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County, 60% of it is low land. the surge will sweep very far inland and carry things out. there will be very few places that are safe in this county. >> all right, miguel. john is in miami with the latest. we saw tropical winds in that area. where are you now? >> it's range it's not really letting up anymore. the bands have been coming, now when the heavy heavy rain goes away, we're left with this, which is merely a medium range pelting rain. the wind has started to swirl a little bit and we have starred to see lightning, anderson, fairly regularly. there are some tornado warnings for a big se...

He's been in the keys for days. let's go to john. you saw his vantage point. you saw the wind and the rain. john, what is the situation in miami in terms of the beginning of any storm surge? clearly you're getting wind and rain right now. >> yeah. right now it's about the wind and the rain here, anderson. we've had gusts consistently touching 50 miles an hour or so. a second ago it was just pouring. it's bad, but this is not as bad as it was just a few minutes ago. we got an inch or so of downpour. the concern here is like all over southern florida is storm surge. behind me you can see this ma...

The west, sorry just heard something crash there. as it's pushing to the west, they're concerned people will feel they can come out onto the street. but the storm surge here because this is such a low lying barrier island the concern is that the storm surge could rush in without people not expecting it. so the police want to make sure people are off the street. something we have seen, deteriorating condition. we continue to see higher winds, more rain. and we're not even in the thick of it yet. that's not expected until 6:00 a.m. here in miami and the miami beach area. one other thing, you can...

You're going to have significant impact on some of the residential communities around tampa bay, downtown tampa will be affected, harbor island, davis island, bayshore beloved that is world famous will be affected. the wind and rain are going to be significant. but anderson, what is compounding the problem is that the surge will occur at the same time that we have a high tide. so early, early sunday morning from probably 6:00 to about 12:00, we will have a high tide as well, so that will increase the amount of water that is being pushed up onto land. knock on wood, we're going to be okay, but ...

So he even has the energy to take the long way home. keep it up, steve! dr. scholl's. born to move. we're back with our continuing coverage of hirnl. the images there out of fort lauderdale. we're giving you as many vantage points as possible so you can see where the storm is as the outer bands move across various areas of very light rain here in ft. myers whereas earlier you saw heavy rain in miami and certainly looks like a lot of wind there in fort lauderdale. as i said before the break, this is a slow-moving stofrm, 8 miles an hour or so. so even if it hits the keys, starting with hurric...