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>> my armoir with all my clothes. we're standing tree feet in the air. >> beneath our feet, seaweed, three feet of salt water and a weech that used to be outside before it burst into the home. the comb rode uple rode out then a neighbor's house recording this video as the hurricane slammed against their first floor home. >> first sign that everything wasn't all right, we started seeing our possessions floating out this door. >> their concrete construction held up, but the windows failed. >> wait a second, these were hurricane shutter sns. >> yeah, these are. but there's only two of them left. ...

We see streets completely flooded. we've seen boats thrown upside down, roofs ripped off, and entire trailers or mobile homes demolished. on the ground in key west, a glimpse of that powerful storm surge that followed hurricane irma's landfall. the water washing sections of road away. some buildings completely destroyed. tonight, much of the keys are without power or water. and when we reach marathon key, we see irma's wrath. entire neighborhoods completely flattened. looking down on these mobile homes parks in marathon, it just looks like a debris field. some of them, they are just completely...

Stations are closed. it is beyond camping at this point, to my left ear is the mobile command vehicle. i want to show you this. the border protection folks were headed down to marathon key, which is one of the concerns, and summerland quay, which is down towards key west, they had to give us a bag of ice because we are low on water, which they were nice enough to do that, they gave us an update on what they saw. that is the kind of unit that we are starting to see, that is what is getting communications out. when i went to go to where we are staying, i saw the first caravan come in, trucks fro...

Very far just to see them. the storm came in right here, here is sugarloaf, here's key west. the eye of the storm was right about here. you talk about water coming in on the ocean side, he's talking about the water coming in. the storm is like this, it's counterclockwise, all of the storm surges pushing in. he gave a number of keys in there, all the way up to marathon key. we are talking mile markers down in the keys, the bay emptied out on the other side.

Wind gusts out there. they're starting to ramp up. i found 88-mile-per-hour wind gusts at marathon key, key west, 83 miles per hour. smith shoal, 74. that's hurricane force wind gusts there. and even up to ft. lauderdale, well away from the center, you get into the rain bands, 70-mile-per-hour wind gusts. any of these wind gusts can knock out power. once you lose power, you're not going to get it back for a long time. that's why we want you to have a generator around or something that you can get your device with, charged up. it is one of those situations, once you get stranded or once you los...