seen a ton flying down the streets. they did a very good job in the hours before the storm trying to take care of as much as they could. we ve seen a garbage can or two but for the most part not too much debris. the powerful wind is doing a lot of damage. as a matter of fact, p we know much of this region is without power. we re told that first responders won t come out on the streets for several more hours. nobody here will likely get power back until at least a day or two if not longer. the mayor says most of the city has00kerred down in place. the rain is still coming in h sideways pelting us. coming down pretty hard. it s the wind causing most of the damage. we re a good 8 to 10 miles inland so not concerned about storm surge as much as about the powerful winds. that is the place careful. that is the place from which a
concrete, piece of scaffolding that comings off of the building, every neighbor thatwi. so that s why we tell people, clear the debris. we try to give people warning after warning to get the debris out of the way because anything that s left out, that s why you saw people taking the city taking the trash cans off the street. i remember in new orleans, i almost got nailed by a trash can and it seems harm lts but if that thing is howling at you at 70 miles an hour, it s not harmless. little thing like that. all right. sand buy. i want to go back to miguel am ma geerp. what the situation where you are? it looks like it s picked up substantially? reporter: yeah. alley those whipping winds do continue to be a problem. speaking about debris we haven t
winds here is they re not going to be consistent everywhere you think there are. there are places inland that get remarkable wind and at the levels of wind that you got there, not hurricane force yet, there is remarkable damage that can get done. i just talked to the city commissioner for miami beach that said debris is their biggest concern. yeah, and you make an excellent point. so often people start to think about the damage of a hurricane much like the damage of a tornado. then try to follow that storm and say it is bad here, here, here, and here. once we have contact with land what happens in a hurricane is it really is bans. and the best way to see it is look at the radar and see what is going on in the radar with the wind and the rain. each one of them are little cells feeding moisture and wind feeding into the eye of that storm. each one of those is varying difference of wind speed. so when you look at it, you re
says he believes the city will be safe. he thinks folks will hunker down and try to ride out the storm. we could hear what sounded like pieces of the roof beginning to peel off. this morning it appears it is in tact. it was a precarious scene overnight, and the weather here is beginning to slow down a little bit. it hits us, and we can go back to our safe quarters. make sure you go back. trees and signs coming down. stay with us, you do what you have to do, i m seeing more debris in the streets, what s the situation where you are. i don t know if you can make
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