Safely evacuate. Joe waltman is in miami monitoring the latest developments. Reporter good evening to you and all your viewers. We are overlooked overlooking downtown miami. There are two major concerns. One of course is the wind there are so many highrises behind me that are basically made of glass. Large glass windows. The second major concern is storm surge. Calling for anywhere from 1020 feet. I ask everyone in the path to be vigilant and to heed all recommendations from government officials and law enforcement. Reporter with a path of death and destruction in its wake across the caribbean irma weakened to a category 4 friday. It is still remaining a major hurricane that appears bound for florida this weekend. The majority will have merit major impacts with deadly storm surge. Lifethreatening winds. We expect this along the entire east coast and west coast. Reporter south florida to the carolinas people are bracing. Mandatory evacuations in effect in many parts of the coastal south
Rain going on and thunderstorms that are weakening and continue to do so. For us, a few clouds here and there and temperatures in the lower to middle 70s by mid morning. And now it is going to be slightly cooler today, and still, very close to that average high of 88 degrees. And by the way, we reached our highest average high, and we are kind of sliding down from there. And get the brief round of thunderstorms during the afternoon today. And if you happen to get a storm, your potential rain, is still fairly light. Only in the tenth rain area or so. So for the early part of the evening, the storms move out. By i would say 7 00. And however, the clouds hang in, and amelia, thats because of some cooler air that is moving in. We will talk about what that does to our next couple of days weather in a few minutes. Thank you, marty,. 5 31. As we get across the thursday commute, so far, so good, a pretty easy ride, across most parts of town and a live look here at i70 and brighton where right