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You find this all the way up and down the coast. the air assessments and the ground assessments. at some point they'll reopen this area. right now it's still not open. the bridges are safe. there's damages to the bridges. they're passable. they have to get here and clear the roads and the power lines are down. they have to clear that out before they let locals back in. at this point, we don't know the casualties. they still haven't had a chance to go door-to-door yet. back to you in new york. >> neil: thanks, adam. great reporting in key largo, florida. on the phone with us, guys that chase th...

In this case, we got irma. we wanted the eye to measure the lowest pressure it has. in order to do that, we had to head further to the east. in all those locations where it was ground zero where it was the worst, we were the only ones there. >> neil: do your families think you're crazy? i mean that with great respect. >> yes. our families are around us as little toddlers and planting our faces to the screen of the window when a storm would come by. they knew our passion. maybe at first they thought we were crazy, maybe up to the age of 10. by the time we graduate high school, they just accente...

>> i watched that video over and over yesterday. it's justin drake braving 117-mile-per-hour winds, nearly getting blown away. this was not a prank. he's gathering data on the storm. >> that's and mom ter what he's holding in his hand. it's a hand wind thing. >> perfectly positioned himself into the eye to see what the highest wind recording he could get. >> justin joins us along with simon brewer who shot the video. guys, that was kind of incredible. justin, you were trying to get an accurate wind measurement and you have a device that can can measure 117 miles an hour? >> that's correct. wha...

Seen it. >> rhule without velshi. simon, you were gathering and photographing this but you're also a meteorologist. >> yes, we're both meteorologists. and we're both documenting the storm. this is what we do. we're extreme weather journalists and both meteorologists so that helps us to do our job much better. and justin and i at the time were taking turns going outside and getting wind measurements. we were getting incredible wind gusts. even if we wanted to, it would be almost impossible to drive away. just being parked in the position we were parked, the car was shaking. if we would have tri...

The miami area. we were able to explore each one of the keys after the hurricane had hit so we could document what type of damage was done by the hurricane itself. and then we were able to get off of those islands and now we're back on the islands. >> what did you learn? >> learned that irma was a very powerful hurricane. just two weeks ago, simon and i were chasing harvey over there in the corpus christi, houston area. at the time, that was the strongest hurricane i had ever chased and irma even topped that one. >> simon, at some point, did you feel like getting in the car and driving off? th...