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Florida, standing by. gabe, what's happening there? >> reporter: hey there, brian, little hard to hear you, of course. we are really getting pelted right now. the wind isn't hitting me directly, but if my cameraman, aaron sassman, can zoom in behind me, you can see the debris here in downtown naples. the wind has really knocked several limbs off several tree branches down and we've seen power lines down, transformers blowing. this is getting to be the worst of it here in the naples area. the national weather service said the emergency operations center recorded a wind gust of 130 miles an hour...

Well through this, let's go with adventure. >> right. >> we hope everything comes out okay for you guys. it's very soon we're going to be able to say you've been through the worst of it. you look about midway through this band and as the doctors tell kids around the country, only going to hurt for a brief little bit and we're hoping you'll be okay. and soon you'll be able to tell the kids they are going to see something very rare, and that is the eye of the hurricane, when the rain calms down and the wind and the noise, only to pick back up again a little bit on the other side. thanks for talk...

After the eyewall passes, it's still dangerous conditions here in naples. we're really starting to feel what the brunt of that wind feels like here. >> certainly dangerous conditions in naples. bill karins? >> just waiting to see in case we had the official landfall from the hurricane center. not yet. >> tell us what constitutes that again. >> well, you have the eye, it's 17 miles wide, and they calculate where they think the actual lowest pressure is, where the center of the storm is, and when that crosses, that is when we get the official it has made landfall, this would be for the second ti...

57th anniversary of hurricane donna coming through naples and pretty much destroying it in 1960, today, unfortunately, is that day. and we're doing hunkering down as best we can. there is lots and lots of branches and trees and things like that that have already come down. from my vantage point, i can see a lot of roofs that have been dislodged and everything else, and it's pretty amazing to see and hear the wind. if you don't experience that, i don't encourage people to go outside at all. they really need to stay inside, but i can tell you from my perspective, the wind is just pretty eerie. >...

The wind will be coming directly at me if i were to continue to stay in this position. for the residents who wonder about how things look, i'm only in one little tiny snapshot on the fourth story looking down, but i could say as i gazed around, despite the fact i've seen trees snapped, palm fronds down, some palms are actually down, i have not seen any indication of serious roof damage. i haven't seen any indication of even a store sign being blown away, but we are beginning to feel, even though i have a lull right now, we are beginning to feel perhaps the strongest winds, as bill said, becaus...