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But it doesn't really make landfall. let's move this a little bit further to the north. doesn't really make landfall until you get up towards the tampa st. pete area. is that possible? certainly looks like it. this has been one of the most fickle hurricanes. we can have all the greatest computer models in the world and they could tell us something different because the environment has changed, how it intersects with land may chang, how the sea surface temperature may change. there are all kinds of different variables to forecast out monday a different couple of days is very difficult. this is ...

Intensity. 130 miles an hour winds. category four hurricane. all right. i was giving you the ul l illustration of how this compares as a category four hurricane. and here is the path that irma took bouncing around along that coast of cuba. we can only imagine what kind of damage that must have been because it was the better part of a day of a category three. but this is hurricane donna. came close to cuba, moved across the florida keys. does that sound familiar? that's just what irma is doing. however, here is the cone. let's take a look at this. this is its potential. that's a pretty wide mar...

Threat. storm surges have cost most of the deaths of hurricane katrina in 2005. in 2012, hurricane sandy induced flooding as high asinine feet above the ground in parts of new jersey. that caused billions of dollars in damage. a storm surge of 6 inches, below my knees, can knock a person down. a storm surge of -- this would be about 2 feet, it will take your car or suv out. even though sandy was a category 1 with wind of about 80 miles per hour, the issue was it came into places with a lot of water, and that's what we're looking at now. irma, category 3, less than 12 hours out from expected la...

Frequency and strength as well as time goes on. >> chris, as sam just mentioned, with sandy, i think the nation learned a lesson in that in that the winds kept dropping and dropping and everyone said this isn't going to be serious and then we understood storm surge. what happened on this, you were on the atlantic part of florida i think earlier today, now you're on the gulf course and the threat around naples is significant for a storm surge. people take that seriously in a different way, perhaps less seriously? >> yeah, and it is the most deadly part of almost any storm, almost always. sandy ...

Higher levels, because a lot of people live in buildings, reaching 100 miles per hour now at the highest levels in miami. we have 250,000 people reported without spoer in florida. i'm sorry. that is not 250,000 -- sorry, 750,000 people without power. what a dramatic scene where you are. what have you got? >> that's right, it is pretty crazy. we heard that it made land fall. we checked in with emergency responders down the way, they say that the wind is kicking up. they say that he is loaded up their boats and those lines are starting to rip, and some of those are swaying back and forth. and th...