a normal business weekday. >> absolutely. we have already seen some of that. we were passing by this marina, and you could see where the boats came loose and it started to slam fences. we spoke to a man who spent an entire half a day trying to secure his boat with 16 lines. he had three anchors in the water, and it was tied to posts, and he tried to keep it center. he said some of the lines are coming loose even though they had shock absorbers just from the tossling of the wind and...

Storm surge coming down. it was only two to four feet there, and when you consider the surge on the backside of it is significantly worse, and if the storm surge is already beginning, and now it is beginning in unpopulated areas of the everglades. here is the eye, and the winds with the eye go like this. we see them going in this general direction. the backside they go in this general direction. we will see in pictures, tampa, and ft. myers beach. that is because the wind is blowing off of the coast. the winds will shift and come on shore if will pile up rapidly and you will see water rises in...

Number one, let's go quickly to the weather channel to show their correspondent in almost waist -- this is business district in miami, and locals will perhaps recognize this intersection. let's listen for just a second. >> this water is going to be gone by tomorrow morning, and the wind is going to back off later on tonight and first thing tomorrow morning as the hurricane continues to move north faster and weaken. let's go to mike getting a pretty good storm itself in the naples area. mike, what's the latest on the west coast? >> all right, so that's mike seidel. mike seidel outside a hotel e...

Any indicator, well, it wasn't. so we're getting through some of the thick of it here in ft. lauderdale, but tornado warnings and watches are from earlier today. you can see why that was in place, because now we're getting this very significant wind all coming off of the beach and coming off of the ocean and coming inland. >> yeah, we're looking at radar, and i know it feels it to you, but you're just about parallel now with the northern eyewall over on the western gulf coast, and it looks like it's a substantial band you're getting moved through. >> reporter: brian, i want to add one more thi...

To bring tons of wind and rain. we are standing in the middle of cyprus creek road, one of the main thoroughfares in ft. lauderdale. i'm going to take you across this abandoned street here, brian, and show you what we've seen. we have some newly downed trees right here. we have some pretty significant swaying of signs, and what you need to know about this area is that this is the outer band. not prevented some pretty significant damage, major winds, pelting rain, and ft. lauderdale continues to be under this curfew. in fact, the broward county sheriff is encouraging everyone to stay inside unt...