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Missions you've flown on this hurricane. >> good afternoon. we're -- we've gone through the west side to the east side, one pass so far, we are currently very near miami and about to proceed straight south, going for the second pass. very important information we're getting today is the eye fixes and most especially when does the center of irma move off of the north coast of cuba. so that's our number one priority is to get multiple fixes and to capture that moment of when it starts to move more toward florida. >> jack, what are the biggest influences that you've been able to figure out from t...

N.o.a.h. 49 is drop ago lping af expendable probes in the center and a combination of those data give you the strength of the high and the low that's supposed to -- north. so it's a combination of the aircraft that are giving that influence of the storm going more from the east coast to the west coast. >> jack, for you and your team specifically on board this aircraft, how rough has the flight been trying to collect data on irma? has it been bad? >> good question. we have already done one pass. it wasn't terrible but we did get a couple lower bars pressure than the previous aircraft. last nigh...

Then i think n.o.a.h.'s flights will be concluded when our jet landed about 8:30 this evening. at that point, we have to evacuate the airplanes because our home base in lakeland is kind of ground zero. >> all right, so, a little over three more hours for you and your team above irma right now. the flight director on board one of the hurricane hunting flights that is live above irma right now, jack parish, thank you, sisi sir, i really appreciate your time and insight. it's fascinating to think about how important that is to the calculations. with we know there have been a lot of comparisons ma...

At. this potential for just disaster here. so one guy has a homemade boat he says he's going to get in. another woman said she's blowing up air mattresses and she could float on those. so, really, a dire situation as time now does run out to get out of here. >> kristen dahlgren reporting over in fort myers, we know that there are over 320 different shelters that have been set up in place with the governor saying that 450,000 people are in them, so if these people need to get out, hopefully they will do so and not have to rely on those crude measures that you're talking about there. kristen, ke...

Strength of this storm. >> jack, we're seeing images right now of team members, hurricane hunters also visuals from what it look like up there. just explain to us from your see and say vision what are you literally looking at right now out the window or ahead of you? >> good question. at the moment, i'm looking at a huge breaking waves down below the aircraft. we can barely see the surface because it's raining so hard. what we're flying through. and more importantly, i'm looking at the -- at our n.o.a.h. radar that looks all the way around the airplane. i see the center of the storm, roughly 1...