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To 18 feet. so i'm urging everyone to follow the instructions and be careful. after the fact. so that's all i have. i appreciate the partnership. >> that's the very latest from fema headquarters in washington, d.c. i want to go to john morales for nbc 6 in south florida. john, thank you for being with us this morning. give us the broad picture of what is happening right now and what we can expect in the state of florida. >> ian is a monster hurricane. it has 35-mile wide eye. that has spread those hurricane winds, those damaging winds over a larger area. the eye wall is approaching the

You can see here ripping trees from the ground. it also caused heavy damage to planes at the north carey airport in pembroke pines. it flipped planes there. a u.s. government plane is flying through the eye wall of this monster storm. these stunning visuals that show the hurricane full of lightning as it is sweeping over the gulf on its path to florida. john? >> reporter: we have team coverage. randi kaye south of here where the storm could be making landfall. carlos in tampa. chad myers standing by for us in the weather center. let's go to randi kaye down in punta gorda. what are you seeing s...

Let's talk about the storm surge. >> water is the big killer. we have seen the storm surge. what's going to happen in the eye wall of the hurricane is coming in fast. big waves pounding like a battering ram. homes and businesses are are not built for this type of impact on these structures. this is going to bulldoze things out of the way. so that's why it's so critical to get out of these areas that are in the evacuation zones. you need to go out of that area. get to higher ground. get inside. >> the gulf of mexico is right behind us. but on the way in, there were really large mobile home dmun...

We'll show you where robert is right now. he's a navy veteran. he chose to stay put during the course of this. he said he spent the last couple days putting up shutters around his neighborhood. what are you seeing outside there? >> so right now, we're at the eye wall. it's really bad outside. i've gone outside a couple times. i've been posting stuff on facebook. it's not safe to be outside. i fired up my generator and that's it. it's better to stay inside. i have shutters around the house. i know i'm safe in here. i've never been through something this severe before in all the storms and hurri...

Flew through that eye and through the eye wall and found those new wind speeds at 155. naples you just had a gust of 52 but it's still off shore. still well off shore. those numbers may triple and it's not just a small little pin eye like charlie was, this is 60 or 70 p miles wide of hurricane force. 30 or 355 forgs and then it gets up even to orhlando and you're going to get winds up there of 80 to 85. something else we're watching, increased surge. 12 to 15 feet. that does not include tampa. it's where you're going to share this. port charlotte going to see this is 9 foot above or more becau...