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>> yes, it looks like the northern eyewall is just passing them. the exact center might go a little to the west of them, but they should be through that northern eyewall now or shortly. >> do you think we're still at a 3? >> our best estimate is, yes, it came ashore as a 3. a 3:00 estimate was 120 miles per hour. >> and how fast will it degrade, or is this the kind of storm that grabs its fuel from the warm waters off the coast and will keep its spin up to the florida-georgia line? >> in this case it depends a lot of the exact details of the track. you can see here if it moves inland from the ...

We had a band come through and there was this little gap, it was bizarre, the skylightened considerably, the winds came down, we could sort of come out here and look at all the downed trees, the palms behind me have been sheered down to the light green, the newest parts of the trees, the only ones exposed now. so we are now starting to get the beginnings of that eyewall. if you look on the radar as it moves up from marco island, we're going to start getting it now and you can feel the change really just in the last few minutes, that shift as these clouds start churning through and the wind pic...

Hurricane. we may have marco island, bonita springs, cape coral, clearwater beach, sarasota, fort myers, we may get all of these -- how rare would that be to have that many major cities go through the eye of a hurricane? >> some of the calmers weather in some time. >> amen, brian, it is very nice to see this because it's been so brutal and with the sideways laying rain and the quote from the airport of the 100-plus mile per hour winds is directly on the other side of the building that is blocking me from the north, so we went through a pretty rough time of it, and now i feel like we're in a mu...

Just depending on which way the wind is going. brian? >> thank you, jay sob soboroff, over to kerry sanders. kerry, how's it doing? >> did he say he has more visibility? i can't believe we're that close and it's such a different storm where i am. goes to show how this changes almost block to block to block. i'm not sure how far jacob is from me. what i'm going to do for a moment is give you the atmospherics. when i get a good gust, i'm going to shut up and you can listen to what we're hearing, you can take in what people in their homes, what people inside their homes as we heard that woman, ab...

You have just entered into it, and it's about -- it's about five miles wide, so you've got about the next 30 minutes or so, 30 to 35 minutes of going through this, then you will clear into the center of this eye. >> reporter: okay, let me see. i don't want to put the camera in the water too much, but just look real quickly at that direction there. that's where the wind is coming from. it's sort of circulating and coming here. way off there you can see sort of the gusts are stronger over there, then we come over here and we catch what is the rain. actually, you know what, this is about the hard...