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It out of puerto rico and landed in ft. lauderdale a couple hours ago. tell us what you saw in puerto rico. >> alisyn, we had pretty good hurricane-force wind gusts in puerto rico. luckily they dodged the bullet with the eyewall passing about 35 miles to the north of san juan. there are some damage to the power infrastructure there and some tree damage. luckily they were spared the worst of hurricane irma. >> now you're in ft. lauderdale waiting and watching as irma approaches. what are your plans to chase this storm? >> well, we've been looking at very good reinforced buildings, kind of scopi...

He road out hurricane irma there. i know you have been waiting for hours. you were there in the category five storm. we have some video that you were able to get when you were in the midst of the storm. what were conditions like? >> well, we were actually very lucky. the storm that passed 25 miles to the north of us. but there was high winds and heavy rain and hundreds of thousands of people here without power at the moment. even the airport, we're on generator power and as you said, we've been on a five hour delay to get a flight back. a lot of tree damage and infrastructure damage. but the d...

We have not felt a drop of rain at that time, but the winds we're feeling will remind you this storm is close. local officials tell me they're expecting 40 to 50-mile-an-hour sustained winds. that means they're anticipating power outages and tree damage. this ground already saturated and wet. that means the roots of those trees are weak and soaked already. while yesterday the headline was that more than 500 people in this area, cal cass sue parish had been rescued. i spoke with the director of emergency preparedness for this parish a little bit ago. he was relieved to tell me that no calls cam...

To get out, but we stayed here. >> because you texans are like that. >> we're tough. >> how did it go? how did it play off? >> well, it went very well until the power went out this morning at 2:06:00 a.m. we also caught a lot of wind. it was very scary last night. my daughter was upset. she's 15 and she was upset with us being here. my wife and i just hunkered down with her, and we just said it's going to be okay. when the sun came up, we could see what happened. there's a lot of tree damage. we also had some damage on the roof where the shingles are flying all over the place. flooding is mino...

And keeps the stronger winds confined more. and always have a little opening on it. you can still see the eye and still not all the way wrapped around. if that happens, then we will quickly jump up to a category 3, maybe even strong category 3. that is one of the mysteries we have until landfall. as far as the forecast goes. remember, this was the 5:00 a.m. forecast. we're waiting for the new update that will come out in less than an hour from now. we'll bring that to you live. 120 mi-mile-per-hour winds frid afternoon and landfall around 8:00 p.m. and maybe midnight or as late as 2:00 to 3:00...