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The airport might be shut down for a couple days. >> when we came in friday night a few minutes after the tornado hit and the team assembled and we saw the damage our gut feeling was it was going to be several days. we had a miraculous pull together of both the airport, the community and everyone pulled in and started doing their part and it became clear about 3:00 or 4:00 in the morning we felt we could do some operations on yesterday, much to our surprise we ended up operating 76% of the total operation. >> direct hit, ef-4 tornado, does that go into your disaster planning and it's just rare...

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Probably would have been okay and gotten rain. >> do you board up? >> i haven't yet. to this point. but this might be the first. >> either we'll leave beforehand and/or we won't drive in it. that's for sure. >> they think we're due for something. >> and they're due because the last major hurricane that came through this area direct hit was 1991. thomas, that was hurricane bob. it was a category 1 when it made land. a lot of power outages during that time. even if earl were not to make a direct hit to the cape, it can still bring that amount of damage or more. >> michelle, yeah, everybody needs...

Going to fall over. but he made it through. he saw a wall of water coming in. it was just absolutely disastrous. >> i can only imagine. i imagine next time he will leave. she said the middle and lower keys devastated not only key west. she said the keys are -- big time, marathon, direct hit. worst damage. talk to me about that. is she right? >> reporter: yeah, it's definitely the worst damage. but then that front, the front dwo quadrants, the top of the storm where the eye wall dame in and impacted those three keys directly.

Category one or two. a million people without power on the island. here's the update. still amazing. now a two-day straight here of category five strike. typically the storms only maintain category five status for maybe one day, two days. the record is three days. the next big one will be 11:00 a.m. this morning. it does take it clear of the mountains. it's no longer -- it doesn't look like any chance at all that the mountains of cuba or of the dominican republic in haiti will weaken. turks and caicos, direct hit later on today. category five. they're going to get crushed. then the new forecas...