Delivering a major blow to florida. The National WeatherService Warns this could be the last chance for people to leave and get rid of this. I want you to look at the destruction left behind in barbuda. This could be what is coming to florida. Imagine this. Heres what we know right now. More than five and a half Million People have been ordered to evacuate. It could become one of the largest Mass Evacuations in u. S. History. There. Reporter more than 10,000 people dealing with power outages. Some shelters in miamidade could have already reached capacity. Beknow some of those pet friendly shelters could have reached capacity. Chad, lets talk about the track, because we talked a lot about this as an east coast storm but increasingly this is a threat to the west coast as well. 120 hours ago, we waited for the urn the. We said look, theres going to be a turn. When will it happen . Well, originally the models said it would turn somewhere in bermuda but that didnt happen. Now we know that turn is going to be later. Now the turn looks like it may turn over key west and cape coral and fort myers as a major hurricane. Now, the storm did torn up overnight. That is terrible news for cuba. That is terrible news for the keys. That area there really got torn up overnight. Now this thing is down significantly. The highest wind gusts i can find is about 135 but the Hurricane Center still hanging with 150. Were down to red, but the water here where its going is again, very warm. I suspect that purple will come back in the forecast for landfall category 4, 150mileperhour storm very close right over key west, get a map if you dont know where the places are. Theyre beautiful and they may not be so beautiful tomorrow afternoon. I will tell you every single florida key, here is the storm on radar right now. We are getting weather into key biscayne all the way into the keys. Almost to about that ocean reef right there. Thats key largo and if youre driving out of the keys, its still time to get out of the keys. The watches have extended all the way into georgia and its shifted to the west. This is the european model running right over to the west of tampa and right up into the fort myers. There are so many elderly people that may not be able to evacuate here. This could be 140 over fort myers into that south western florida. And thats kind of new. Yesterday i thought tampa would be 85. Now i think 115. The american model takes it just to the east and finally up to the north and maybe toward ever glade city. Thats a big shift. That is 30, 40 miles when it comes to east west distance, but that is a big shift and a big help to fort myers if the model does come true. Mooim mooim youre now filling up. I juthe winds are blowing in fr the east and blowing that water in right now. Heres what the forecast winds look like. Miami, the winds were blowing like 40 so every time a band comes by youre going to pick up wind. Thats naples, thatsmyers and then finally dying off as it gets into georgia. So let me im going to roll you through a couple scenarios here. Heres the storm right here. Just off of the cuban coast and its going to come in here. This is the big keys here all the way down to key west. So the weather comes through here and it comes up here into cape coral. Lets move you ahead. Key west, the air force base here. I saw yesterday, a bunch of air force planes evacuating all of these naval air stations. Get those those blaens out plan the way. You hit the missouri keys and you get to the 7 mile bridge. Theres so many people whoily along canals. You put a little boat on the canal, those canals are going to fill up. Theyre going to be 12 feet higher than they are right now. Your house is going to be underwater. Something else im very concerned about. If we put 12 feet of water into the everglades where does it go . Im concerned theres about a 4 foot levee in this area right here keeping the everglades wet and keeping the concrete jungle here dry. If we put 12 feet of water over a 5foot levee, i think were going to flood western cities from west kendall, possibly, you know how high your levee is to the west so you just if you need to go or not. This is still 24 hours away, but theres always something, victor. Theres always something that we forget about when it comes to a major storm like this. When it comes to katrina its oh, it hit gulf port, its gone, new new orleans had a couple of wind gusts and all of a sudden the levee broke from the backside and we lost 1,000 people. So theres always something you have to think about. This is one of them. Yeah. Thanks so much. The comparisons to andrew, may be a problem for a lot of people. Krig, the former fema director, they know his work here, florida has not seen a storm like this since the 20s. So very fuse people alive who have experienced anything like this in this state. As we discuss tds the shift to the west, we do not want people to believe they are out of the worst of this because this city is and should be bracing for lasting damage as Hurricane Irma threatens to slam the city with the winds and the rain that are coming. Rosa flores is standing by. Its important to reset and tell the people how the city is preparing. Reporter well, victor, good morning. This city and city officials have sent a very clear message from the get go. If you are in an evacuation zone you must evacuate. 