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Timetable on it. but that's how the storm surge will work. and it could be upwards of 15 feet. so all the homes that you see over there will be inundated if a storm surge comes ashore as we believe it will. and of course, we saw what happened in miami. again, that is the water being driven by the wind. and so you can just tell by me standing here, ali, with the flapping of everything and what you probably hear -- listen for a second -- >> yeah. pretty severe. kerry, earlier today you said something which was interesting. you are not looking at this just to get excited by it. you were hoping th...

Lets pull the models for the win winds. >> 8:00 p.m. on sunday. >> reporter: you see it right now? by about 8:00 p.m. on sunday night, you can see where we are looking at the 94 miles per hour around sarasota. how marco island have dropped down to 79 but still above hurricane strengths. i was surprised how long the wind stayed up here, how long those bands repeating the powerful gusts up here. now around midnight. you still have sarasota about 88 miles per hour. marco coming down about 55 miles per hour at that point. all the way to the other side of west palm beach. at midnight so this thing ...

Florida south. so we are seeing that off of georgia, wind speeds about 62 miles per hour. trees down for power lines. we have florida power likely channel south florida, electric that had about 5 million customers and half of them are out of power right now. other parts of florida use other utility. lets take a look over here. the storm is around here, around fort myers and naples. i want to go to jacob soboroff who's in naples right now, what's it look like to you right now? >> reporter: it is literally hitting us from the backside, about four miles behind me is the gulf of mexico, the border...

It is actually remarkably clear visibility right now and given how blind it was earlier. you are asking me what it was like and now it was a couple hours ago. before we had the eye and which we basically had drizzle and a remarkable thing. it was almost white out conditions and as if you were looking out snow from a blizzard and rain wind was coming in and now strong gust of winds with all the dry and rain that we have seen before. i feel like any of the moistures that we are getting right now is blown up of these trees and coming up from the ground. feels like we got much stronger winds. >> j...

You can get. it is important to show our viewers that our reporters know what to do in the event that it gets harrier than it already is. it is a dangerous job anyway but you are always ready to take cover. never mind if i'm asking you questions, if it gets dangerous, just get inside and seek cover. kristen, i'll ask bill to yell it out at me. are they fully on the other side of this storm yet in ft. myers? >> no. they're just in the northern side. they just started. >> they just started the northern side. kristen's going to get the eye. >> she's in the northern eye right now. >> then it is go...