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Over again, it's been about 30 years or so of me maybe a little more, of me doing this. so one of the things you look for when you're talking about the storm, you have to have full knowledge of the way one of these storms works and then you place your crew in the safest position possible. we do that not only for the people but for the equipment, for the signal, for all of that. put everything in the safest position possible to not have to take the full breunt of the storm. you can see the big difference from behind me and where i'm standing. because we're blocked from the north and blocked fro...

Come up with little bit but still, i would suspect the surge is not more than about three feet, but we're going to be dealing with this onshore wind for quite a while. it will be mid to late afternoon as the hurricane goes north of our latitude, that's the east/west line. once it does that, the winds will shift around from onshore to offshore. at that point the surge usually go as way abut we're still going to have all this wind. >> the weather channel's mike. we wanted to show you something before i go to sam because he was in the midst of explaining this. we've got the everglades over here. ...

We don't think we're going to get sustained hurricane force winds in miami. i said this is the worst it gets for miami right now. further to the north is the main concern, where it has been for two to three days. anyone that has anyone from naples to marco island, here's the eyewall. northern eyewall. you don't want to go through this. that's where the 120 miles per hour winds are very possible. let me get a different tool to go in closer on this. here's the eyewall. from there, up to naples is now only about 58 miles. you're into the hurricane force winds in naples, but the eyewall, which is ...

Opportunity where we could, on camera, ourselves, watch the storm surge come in. if we see it here, i think people will fully under stand the power of mother nature and what the water does. >> kerry you're smart enough to know not to be standing in sea level. i want to take the information you've given me and walk over to steve sosna here. right now, the wind in naples is going that way. so if you're on the beach where kerry is, you're not seeing something that looks dramatic. >> you're seeing the water levels go back out. what we're watching is this pocket right here. it's the south west wind...

Marco island. >> i am free. >> it is brian williams in new york. >> yes, brian, i can hear you just fine. >> realize you're having a frantic day. appreciate you making a few minutes to talk to us. we have been noticing this little possibly in the eye. we noticed that you have put the direction thanks to your technology and hurricane hunters at due north. where are you expecting the second landfall. we are talking about marco island. >> we are looking at typically with hurricanes, you see little wobbles in the eye. if you look for just a half hour or hour, sometimes you get fooled. we are consi...