660 people to evacuate. We saw empty shelves, people packing their cars heading north and we saw people go into shelters. This county has capacity for about 100,000 people to go into shelters. City officials tell us that at least 23 people are in shelters thats in 43 shelters seven at capacity and there are those folks who decide to ride the storm at home. Some of them people are in homes. You see the boats that are flexion to the bridge thats lighting the water leer, i talked to one of those people and the man says that he plans to ride out his this storm in his boat. He says that he has gone through many, many storms before. He says this is my house. I plan to stay. Take a listen. Really tie everything down you can. Nothing that will fly away. Nothing thats going to get damaged and make sure you have lots of water and batteries and provisions and sort of have some knowledge of boating experience. Now he also says he took in a homeless man to make sure he had a place to stay, but as you know, with storms we will have surge, we will see high winds so staying on a boat is definitely what Public Officials are saying you shouldnt do. Yeah, it is certainly a risky choice and its important that you pointed out some of the people who are deciding to stay versus the people who because of an economic reason potentially cannot drive up to atlanta. Listen, there are a lot of people who have this concept of florida thats its all driving around solving crimes and sitting around eating cheesecake. There are some parts of the city that for economic reasons people feel they cannot leave four or five days before a storm. Also the Homeless Population here as well. As i toss it back to you, the discussion of people deciding not to leave we should also examine why they should not leave. The stcity officials try k to me sure they get the support they need. There is still room in shelters there and yes, i know they have been trying to bus people there and it is so important for folks to try to get on those buses if they can and to find out if they can. You dont want anybody staying in their home. Im going to talk a little bit about irma and what shes been doing in the last few hours. Look at some of the images were getting in from this morning. 160mileperhour winds is part of what youre watching there. In fact, the winds were so strong they broke the equipment that records wind speeds on the island. The bahamas are really feeling some harsh rain and wind there as well. Storm surges up to 20 feet in the area. And the latest pictures out of ba barbuda are just breathtaking. Irma crashed that island on wednesday and it is astonishing to think that only one person died. Those residents, about 2,000 of them are preparing for a second hurricane in four days. Jose has its sights on barbuda but those people have been moved to antigua i believe. As irma moves toward south florida, the concern on the citys construction sites may really do some damage because how prepared are those sites . The vice chairman is joining us next to discuss. Stay close. Thats mom taking care of business. 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We are on ocean drooiive in sou beach and the beach is 50 feet to my right and we have lightning surrounding us because one of the feeder bands that bring in the heavy downpours are about to move on shower. Weve had a few of these move in overnight and they change the weather conditions dramatically. Temperatures drop 10, 15 degrees in a matter of seconds. It can get dicey pretty quick. We know the storm track has shifted slightly to the west but that doesnt mean you let your guard down because we are still going to feel the full brunt of this storm. Remember, Hurricane Force winds still expected here within the next 24 hours. Storm surge conditions, the official forecast 5 to 10 feet. Were talking about 5 to 10 feet of inundation water levels above my head. Also the tornado threat, victor talked about it just a moment ago. We eve got changing wind directions with height. That shows spin in the atmosphere so it doesnt take much for these small moving feeder bands to rotate and spin up a tornado. Often weaker but can still cause considerable damage. 10 to 15 inches of rain, a foot of rain in 24 hours, this is not the same as harvey. Remember, harvey stalled. It took a long time to move on. This storm is going to move quickly but no one wants to see a foot of rain anywhere that they live. Right . Absolutely and no matter how quickly this storm moving its not going to move quick enough for the People Living here. You know, what you see across the city when you come to miami are so mf otany of the cranes. Joining me now is dan whiteman, vice chairman of Coastal Construction that began preparing for irma a little while ago. Youve got 12 of the cranes across the city. Thats correct. So let me read to you something that came from the Deputy Director of the Building Department. The crane arm has to remain loose. Its not tied down. An example of that swaying. The arms counter balance poses a potential danger. I understand that theyre rated for 