people saying i m going to ride the storm out here. water coming into their homes. you re seeing the smaller signs topple over. they can t compete with this wind. power lines that are down. we have a camera in the back of our suv. you can just see how fragile everything becomes with the kind of windgusts that we re seeing. ly step away from this sign here. trees falling. i see a tree that is fallen to my right. ly ask peter to drive faster so i can show that to you. i have never seen anything like this on collins avenue. look at this right here, ali. this is a treat that had families taking photos yesterday, we saw a kite surfer trying to catch some waves. clearly a totally different
it can be catastrophic, they re maintaining the position. so they say if anyone has an emergency call, at least until the storm passes, and it is coming down hard, ali, back to you. okay, that is from florida city florida. he is next to a building that is blocking some of the wind, the rain is coming down. when the winds are this high. first responders can t get out. this is when first responders come down. they can t clear that, they can t get power back until the winds come back up. for those people in, they will have to wait this out. i see no traffic around you, but
florida keys. this is where the eye, you see the eye is over the florida keys right now. i want to go to key largo. last night i was talking to gadi schwartz, let s see what he is up to right now. what s your situation? that is right, ali. we were in florida city. we came down to see what the us 1 looked like. south dictixie highway. that s the only way in and out of the keys. we found ourselves on the southbound lane, the southbound lanes were still open, but the northbound lanes have become impassable at this point. debris washed up on the road way, so instead of turning around and exposing ourselves. we looked at the map in is where we re at right now. you can see the winds are unrelenting. we could have hours of these types of winds, so we kept the
ms we are taking the brunt of hirk irm and for more than 100 miles from the center winds blowing about 50 miles an hour with hurricane force gusts ripping through the city. do not leave your home. in dade brower county orney else. the only vehicle we have seen out here, a lone police cruiser. they tell us that they are not responding to emergency calls because it s simply going to become too dangerous for first responders to go out. yrn if yi don t know if you out the sand that has made it a quarter of a mile all the way here. if you can just imagine what this will look like a couple hours from now. that s miami beach. i m ali vel chi. it is on. thanks for staying with us.
more now on our breaking news. the sudden departure of keith olberman from msnbc. still with plenty of time on his contract, unknown right now whether he jumped or was pushed. he anchored the network s highest rated primetime news program. back with us ali vel chi, david schuster and howard kurtz, media writer for the daily beast. our political panel joins us, as well. howard, what do you make of this? while the news is stunning, anderson, but it is not that surprising. keith olberman was in a virtual war with his bosses at nbc and msnbc in recent months. during that controversy over the political donations he made to democrats, he threatened if they didn t truncate his