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How good you think you are or how many storms you've seen, you've never seen one that pushed water over like the 1935, the one that just completely destroyed the train they were building there in '35. just pushed everything, completely to the other side of florida bay. there is the eye right now. it is undergoing a kind of reconstructive surgery, if you will. the middle part of the eye blew off overnight because an outer eye replaced it. the winds went down. when that outer eyewall becomes the inner eyewall, the wind speed goes back up. pushing water on to land. so anywhere from here, from the...

It's actually getting smaller. it's going through another one of those, what we call eyewall replacement cycles, where there's a double eyewall right now. that outer eyewall is forming, that has a wider diameter than the inner eyewall. and it's contracting in towards 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 weaken just a few millibars. but then once it completes that eyewall replacement cycle, it's right back to being even stronger than it was before. and irma ...

Near. again, chris, i can't believe i'm saying this but there are people in the street right now. i'm not sure who this guy is, but i've seen several cars pass since we've been standing here. i saw one guy walking around earlier. it is just so, so poorly thought out to be out in these kind of conditions. especially when they are going to get worse. so if you are out on the street, i mean, the best thing you can do is get inside and find a safe place to be right now. before this eyewall gets closer and closer to daytona. >> you're right to keep putting the word out there boris. it is stupid to ...

Palm bay just outside of melbourne, and the eyewall came very, very close to us. within just a couple of miles. and it's crazy to say, but that made all the difference when you're talking about the proximity of this powerful storm, and the coastline. with that eyewall staying just offshore, it spared us winds that could have been 100 miles per hour, which is -- which can cause much greater damage than winds of about 80 miles per hour. and then unfortunately, just to our north, cape canaveral, as you mentioned, recorded winds of about 100 miles per hour-plus. and it battered cape canaveral for ...

In right now. and then we have a p-3 orion, which is a four engine turboprop plane that actually does the real dirty work flying into the peak of the storm down at 10,000 feet. that's the one that actually penetrates the eyewall, and hits the really nasty ride. we get a lot of turbulence up here at 45,000 feet. because this is where all energy from the storm flows out. it's called the outflow region of the storm. so it gets pretty turbulent up here, as well. but not nearly as turbulent as we get going through the eyewall down at lower altitudes in our other aircraft. >> oh, my gosh. richard i ...