Beach front hotels. Everybody is evacuating. Everybody has to go. Reporter are you planning to ride the storm out at the airport. If need be. This is where ill be. Reporter after seeing the devastating impact of irma in the caribbean most recently impacting cube the bahamas and the u. S. Virgin islands floridians on both coasts are heeding the warnings to get to safety. Lining up outside of shelters. We moved in together away from Hurricane Harvey but now were here and Hurricane Irma is coming. Reporter at least five of those shelters already at capacity. I dont know where were going to go. Reporter many of those evacuees are coming up from the keys which will start feeling the first effects of irma tomorrow morning. In New Smyrna Beach florida Marci Gonzalez channel6 action news. We continue to monitor the track of irma. We have our own action news crew on the ground in florida. Action news anchor brian taff is there right now leading our Team Coverage and well get to meteorologist ad
Hurricane force winds, a much broader area so that is bad news. You can see the center of the storm right now north of cuba and whats happening, its moving into warmer waters. Waters south of miami is about 90 degrees so that likely will intensify the storm. This is the latest track, we just got this in and this brings it into the central keys of florida near marathon as a cat five hurricane early in the morning on sunday, 160mile maximum sustained winds, that is the strongest category hurricane. It pushes inland near naples marco island and continuing to push it up the spine, west of the spine of the panhandle as a category one hurricane, cal storm near jacksonville and then pushing near atlanta, that will bring some flooding rains, also some storm surge. So, we do have now hurricane warnings across all of south florida from West Palm Beach to naples area to the south. The watches from melbourne to tampa. Part of the problem its a storm surge, its inland flood, iind. This is going to
Action news, delaware valleys leading news program with melissa magee, Jeff Skversky and walter perez. Protecting life is our top priority. No resource or expense will be spared to protect families. Hurricane irma is battered south florida, with strong winds and rain and the worst to come. Floridas west coast is expected to have the worst storm in its history. A potential deadly storm surge and possibility of tornadoes. This is a look from palm beach florida where the darkness serves as a bray lude of things to come. Its saturday night. Im walter perez. 6,000,000 people have been told to evacuate florida. If they have not now, its too late. The window has closed and the only thing to do is find the safest place. 75,000 people are spending the night in shelters. Its unlikely theyll sleep. We have Team Coverage of irma tonight. Brian taff is in naples which seems to be in the storms cross hairs. We begin with melissa magee. Well track irma tonight and during the overnight hours. You can
Strong winds thrashed boats around violently in miami like they were childrens toys. Stephanie ramos in miami with the latest on irma. Reporter Hurricane Irma is roaring into florida. Were seeing some side way rain, you can see behind me the trees being pushed and slammed by very strong and intense winds and this is just the beginning. The day florida has been anticipating is here. My gosh. Wow. Reporter in south florida, trees are down, streets are flooding. You can really start to feel the wind and rain coming down. Im getting blown away here. You know what . Were going to send it back to you, its getting a little dangerous the state put on notice. This is not a storm to mess with. I can hear the how long, i can just he imagine the amount devastation thats taking place. Reporter the storm tearing itself away from northern coast and head towards key west before moving up the states west coast im pretty emotional. Just had to console a coworker who is pretty devastated hes going to los
People as barrelled through the caribbean and puerto rico. Were waiting for an update from the governor, rick scott and we will bring you as it begins. We know more than 6 Million People were evacuated from florida. It includes roughly 1 3rd of the states population. Not everyone was able to or chose to get out. Take a look how Hurricane Irma looks on radar, in some area, the rain and winds so strong, emergency crews are no longer able to respond to sfts calls. Were going to take you live. This is a live picture in West Palm Beach. This is actually inside of a News Conference were waiting on the governor to give us a briefing on the storm so far and as he steps to the podium well bring it live. In Fort Lauderdale, a Tornado Warning was issued. Take a look at this video. Appears to show a tornado forming, residents have been urged to stay inside and to hunker down. A man riding out the storm in key largo captured this piece of video as the strong winds ripped off a piece of the roof. Di