cynthia? >> maya, we're going to be back to you throughout. thank you very much for that report. joining us now is nbc's meteorologist steve sosna, who has been tracking irma's path. steve, what's the latest? >> well, what we have for you is still a category 2 storm, which is nothing to sneeze at here. it is not as strong as it was in the keys, but it's still delivering impacts that are going to be very disruptive and just down right dangerous, especially now that we don't have daylight across central florida. 66 miles per hour at the international airport in orlando. 63 miles per hour in lakeland. the center now is getting close to tampa, so the wind has gone from a westerly direction to more of a north to mostly direction, and eventually it's going to start pivoting down from the north and northwest. so that's going to be signaling that the eye is passing north of you. then that water from the gulf of mexico can start to come on in here. so we've had it easy from tampa