145mileperhour winds. The cranes were all inspected by third party inspectors. All of the connections were secured over the last four days. The turntables that we talk about weather vaning, we were there as late as 9 00 last night and they were all doing what exactly theyre intended to. Thewith know that sustained winds at up higher than that. What happens . Were confident that regardless, those cranes are going to operate fine. Many times there are safety factors built into those calculations and those are guidelines that have been established for years to, you know, be considered. Now, also from this official with the Building Department and im paraphrasing here suggesting that it may be risky to be in a high rise near one of these cranes would you be comfortable putting your family next to one of these cranes. I wouldnt be there, the reason being there, theres a greater danger of flying debris damage than one of those tower cranes coming down. Explain to people why these werent taken down. Even though weve got 12 of them up there, 25 of them in downtown miami, there are only a few subcontractors capable f otaking them down. You would not have time to prepare and even though we started four days early, we did lower four of our cranes to the possible height by taking sections of them out over the last few days. Youd have to close roads to do that too . Youre creating more of za danger by trying to take them down and theyre designed to weather vane, thats exactly what theyre going to do. Now, when you see these cranes across the city, they are supposed to weather vane. Theyve done their best to make sure that everyone stays safe. Back to you in tlaents. Listen, floridas governor has been clear about this. If you live in the state youre going to be hit by this storm. Millions of people it seems thankfully have taken that warning seriously. They are getting out and thats what youre looking at there. A mass exodus from this deadly storm. Heres what one evacuee described her decision to leave. Its difficult for me to leave my home. I dont want to displace myself, but this is going to be a big storm and its going to come in right in miami, so we would hope that it how old go out to sea and at one point it became apparent this was our window of opportunity to move north so we drove nortz ah. There is a window of opportunity and shes right. Chad myers reporting roads are clear if people want to still try to get out and gas has been delivered to florida which was one of the big problems. Gas has been delivered to many of those areas now in florida so were going to continue following Hurricane Irmas destruct ifz path and cuba, we have an update from our Weather Center about where its going to go and the po ten si it will pack on its journey. Stay close. 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Victor blackwell is in florida, miami to be specific and i know youre feeling the wind pick up there. Reporter the wind has picked up. Were getting strong gusts. Thats relative to the gusts that are going to be felt by this part of the state. When i drove no this site about two hours ago, there was already standing water in some sections of downtown miami and that was just from a single outer band, a single squall coming through. You can imagine what happens when those inches of rain come to miami and miami beach. Lets continue now with our breaking News Coverage of irma. A category 4 storm, a strong category 4 headed to the u. S. The worst will be coming here making landfall in southern florida tomorrow. And people, many of them are staying where they are to face the fury of the storm and some are rushing to shelters. More than 5. 5 million have tried to get out. Airports are being closed. Highways were jam packed and those who cannot get out are trying to find space in shelters. More than 40 are hope and more than 5. 5 Million People under evacuation orders. This could become one of the largest evacuations in u. S. History. As i send it back to you and chad myers in the Weather Center, where the worst of this storm will go, thats been a gentle vacillation over the last 24, 48, 72 hours. And again its a hurricane 4. But i wanted to ask you, we know those waters are warm and how long will it talk for it to get to gflorida and is it enough tie to escalate again . 24 hours to get to keys. The storm skirted along cuba. Did some significant damage to the northern coast of cuba. The people that were still here received 160mileperhour winds, not barbuda type damage but close because of the way the structures were built but it also took the steam out of the storm it brought it down significantly. I know theyre still saying 150, but im looking at the hurricane under aircraft. Theyre finding 130 and thats helpful for america, terrible for cuba. Youre about to get slammed, victor and pretty much all of miami. Im going to zoom in and show you whats going on. Theres the eye of the storm. The cuban keys as theyre called here. Were going to move some of these first outer bands into the keys this morning and victor is right there where that lightning bolt hit. I hope you were out of the way. Here is key biscayne. This is the water of key biscayne and biscayne bay. Heres north key largo. Theres