at the mike bettis location. cause for celebration. >> i'm hoping for it. there it is. there's the eye after getting beaten, bruised and battered. there's the eye. that's nice. that's real nice. >> watch something else extraordinary here. watch the wind as it hits the wind in the street behind him and watch that start to change. when you're in one of these, it's as surreal a moment as he just expressed to us on live television. there's the eye. there's what passes for the eye of this storm. >> and it's hard not to -- you're in the moment and he's out in this and he just saw and went through the eye wall and so -- >> look at that cloud bank right there, and he's relieved. >> look at that cloud bank. >> the image we have in the right and we call this the bug in the satellite. the eye has disappeared and we don't have the crystal clear blue sky eye anymore. the storm has weakened and it doesn't have as strong of an eye for that and this is pretty much as close as we're going to get. >> and very shortly, you will see that detroit is in the street and the kind of wind-driven

earlier today we were watching weather channel meteorologist mike bettis. as during the eye of the storm things had calmed down and we noticed mike got taken for a ride. >> saw it in real time. >> do you notice anything behind him left to right. let's bring it back and let's watch a third time. imagine us just seeing this on tv. >> we thought he got hit by a hard gust. that is rotation. >> it looks like a tornado. i don't see how it wasn't. that was a tornado that literally went right behind him. you have to know the back story on bettis to understand that people are saying if he is a cat he only has seven lives left. he was in the tornado in oklahoma and his vehicle was tossed and rolled and he will be the first to tell you they were lucky to live through that. other storm chasers died in that tornado. to be out here in the field. you don't get huge tornadoes typically in the eye. usually it is weaker tornadoes. >> water spouts. >> they will have winds maybe 90 to 110 inside the eye itself. that would have been strong enough to pick him up and toss him. >>

. >> head back over here and see if we can open up mike bettis' mike because we've been focusing on a shot that's been blown out. the important part of the shot is what's happened to the weather. >> i look at a lot of the businesses and many of them have not -- he's getting closer to the eye. it is now moving up, and if you give it another ten minutes or 15 minutes. our crew and downtown naples and we'll see things pick up on the back side and the wins are not as intense and they'll still be pretty strong. >> it's night and day. and it's fantastic. we're not going to end up being in the eye. there will still be some opportunities for windy conditions, breezy conditions, but i look way down the road, and i see flashing streetlights way down there that i couldn't see before, and this is really encouraging to see this coming in, but we do know there's still more of the eye wall to go. how much more do you think we'll have to go through before we can get out at least clear of the strongest of the winds? >> look at how spotty this is. it was just kind of fine. it was brightening just a sec

there. >> and intense winds were a threat to reporters on the ground like the weather channels mike bettistegory 4 hurricane devastating parts of key largo and countless other spots along the island chain. on the atlantic coast of florida, miami was spared the eye of the hurricane but still battered by powerful winds and a dangerous storm surge. one of the cities iconic streets flooded. high above those flooded streets the massive storms powerful winds battered cranes causing two to collapse sunday as the city recovers miami dade county schools are closed until further notice. the president spoke briefly on the hurricane as he landed back in washington. >> i hope there's not too many people on the path. that's a path you don't want to be in and we tried to warn everybody. >> later approving a disaster declaration for the state of florida. elsewhere in d.c. vice president pence visited fema workers. >> our mission here at the federal level is very simple. where ever hurricane irma goes, we'll be there first. >> even though irma has moved north of here in tampa they are expecting more rain t

. >> the angle of approach -- >> reporter: nearly knocking weather channel meteorologist mike bettis off his feet and pelting him with rain. just moments before the eye of the hurricane moved overhead. >> after getting beaten and bruised and battered, there is the eye. >> reporter: but just feet behind him a tornado swoops by pushing him down the street. now marching north irma is leaving behind a path of destruction, uprooting trees, blocking roads and ripping apart houses. and though the eye is staying west, florida's east coast is also facing the in miami parts of downtown are completely submerged. nearly 100 mile an hour winds knocking down construction cranes on top of high-rises. and tearing the roof off this building. and rivers overflow. at camp david president trump and members of his cabinet received a briefing on the storm from fema's administrator. the president is now pledging to visit florida soon. >> i think the hard part is now beginning. we will see what happens. >> reporter: the powerful winds have already left millions without power and forced thousands into shelte

betty: this is daybreak asia. yvonne: i am in hong kong. let's bring back chuck gabriel back with us from d.c. we clipped her miken betty was asking a question. how much of this will go through without the democrats? check: they will try to pass as robust a plan as they can without the democrats and if necessary and if possible they will try to bring on some democrats. they will not get down to it 20% will be arate, this nervous time for the markets. it is interesting how markets reacted. as you cry -- chronicled earlier. it was interesting to see the bank stocks rise and a lot of the expectation is that the fed is going to raise rates in december. a lot of mixed signals in this but it is time to start thinking about tax reform as a positive sum game. that is our view. betty: is the idea enough of that impetus to keep rallying the records, records for the s&p and the dollar. move.tantial chuck: i cannot explain that dollar. this is not going to apply until 2018 at the earliest and there will be some sectors that are put at risk create if you have to raise revenue, to broaden the base and raise revenues in order t

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