strengthens into a category 4 storm, packing 130-mile-an-hour winds, they re preparing for the worst in the caribbean and in florida. american airlines cancelling flights to and from caribbean destinations as irma approaches. states of emergency already in effect in puerto rico and florida. governor rick scott saying he spoke to president trump sunday about hurricane irma, and the president offering the full resources of the federal government. the monster storm could potentially hit south florida this coming weekend. meteorologist pedram javaheri is tracking irma, and he joins us live. so it looks like this could possibly hit the miami area, pedram? the latest models coming in here in the last hour or so with the national hurricane center updating their forecast as well as shifting it a little farther towards the west. and we ll touch on this here momentarily. we re now up to 145 miles per hour, about 10 miles shy of what would be a category 5. but the forecast at this point still k
peter, he won t be making a formal cement, however, he left the door open to make possible remarks when he gets off the plane. speak out right, and we are not sure whether or not he would want to begin his trip with remarks look the ones he made yesterday where he promised that federal money would be coming here fast, or if you would want to wait until after he gets a firsthand look at the devastation in the corpus christi area that came this weekend with 130-mile-an-hour winds. the reason he s visiting this part of texas is because he can see the damage inflicted by harvey over the weekend by the high winds. without interrupting the ongoing rescue efforts and the recovery at first about three hours away, 200 miles from here in houston, we think that may be where he is heading when he comes back on saturday, but right now, you can
130-mile-an-hour winds. more than 3,000 customers are without power in texas at this hour, many trying to pick up the pieces of their lives after this devastating storm. our martin savidge joining us from rocker port. audit chance to speak with victims hit hard there in rockport. people actually brought up the storm which is hard to imagine when you look at the devastation here. first of all, why in the world did they stay, and what could it have been like? you ll hear from them in just a moment. good news to report in that we saw a large convoy of what looks like relief efforts making that i be way into the community here, this is everything from national guard troops and earth moving equipment that will be used to move debris out of the way to let rescue crews come in. also going house by house are the first rescue teams. there is one that is being
particularly in this area. just to the north and east. it will not receive very quickly because with the storm stalling, it will gradually weaken. jon: is coming ashore at as a category 4 hurricane. i know there s descriptive language for each category. what s a category 4 capable of? a couple words we use and phrases. once very dangerous. it has been. the impacts are devastating. what we are most concerned about it s the water that takes most of the lives and hurricanes. primarily from storm surge. secondarily, many people lose their lives from the rainfall related flooding as well. jon: even sell the structures are going to take a beating from these winds over 130-mile-an-hour winds near the
that doesn t mean a lot to folks in the path of it. what s the difference? category 4 is 130-mile-an-hour winds, now down to 125-mile-an-hour winds. still a massive storm. this is the eye wall, the hurricane stretching out beside it, general track, there all the way until it hits land. just within the last 40 minutes or so, see it turn to the north. that is going to affect folks in the immediate path as we begin to see it take the northerly route, anyone in that direction obviously on the right-hand of this system, that s where the strongest winds are. the major population center here is corpus christi, beginning to turn a little way away from that, not turning it any closer to it. i think the strongest winds behind for folks there. still have a storm the rest of the evening but lifting to the north and perhaps just rain is the big concern for those folks for the rest of the night as we continue to deal with. this the problem is going to be moving forward from tonight into tomorrow.