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It's heading your way, jeff, that beach will be wet soon. jeff: oh, yeah, no question. i'm heading up tomorrow to be in tampa for fox business where we think it's going to be tomorrow and it's amazing to be this far away from it and still have these kinds of conditions, some indication of what you're dealing with. shepard: i can't thank you thuf, -- enough, receive. we see progress speeding up and changing things a little bit and the eye wall itself looks like it's going to be over marco island in just a matter of minutes. the outer eye wall is where the strongest winds are. see where the circ...

That said when we were talking with the mayor george nugent just north in marathon which we can see on your map, he is hunkered down in the home it's a 10 foot elevation. the wind he clocked them already there must be at100 miles an hour, which would not be inconsistent with the kind of storm that we're seeing. what is it that the keys folks can expect in terms of the winds, what, two and half hours or so when this makes land fall? >> they'll continue to pick up with this rain band. it's picking up now. it may drop off a little while. do not be deceived by that. then comes the eye wall. this i...

That's where you'll get the devastating storm surge and also get the destructive winds. the three hof hour loop, the eye is getting closer. this was our worst fear. the storm weakened over cuba, reorganized itself and is now strengthening over the florida straits which is some of the warmest water temperatures that you have in the entire east. so this is why we have a really bad situation on your hands, not only for the keys but upstream now for the areas of south western florida. ignore that graphic. that's an old graphic here for you. here is the eye wall. it is now moving on shore here, bar...

Floor of your home. and away from windows here because even though there are weaker tornadoes, still 90, 100 mile-per-hour winds can blow out your windows. kristen was on the western side of florida into the ft. myers area. look, not a whole lot happening. but this band is working its way towards the west. so these bands are coming in from east moving to the west. so if you get these tornado spinups, they're from southeast to northwest. this is very concerning. this is the eye wall. it's not far now from the wee west area. let's put the distance tool on here and we'll track that outer eye wall...

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...