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>> triple digit heat index. no power, no ac. before hurricane irma made its way to florida, it caused widespread damage in st. thomas. boat tipped over near the u.s. custom the border protection office at crown bay. u.s. virgin islands just devastated. >> st. zwron some of these resorts just wiped away. french president travelled to the devastated island the of st. martin and st. bart, french control all or part of both those islands. meantime in cuba the death toll at 10. cleanup efforts also under way there. you were there during the storm pretty much a direct hit. patrick oppmann. >> report...

The evacuated returning home for the first time since the hurricane. >> thought this would never happen. >> cars moving down u.s. 1, the only highway in or out of the florida keys. >> if you had to describe in a few words how you feel about all of this, what would it be? >> frustrated. angry with the whole situation. just watching the news and not knowing what's going on with your house and everything, your life. >> you can see damage throughout key larg oh, plantation, and islamorada, but they're considered lucky compared to the lower keys. in islamorada, marilyn and her family are trying to ...

Of hurricane irma but the city is still faced with a huge laundry list of issues in the storm's wake. mike tobin joins us now from tampa. mike. >> reporter: jon, the way one police officer reported to me in the early morning hours as the storm had evaded this town, at this time got lucky. now they're trying to get back to normal. we watched as the boards came down from the windows in the stores opened up. the damage out here not as expensive as was. but the damage really came into forms, or exist in two forms i should say. there was flooding. to the west of here is lakeland, florida, there we ...

Irma's first u.s. landfall, we know that it was just hours later, irma slammed ashore again, making landfall in marco island and plowing through na e naples, where we were, live on the air. it hit more than 140 miles per hour. tonight, what we witnessed at daybreak today when we could finally see what irma had done. tonight, the new images from naples, florida. under water. entire neighborhoods swallowed by the storm. this home's roof, gone. the right side collapsed. it was here that hurricane irma hit with the highest wind gust reported in florida. 142 miles per hour, as we were on the air. l...

Sarasota. the hurricane came abruptly 20 miles of us and wind it was near 100 120 miles per hour. >> jon: how does it compare with other storms you have been in? >> most of the time i'm chasing tornadoes and it is very comparable to tornado chasing except it's a very long duration tornado if you want to look at it that way. these wind speeds are very comparable to tornadoes. we had a wind system of over 13. that is easily a category three tornado. i very long-duration of high wind speed event. >> jon: what are the folks there where you are saying about it in comparison to other florida hurrica...