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Where they are getting hammered is key west. this is where the storm made landfall. key largo, the key closest to florida, is where bill we're is. he's chronicles about their rugged individualism. he sauce some horrible storm conditions this morning. at least he's been to have his jacket out. i see some sunshine behind you? >> no, i gave up on the pa,a. it doesn't matter. i might as well be more breezy, but we moved over to the other side of our sheller carport. we're looking at the bay side of key largo, but i'm reading these reports, "the mime herald" just reported that everything, quote, is...

Starting to get back together. it had weak owned over northern cuba. that land interaction temporarily setback the hurricane. now that it's over the florida straits, this water is bath water felt even hotter than that. 90 degree water temperatures here. unfortunately our worst fears are starting to come through with this storm system regenerating itself. it's not even to the keys yet. so this outer eyewall still has to come a shore before things get better there. that's going to be a couple more hours yet. conditions there in the keys really about to go downhill and very quickly. in fact, an 8...

Unfortunately this was kind of our worst fear that this storm system after it interacted with cuba would start to strengthen again and that's happening right now. you see this northern eyewall. this is really impressive. this is where the winds are gusting 130, 140, 150. that's not too far from key west. let's draw on the distance cool how far away that eyewall is. it looks like it's about 40 miles or so offshore there. that's very concerning. conditions about to go downhill very quickly. gusting to 63 at key west. marathon had a gust last your at 88 miles per hour. you get some of these gusts...

Warning for tampa. people that evacuate today east on west side unfortunately who are now here thinking, oh-oh, what do we do, i don't know if i have an answer for you, makes a later landfall of the storm because of that. all right, there's just one -- we are back. you notice everything has shifted towards the west, nothing back on that east side, georgia and south carolina, you can breathe a sigh of relief on this, take a look at what the winds do. here we are tonight, 120-miles-per-hour wind gusts in marathon key, key largo, 50 in miami, go through tomorrow morning, roughly when we are ready...

Emergency operation center from marathon key, which is about 40 miles north of key west up to where we are here, key largo. 90 miles north of key west. evacuating the monroe county prison jail. one of the few buildings with a category 5 rating. thought it would be safe enough to hold all the prisoners and sheriffs deputies and families. last night they had a scramble to find out a way to move 500 prisoners up north to new jail facilities. so the urgency is noticeable down here. as this monster chain saw in the sky bears down. it's a matter of what part of the keys will take the brunt. the thin...