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Kind of weather. there are 29,000 customers of the keys energy services, the power public utility here and 29,000 customers without power this morning. they have about 190 line workers from around the country who have come in ready to mobilize once the storm has passed, but it looks like the extension cord that plugs into the mainland and powers the florida keys went out last night some time around 11:00 p.m. they tried to re-energize it remotely but no go. so we're lighting up this shot off a car battery. we're really starting to see these feeder bands light up. we're on the bay side of key l...

Shepherd because we spoke to you last only about maybe a hundred yards to my left is the bay out there. we talked about the phenomenon where the storm is swirling counterclockwise so we're getting hit now from the east that will eventually come from the west but where the water gets sucked out it gets sucked out of the bay and it will come back. i had a chance to take my phone out there and get a couple photos i e-mailed to your staff. take a look. this is the bay outside of key largo. the water is gone. you can look out for maybe a quarter mile and the water is just not there. its been sucked...

Where they are getting hammered is key west. this is where the storm made landfall. key largo, the key closest to florida, is where bill we're is. he's chronicles about their rugged individualism. he sauce some horrible storm conditions this morning. at least he's been to have his jacket out. i see some sunshine behind you? >> no, i gave up on the pa,a. it doesn't matter. i might as well be more breezy, but we moved over to the other side of our sheller carport. we're looking at the bay side of key largo, but i'm reading these reports, "the mime herald" just reported that everything, quote, is...

What's the situation? >> reporter: i can hear you, chris. it's really cranking up here as irma huffs and puffs and tries to blow us all down. i've become increasingly thankful for building codes in south florida, many of them stiffened after hurricane andrew. we are hunkered down in a concrete -- whoa, condominium complex. i just saw a huge branch come snapping off this tree right around the corner. we don't want to move our camera out to the spot to show you but take my word for it, irma is trimming all the trees in this neighborhood. right now, it's blinding sheets of rain and we are on the ...

70,000 are still in shelters. they still need nurses to help with the elderly and infirmed. so many of you have stepped up and thank you for that. we have seen people stepping up to help one another, it is one of the most beautiful and essentially components of recovery. he said they are expecting up to two feet of rain in the keys. let's get to bill. bill, two things spoke to your situation. one was the governor was worried about the amount of water you are going to see there and, two, he hates seeing the people who say i can stick this out. i know better than those who are telling me to go. ...