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Except at least another 2 or maybe 3, and john, you are feet will be wet if that happens right now. >> my feet are already wet but they'll be wetter. chad myers, thank you very much for that. i think we have contact with patrick. patrick, tell me what you're seeing as the sun comes up. >> reporter: we're looking around and all the trees have been mostly stripped of their leaves. it's been rough but i think the people on the north side of the island who got those category 5 winds for hours and hours and hours, how are they doing? there's one neighborhood near the airport, you mentioned the airp...

Per hour and still moving to the west at 8. that hasn't changed. there's actually two hurricane right now that are chris crossing going through center and eye. one of them just went through the western eye wall. and it dropped in there and measured 139 knot winds, that's about 160 miles per hour. if that's true and they find other readings similar, easily jumping to a category 5 in the next hour or two, before the big advisory comes out with the forecast at 11:00 p.m. let's give you the latest forecast in case you were out and you were just joining us. the storm is going to stall very slowly t...

Search and rescue, if you have winds in this type of terrain, the winds go in and out throughout these peaks and valleys, causing extreme small winds in certain areas. you could have 10 knot winds in some area and as you go through a canyon 30 or 40 knot wind as you come around a corner. the visibility is horrible. they're probably not equipped with night goggles and night vision there. that's something that perhaps only u.s. search and rescue teams would have. it's a difficult thing to weigh. it's a profoundly difficult decision, especially for those loved ones waiting to hear what happened. ...

Skeptical about all this, given the rough nature of the ocean in this area. could a piece this big be there after an accident so long? >> sure, if it's buoyant and closed off to the ocean, i don't think that's beyond possibility. when i was out there was 1986 and it was horrible. we had 60 knot winds, 30 foot seas and i spent as much time walking on the walls and ceiling of the ship as the floor. so it was rough going. >> mary, you've been involved in investigators where there pieces this big, haven't you? >> right, yes. twa 800, air france 447, american airlines 587. they all had large floati...

Could a piece this big be there after an accident so long? >> sure, if it's buoyant and closed off to the ocean, i don't think that's beyond possibility. when i was out there was 1986 and it was horrible. we had 60 knot winds, 30 foot seas and i spent as much time walking on the walls and ceiling of the ship as the floor. so it was rough going. >> mary, you've been involved in investigators where there pieces this big, haven't you? >> right, yes. twa 800, air france 447, american airlines 587. they all had large floating pieces. >> mary, we were talking about this in the previous show at 8:00,...