ocean reef, but the water is pouring now, getting pushed into biscayne bay. As it ill fills up with water thats where the storm surge will get to 6 to 10 feet. It will sneak up into the intercoastal waterway and likely get up into Fort Lauderdale as well. There are areas that are less than 10 feet above sea level. Key biscayne, the little causeway right there, youre not in it yet, but here it comes because it will be one of those bands that sweep if we stay with you, your weather will change so significantly, i think people will leave florida when they see that first band. Theyre thinking, that is the first band . That will be a big one. They of the storm, still 155 from the Hurricane Center. As it exits cuba and gets to the warm water here. Where does it go from here . How does it turn and what do the models say . The first thing i woke up this morning and i said, look, you know, irma does not care if theres a european model or a gfs model. We eve been saying for days its going to turn here. Didnt still and now it may well move right over key west and right into cape coral, fort myers as a major storm. All right. So glad youre on it. Were so grateful to have your expertise here. And he of course talked ability what it did to cuba overnight. 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This is humira at work. Breaking news as we continue our live coverage of Hurricane Irma. Power outages recorded for more than 10,000 people as irma takes its first swipe. According to Florida Power and light, as many as 9 Million People could be impacted by this storm as the storm approaches and in the aftermath. Irma is forecast to make landfall in a matter of hours. The latest track puts it on the west of florida although miami is not out of the worst yet. Fort myers through sarasota, st. Petersburg. Tampa International Airport will closing tonight. Do not be surprised if that time is hairsennstened a bit. Buzz it is not a shelter to where they can stay thats rated to be safe for those winds and now lets talk about cuba which is taking the full force of irma. The hurricane made landfall on the northern coast bringing with it wind gusts so strong that they destroyed the instruments that are used to measure those gusts. Lets go to patrick, live in cuba. Youve been getting some really rough weather. What are you feeling now, patrick . Reporter irma continues to lash cuba, victor and to give you an idea, we are in a coastal town where the ocean as flooded the entire town, continuing some debris going by and right where we are is about five feet of water. Were on the second floor but we are oar watching with some concern as the water continues to go up for most of the houses in this town, they are single story houses and theyve been flooded and probably destroyed by this storm. So even though irma is heading towards you, it is continuing to have a major impact, continuing to cause lots and lots of damage here. Were hearing debris flying by and it has been a devastating storm but we wont know until the sun comes up how devastating, victor. All right. Thank you so much. Christie, back to you in atlanta. All right. Miami officials are taking some measures to get some of the Homeless People off the streets and into shelters. 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Chad myers said just a few minutes ago that were about to get slammed here and the gusts have turned into sustained winds now and what we saw in cuba is on its way to south florida. Landfall still several hours out but were going to start to see some of that rain. Many hours out from landfall, but so far, more than 10,000 customers have already lost power in south florida because of the winds from Hurricane Irma. This is now a very strong category 4, still powerful, life threatening. Irma is expected to be near the keys very early on sunday. And officials are urging people who have been ordered to evacuate to do that. Leave their homes. Dont head north to those crowded highways or to the airports, but instead, go to the shelters nearby. A warning that sparked the exodus that we know as the people in those areas have tried to get out. 5. 6 million in the evacuation order. So how do you protect people who have no home, nowhere to go . Over the last few days the Homeless Trust has been out working to move the homeless into storm shelters. The chairman of the trust is with me on the phone. Ron, good morning to you. First, give us a number of how many people Homeless People there are across this area. How many youve been able to get into shelters. Caller g caller good morning to you and your viewers. We count our homeless. We did our august count a little over three weeks ago so we know that there were 1133 People Living on our streets homeless this past week. And it was not it was not frankly something that we wanted to see happen, you know, that there were 1133 on our streets, but at least we knew what we were looking at in population and so we began our evacuation operations way ahead of what we traditionally do with the general population in Miamidade County and we started on Tuesday Morning to evacuate our homeless. So we know that youve used a state law, the baker act, which allows psychologists or psychiatrists to