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But when you have a category 4 storm around that eye wall, devastating amount of damage around that eye wall. so structural damage, power lines, trees, and some serious damage right around that eye wall. and tornadoes. if there wasn't enough threat, we still have tornadoes. 90% of the tornadoes are on that right front quadrant. so as we follow the storm in, that's where you get 90% of the tornadoes. everybody really urging you to standby for some of those warnings as they get issued. so that's it. there's an incredible amount of information. it's coming. one last thing i want to mention is get...

Rescue. and just getting back into these areas. so as much as people can take steps now to protect themselves, after the storm, the danger is not over. i think that's something we have to really communicate now before they lose communication, before internet goes out, cell service, tv, radio, you need to stay safe. it you're in a dangerous area, don't try to get on the road. we have lost more people in florida in the days after the hurricane because of drownings. >> it's so important what you're telling us. let's talk about storm surge and the water issue. with 155 mile-per-hour-storm, clearly...

Happens with this storm. but we are just a few feet away. we can jump inside here. >> pretty amazing. >> we will do that as soon as -- >> i'm sure you will. and thanks so much for coming out and talking to us. and of course randi talking about how the birds came out in the eye, and look at what's happening on the other side of that eye wall. what are you experiencing where you are? >> reporter: this is the worst we've seen it here in tampa all day. nothing like what randi's seeing in punta gorda. but it's been pouring all day here. and now the wind has picked up. i'd say we've had gusts over 5...

Cap tee va island area, which is southwest of fort myers on the map. so the eye wall is where you get the worst winds and all that water being driven on shore. there's the weather radar right behind me. you can see fort myers there. it's this island there, all the way from that area including counties like lee and collier and sarasota and communities like port charlotte, even naples will get some water as high as 10 feet aboveground. the worst places, the storm surge is going to be 16 feet aboveground. bottom line, jose, i really hope people heeded those evacuation orders because this -- in ad...

Waves. just by the pure nature of being in this downtown setting of bradenton, you get swirls that ricochet off of all of the buildings and literally it's difficult for my team and i to stand, including my cameraman. you will likely see that through the course of this live shot. we have had the opportunity to drive around. what we saw was flying debris, debris becoming aerial within downtown. we also say some of the transformers actually being blown behind us. that took out the communication. there's one of the -- every time those wind gusts come through, we get shrapnel, pieces of debris that...