Of 130 Miles Per Hour, that sat category 4 hurricane. Three deaths are reported in florida after more than two dozen were killed in the caribbean. This is a very wide storm. Hurricane and Tropical Storm winds extend out more than 200 miles from the center, nearly 2 million homes and businesses have lost power so far. Well over 100,000 people have taken refuge in shelters. We are going to check in were adriana diaz who is in orlando, adriana. Jeff, believe it or not just a few hours ago this area in downtown orlando was full of people, people jogging, walking their dogs, really going about their daily business, thats because it was just drizzling, but since the rain has intensified, there seems to have been a shift in the mood, there are very few people now on the streets, Stores Downtown have been closed, the mayor has institute add mandatory curfew tonight at 7 00 p. M. Lasting all the way until tomorrow at 6 00 p. M. , that is nearly 24 hours. Now, she says part of the reason is because a bulk of the injuries that occurred during these types of hurricanes actually happen after the hurricane passes through, when people emerge to check the damage and try to clean up, we were at a hospital yesterday, they told us one of the top injuries they see at their Trauma Center is actually chain saw accidents, people using chain saw force first time to try to cut down branches and debris and also get injuries from people who fall off ladders and come in contact with downed power lines, so the mayor says people must shelter in place, stay inside until they are told by officials it is safe to go outside, the biggest concern of the orlando area is the wind and tornadic activity and already been a Tornado Warning just east of here about an hour away, so the mayor says even though it seems for now orlando has been spared a direct hit, she doesnt want to take any chances. Jeff. Adriana, thanks, we have seen the Tornado Warnings here in the tampa bay area here as well, Manuel Bojorquez is across the peninsula and is in ft. Lauderdale, we have seen the pictures of some of the wind there, it is just incredible right now. Yes, these are some of the strongest sustained winds we are seeing so far as irma continues to batter this area, they come and go, right now, not too bad, and then you have got the gusts i will walk over here to show you we are starting to lose tree branches and tree fronds left and right if you look just above you can see some of the upper winds are doing right now, what they are doing to the palm trees, they have been swaying for hours now as they are losing palm fronds and falling into there canal right here, what is important to point out here is that it is rising, the water level here as the waves are being whipped up by the winds here in north ft. Lauderdale, also, as you mentioned, the threat here isnt just the high winds and the rain, but there are also tornado watches and warnings throughout the state, including right here in Broward County, the National Weather service did say there was one report of a tornado touchdown yesterday. Our phones were going off with alerts pretty much all night so on top of a long night for people here in the ft. Lauderdale area, you will have a long day because of what we are seeing right now, there will be wind damage, there will be some fooding, and that is the big concern. Law enforcement right now not going out into these elements, they stopped doing that when winds reached about 45 Miles Per Hour, the wind gusts and that actually happened yesterday and this is supposed to be an all day event. Here we go again with another one of these really strong wind gusts, the winds here are expected to reach up to 75 Miles Per Hour, what would be the equivalent of a category i hurricane, and we have talked about this before, the prospective here we are are really mere the eye wall which is where the strongest cry walls will be, we are about 90 miles from where it came ashore and see the strong impacts we are seeing here in the ft. Lauderdale area. There are 15,000 people right now in storm shelters riding this out, thats what officials wanted to see, but they are not taking anymore people right now there is a curfew in place because they dont want people out in these elements. Jeff. Manny, thanks very much, and you can deal with these relative moments of quiet which have, can lull you into a steps of security which is a false sense of security because these waves in just keep coming and of course mare is going to get worse, especially here in the tampa st. Pete area. We are going to go to elaine tejano in florida city, the Hurricane Irma made landfall in the florida keys this mortgage and florida city is about as close as you can get right now, elaine. Reporter yes, jeff, thats right. And when, in fact, Hurricane Irma made landfall we could feel here in florida city that that was happening and thats because those winds jumped up. We were told to expect gusts in the neighborhood of 100 Miles Per Hour. We havent had a chance to measure it ourselves but i would not be surprised if we hit that minute times. As an example in sign, look at what it has done here, the wind has sheared off part of this metal sign we have been watching every hour as bit by bit the winds take this apart and peel away. You see the trees, bit by bit these palm fronds have been money away with such a tremendous velocity as these gusts have continued to pound the area here and the rain at types is painful, it comes down