the water and the chanlz. maybe more than just live on the edge of the beach. frors that s really what we ve seen with the rescue we apprec you times and you just thought maybe they re underestimate thing storm and the devastation but you realize when it comes to health or financial situation and. and i want to go to wilmington, north carolina. when i saw you yesterday you were holding up that wind meter. it looks like it s picked significantly since then.
we were going to try to walk to the beach but that s not happening. i promise you i m not over dramatizing the strength of the wind. can you can over and show how hard, they told us to expect 75 mile-per-hour winds sometime overnight. i can t hold the wind meter right now but it certainly feels like were getting close to that if not overnight. this is pretty intense. i give you another look down atlantic avenue which is deserted right now there s very little to show you accept some water, good news for daytona they re not getting a lot of damage that we know of, although as i reported before,
needs in south florida in particular. that will be the next thing we are in fact already working on. harris: that is so important right there. i made that note because fuel and gasoline so for aviation in cars is such a huge component of our coverage because you have so many people you re trying to move around. admiral brown, i know you re busy and we appreciate everything you re doing to keep people safe. god bless you and your team as you go forward with the united states coast guard tonight. thank you. thank you, harris, for the opportunity to explain. harris: this is just into the national hurricane center. wind gusts in the florida keys are nearing hurricane strength in the florida keys. adam housley is. [inaudible] adam, this latest information you are starting to feel it. adam: we been feeling it for a number of hours on the other side of the islands. were in key largo about a mile wide and at its widest where we are and we are over there and right before nightfall the winds w
wind meter. you can see the boats getting tossed around. if this things get significant and the eye wall does stay as close to our area of key largo, some of these boats are going to break loose, and when they do, they come ashore, and it can cause even more damage. so, guys, as you can tell, the conditions here are worsing ping. about the last three or four hours here in key largo it got significantly worse. power is out throughout key lahr lahr key largo. there is still cell service as of this hour, but this thing s coming ashore, and people have hunkered down. as we reported yesterday, not nearly as many people stayed for the storm as did for hurricane andrew 25 years ago. they saw the video and the pictures coming out of the caribbean, and they said, you know what? this storm is flattening some of those islands. we don t want to take a risk, and we ve met a bunch of people that drove north a couple of days ago, decided not to stay. a couple of them had to evacuate a second time a
the storm. you can see the ice forming on our wind shield right here, temperatures dropping rapidly. we just passed two accidents, another car pulled over, trying to scrape that ice from their wind shield. into the night, crews out in full force plowing roads. emergency services on call. stay inside, stay safe. don t be on the roadways unless it s necessary. reporter: sparks flying off power lines and crews are on the ready to respond to outages when the storm passes. as much as 2 feet of snow could accumulate overnight with wind chills dropping well below zero and winds gusting up to 35 miles per hour. we re looking at gusts of winds up to 20 miles per hour. it s only expected to get worse. that s why you see the streets are empty. everybody is at home weathering the storm. as you can see, conditions have worsened. i have the wind meter right here. you can see the gusts of wind blowing. right now we re looking at 20 miles per hour. it s been higher and conditions just continue to