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Fishing village called goodland just east of marco island. we were able to get on to marco island. that island has been reopened and residents that were there, 17,000 or so able to get back on. that island withstood the power and the fury of hurricane irma rather well, but it is a different story in goodland, florida, which is a small little fishing village at the very bottom of florida and the edge of the everglades and the gulf of mexico, and this is a small little village that just took a clobbering from hurricane irma. this is very typical of the scene that we have seen here on the island ...

How are things there now? >> reporter: well, let me put it to you this way. i am standing on the bottom of the marina. not on a dock. not on a boat. literally on the muddy bottom of the marina here. you can mussels down to the bottom. i shouldn't be able to do this. about 30 or 40 feet of the whaert go water has gone out of the bay. sitting not in water but in mud. that water keeps getting forced out. one could completely nerd out on mother nature here it is just, the wind is blowing so hard towards the west, blowing all the water out of the river. check this out. this is, these are the piling...

Behind the lagoon without a doubt. all these homes, there will be water on the first floor if storm surge goes to where it is projected. and we are not talking about the wind yet. there are palm trees, projectile coconuts flying all over the place. stuff that i can't comprehend standing here. bill karins is 100% right. we are not out here in a couple hours' time. if this is the beginning of it, i can only imagine what it is like when it gets to the worst. >> bill karins will look at the winds. >> gusts in 60 to 80 miles per hour range where he was standing. you have to focus on water levels be...

Anything probably above -- above 10 to 11, probably have water in their house. actually say on north beach, some of the areas where they're basically at sea level, most of those structures are at least on, on pilings and they're 10, 12 feet off the ground, but that means their cars are going to get -- if they leave their cars out there in the storage rooms underneath, they're going to get full of water and, of course, dhau couple that with the wind pounding on them, we don't know the effect. that's why the folks on the two island, mustang, padre, the north beach, need to evacate and get away f...

Bridges don't open. now, in 2012 when hurricane sandy badly damaged the pilings to the pier, that eventually made it inaccessible to the public, causing this to close in 2015. while this massive submarine doesn't technically have to go under the eviction notice, environmentalists say it should, and the only way to get it out is to dismantle her piece by piece, cut it up. lot of people don't want that to happen either. those who run the museum say there's a plan they have in place that they would like everybody to look at. but we'll have to wait and see what happens. >> julie: all right. laura ...