in sheets and hits you in the face, very difficult to stand, and these are the conditions that Officials Say no one should be out in right now. Behind me over highway, in and out of the florida key keyss had no sign of traffic whatsoever since we were out here early this morning and thats because, of course, parts of overseas highway could be in fact washed away at this point, given the tremendous storm surge that is expected to come as irma makes its way on its track. What we know right now, in key west, they have taken a pounding, in fact, we have been trying to contact a person that we have been in touch with earlier overnight to check and see how things were going, have not been able to get in contact with that person, but you can imagine those punishing conditions that we have been feeling here, only intensifying as this continues and as the storm progresses here. So, jeff, folks, marley in the florida city homestead area, are very mindful not to go out under these circumstances, because, of course, they lived through hurricane andrew 25 years ago and they know even if things are calm and in a lull, very quickly things can change and gusts, tornadoes, these are all the things that folks here continue to be worried about in florida city. Jeff. Florida city homestead got some of the worst, the worse from hurricane andrew in 1992, the difference was because the path that andrew took, it affected Miamidade County so badly but folks in Broward County where elaine is could go down relatively quickly and help out, that is not going to be the case with this storm, because it is so wide. Elaine, what were the reasons that you got from some of the folks who decided to stay in the keys . Yes, thats a great question, because i asked one person, help me understand this, what is it that requires that you stay here . And the answer was kind of tough to understand, because it is basically the sense that this comes with the territory. The choice they have made, it is not just something they have done lightly. They feel as though they have taken the proper precautions, they trust the engineering and when those engineers say that their house is built to withstand a category 5 storm, they trust that. They feel confident in that. We were over in key largo, a place we could look, we are a part of this community, we understand what it is like to live here and we want to make sure we serve this community we love so much, so that really became sort of this town square, if you will, in key largo, but folks really determined to tough things out, he, we hope to get down there later after the storm pass, programs tomorrow morning to see how those folks fared fared. Yes. When you have the mandatory evacuation that doesnt mean people are pulling them receives out of the home but it means if they have a medical emergency that police are not going to be able to respond. We have seen some of these pictures in miami this morning. Of the terrible effect the wind is having and Mark Strassmann is still there, mark, are you hearing me . I hear you fine, jeff. How are we doing there . Here in you know, it is about the the winds are still really, really gusty here, 60, 70 Miles Per Hour, maybe, it is a little bit too strong to continue standing in the street so we moved up a little closer to the building where we have better protection, better shelter. I was thinking that as this storm hits, we are wondering two things, one, cross your fingers that human life is spared and then two, what is going to be the impact on this area, remember that after hurricane andrew hit in 1992, florida revamped and strengthened all of its construction and it has one of the toughest codes in the nation and it was with a storm like this in mind that those codes were toughened, and this is the first major test of those new codes. How will this state, especially its new construction, stand up to a significant hurricane like irma . So that is going to be that is going to be very telling in the days ahead once the storm has passed and once we get a sense of what has been left behind and what has been taken away. The other issue here too is there are so many multiple levels of worry, storm surge being an obvious one, in an area that is so heavily coastal, but for instance, there was worry here in miami about construction cranes. There are a couple dozen cranes in the sky now in miami, this is going through a bit of a building boom, those cranes obviously are massive, very heavy, counter balance alone can weigh 30,000 pounds the fear was those cranes could topple, they are designed to spin in high winds, but the winds are only the cranes are only designed to absorb winds of 145 Miles Per Hour, it does, it does appear of course those wind will not be as strong at least here in miami, but i have seen a video of at least one crane that appears to have toppled, not toppled from the frowned but toppled over and that of course was a major worry, you dont want to be anywhere near one of those things if it collapses. So emergency officials have so many Different Levels of threats and risks to monitor all at once, and of course there are bound to be surprised, both good and bad, the hope of course is there are more good ones than bad ones. Jeff. Midtown after super storm sandy is, it is a dangerous situation that they are watching out for, at this point they just have to hope for the best because you are not going to secure those in anymore. It is a test for the infrastructure of miami