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you know, i didn t quite hear everything you said, brian. but i can tell you i can tell you that al and i were in the fort myer area yesterday. we finished the broadcast with a beautiful sunset and looked at each other it doesn t look like a hurricane is coming. we sat here on the river starting at about 5:30 this morning. and light sprinkles and barely a breeze for much of the day. and suddenly it s here. all day on the radar. so you know it s coming. but everything around you. it is here. and i don t think we re at hurricane-force winds, are we? i m sorry, say it again? hurricane-force winds yet? no, not yet. we re right now about a 55, 60-mile-per-hour winds, which still is tropical force. so, you know, we still have a ways to go. but the good news is one of the things when we talked with the mayor this morning, he said over the last couple years have removed 50 tons of debris in the drains, that we re looking at these drains here.
Probably weighs about 25 pounds. you can see the wind really hard. this is the kind of projectile that can be a real danger in a hurricane. so rather than let it fly across when i saw it i picked it up and now i will dump it to a place where the wind isn t. this is the danger of things flying around. kerry sanders who deserves to spend the remainder of september towelling off after today was in the grip of the storm and these relentless rains all day. here in our news room in the safety of interior 30 rock in new york city cal perry has been on the computer all day and all night. i have another one for you. let s roll the tape. this is one of our friends. this is friends and family nbc. there we go. downtown miami earlier today. any guesses?
High force winds. brian? there is that sound. for people who aren t familiar with it, it sounds a little bit like a teakettle. and would that it were something as innocuous as a teakettle. it s a terrible noise because it only happens at the upper levels of the incoming winds. catie, tell us about power. we ll let you go, but do you have power where you are? and is there power in the orlando metropolitan area? there is power at this point. the worst of this storm is believe it or not still yet to come for orlando. the strength that we will see later will happen between 12 and 2:00 a.m. we re told. and that is really going to be a critical window where we ll find out will all of these families that are hunkered down here be without power for the next few days. and that is still yet to be seen. but with the winds the way they are, it would seem likely. that s our own catie beck who by the way has spent a good part of her career doing investigative journalism and covering some very
Onshore. so my friends that are up here in d-back, new smyrna beach, you re next with that heavy band. that s going to have significant power outages with it and the possibility of tornadoes. so you want to get to your safe place if you re volusia county and flagler county as that band heads north. and then we re going to continue to track the eye there in center of the storm. we were talking about the orlando area, lakeland. these are the areas who will be next to go through the really heavy stuff there in that northern portion that of eye, of what s left of the eye. it s still maintaining itself pretty good. the one thing i was noticing, brian, on the maps here was the up to the north here so, if we got i-4 here, here is hane city down toward wards through polk county. towards the eye of fort immediate, bowling green. look at this thunderstorm that still is with us here in the northern eye. this is intense convection. florida is very flat. the friction doesn t affect the storm as muc