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About 4:00 or 5:00 this morning, so that water continues. for obvious reasons, sam right now is in about the worst that we have seen. the winds are up to about 100 miles per hour gusts in that region. at times they come in and out and they can't withstand some of these ran rain bands. what i have been looking at on the radar is once this, the worst of this goes through, a lighter and drier area within a few hours of all of that moisture. the drier part of the southern part of this storm. >> 100%, rain wise it is more

City blocks from the coast. so we should be able to look over and see the storm surge. the winds have been picking up, it hurts my hand through the jacket. they're like little bebes shooting at me right now. i think bill said we might see it about quarter past. we're standing by for that, naples, marco island, no electrici electricity. i felt that one come on my right shoulder, we're beginning to feel the shift already. marco island, we got a chance to speak to the fire chief down there, chief murphy, he said they have not received any emergency calls, but they have received calls. and they wi...

And welcome back to orlando, florida as we continue our coverage of hurricane irma. miguel marquez joins us now from pen that gorda on more's west coast. bring us up to date on what's happening there. i know there's been a lot of people that have gotten out of dodge. but what's the situation? >> reporter: the winds are growing stronger, the rain the coming down harder. it's just increasing every moment toward when the main brunt of that storm will get here. this is an area that is very very sensitive to these hurricane. 13 years ago, hurricane charley came through here, much smaller storm and ...

Appreciate how they were pulled from the earth right here. >> if i need to, i can literally lay down here and that could happen later in the day as we see what happens with the storm. the winds will change direction and come from that way soon. >> how about that gust? boy, that will take it out of you.

Twoing on outside. >> thank you for watching me. they're washing the northern eye pass over creating quite a wind event, but what everyone is worried about and planning for, the major storm surge of frightening proportions. . probably nothing good. >> what you're getting right now is not the point, the point is what comes later. >> this is worse than before. these are major wind events, the trees can bend and so forth. the watt sere going out of the canals and some boats are sitting on mud, we can handle that, but we are worried about what will come next. >> the winds, tell me what is