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Are, 63-mile-per-hour winds sustained. definitely gusting over 74 miles an hour. the threshold for hurricane force. the national weather service from broward county said that hurricane force winds should be expected this morning and into this afternoon. i'm in miami-dade county on south beach and it certainly feels hurricane force here. classic hurricane conditions behind us, trees, palm trees, there are signs that have been completely knocked over. we're protecting ourselves here because these signs, the coconuts and the tree limbs can easily become projectiles and we've said it before, we'll...

Like this come blowing through. irma is definitely here. please note that winds are coming from my back. they're blowing from the east coast to west coast. the concern is when the eye passes north of us, when the winds start to turn from west and blowing towards shore from the gulf of mexico, that's when we're going to see storm surge. right now, there are power lines that are down because we drove to this location. there are also lots of trees and tree limbs down. no major destruction yet, quite frankly we're still really early as irma is making her way to naples area. police put themselves i...

We have gotten closer to the eye as it continues to move north. winds tend to relax. those with the strongest winds, we have been looking south, they carry hurricane force gusts. next few hours, we have more of this. at any moment, you have to drop and hunker down for winds to pass by. just to tell you about the damage, we have a parking lot below us, and cars haven't shifted, there's no movement down there, good, solid, steady. tree limbs, i see metal pieces coming off roofs. it adds to debris concern. now we're getting after well, we have been doing this since 7:00, 7:30. after four or five ...

And tampa and ft. myers, they want to know what percentage is the southern half of the eye compared to that northern eyewall. because they want to know what they're going to go through after the center passes. >> reporter: okay. so if i follow, again, it is noisy, i think you said folks north of here, up in ft. myers are probably already beginning to experience some of the eyewall, i would think, at this point. then sarasota, and then further up into tampa. the strength of the wind is, at least for us, we had it at 131 miles an hour. that's what was calculated. could have been stronger. some o...

And take a look at what was going on, rain was much lighter, wind was much lighter. we have seen tree limbs, easily four inches snapped. 8 inches, down. also seen tops of palm trees snapped off. pauk trees are pretty darn resilient, kind of made to bend in these kinds of winds. when you start to snap tops of those, you realize you've gotten into higher gusts. where jacob was towards naples is about the position of the storm we were earlier this morning. bill is absolutely right to give him the warning all that has happened. one of the things i saw about jacob's shot that i didn't like, want to...