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Fort myers, florida, where they just had a gust over 60 miles an hour in the last few minutes. kristen? >> thanks, brian. we were out at the beach, but things got too dicey out there with the wind and things flying around, so we came further inland. take a look, we're also seeing standing water. keep in mind this isn't storm surge, this is that saturated ground that sam was talking about and standing water now. i'm not going to go any farther back, because we did see some lines down the street and so with the water could be a dangerous situation. just a reminder of how many dangers are still o...

North to naples. interesting it does correspond with you kind of being just a little bit off parallel with the eye. >> absolutely, and that's the case. in this hand there's the eyewall. in this hand that's that feeder band and they are almost parallel to each other right now. as we are side by side with the eye on the west coast of florida making impact here in the areas that you're showing in naples and fort myers, that rain band is parallel to it in ft. lauderdale and also into palm beach. brian, what i just went through and just showed you, the winds. so there will be more wind from this, a...

Here. >> reporter: quite frankly, as you can see on the camera, it's really hard to see through this driving rain. >> as the point you've made and you and i between us have covered a lot of these, no two of these are alike. there does come a moment where you feel that first gust from another direction. it has to happen some time, and it does happen gradually, but normally it's pretty apparent that it is turning a corner. kerry, finally, about andrew, it couldn't have been a more different storm. if the sheer wind strength of andrew made it look like the earth had just been sanded, bill karins ...

>> well, i was seeing lawn chairs coming up off the condos here. there are some trees that are down. lots of palm -- excuse me, lots of palm branches on the ground covering the road. yeah, there are a few trees. i'm starting to see one or two spots of blue sky now, but there are some small trees down on the road here. >> so not devastating? there's damage, but just from the wind now we're talking, not complete devastation? >> not at my location, but i'm also protected by a bunch of concrete. i'm on the third story here on a car turn around, so i had to take shelter because the winds were just ...

Brian. >> okay, buddy, i understand that. >> by the minute it's getting worse. i'm coming on in. >> can't get worse than right now. >> they are in the middle of the northern eye. >> that zero visibility due to precipitation in the air. >> yeah, eyewall, the rain rates are that intense, yeah, visibility went really low there for a second. i have been saying throughout our coverage today, i think about maybe 20% of the total cost of problems will be from wind, about 80%. i am a little encouraged that this is the worst of the winds that we are going to see. of course, we still don't know what hap...