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Highest elevation is 13 feet. bonita springs is 29 miles. you're roughly two hours, two hours 15 minutes from being in that eye wall. and as we start to get to sunset, that is when the worst will be going up there. it is a cat 3, we think it will probably remain cat 3. you're about four hours away from now getting into that northern eye. we have sam champion on often. we have strong wind gusts on the eastern shore. we will not see anything worse than we are right now. the storm if you draw a line from miami to the center of the storm is parallel with it right now. in miami you're getting the w...

More on that than on the wind. right now the wind is the biggest concern for life and property. here is the eye here. it has been drifting. maybe you will get a little break, and maybe we will get you in that eye. you see the southern tip here, south of marco island, trying to get into the eye. that would be nice, brian, to give them a little bit of a break. it won't make much difference with the storm surge though. >> is it an interesting -- i was going to say say an interesting forecast and i don't know if you have have it available at this moment, an area that is sometimes referred to as a ...

Update. it is a category 3 now, but minds at the center is 120 to 150. >> if we officially get land fall, it would be a category 3. it was a four in the keys, this would be a three now, i'm not going to pay too much attention to the category, because i'm still most concerned about the storm surge. the wind on tv that destroys stuff, it looked good, the thing that will kill people the most is the storm surge nap . that is coming on the backside. do you know what elevation is below you and will you be able to show the storm surge and water below you when it comes in? >> this is the challenge. we...

It is a very dramatic example of how the wind coming from the east coast to the west, has pushed the water out. the reason it is so important to understand is that we are pretty close to high tide here. and the water is gone. what is going to happen as bill has been reporting is when we get the wind from the other side, we'll see the opposite affect of the water being pushed out and that is when the storm surge will come in. when i sthau picture, i was like that is a great demonstration. >> we're looking at it right now, kerry, a sailing vessel on it's keel. that is in one of the canals with w...

Serious conditions. but there is something blocking them from heading to hawaii. i will show you in a second. this plane is rough leave the weight a vehicle, 2300 kill grams or roughly 5,000 pound. any cross wind over 4 knots, 7 kilometers an hour. that thing is not taking off. by the way no insulation on this plane. so -- the pie lot could endure if there was a breakdown in his, his protective clothing, talking about temperatures between negative 40 degrees celsius and positive 40 degrees celsius. a wide variety of weather conditions. here is the trip he is a tempting to make. west of japan. ...