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Another two feet to that water height. i mean, you want to talk about whatever analogy you want to say, ground zero, whatever you want, this area here is first. they're not going to be the last. that's going to move up the coast. you know, the storm surge, brian, is just what i was talking about, how devastating it's going to be to marco island. before that even begin, they're about to go through the winds of a cat 4 hurricane cane. which just alone would cause significant infrastructure damage. >> yeah, we're talking about wetlands with high rises. with canals. some of the build-up was built ...

Shelters, a home for the infirm and the aged, as well as a fire station. we expect as well significant damage to the housing stock in anguilla. the teams are now musters to go out early in the morning to do a more detailed assessment. and in the british virgin islands, we've also got significant report of damage to private businesses, supermarkets, critical facilities, operational facilities that would be coordinating in this particular emergency, utilities. so it is quite significant and expensive damage in several of the caribbean territories. on the english caribbean side, but also on the d...

State to get ready. let's go to meteorologist tom sater. tom, walk us through why the models cannot yet determine irma's path. >> well, jake, we're still some time away. even forecasting cloud covering in your neighborhood five days out, you're going to have some differences in what could occur. however, this continues to a maze us because it continues to strengthen. hurricane wilma in 2005 was equal in strength to this. there's only been one hurricane in atlantic-based history in 1980 and that was alan. this will do some catastrophic damage to the antilles. that's antigua. they will see their...

I want to look at the oil industry. 2.2 million barrels of oil that is not reaching the market. you can see there what the oil industry looks like. in some cases they can't get to these refineries, in other cases there's infrastructure damage. there are people idle and not working because of these closed down we fineries. these companies know how to safely shut down. now the question is getting back in. >> we spoke to the fema officials. they note this will take years from recover from. one what is the market saying? >> is markets are lower not because of the storm but north korea. that missil...

To dump more and more water, up to 30, sometimes perhaps forecast up to 50 inches. how much does that complicate the typical hurricane response that you just talked about? >> it really complicates it. if you remember hurricane floyd that came in to north carolina, it was a flood hurricane. i mean, it literally flooded almost that entire state. it just dumped inch after inch of rain. we saw pigs on top of barns, it was so deep. and this is a challenge they're going to have here. and the challenge here is you've got-- you'll have a lot of infrastructure damage that you cannot see right now. and ...