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Damage. and even further east surprisingly, too, including the marathon area. isla but the brunt of the wind came in at big piney key where they had 130 to 150 miles per hour. you can see the storm surge damage, you can see debris. docks and homes all over the homes. a storm surge that was several feet deep. and we wenld through summerland key. we found a man that rode out the storm in his home, and he was inside the eye of that hurricane. the backside of the winds came through at 150 miles per hour, it ripped off the roof. he had to ride through in the bathroom hoping it wouldn't collapse. >>...

>> that's right. we were not able to get on the ground there in the marathon area, but the c-130 that we flew did try to drop down to 2,000 feet and we were able to see a lot of evidence of storm surge damage, and boats on land. that middle area of the keys from marathon to cudjoe, they will have to rebuild. a lot of their structures have suffered quite a bit of damage. i will be able to work on a tax relief package for those that have been impacted by storms like the houston area, and that will be important to helping

About the keys. they were the first landfall. they had the most to lose because of they had no height above sea level at all. we've heard there are two major breakups in the highway. we're getting sporadic pictures, not much. key west seems to have fared better than expected because the storms split the difference. we've seen this video, this home video of this once beautiful sailing vessel up against the ski wall. the seawall. i'm worried what we find tomorrow. >> the marathon area. >> yeah. >> key west was on the -- what we call the quote/unquote weaker side of the storm and the lower storm ...