as an even bigger test right now for tampa saint pete, which does not have some of the same strict building codes and where these buildings may be an even more, in even more danger today as we see irma move up the coast and we are just starting to get another wave here in the tampa, saint pete area which has not experienced the worst by far from what we have seen down the coast. There are people have largely cleared out from tampa st. Pete, you do see occasional patrols, actually i see a vehicle on the beach right now making its way up, presumably sheriff or police, the beach behind us, we have about 100 yards to the water here, as we have been saying, that water is going to get pushed out first from that storm surge and then it is going to get sucked back in, and the storm surge, again, being what will probably be the biggest threat followed by the wind and then also the rain. I know eric fischer, who is chief meteorologist at our boston station can faulk a lot about that and i think he is with anthony in new york, now. He is, jeff, thank you. Eric, we talked before about the fact that this storm slowed down overnight, but it is picking up speed now, what is happening . It had to make the turn. We have a big storm, had some momentum to the west northwest, it slowed down, began the northern turn and now heading up the west coast of florida a so this is an approximate timeline, the heart of irma as it climbs northward, very shortly into naples we are talking about the strongest winds, the core of the wind starting to move, in that will happen in the next couple of hours and last for several hours as well. Then as we take a look at the wind speeds, peek speed, 130 Miles Per Hour around naples, fort myers, a couple of hours later are, your peak winds as we head toward the evening 130 Miles Per Hour wind potential, tampa after that, we head deeper into the night and when we get our highest wind and tallahassee is actually as we head into the day tomorrow and that has been a tricky part thin this storm, whenever you have a landfall hurricane multiple hazards, the wind, and the wind is what people Pay Attention to but we have the surge, 10 to 15foot potential there in southwest florida, you have the tornadoes which we have seen a number of in south florida, those warnings will continue northward, the change in friction from what we have over the open ocean to when the bands rotate ashore and come ond it spins up the brief tornadoes and cause pockets of rough damage. And a foot of rainfall in some of these rain bands filling up the roads and just difficult to talk about the scope of the whole storm, you have the eye, the eye contains those strongest winds, moving right up the store line throughout the course of today and tonight, but it is it is raining very heavily all the way up into georgia, parts of south carolina, even the storm surge in those locations well removed from the center, Tropical Storm warnings go, go all the way up to atlanta, georgia so you are talking about a large region, Power Outages will be quite widespread and difficult in the days ahead, trying to get everyone back online and even though, again, mike pence is avoiding the worst Case Scenario where a couple of days ago it looked like the eye might come right into the city there is a fourfoot storm surge in biscayne bay right now and that is significant, and high side about 90 minutes or so around biscayne bay, so those water levels will still come up more, anthony so we have have a lot t to to deal with here and a couple of days yet when the, before the storm will weaken, it is looking like they avoided the worst but still they have a big storm coming at them. All right, as eric mentioned the storm is heading for tampa around 5 00 oclock this afternoon, John Blackstone is in the tampa bay, st. Petersburg area and he joins us from downtown tampa, john. Anthony, lets talk about one of the specific vulnerabilities here in tampa, much of the city, the downtown area is vulnerable, but this is tampa general hospital, it is right here on the water, in fact, it is built on islands and it is within evacuation zone a, what the city has designated as evacuation zone a, an area in which all residents have been ordered to leave. The hospital is not being evacuated, has about 1100 beds, some nip hundred patients still there, hospital Officials Say they can weather the storm but if necessary, they will move patients to higher floors. Another thing about tampa general, it is the only level one Trauma Center in the region, but since it is on an island you have to cross bridges to get there, and those bridges will be closed when Tropical Storm when the winds here rise to drop tall storm level. Now it is low tide here now, when the storm surge comes in, however, when the storm surge comes in here, another important facility could be threatened and that is Tampa Convention center. Now, even if the convention stern survivors the flood, all events planned there into next month have now been canceled, and may take even longer than that for tampa to clean up, depending on what hits us here over the next 24, 36 hours, anthony. John, blackstone in familiar parks thanks very much, we want to go back to jeff floor now who got a pretty ominous warning from where he is in st. Pete. Yes, anthony we just heard from the sheriff who said that when this storm passes they are going to seal off the county. Nobody in, nobody out, until they do a damage assessment. They are going to seal