marco island, we have one little spot what corner, do you know exactly where you are, steve? reporter: yeah. we re right on fifth avenue, and props to the [inaudible] for having an amazing, safe hotel and for taking us in and for taking in first responders. this is the hotel of choice for your category five hurricane. [laughter] shepard: steve harrigan, be by the inn at fifth. another prop for the inn at fifth right there on fifth avenue very near downtown naples. so that s the heart of the city, and what a beautiful place it is on a normal day. not so much today. all this is headed north toward or fort myers, and i think the eye of the storm has just about left marco island. jim castos is riding out the storm on marco island. did you get the eye there, jim? it s still calm shepard: still calm.
view. these pictures from aptn, associated press television news. just incredible to look out over the landscape there. you wonder what it was like at cudjoe key, once you get there, you re almost to key west. you can almost taste mallory square by then, see the cat lady walking by and waiting for that perfect sunset at mallory square. i wonder, key west on the drier side of the storm, on the best side of the on the west side of the storm when it went by. it ll be interesting to see what everything looks like there. i can tell you one thing, they ll fix it up and get right back after it. they always have. can t imagine that changing. now they re dealing with it in names. and the in naples. and the storm is headed north toward the fort myers area. let s listen. incredible.
to wait and see if it actually does happen, shepard. shepard: i think it will. janice dean is with us watching. janice, this is the front edge, the leading eye wall, we presume. reporter: that s exactly right. if you look at the radar, you have the strongest winds right now over steve harrigan. and we re saying 115 mile-per-hour sustained winds right mow from the national right now from the national hurricane center. that s their latest advisory. and as steve mentioned, i think around 4:50 p.m. eastern time is when he will experience that crazy calm when the eye of the storm actually comes over steve. shepard: how s it going, steve? reporter: it s fine, shepard. i know, i know that you d like to be here right now. [laughter] shepard: you always want to be where the storm is but, you know, you do what you do. reporter: yeah. you re doing a great job there. [laughter] shepard: it s very dry here, and
miles an hour. central pressure is 939 millibars, so it keeps getting weaker. it s now moving, and we speculated about this earlier, it looked to us on the radar like the storm was moving faster than 12 miles an hour, it is. it s now moving due north, still due north, at 14 miles an hour and expected to pass through naples in the next few minutes and then on to marco island. i meant on to fort myers. the next order of business is to get a live report from the national hurricane center down in miami. and we ll be able to do that at the top of the hour with their chief forecaster down there with specifics about where this storm is going as it moves north. a quick commercial break, and we ll have that for you right after this. grams of protein, ad 26 vitamins and minerals. for the strength and energy, to get back to doing what you love. ensure, always be you.
it. we are going to get another update, a full update at 5 p.m. eastern time with the full coordinates and whether the storm will continue its weakening trend. certainly, that seems to be the case, which is good news. but this is a storm surge story with all these vulnerable coastlines. so that s an ongoing threat especially as we get into the tampa bay area. shepard: no doubt. look at wsvn interviewing someone on the streets in florida. listen to this. here we go. we re going to let you get inside, we re going to do the same. all right. all right. stay safe, we ll be talking to you soon. those are the folks we re actually seeing out here shepard: you know, 4:10 p.m., so, like six minutes ago, sustained winds of 87 miles an hour in name, but a gust of 131 at the naples municipal airport. at 4:10 p.m. eastern daylight time. so just six minutes ago, 131 miles an hour.