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Tropical storm force winds. the real heavy strong winds men may hundred-mile-an-hour winds are arriving right around the time this makes landfall. when you talk about this much wind especially on the gulf side, you start to talk about storm surge and storm surge is going to be an issue particularly in the florida big ben anywhere from eight to 12 feet of storm surge and some of those locations as it pushes this up and i'm going to leave you with our rainfall total. there was when bh 12 inches of rain but the most recent hurricane you think of as florence, that ones that there and spun, 40 inch...

Communications, satellite reception to communicate. we lost touch -- i lost touch with one of my very, very good friends, kristen tagara and tanner trivett. kristen is on the gulf side of the road. my buddy, trivett is on the ocean side of the road. last time i talked with both of them, they were okay, safe. they had plenty of water, plenty of supplies. the shelter they were in, which was their home, was doing fine. everything was okay. >> so, william, sorry to interrupt. what's your plan? i know if you don't hear from your family and friends in the next little while, what are you going to do?...

Scenes look that cbs -- that they are giving the local viewers there. as he watched, the upper keys in the damage from sky for 7 and the fox helicopter that is up in the sky. we were expecting for some damage after the storm yesterday. were not expecting homes to be destroyed, and that sort of thing. they're supposed be taken out out of the boats with something the local officials were expecting. lots of storm surge damage. sure enough, this is from the florida keys. the upper keys, not far from key largo, i am told, and you can see a lot of storm surge coming off. that looks like the base i t...

You can still hear me, i needed to jump out of that. >> reporter: i hear you. keep going. >> reporter: looking back toward that building, you can see that's -- it's basically an outdoor concert venue with that soft tarp on it and that is a park in downtown naples and that roof, that structure there continues to hold. i thought for sure that that tarp would come flying off and ripping to shreds here as these winds have intensified and now you can kind of see that structure again a little bit. but as we were starting to talk, i couldn't even see it. just absolutely stunning the amount of rain an...

Along the western edge of the city, this is an area that is under a mandatory evacuation. it has been a deserted ghost town for some days now. we saw the water quickly rising out there on some of those streets and a lot of those areas where that -- those trees were falling down as well. so we are here between the gulf side, which is here about a half niall my level. also there's a river that cuts through town. and one of the things that officials here also are taking a close look and are very concerned about is high tide, expected later on this afternoon. that high tide and in combination with...