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That's one car we know. i'm gletting blown around -- getting blown around perhaps more extensively than the day and a half. this is supposedly the tail-end of the infliction of irma's raft on southeast florida. so we will remain -- we will stand in it, shep, but it is -- shepard: that's just north and east, pretty far northeast actually. right on the coast of the big lake. tornado on the ground, tornado warnings till 3:45, flash flood warnings for all of southwest florida specifically golden gate, naples, marco island and the flash flood warning for this whole area, the whole area of southwest...

That tampa bay area will get this. do you have an idea about when conditions will begin to deteriorate there? >> in terms of rainfall, the reasons are already deteriorating. you see in the radar that there's considerable amounts of heavy rainfall there. in terms of the wind, we anticipate that coming in in outer bands later this evening with the peak shortly after tid -- midnight and 4:00 p.m. shepard: mark from the national hurricane center, thank you very much. >> you're welcome. shepard: let's go straight the naples, griff, sounds like from the national hurricane center the worst of it all ...

It's coming very quickly along the water which is 3.1 miles east of us, but where we are inland, we are showing you the damage, the terracotta flying off roofs and trees and branches flying. it's actually difficult to walk in this kind of wind with the gust as they've got leading -- right now it looks like debris but they are very, very sharp, very, very heavy. we are trying not to flattened our tires but we are trying to have everyone have a look as far as the eye can possibly see, shep. trees snapping, debris flying everywhere like a hailstorm of palm trees. hep shep and it's going to get wo...

Now. griff, it looks like a mess out there. >> it is, shep, this is just the kind of conditions that you are talking about and why you don't go outside. you can see -- look at this tree, snapping on, the wind i'm not at what level we are but gusts at 75 miles an hour and janice dean talking about the storm surge being problem but the immediate threat to anyone that should possibly consider leaving their house which is the worst idea is that the trees have literally snapped in the last hour or 90 minutes. not sure you can see, there's a stop sign here teetering, you're seeing on the streets, it...

We have taken high ground simply because the rainfall is likely going to be flooding. now flash flooding coming this as fpl, florida power&light says more than 70,000 people in collier county without power. you asked a little earlier, shep, about elderly wealthy area here and we stopped by to check in on a hotel here and there was quite a few number of elderly couples hunkered offer and it's become very dangerous. they live in the surrounding area to ride it out. but right now we are just sort of keeping high ground.