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There is no joy in reporting that hurricane maria has exploded from a category one to a category five in 72 hours. just tonight it made the list 1 storms in recorded history. also just tonight a crew member on board a hurricane hunter aircraft traveling over the top of the storm said, quote, this is about as bad as you can get. we have two reports on this storm night. one from san juan and one from the studyio. gabe i see it's hitting you with rain and wind bands. >> reporter: yeah. seems just a few days ago i was talking to you about hurricane irmaa, now hurricane maria

70-mile-per-hour wind gusts in mayport. 60 miles per hour wind gust in jacksonville, it's still there. that's what we will be concerned about here as we head into around the noon hour a. three-to-five-foot storm surge from the space coat up north. four-to-six feet. >> that combined with the heavy rain that will be in the area here for today going to lead to some tough travel conditions and also some inundation of water and the normally vulnerable spots. we will be looking out for that again, not seeing the catastrophic storm sturgeon it was a originally cast for western florida. that will not ...

Through the rain and fog behind me, but that's going to produce a lot of damage. >> chris, i want to drive the point home to people, you are in a sheltered spot where you need to be. behind you not too far, we are seeing what these localized rain and wind bands are doing to palm trees. it is going to keep going and intensify throughout the day. now the wind has reached your back. >> reporter: yeah. an hour before we had jacob soboroff a few miles west. as you get further west to the water, you get stronger winds. we're only dealing with essentially tropical storm gusts. what you see behind me ...

[ inaudible ]. it was devastated in hurricane andrew. it was rebuilt to much better building codes. i can tell you all across this region, homes here are -- the big concern is of course these wind bands continue to blow across here from north to south in many areas. that's a major concern. first responders will not go out anymore today. they don't want to put their first responders' lives at risk. the rain has also been an issue. it's hammering sideways since about 8:00 p.m. late last night. it's been picking up over night. the wind is the major concern. for the most part, we haven't seen anyb...

Saying to rene marsh yesterday out of washington, there could be millions without power possibly for weeks. a big elderly population obviously in the state of florida. how concerned are you? >> well, i'm very concerned. already in south florida we have about three quarters of a million people without power. >> three quarter of a million? >> just in south florida, because of all the rain bands and wind bands that have come in from the atlantic. as you move that state through the entire peninsula, you're going to have a lot of downed trees on the power line. they're going to a lot of people, and...