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Bill and randy are and points to the south. so you mentioned that this made landfall at 150-mile-per-hour winds. that ties charlie, which made landfall at 150 miles per hour, but this storm is much, much bigger. so the impacts for this storm is going to be much more far reaching than charlie was. >> all right. stand by, jennifer. i want to go back to randy in punta gorda right now. randy, so tell us about the wind conditions that you are experiencing right now. >> reporter: wolf, we are experiencing the worst wind that we have seen here. on the front end it was nothing like this before the eye...

Category. what is she experiencing in punta gorda? >> most likely winds close to 100 miles per hour gusts. just like bill, experiencing that for much of the afternoon. what an exhausting experience for not only our reporters out there, but the people that maybe didn't evacuate and they are living through this and you have indef several more hours to go. torrential rains across this area. look here. you can see those areas of bright red, orange and yellow. this is where the heaviest rain is. we are seeing rainfall rates at 3 inches an hour. sometimes even more. so the possibility of flooding is...

That holds up against this kind of wind, wolf. yeah, the wind is horrible right now. worst it's been. stand by. jennifer gray is still with us over at the cnn weather center. what do we know about the speed of the winds right now in punta gorda? >> well, she is right on the eyewall. so you are going to be experiencing the strongest winds within this storm. this storm still has winds of 140 miles per hour. so she is likely experiencing winds close to that right now. and just looking at her pictures, you can tell these are the strongest winds she has experienced throughout the entire course of t...

Bit. now he is on that back edge. you hear us talk about it all the time where we have the eyewall come through, which is the nastiest part of the storm, and then you're in the eye. things get calm and then you have to get ready for the back side of this. so bill is basically in round two of hurricane ian and he is experiencing winds very strong, possibly more than 100 miles an hour yet again. i know he is inside his safe place. but just outside could be experiencing winds of that magnitude. he had winds earlier today of more than 100 miles per hour for more than an hour and a half, wolf. so h...

>> we will get back to you. we want you to be safe, you are in the garage. we are looking at the live pictures coming in. kevin guthrie, he is the director of the florida division of emergency management. kevin, thank you so much for joining us. thanks for all you are doing. what can you tell us about what randi kaye in punta gorda is experiencing right now? >> your meteorologist hit the nail on the head. the back side storm surge and the back side winds can be actually worse than the front side storm surge and the front side winds. you showed a graphic where those winds on the back side were ...