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Morning don't expect to see the worst of it yet. it will just start to be getting windy at 8:00 a.m. when the sun comes up. and then as we go through the day that's when things really start to ramp up. look at this. by 1:00 p.m., there's the eye, so, we're going to be close to a landfall a little after noon, local time here. remember, the western portion, this is right where the time zone changes here, right where it's going to be making landfall. 109-mile-per-hour winds early in the afternoon. so once you get to winds at about 50 to 60, that's when you start losing power. so during the middle...

>> in andrew, i had 500 employees without home. we didn't have this amount of wind. andrew was not as big as this is. this is 185-mile-per-hour wind. and they're tracking even higher than that sometimes. it's -- this has the potential for significant storm surge. we didn't have that in andrew. if you remember last year and it happened in an area where we didn't -- there were citizens but not like in a major area. we had ten feet of storm surge. that devastated, i mean, it goes in for miles. so, you've got -- we have a plan in every community for how -- if we're going to have a sorm surge how f...

The impact expected to be catastrophic. it's all about which way it goes. devastating sorm surge, life threatening winds, you know the factors. the question is where. we're watching it closely. >> the storm could hit florida by the weekend. they are declaring a state of emergency. now rushing to stores and lining up at gas stations. joining us now are two americans trapped currently in the hurricane. on the island of go wa da loupe. and she took some video of the storm battering the hotel. with her is her friend rachel. they are on a business trip on the island. ladies, thank you so much for j...

Most houses intact, but as fema reported earlier, erin, almost every single house damaged in some way. we put the hel kaumeicopter in d near here because this area looked hard hit. this trailer area, this camground, we see trailers blown over. there's an airstream on its side, and we came over to this house that was mostly destroyed. the sorm surge, the storm surge came up about two feet here in this mucky silt is everywhere, much deeper than this in many places. when we got to this house, we found armando, who is here with me now. armando, come here for a sec. armando chose to try to ride out...