tide dal surge. we will try the best they can to mitigate. once again, it is not safe to be outside, it is not safe to be by windows, we hope everyone continues to be hunkered down at this time. she was talking a little bit about the pumps. this is the biggest test those pumps are getting. tell me about them. these are only designed forsea level rise in moderate rain. not designed to with stand a hurricane or massive tropical storm rains. there haes no pump that is could do that whatsoever. what they can do is after the storms help to alleviate the water over a period of time assuming they have electricity, and we of course have generators deployed everywhere we possibly can. mayor phil levine thank you soap for keeping us inform. the people should not return to miami or miami beach or those areas of the atlantic coast of florida. if you have left, don t go back
hurricane. anyone out in the open areas, even a car driving by or a heavy van is exposing themselves to some risk. power s out in the area. many did not evacuate so they are hunkering down. may be living at home without power, without any source of communications with the outside world because phone lines and even some cell phone towers have gone down for quite some time. just to have your photographer show us what you re attached to. i want to go down that way. the when that wind is as hard as it is it s probably like sandpaper on your face. yeah. absolutely. the wind and rain is really pelting me. it can hurt your face a bit, but here s what we ve got attached. literally a tow line. we got those big tow ropes just in case we got stuck in flood waters. we used them when we were in harvey just so when we follow each other through flood waters we can tow a vehicle out if it got stuck. it s really sturdy heavy duty
and take a look at what was going on, rain was much lighter, wind was much lighter. we have seen tree limbs, easily four inches snapped. 8 inches, down. also seen tops of palm trees snapped off. pauk trees are pretty darn resilient, kind of made to bend in these kinds of winds. when you start to snap tops of those, you realize you ve gotten into higher gusts. where jacob was towards naples is about the position of the storm we were earlier this morning. bill is absolutely right to give him the warning all that has happened. one of the things i saw about jacob s shot that i didn t like, want to get word to him as well, he needs to think of elevation. two things to protect yourself from, did a great job protecting from wind, but as storm surge comes in, he is too low, that parking structure was only one story. you need to get more than one story elevation, if that water starts to quickly rise, he needs a position to be able to get in there. and you re correct with south beach location as
caution, using a tow line. just an add the layer of security because the winds are beginning to pick up. we re still in a fairly safe place hunkered down with first responders. le the winds are going to continue to pick up. i ve got the safety goggle the on because the rain here is literally brienlinding. the bringing down trash cans even some smaller trees down the street. just out of the corner of my eye you can t see because it s off camera, we saw a van go down the street. not a first responder so we do know some folks are out in h these conditions which first responders will tell you is incredibly dangerous. the for the most part here they are hunkered down. they are not responding to emergency calls because of these conditions, too dangerous to go out in. this area is fairly safe because we re literally tucked up against a big concrete building here built to with stand a cat 5
before this because of rain coming in. you see the swinging topiaries in florida city, florida. migel almaguer s location. check in with chris hayes in naples. i imagine when you hear bill karins talk about how many hours it will be until this storm actually gets to you, it is cold comfort with the wind and rain already. reporter: the pace of the storm is excruciating, we saw this with harvey as well, slow storms can do a lot of damage, right, they sit and sit and mow down. that s what happened with harvey, sat there for days and dumped all that rain. this storm is moving so slowly. it is also psychologically excruciating, folks are scrambling and waiting, scrambling and waiting. if you look back there, trees are blowing south. that counterclockwise motion is now coming north south toward us as the storm pushes up. you can see where i am in, i am