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Business. i think everyone just getting in a last good warm meal before the storm crashed to shore and knocks out the power. >> and james, just very briefly, you do this, i mean, you wander the world chasing storms. when you take the big picture view of hurricane irma, what do you think? how does it stack up? >> yeah, this is a big deal. you should never, ever treat a major hurricane or typhoon or cyclone approaching land lightly. but the big deal here is florida has not been hit by a major hurricane since 2005. that's a long time ago. you compound that with the threat of storm surge, the very...

Welcome back. you are watching cnn's continuous coverage of hurricane irma. i'm live for you in miami this hour. i have been, in fact, for several hours now, and the weather as we've been standing here and just seeing the shift in the weather since it's gone from a hurricane 3 category to a hurricane 4, it has intensified, and this weather has just been so predictable. it's nonstop. it started raining and then stopped, but the one consistency we've seen is the wind. it's starting to pick up. it is howling. but it's much worse, i have to say, in miami beach, where we find derek van dam. i hear ...

Northwest, west coast in particular, of florida, can you give them any ib sight as to a rough time? i know rough times are hard to estimate, as you've pointed out throughout the last five hours or so. any sort of indication of what time they should be feeling it in, for example, if you are in the west coast? >> the west coast of florida really, unfortunately, is probably going to be in the worst position of all. if it stays out over the waters here like this, you're going to be in that upper right front quadrant of the hurricane, the worst portion of the hurricane to be in. it will probably ma...

There have been medical evacuations as well. we have our chief medical correspondent doctor john tore res who is also in copperous christy joins us now. >> and katie, you're right a lot of people did not evacuate either they're sick and vulnerable or they chose not to because they want to protect their house or some other reason. so people have to stay behind to take care of those. and i'm here at the emergency operation center for corpus christi. thank you very much for being hee. this is like mission control. >> yes. we're at ground zero right here when it comes to this hurricane. we just re...

In port lavaca. >> reporter: well, ali, we're driving along here in port lavaca out along the bay area. as i cut to the camera outside, as we drive you can see off in the distance there. this is a bay, remember. this is not the gulf of mexico, but this is where that storm surge will build up you can see there's white caps and it's really getting the early stages of what is a hurricane. the winds here have been picking up. the wind is rather dramatic. now, we're going to get up into this position here right in front of what is a fishing pier which is starting to go underwater here as the water ...