off this county, once the storm passes, to make sure that it is safe to move around. They are worried about trees being down, they are worried about everything being thrown into the road, they are worried about so much as irma has yet to bring her worst into the tampa st. Pete area where we are expecting the Tropical Storm force winds, probably between 2 00 oclock this afternoon and 11 00 oclock tomorrow morning. Hurricane winds probably starting around 7 00 oclock tonight and lasting about eight hours, seven to 10 up to a foot of rain, inches of rain, and then that surge, and remains one of the big quest. Now, just what direction the surge goes, and depending where the wind is moving, but how high that surge is going to be, is it going to be five feet, eight feet, ten feet . Right now the expectation is that in the tampa st. Pete area, it will be about five to eight feet. But, again, this area has not seen a major hurricane since 1921. The population of the tampa bay area at that time was 135,000 people. It is nearly 3 Million People today. It has changed drastically since then, and the swear region is waiting to see what happens now. Jonathan industry lot at this is also along the gulf coast and south of us,. In naples which is also we are going to get what we gect is very bad, jonathan. Yes, that is correct and jeff right now we are having gusts measured around 60 Miles Per Hour, they are so fast the Sheriffs Office is saying all emergency vehicles are now cleared from the roads, they will not be returning to the streets until that wind dies down, until the storm has cleared, the big concern obviously is the storm surge but before we get to that i want to show you something we have been monitoring which really puts into perspective the wind and power of it and the debris that can be flying around here, we are in this hurricane protected building, it is a pretty new build, we were talking about construction, and this roof is already started to, starting to ripoff and the wind hasnt picked up to the extremes we are expecting of 135 Miles Per Hour, so that is something to ka keep an eye on and then of course that big concern, the storm surge which we really cant hit home enough. We called in ground zero, naples, ground zero for the supervised release and thats the truth, we are being told anywhere from 10 to 15 feet, all of that impacting some of the lower lying areas of naples, this is a coastal community, only three feet above sea level, we were there earlier today. We got a little nervous about our location that we had to move inand, where we are right now about two and a half miles or, so but even where we are, we are still expecting some effects from that surge, possibly one to two feet. That surge, obviously, a main reason and factor for this Mass Evacuation that took place over the past 48 hours, this was a very tricky location had a lot of time and lot of warning to leave because it hooked hike the storm was going to hit the east coast early on, this town was sitting pretty and had friends coming from the east coast to join them here to ride out the storm. So a lot of people in the past 48 hours getting that reality check, and trying to he advantage crate, we have spoken with a number of people that have chose to ride this storm out at home. About 15,000 people we are told went in one of those shelters right now where we are planning on riding out the storm for the rest of the night. Jeff, back to you. Jonathan, thank you very much. We just got another chilling update from the sheriff here. They just told us that they found a father and son on a boat about six miles north of here, madera beach, trying to ride out the storm. The Sheriffs Department told them they had to leave and they said if they werent going to leave they were going to forcibly remove the son from the boat. The father we are told, made the proper decision to both leave. So we understand at this point that the department has been able to get that father and son off the water. But given what we are about to deal with right now, we saw some people in miami and corral gables next to man groves where it might be a little safer to try to protect their boat and trying to ride out the storm where they are not getting the eye of the storm. But leaving a small boat on this water right now i am not sure what world that is a good idea in, but it appears from what the Sheriffs Department has told us he made the right decision and we understand that they should be safe now. It does take a major storm to shut down disney world, which is to our east. It is called the happiest place on earth. It is chosed today, adrian diaz is in orlando right now with an update, adriana. Jeff, thats right. Disney world is closed but not alone, sea world Universal Studios all closed down last night, disney world will be closed down for at least two days and this is a decision that is not taken lightly, it is only closed four or five times in its history and this is one of those occasions. Now, Disney World Hotel and resorts, those remain open, those are nearly at capacity and disney world told us yesterday that they are, their buildings are secure and can withstand these winds, we are expecting to see winds in the eighties and nineties at its peak here in this area, now if you look around here, there really arent that many cars in the road, thats because Officials Say stay off the roads, stay inside, because what they want is for Emergency Personnel to be able to be et to