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Think they got the word out and were trying to get people into their respective shelters, or to try to get them to move out and head to higher ground. >> al, i'll let you go after this. a little bit of a concern tonight to your northeast is that orlando and given the valuable real estate there in just how much of the tourism business that florida needs and wants flows through that city. orlando is going to get more storm that they had banked on. >> well, look, we kept telling -- not to say -- to beat a drum here, but we kept saying this system, and i know you talked about it too, this system w...

Now we're not going to get with the center of the storm almost heading towards in between orlando and tampa, we're not going to get those high gusts in tampa and the sarasota area. this is probably as high as you'll get in the 50 to 60, maybe at worse the 70-mile-per-hour range. no complaints from you on that. try to go in one more time here just to show that northern eye. if we do still have the potential for 100-mile-per-hour wind gust it would be in this area here. let's see if we can pinpoint smaller towns further up to the north here. there's port charlotte. this is placid lake. so this i...

Hasn't come yet, it's not coming? >> we're not going to be able to relax until some time tomorrow afternoon, probably at the earliest. our tampa bay has -- it was -- some photos on the local media of manatees that have gotten stranded because the storm has emptied the bay. the potential of all that water coming back into the bay is dangerous. and we're just holding our breath that the surge will not be as great now because the track of the storm has moved further to the east. >> you ever think you'd see a day when people were walking their dogs across tampa bay? >> brian, i am a native of pine...

Here. and in that aspect, i think it's lived up to it. the idea that maybe we weren't going to see the 15 feet of storm surge in naples. that's good news. i would rather be overprepared and have people make their way to shelters than to say not prepare people and then the worst happens. i think this has played out, i think pretty well. and when you look at it, there has been a tremendous amount of damage, especially down in the keys in southeastern florida, miami, broward counties. i think it's lived up to what we said it would do. >> al, it's bill here. i know you were in miami area and then ...

The northern keys of cuba. these were 125-mile-an-hour sustained winds. this was the first category 5 storm to hit cuba since 1932. a lot of the area that was hit are these one-story buildings. you can imagine the damage that was taken there. the flooding then went into havana. some video from havana. this storm surge came in about five blocks. it came into the u.s. embassy. it surrounded that entire area. and it's waist deep water at the very least for five blocks into the city of havana. here's what i don't like. we haven't heard specifics out of cuba. we haven't heard a death toll or anythi...