but it s the west coast that will see the storm surge 1 to 3 feet, get more into the winds and rainfall. the good news is lighter amounts will be in miami and the surfside area. but they ll contend with a little bit of activity that will cause them to halt their progress. all right, tom satyr, thank you so much. so listen, the roads, the airports, everything is packed as everyone s getting back to pre-pandemic life, but it may be catching some people off guard. plus, an update on the health of pope francis after his surgery on sunday.
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power because of irma. we saw ourselves in the hotel we were staying at the restaurant s ceiling was about to collapse after irma. it almost did this morning because of the damage sustained by hurricane maria. you ve got to be 90 years old to have seen something like this before. tropic rains were horizontal, continually borrowing around e continually blowing around the hotel. you had to get out because of that gas leak. you see the images, rivers of water cascading through the streets. and the strength of this storm as tom satyr was saying, now that it s left puerto rico. we have the governor of puerto rico on the line. governor, how is the island tonight? how extensive is the damage? anderson, the damage is very extensive.
well. i want to go to cnn s tom satyr. what s the path at this hour? well, nick paten walsh said it. the last time a category 5 made landfall was in 1928. look, don, we re at 175. we re going in the wrong direction here, and unfortunately it s just sit and watch this ungold. right now about 45 miles from st. croix. it s about 140 now from making landfall in puerto rico, which we believe will be about 8:00 or 9:00 in the morning. and it has a pinhole eye. and sometimes a pinhole eye, the smaller they are, the more ferocious they can. be speaking of irma, in yellow that s the track. it stayed offshore by 50 miles and still many lost power. many got it back.