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Taking selfies, lots of pictures of themselves, including these two folks i'm xroined by here. this is brian and felix. you were out there. what made you go out there today? >> well, i mean, this is kind of a once in a lifetime event. the last time a hurricane of this size came through tampa, i wasn't even born yet, not even a twinkle in somebody's eye at that point. >> reporter: what was it like out there? >> muddy. kind of smells like the bay, but otherwise, everything is really calm. >> reporter: were you nervous out there? >> no. i really wasn't. it's just the wind. some, picked up and the...

Way along the intercoastal waterway, that's where it's getting water now. some spots will get 6 feet, then all of a sudden there's water in everything. >> chad, we want to start checking in with those reportersen the east coast of florida. bryan todd is standing by in west palm beach. how are things there? >> anderson, we're getting pounded with some of the early stages of hurricane force winds here. we're now in the window in the next several hours where we're going to get the most intense storm surge this area is going to see. the storm surge is just allowing the water of the intercoastal wa...

Right number. you guys especially from cape coral, punta gourda southward, you're 10. and even more you're 10. i know there are people hanging out on that island. i don't know get it. at some point in time that window is going to stop. you're not going to be able to get off the island at all. the entire island is going to be covered in water. there's not going to be any roadway that's not wet with saltwater. and if you're in a high rise, all your equipment down stairs is going to wet. everything electrical, everything hvac, everything you need to be comfortable is going to be wrecked. and you'...

Could happen in tampa bay, that is some really startling stuff about the vulnerabilities of where you are and development of water level and how the infrastructure is sold. a lot of those principles apply here. everything has changed here, my friend. the difference in those 200 miles between the two of us right now, this is headed your way, of course, but it's really different right now. we're in that snap, crackle and pop phase where the trees are starting to come down, the transformers are starting to do their thing. and you're in that eerie sequence of noises where you're trying to get a fe...

Plane's entire electrical system just catastrophically shut down, no radio, no transponders, no pinger, no way to send a stress call, everything electrical was dead. colonel, you're an experienced pilot, you've had things go wrong but does that sound plausible that everything would just stop? >> all the scenarios out there from hijack sabotage and landing in pakistan and iran this is certainly one of the most plausible. there are a number of actions to an electrical bay. when the electric goes out on your airplane you lose all your engines but these guys do four days a year for scenarios like ...