manning for now. he has now gone further into the keys. just so you know, many of you are tweeting about the safety of the reporters,k key largo is where the emergency crews have gone to stage to get ready. mayor, you re getting serious winds up in ft. lauderdale. yeah, we re getting very, very strong gusts coming through. not as severe as we re seeing in other parts of the state, but listen, this is such a huge storm, it is just amazing. the intensity, we re seeing substantial gusts coming through here. it looks like it will be a very long day. everybody should be inside, what is your concern in ft.
if i push this way on camera, i m pushing east. the winds are coming straight off of the beach. now they re coming from the north a little more. we re twecompletely blocked. the winds are getting the full force of the wind and we have a little protection from the wind where we re standing. so gauging what is going on out there is looking at the trees. you see how they re constantly getting a little but the way we know it s a slul it is laying over side ways. one of the things we have been following is the ban that we showed at key largo. there have been 80 to 90 miles per hour winds. that ban is lifting to the north. when it gets to homestead, and then lifts a little towards miami, that s when we will see
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