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just after 3:00 p.m. east coast, the eye crossed over a barrier island near ft. myers, florida. this is a live look at the satellite right now. you can see the immense size and strength mof the hurricane. the winds are 150 miles an hour. that's just shy of making this a monstrous category 5. this was the scene just ahead of landfall captured by a storm chaser in pine island, florida. these conditions are expected to worsen in the coming hours, believe it or not. more than 850,000 customers are without power across the state of florida. another major concern today is the storm surge. ...

like a freight train. we're seeing record-breaking and terrifying storm surges throughout florida and ft. myers, the water is so high pickup trucks are almost completely submerged. water levels have risen more than 6 feet in the last switch ho -- seven hours. let's get to tom sater in the cnn weather center. an updated forecast should come any minute now. what should we expect? >> it was just handed to me. forgive me for reading off. we still have a category 4 hurricane and five miles east of punta gorda. it will stay at hurricane strength through orlando. this will rake the entire p...

When they come through the intersections here. they have a police sergeant. they have a wind meter with them. they basically stop before the intersection. they whistle them through and make a run through the intersection as they're trying to get through, but a lot of these balloons are scraping along the road. look, trying to go through an intersection right now. we'll see how it does. but the wind has been a little squirrely. sometimes gusting, you know, probably in the 20s or so, but it's very, very difficult for these balloon handlers to keep track of them. all that said, the people here ha...

215-mile-an-hour winds gusting, and that's when their wind meter broke. they have no idea. it is something like they have not seen and they are trying to pick up the pieces of their lives as you can imagine. i want you to hear now from sherri roberts, just one of dozens of stories that we heard about trying to get through the storm. take a listen. >> it's not just us. >> no, it's everybody. >> everybody is hurting. we're not any worse than anybody else. everybody is hurting. and we thank god for life. we've got each other and we thank god for life. god is good. through it all, god is good. >> ...

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