intervene to allow you to help to move some of these Homeless People who refused to go with you. Explain that process. Well, florida has as youve described the baker act. And the baker act says if you suffer from a Mental Health issue and a medical professional has indicated that you do and you are considered to be a threat to yourself or to others, you can be involuntarily committed to one of our crisis stabilization units. One of our psychiatric units to be evalwaduated for a short ter stay of up to 72 hours. And i understand you hold the miami herald that youre not going to tell people to write their names an their arm. Explain that for us. Well, look, we we know that in most communities across this country, just like here, a lot of people consider their homeless the least, the last and the forgotten of their communities. We dont feel that way in Miamidade County. We run an effort called end homelessness now. Thats what the trust is about. We run a budget to get people off the street permanently and get them settled into housing. We went out and we moved as many off the street voluntarily from tuesday through thursday as we could. But it made it clear i wasnt going to make an announcement. That wasnt going to happen on my watch and so we told the homeless, if you werent off the street by thursday night, friday morning we were going to be out there with a team to begin to commit those that would not otherwise save themselves. It was not going to be me signing a suicide note for the homeless in our community. Think about it. We knew two weeks ago ive got to interrupt you. Ive got to interrupt you because weve got time constraints. Quickly, just a yes or no here, are you still going out trying to find some of the Homeless People here or has that stopped . We are now only taking voluntaries. We stopped our involuntaries late yesterday afternoon because we had to let our medical professionals go so they could go take care of their families. All right. Thanks so much for being with us. I apologize for our time constraints. I want to get you some of the latest pictures that were getting in from cuba as they are now just now experiencing really the worst of what theyre going to see. Theres patrick or one of his crew members but were talking about possibly 23 foot waves that have already been recorded there in cuba and you see the side of the palm tree there and 160mileperhour winds. This is the first category 5 hurricane to hit cuba in 85 years. These people for the most part believe were prepared for it, but when you look at what its done to barbuda and some of the other islands well have to do some close assessments but again, 23 foot waves and patrick saying what youre looking at there, that wind feels like a jet engine hitting you. Well go back to patrick in a little bit as we watch irma move beyond cuba and toward the keys. And the sports world, we should point out, the sports world affected by Hurricane Irma as well. Theyre doing something about it. Yeah, teams are having to make some mayor moves to keep their players, their coaches and their families safe. Whos moving to where and when coming up after the break. We are not here to sit idly by. We are here. To leave a mark. Experience a shift in the natural order. Experience amazing. We just got to take it one game at a time. Next question. Odell can you repeat everything you just said . My livestream wont load. blows whistle technical foul wrong sport. Wrong network. See, you need unlimited on verizon. Its americas largest, most reliable 4g lte network. It wont let you down in places like this. Even in the strike zone its the red zone. Pretty sure its the strike zone. Here, use mine. All right. See you on the court, champ. 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The dolphins already conditionaled tomorrows game against the bucs and hes taking the players, the coaches and the staff, flying them to los angeles to play the chargers where they dont play until next sunday. So theyll keep them safe and away from the storm. The jaguars play the texans in houston and they will stay in houston after the game. Theyre going to monitor the storm, evaluate the storm in jacksonville monday to see if its safe for them to return. Tampa bay also in the path. So the series is moving from tampa to new york to the home of the mets. Funlly, the u. S. Virgin islands have been devastated and the rebuilding process is just beginning. Tim duncan was born and raised there and the future hall of famer rote an article and said dont forget about the islands. Hes personally donating a quarter Million Dollars and hes going to match up to 1 million as well. Hes already as of this morning raised 450,000. And those people certainly. Thank you so much. Appreciate that. So glad to have you with us as we watch irma come ashore. Im Christie Paul in atlanta. The sun looks like its stoartig to come up and the rain is coming down . The rain is close. I saw one of the guys kind of point behind me. They can see it coming. Were about to get slammed and we are, but you said, the sun is m cooing up over miami, west palm beach. Sunrise in tampa as well. Hurricane irma is closing in on florida right now. A very strong category 4 storm. You can see the wind