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Can only imagine the damage that's being done to structures around the place. the hotel we're in is one of the few hurricane-rated buildings in this immediate area, and people have come from all around. they're even in the lobby there. there's no rooms of course. the rooms are taken mainly by locals who took the advice and moved out of their own places and came here. >> that's interesting, michael. it's important for viewers we don't just put you out there in the middle of those gusts, that you have found a way to shedder yourselves. you are showing us a picture of the rain lashing down. i've ...

Think we're starting to get those tropical storm-force winds and michael is starting to get a little bit stronger winds but we're going to wait and see and we are in also ourselves in an area where this hotel that we're in is fortified, windows can take up to 150-miles-per-hour winds, and it is concrete so it's solid. but the hotels along the coast have told people for the most part, you have to evacuate. we've been in a couple different hotels and they have told all of their guests, we are sorry but we're making this decision for your own safety, you must evacuate, however they're letting som...

Officials here in this area is that people were not heeding the warning and in fact they say it's definitely too late. they're asking people who didn't evacuate to hunker down. >> man, if that storm surge -- >> reporter: miguel and christine. >> -- and that storm and high tide hit at the same time, it is going to be devastating. ro rosa, thank you. the death toll in haiti, should dispel any doubts about whether hurricane matthew, the storm blamed for at least 269 deaths there, southern haiti was hit especially hard, torrential rain and 125-mile-an-hour winds damaged homes, flooded villages a...

Just come through here, and again, it is that situation where you're getting those bands. this time it was just strong winds, whipping and the wind tends to change directions, sometimes it's going this way and then it will suddenly turn on you and you can watch sort of the spinning of the water that's in the air and the moisture that's in the air, and then there will be some rain that comes through. but we haven't had much rain interestingly. we know the storm is moving very slowly and that's a bad thing, if it's raining a lot because that can cause more flooding, and we're still talking about...

Florida, that's where cnn's michael holmes joins us, and michael, you're being lashed by wind and rain there. what are you seeing? >> reporter: yeah, wind and rain, i'll tell you, christine. you know, they said that worst of this would be between probably 4:00 a.m. and 7:00 a.m. at 3:30 a.m., i can tell you in the last couple hours, it has really ticked up here. the emergency services a couple hours ago said we're not going out anymore. if you've got yourself into trouble you're on your own until this abates. we've also seen massive amount of power outages. we've seen transformers blowing all ...