right now you can see that there are streetlights that are still on. the storefront lights are still on. also, what kind of debris is coming down? so far we re hearing from the city and seeing ourselves that it s not too bad. i m just going to show you what exactly we re seeing out here. this is the kind of thing, these palm fronds are falling off the trees. once the wind kicks up, they start to sail and they can actually do some damage. what we re hearing in terms of the forecast is that starting now at 10:00 p.m., we ll start seeing hurricane-force winds. those winds will average around 80 miles an hour. going all the way up in terms of gusts to around 100 miles an hour. that s a category 1. the eye of irma, we have learned in the past hour, is not going to pass over sarasota. it is going to the east about 20 or 30 miles east of sarasota.
what s it like? reporter: yeah, you know, the rain has stopped. i could actually take off my rain jacket but my shirt is soaking wet that the wind is making it cold, so i couldn t do that up. unpacked a lot of good news in that intro. basically, i think, irma hurricane irma underdelivered in tampa because we missed the eye and it went more inland. and south florida it overdelivered. i think they got more than they expected. as for the situation here in tampa right now, it s much calmer than it was before. the eye passed us. there is no rain right now. wind is a factor. if you point up to the traffic lights and traffic signs, they re rattling a little bit. the palm trees are swaying. the palm fronds are snapped. you don t see much debris on the road, to be quite honest, other
ryan todd is enduring the wind of one of the outer bands of the hurricane. he s in west palm beach on the east coast of florida. bryan, what are you going through there? well, jake, we re inside the window now of one of the most intense hurricane force activity we were probably going to get for the next several hours. and we re also getting pop up tornadic activity. if you look behind me, the intensy of the wind. it looks like that palm could come down. the palm fronds along with the coconuts have become projectiles. and we re going to walk a little bit. these street signs really wobbling. and now we re getting pelted with a really heavy rainfall. i just talked to the mayor of
how strong these winds have been. we ve seen trash cans and signs literally wash down the street. you can probably seen the fronds on top of the palm trees or blowing sideways. for the most part, from our vantage point here to remain mostly intact. they were prepared for catastrophic damage here over the last several days. fuss buses picking up any vaevacuees. they say as of yesterday, there was only one bus here halve full. they took those last out. most of the city is hunkering down in place and like lie riding out the storm. as a matter of fact, the mayor told us the majority are riding out the storm. they re certainly this is about as strong as very
reporter: i am going to check to make sure there is no water creeping up towards our car about a block away. we are in a safe place. some of these office buildings have really highlanding. we are dry high landings. the roads, totally impassable. shep: that s brickle south of downtown miami. over at the bay, phil keating is there. it s kicking up, right? reporter: the watters are without a doubt rising. branches broken, palm fronds broken all over the place. a tree fell over. i want to show you the water situation in the marina. when we got here this morning