you, it didn t feel quite as bad as this. it certainly feels a little bit worse now, little bit harder to stand. it s hard to gauge what s happening with the trees because street signs. we have not seen any major flooding here, and we do want to stress, if you are in miami beach, you are on your own. there is no more police and fire out here to help you, jake. all right. thank you so much, kyung. alison, where is the storm now? it s officially made landfall over the keys. it did so at 9:10 this morning, now going back out over very warm water. so we don t expect this storm to change much in the next couple hours. still a category 4 storm, 130-mile-per-hour winds, you can see some of those incredibly
most victims, most fatalities in hurricanes are because of drowning. what is the biggest concern in miami right now? the storm surge consistently has been the area of biggest concern in miami beach and downtown miami. that s why they evacuated. the storm surge is what they are mostly worried about and most people or many of the people did move out of these areas. the winds they re concerned about because of the cranes. there has been a lot of construction in miami. these giant cranes that they couldn t take down in time that are still up. they are said to withstand wind gusts of 145 miles an hour. i don t think we ll get that here in miami. i hope we don t get that. these cranes twist like weather vanes in the wind but they re supposed to move. people in downtown miami have
on the speed and movement of the storm over the next several hours. allison chinchar, thank you so much for that. let s go back to cnn s kyung lah in miami beach where conditions have really even worsened in the last few minutes. what are you experiencing? reporter: you could certainly see the winds have picked up just a little bit, jake. we don t have an exact measurement of what the winds are like out here. the national weather service says in miami there are wind gusts of 100 miles per hour. so i don t have a reader. i can t tell you exactly what it what the accurate number is. i can tell you what i see and what we re feeling. we are getting blown around quite a bit. we are seeing debris on the streets. that debris could take to the air and anyone who might be out and about could be in danger of
storm intensifies, as is waters are over 90 degrees based on the gulf stream in that region. as it heads into southwest florida, tampa bay, i mean, that has always been our biggest fear is a massive storm headed into that region, plus the wind. we re deeply concerned about that. so frankly everybody in florida needs to be taking precautions. the worst is yet to scum for south, southeast florida. we haven t had power at my house since 2:00 in the morning, and so forth, but southwest florida, this is a disturbing chain of events. we praise for the best and hope people heed the warnings and you are hunkered down. you are in your home in miami. are you safe? why did you decide to ride out the storm in your home? first, i m not in a flood zone, i m not on the coast.
please stay safe. cnn s john berman is live in miami, wind gusts of miles an hour. reporter: the state of the union is wet, jake. there are 100-mile-an-hour wind gusts. stay away from the windows you re being told right now. the worst of this storm is still to come. to put it in perspective, in hurricane harvey, was 300,000 people at people without power.