naples where the situation is going to degrade quickly. doing high wind warning for collier county in florida. just been handed power line explosion in boca raton. all these reports coming in. what do you have, bill? don t want to forget friends on the east coast. sam champion was showing a band of rain developed, torrential storms over homestead area, shift north wards up the east coast. highest storm surge will occur with that band going northward. you see homestead, 50 miles per hour gusts, that band is a torrential amount of rain, highlighting the same thing. when that kicks north wards, we will watch the highest wind gusts so far with the storm in miami area, carol city, up north
field for the strongest winds we ve seen yet in this storm. to come across the state of florida and back into that storm. and that includes everybody from miami and homestead and key largo north. we re trying to watch the timing of that band. thanks to you, by the way, for pointing it out. sam, we keep asking for descriptions of marco island for folks. for people around the country who may not know just how beautiful an area sadly is in the under the gun. yeah, it is it is gorgeous. so and people crowd to the areas that are most beautiful on this planet and this is one of those areas. it truly is. the marco island/naples area, it s kind of a beautiful seriously, these days, very luxurious home community. that s built on these canals.
people who have been saying, is it going to be that bad. should we really have evacuated. that s why we evacuated the east coast of florida. two days ago, thought this was possible over the top of that area. let me show you the distance tracker. he is in naples. we already lost key west doppler radar site. miami is getting fickle. getting break up, yeah. that s to be expected. we have other doppler sites in melbourne and tampa. we ll use them. but this is the eye here, he is still 38 miles away from the strongest winds they ll encounter in that northern eyewall. that s four hours, brian of what you re looking at now. kerry, that s the definition of cold comfort, in your case, 80 degree comfort. you re 38 miles away from the eye passing over you. and the eye is moving at a forward speed of 9 miles per hour. you say cold comfort, i have
that s what i would say in naples. we re happy to see you ve got that option of concrete. i ve been told by the control room to tell you we re going to give you a little break to go back and get reset. we re going to get reset by taking a break. we ve just had a recorded wind gust inland at 115 miles per hour. by the way, this deserves repeating, bill karin s been talking about this, the entire state of georgia is under a state of emergency. this is of course not going to stop. the story s going to remain florida. the state of georgia is the next frontier. days from now. a lot of trees in georgia. a lot of pine trees in georgia, especially in that southern portion. a lot of power outages anticipated. a quick break in our coverage. we ve got a lot to get to. a lot of people standing by. as we continue.
to wish, even when you see me in the rain suit, nothing keeps you dry. i am soaked through. my crew soaked through. wind is peeling off the the win yeah, that is true, when we ve covered these things, they have not made the garment yet that keeps you dry. you said the fourth floor so you must have a pretty good view of the area around you. what kind of damage can you see off that roof? you know, i actually did a little drive-around because we came from the naples pier and came here. the damage when we came here about i think it was about 90 minutes ago, we weren t in the hurricane force winds. they were still the tropical force winds with a few very strong gusts. so driving on the main road, u.s. 41 here, palm fronds littering the street. you have to zigzag yourself on the highway there. there s some trees that have