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Biggest threat is. unlike harvey where flooding rains were the biggest threat, this will have flooding rains. it's the innone dajs of seawater. it's called storm surge. while the numbers might not seem too impressive, five to eight feet, these are very impressive. in central and southwestern florida we haven't seen a surge like this especially in 100 years especially in the tampa area. 8 to 10 feet from fort myers down to marko island. this is a very heavily populated area. very vulnerable to storm surge. i'm going to take you in and show you how high the water will be above ground level. so a...

Concrete barrier where they have -- not barrier, but containment for trash bins usually. that is all filling up. and that is a development we just noticed after this latest blast of wind and rain that we got. and that is a big concern out here is the wind and the rain that has picked up. we had been seeing it in bands but those bands are becoming -- are coming through a lot more quickly, a lot more frequently and it's hitting us that much more stronger every single time it comes through. and at its peak it's hard to even keep your balance. i mean, 45-mile-an-hour winds is enough to keep browar...

And storm surge will ride up the coast. if we can get this thing on shore and on land, it will start to weaken and we're dealing with a weaker storm. if the storm parallels the coast or stays just off shore, this wind fetch is going to continue and the coastal flooding will be severe all the way up to the tampa, st. petersburg area. >> steve, we'll continue to talk to you. as steve said earlier in case you weren't with us, at the top of every hour we're getting updates. he'll have that for us at the top of the hour. the next big update at 11:00 a.m. eastern time. i want to bring you rob gold f...

Fatalities occur after the storm has passed. so we don't want to see anybody get hurt. it's safety first for our crews and safety first for our customers. >> well, without a doubt that is an incredibly important piece of information. rob gould, good luck to you. good luck to the 16,000 restoration workers who are going to have a big job ahead of them. we appreciate it. let's go back to msnbc's phillip menia who is in ft. lauderdale. how are things looking since we talked an hour ago? >> reporter: well, the weather conditions here have deteriorated. it's doing so rapidly. there were gusts of ...

Many areas at or below sea level. so that's why that water just piles on in here throughout the duration of this storm. let's see if we can advance this graphic here and i'll show you the wind speeds that are going to be happening here as well, if my computer will. there it goes. this is the eye wall. this is at 5:00 in the morning. the eye wall passes the lower keys as we head through 9:00, 10:00 in the morning. there's that force of wind and water in the keys. still persisting around 9:00 to 10:00 in the morning. look at this, key largo gusts up to 80, 90iles an hour, even in downtown miami ...