if it happens to go a little more off the coast all night tonight, we don't get the historic to catastrophic damage, i'd be more than happy to take people piece calls and say it wasn't that bad. >> keep your fingers crossed. thank you for that. joining me by phone from weston, florida, near ft. lauderdale, congresswoman debbie wasserman-schultz representing parts of ft. lauderdale. congresswoman, how are folks in your area doing? >> well, we're in the midst of the tropical-storm-force winds that you guys were just talking about. we have pretty heavy gusts here. i, you know, weston, which is my hometown, is inland from the coast. about 20 miles. just along the everglades. and, you know, it is pretty significant wind, but not nearly as bad as hurricane-force, and so our area is not, it looks like, going to be hit directly by the hurricane-force winds, but it is and has been and continues to be an important