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East to west. there is that band right now that you see in that live shot with the heavy downpours. again, these bands are moving very fast at about 30 to 35 miles per hour. so, this is the destructive eye wall right here. it's moving northwest at 6 miles per hour. the national weather service in key west put out a statement and they said about 7 to 8:00 a.m. we should see a land falling eye wall. that is when the most dangerous surge, the most dangerous winds will be at their peak here. we're coming up on that. basically if you're in the keys you saw julia's live shot, shelter in place. it's ...

It's all about the keys right now. what are you seeing? >> right. it's only going to get worse over the next couple hours. i'm concerned about this eye wall that will be coming ashore. this storm is huge, from the start of the rain band all the way down to the bottom part of the storm over 400 miles. that eye wall will come on shore. bad conditions. >> bad conditions certainly and then storm surge we've talked about that very quickly. once the eye passes, they still have storm to deal with, right? that surge. >> that's right. because the winds will come wrapping around from the other side from...

It's going through another one of those what we call eye wall replacement cycles where there's a double eye wall right now. that outer eye wall is forming that has a wider diameter than the inner eye wall. and it's contracting in toward the center and normally what that does is it actually weakens the storm briefly. so what you might see overnight is you might see the hurricane bottom out in intensity, maybe even weaken just a few millibars, but then once it completes that eye wall replacement cycle, it's right back to being even stronger than it was before and irma's been pretty amazing becau...

Of 87, 88 degrees fahrenheit and that just is fuel for the fire. the waters through the bahamas heading toward miami are about the warmest they've been all year. >> and you talked about the size of the eye. if you could just repeat how big that eye is, and i know yesterday people were talking about how sort of perfect the eye wall was. i'm wondering how it looks today. >> the eye continues to have that perfect what we call stadium effect to it, where it looks like you're inside a circular football stadium. right now the eye is approximately 15 miles across. it's actually getting smaller. it's ...

Heading towards miami are about the warmest they have been all year. >> and you talked about the size of the eye, if you could just repeat how big that eye it. and i know yesterday people were talking about how sort of perfect the eye wall was. i am wondering how it looks today today. >> the eye continues to have that perfect, what we call stadium effect to it. where it looks like you're inside a circular football stadium. right now the eye is approximately 15 miles across. it is actually getting smaller. it's going through another one of those what we call eye wall replacement cycles where th...