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Don't go anywhere. we have steve here, we have the official land fall statement. it happened at 9:10 at kujo key in the southern part of the keys that we saw there. a reported wind gust of 106 miles per hour near the national key deer refuge in big pine key. we have been sieeing those 100 miles per hour wind gusts all through the keys. >> that is very close to kujo key where we now now land fall is there. we often think of hurricanes going over land and deteriorating them, but it's not enough space or land. >> these are small pockets of land surrounded by very warm water temperatures. it won't...

Irma. smaller, compact the eye is tighter. the wind radius of damage wasn't that kind of damage 20, 30 miles out. when you look a the track, take a look at this. it was a year later when it first made land fall and devastated the southern portion of the florida peninsula. it went into the record books as a four. took almost a year of research and looking at the winds damage to put it in the record books as a five. my point is this. there's not a big difference. a four is massive. a five as well. you won't be able to tell that much. we're going to get hit. $26 billion of damage. and 56 fataliti...

Hard to pinpoint where land fall will be. obviously we know conditions are deteriorating quickly. >> it's interesting a lot of people hear you say don't get fooled by the eye when it seems calm. that's just the eye. just quick story, before i was ever starting to covering hurricanes as a reporter, i was in a hurricane in the caribbean. at that sat around st. bart. for several days. when the eye came, i was so freaked out and just so wanting to get out of the room that i was trapped in the building i was in, i ran out and was trying to get my friends to go to the airport to see if we could get ...

Palm. we have seen wind gusts that really are up near hurricane force so they're strong tropical storm wind gusts. what about that storm surge? look at that even on the eastern side. if you were second guessing yourself, why did i leave the east coast if it is affecting the west coast? because you have this flow. could expect the storm surge 6 to 8 feet, 10 to 12 feet. some of these areas on the west coast. 10 to 12 feet. as much as 20 inches of rain fall is possible. land fall could be tomorrow night about midnight. where? maybe sarasota, tampa? our computer models are die verging on that. >>...

Could be 3 million people without power as the storm affects this region. asked a little bit more could it possibly be more than that and he said yes, it would be hard to speculate there could be as many as 5 million people without power. now imagine that. when we were talking about why you probably need to leave, category 5 hurricane, maybe category 4, is going to make land fall. category 3, not a lot of gas to talk about. maybe there would be damage to the place you're seeking some security, your home, perhaps you're near the coast, you have the storm surge to worry about. you could see the ...