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When it is so dark. you can see -- >> all right, everybody. you're seeing for yourself the effects of the winds and the rains there with our live shot with julia. she's been out there all night with the storm and the winds are too much now for the satellite signal. off she goes. but i thank her and the cameraman for putting together the live report for as long as it did last. the winds, it is a really incredible, so talk about irma, that was florida city, the southern most tip of the florida panhandle. and she made that point, it is about 122 miles from that point all the way down to key west....

East to west. there is that band right now that you see in that live shot with the heavy downpours. again, these bands are moving very fast at about 30 to 35 miles per hour. so, this is the destructive eye wall right here. it's moving northwest at 6 miles per hour. the national weather service in key west put out a statement and they said about 7 to 8:00 a.m. we should see a land falling eye wall. that is when the most dangerous surge, the most dangerous winds will be at their peak here. we're coming up on that. basically if you're in the keys you saw julia's live shot, shelter in place. it's ...

Debris may even be flying. that's what we're keeping our i eyes out for now. >> that's one of the concerns for people who are out as this is all approaching is that flying gree. that was wtbj's julia bagg. we appreciate that from her. hurricane irma now gaining strength as it's approaching the florida keys over the warm water. it's now a category 4 storm. irma is bringing with it a life threatening storm surge. it could get up to 15 feet in some areas. already we're seeing water levels two feet above normal. i'm going to michael brennan, the chief hurricane specialist. thanks for joining us th...

Says it will make landfall there within hours. then the latest projections have it aimed at florida's western coast with the eye of the storm crossing st. petersburg. now, all signs say this storm will be disastrous for the keys, also parts of georgia and forecasters are especially alarmed about the storm surge warnings up to 15 feet. the comfoworst could take place naples to ft. myers. it could get worse as it moves closer to the panhandle. the massive storm is between 350 and 400 miles wide. the effects will be felt in every single county of florida at some point today. to nbc's julia bagg, ...

Entirely. let's go straight to nbc's julia bagg. julia, you may have heard me talking with the mayor of the monroe county area there. it was mayor george nugent. i spoke to him. he is down in marathon in complete darkness. i told him about you when we last spoke. you were seeing power outages that had just happened. the transformers blowing. it looks even darker where you are now. >> indeed, alex. we, in fact, tried to move up a little bit to be able to show you a little more. where an area was lit just as you were speaking, not 60 seconds ago, the lights went out here again in this parking lo...