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Large brick stone homes, a foundation was all that was left. that's how powerful the storm surge in katrina was and that was about an 18-foot storm surge in that storm. but that caught me just how powerful the water can be in these storms. and i've had such a respect for mother matie i nature after tha what a storm can do so we're all sure we're well away from where the water will be coming in quickly and so powerfully. a lot of those homes, the good news is homes, businesses along that route 90 there were rebuilt after katrina and so hopefully built to higher hurricane codes, built to higher ...

Characters. i guess we can add irma to the list of unsavory characters she has been forced to hang out with. catie, thank you very much. get inside and find shelter. >> thanks, brian. >> mylai person's question continues to be sebring, 78 miles per hour. >> that's the first hurricane-force gust that we've seen in a while. that's a serious gust. and it's not even in the bright pink northern eye that still refuses to dissipate with this storm. and it is now closing in on very populated section of i-4 between tampa and orlando with winterhaven in the way, lakeland. how about our friends out here?...

>> huge population. it would be located about here. that would be close to the northeast eye portion. they may get the winds in the middle of the night a lot higher than they were thinking. that's 8:00 a.m. tomorrow morn. let's point out a little farther. this is as we go through monday at 8:00 p.m. down to a tropical storm. notice that they don't have it going into the atlanta area. this was the other amazing step. it kind of rains itself out. once we get through monday night the winds won't cause many more issues. this is from the hurricane center. irma has a very large wind field. the hurri...

Around counterclockwise with the storm. it seems to remain a constant as the storm moves up. why is that? >> the thunderstorms that are regenerating themselves. normally, if you get a storm that is a cat 4 or cat 5, kit are the ring around it. but what we're having is we're having a sheer. so what shear is fast upper-level winds that destroy and eat away thunderstorms. that's happening. and also there is dry air. so we get these thunderstorms that are forming, popping up into the atmosphere. and they try to wrap back around. notice they make it about halfway with the bright yellows. and then t...

Break that bill karins was going to update his maps. i would love to just take that first map tracking irma. can we just dwell on this? this is clouds associated with one storm. it is conceivable that from the tip cape may, new jersey, the chesapeake bay, very shortly you will be in clouds associated from this storm. that's unbelievable. >> i did a distance tracker on here. it didn't work. the elevations are a little messed up. if i go from west virginia and extend cloud shield to the north coast of cuba that is 1,100 miles of solid clouds from this storm. i was able to throw it together. the ...