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Big bend. there is a man who runs a hotel an inn who said i'll stay with my inn. it's been here for 150, 200 years, we hope for the best for those who decided to stay. gabe, bill karins, our meteorologist is here with a question. >> gabe, just to update you and your crew looking at the radar where you're located in perry, the northern eye wall is ten miles to your south, so this is traveling at 18 miles per hour. you guys have about 15 to 20 minutes until this northern eye and the winds will be about three times as strong as they are right now will be over the top of you so to give you guys ti...

Likely to see, you know, a high level of wind damage here. >> all right, gabe, with that warning from bill and mine we'll let you go duck inside. the eye wall headed your way, bill says, in the next 15 or 20 minutes with some incredibly powerful winds and let you and the crew take cover. we appreciate your reporting this morning. thanks so much. again, hurricane idalia, a category 3 now, but just by a few miles per hour of wind is it not a category 4. incredibly dangerous storm set to make landfill at keaton beach, florida, according to governor desantis and his team there within this hour. be...

Down because that northern eye wall is soon approaching our friends in the perry, florida, area. >> this has been downgraded to a category 3 storm but as i said, the threshold is 130 miles an hour. you're at 125. not much solace for anyone. this is still a very dangerous storm. stay with us. want to go to crystal river, florida, where we find jose diaz-balart. crystal river is 80 miles north of tampa. jose, have the conditions changed there since we talked to you last? >> reporter: they haven't. the feeder bands are coming through and sun emerging and fascinating to hear how bill was talking a...

Six, eight feet of wall. you know, that's up and that's coming in. we've seen in the last maybe half hour or so some transformers explode but little things that are fascinating to me. the birds are out. and they're out and there's actually a family of manatees that live right here, a mom and calf is right here. we haven't seen that yet. but these feeder bands that come through right now, a lull, but in a matter of seconds we're pelted with rain and some heavier winds but it seems for this area at least people are feeling a little bit hopeful that they're not going to be experiencing that 125-m...

Threat in all these zone as across the gulf coast and probably more so than any storm i can remember in recent years, so people understand, you know, we've said from the beginning it was probably going to be a major hurricane and that's what it is and so we're here and we're ready and we're going to work hard on the back end to make sure everybody gets back up on their feet. >> is the message to shelter in place for all 49 counties that are under the state of emergency? >> there's counties where the storm passed so there may be outer bands, that's not necessarily saying shelter. if you're in t...