thank you for bailing me out there. the water always wins. mike got wet, shorted out, and that is the least of our concerns but thank you very much. the changes in the path very relevant to many people on the ground here in florida. we ll check back in a bit. we saw bill weir in the keys, the first to get hit. 300,000 people at least without power. here in naples we re not supposed to see the worst of it for 12 hours from now and already things are going bad here. where are they worse? miami beach. that s where we have derrick van damme monitoring the situation. he is getting punished right now. good thing he has the goggles on. what is it like? reporter: chris, this wind is punishing. it s picking up tiny grains of sand from the beach that s about 100 feet to my left. and it s also starting to pick up debris which is not good.