. >>> let's go back to msnbc's phillip menia who is in ft. lauderdale. how are things looking since we talked an hour ago? >> reporter: well, the weather conditions here have deteriorated. it's doing so rapidly. there were gusts of wind that were just blinding for a long time, but i want to show you something that we noticed just in the last few minutes here. that parking lot behind me that was full of cars and -- when we started just a couple of hours ago, we can see the pavement and now there are vehicles where their tires are halfway covered in water. and to the right there's a concrete barrier where they have -- not barrier, but containment for trash bins usually. that is all filling up. and that is a blast of wind and rain that we got. and that is a big concern out here is the wind and the rain that has picked up. we had been seeing it in bands but those bands are becoming -- are coming through a lot more quickly, a lot more frequently and it's hitting us that much more stronger every single time it comes through. and at its peak it's hard to even k

. >>> let's go back to msnbc's phillip menia who is in ft. lauderdale. how are things looking since we talked an hour ago? >> reporter: well, the weather conditions here have deteriorated. it's doing so rapidly. there were gusts of wind that were just blinding for a long time, but i want to show you something that we noticed just in the last few minutes here. that parking lot behind me that was full of cars and -- when we started just a couple of hours ago, we can see the pavement and now there are vehicles where their tires are halfway covered in water. and to the right there's a concrete barrier where they have -- not barrier, but containment for trash bins usually. that is all filling up. and that is a development we just noticed after this latest blast of wind and rain that we got. and that is a big concern out here is the wind and the rain that has picked up. we had been seeing it in bands but those bands are becoming -- are coming through a lot more quickly, a lot more frequently and it's hitting us that much more stronger every single time it come