where they are going. There are a few exceptions, the size of personnel, medical staff can go out, also some people in the services industry, people who provide food, work at hotels, because officials want pep who are sheltering in hotels, visiting from down state or folks who live in mobile homes who are under mandatory evacuation whose have moved into hotels will be able to ride out the storm with what they need. Jeff. 01 adriana, thank you very much. About 40 miles down the coast here is sarah so at that which also faces a threat of, a huge threat from irma today, carter earnings is there, carter. You know, jeff, it feels like these winds are starting to pick up, it is still Tropical Storm force winds but still have having a steady gust here, the tide is beginning to come in and you can see it lapping up against the side here but it still has a long way to go. This hurricane appears to have sucked a lot of this water out of sarah so at that bay as you look at the bay you can see how many of these grand expensive homes are right on the water here, well, pan across and you can see the facilities Barrier Islands as we get a strong squall that comes through right now, these Barrier Islands, you can see a lot of homes right off the coastline here and if we pan over just a little bit this is bay island, i know it is a little windy for you, if we can, this is bay aisle, you can see some of the boats lifted out of the water there, it is unclear whether they will be okay. I want to show you the high tide line here on the peer and show you how much high water we may experience here, the high tied is going to be around 4 00 oclock this afternoon this area so we have about two feet to go before we get to high tide and then we have the storm surge on top of that. That could be another eight feet. So by my measurements if that eight feet storm surge does come, we could have two to four feet of water, right where i am standing, in about eight hours or so. Jeff. Glor all right, carter evans, thank you very much. 3 in, sarasota, not in good shape at all. Hurricane mare is moving up the gulf coast of florida antonin miles an hour, we are going to be tracking this storm throughout the day, but right now, we are going to go to the west coast again, yes, david begnaud, just across the bay here, actually in tampa, david. We are about to get punched in the face by this storm. Those are the words of the mayor of tampa who Just Announced that a curfew goes into effect at 6 00 oclock tonight. We are on the river walk, you have got the Hillsboro River here, the university of tampa is behind me and downtown tampa is that way. Where i am walking now, the thought is, is that you could be swimming here within the next 12 hours, the water is moving in the way of the low tide, heading out toward the bay. We are hearing that when the storm actually moves in, it will happen around high tide, so you have got the water that is coming in from the gulf will move across the bay, which is about 700 miles of coast hype and right up here, this is essentially a choke point, the water has got nowhere to go but out, every hotel, business, the college around here is a ghost town. You have got the people lushing and taking selfies and photos hanging out in the area. One of the local sheriffs, the area was on the television a short time ago telling people if you havent gotten out and you want to it is probably too late here is a concern for them right now. Some of the evacuation routes out of the tampa area may already be accumulating water on the roadway. And the trouble is, if you havent gotten out when you do want to, maybe six hours from now, those roadways and evacuation areas may be underwater. Coming into tampa, you will have no trouble, you might get flagged down by a police officer, yesterday, for the last for probably 12 hours or more we saw a line of vehicles, people just heading out of town, a hot of people saying, hey, i didnt have as much of the heads up as the folks on the east coast of florida had, it took me kind of by surprise here in tampa, the cars were backtoback going 15 to 20 Miles Per Hour as people just headed east down the i 4 corridor toward o or orlando , have seen the rain bands coming in and it is now tapering off a bit, tampa, 6 00 oclock curfew, the mayor saying what is happening here and what they are expecting to happen will require everybody to help their neighbors by the time the storm moves through, jeff. We see some folks walking there behind david begnaud. And they can walk around right now, and i think there is still time to get to Higher Ground in the tampa saint pete area, but that window to get to safety is quickly disappearing as irma rakes its way slowly up the west coast of florida with a potential landfall here in st. Pete in tampa, later on this evening or early tomorrow morning. It continues moving, irma, this deliberate and dangerous pace of about nine Miles Per Hour. We are going to have updates throughout the day on this storm, we will also have updates during cbs Sports Coverage of the nfl, we can you believe this . Its caught for the win. Once and for all. An emotional scene in houston, texas. J. J. Watt back with his football family, the texans, as First Responders and all houstonians get a break from hurricane harvey. The next four hours or so, they can put that aside as houston gets back to football. Im james brown. Welcome to week one of the nfl today presented by southwest airlines. Our historic 50th year