abaco, that s the area that got hit when it was 185. i can t believe there s anything left of that. at least that man said he talked to someone on abaco and they were okay. it wouldn t be out of the question that no one would be okay. i mean, everyone could have had some type of damage or water or whatever it might be, 25 feet. this island is 30 feet tall tops. so y all had to get to the right place at the right time to survive that. hopefully that is the case for everybody out there. communication, to be very honest, with abaco has been impossible. even people with sat phones haven t been able to get there. here is the storm right now moving over freeport, moving 1 mile an hour. it s going to move close to the coast of the u.s., very close to the space coast as it sticks out, cape canaveral. as it gets closer, the winds will pick up. we are going to get winds, gusts to 90 miles an hour along florida east coast. that is a hurricane gust. that s why hurricane warnings
flooded and close to the island by me. where are you on the island and are there shelters a little bit more inland if you re on the coast? yeah. there were about 15 or 16 shelters in total. all of them in land on the coast. specifically i m in the area of south bahamia, city the freeport. i m also inland. so there wasn t any concern that would bring about the need to evacuate to a shelter from my household, but there are quite a number of shelters. thank you for taking the time to call in. i m glad you reached people you were trying to get ahold of yesterday. let s get the latest on the forecast. chad myers joins us from the
weather center. look at the image of freeport, what i saw with my layman s eye, the eye seems to be right on it. that s when it s not as bad, meaning are they going to get worse? the eye is 20 miles east of freeport right now. they are in the eyewall. they aren t as bad as it will get, they are probably 120 miles an hour and headed to 140 before the eastern eyewall passes over. this is what it looks like from space right now. this the visible slight. maybe you can t from the tv but i can. you can see the ocean through the eye, completely the eye. here is the reporter, patrick oppmann and the other reporter we had on the phone. here is freeport. here is where it s calm right there. they are getting the north part of the storm here. this the south wind here. they are filling up this harbor near freeport with certainly big surge. but this here, this island,