Many time, ive also done hurricane prep stories in that area. A lot of homes are built to strong hurricane standards. You can take a baseball bat and you can pound that glass and just keep pounding it forever and it doesnt crack and it doesnt break. But that house, one story or two stories tall, doesnt give you the owe, thats nice. Doesnt give you protection from that 15 foot storm surge as it pushes that wall of water in, brian. All right, sam champion, thank you for that. It appears youre in as safe a spot as youre going to get in miami. Theyre getting all the storm they can handle. Just to emphasize to our viewers, sams location is, again, across the state, which is, what, 140 miles at its widest point. 90 from the center of the storm. But 90 from the center of the storm. And yet you see what its doing to sam. Lets see what its doing where Maria Mariana intenso is doing. Mariana, how have conditions deteriorated there . Brian, im at a point in the beach thats the southern most part
According to florida and light. 866,000 customers are in the dark. Downtown miami swamped even though the storm passed well west of the city. On . On floridas west coast, drone damage showing wind gusts of 42 Miles Per Hour, winds were so strong they caused the tide to recede into the gulf of members colorado can you see people there walking up, taking pictures, its an unbelievable site there. This morning, Hurricane Irma will continue to move over the western peninsula before move nook southeastern states. Overnight, Miamidade Police saying 28 arrests have been made so far because of burglary and looting. Our affiliate wtlv in st. Augustine, theyre getting heavy rain bands, give us an update on what you have been see sock far this morning. Hey, good morning, as you can tell, heavy rains right now in eight augustine the winds proceeding. We measured it a few minutes ago, over 46 Miles Per Hour. Already this parking lot flooded and the lights just went out. Right now so were standing, y
Eastsoutheast of south florida. The eye of irma is moving through turks and caicos. 175 miles per hour. Irma is moving to the westnorthwest at about 16 miles an hour. Over the next several days, we expect irma to remain a categor category 5 hurricane. Turning northward, and approaching the florida peninsula sunday. The new track, a little bit to the left of the previous track. Inland over the florida peninsula, making landfall as a major hurricane somewhere in the vicinity of south florida on sunday. There is still some uncertainty as to where the northward turn will occur but everyone in south florida should be preparing for the landfall of a potentially catastrophic major hurricane on sunday with category 4 to 5 winds and a potentially lifethreatening storm surge. We have a hurricane watch in effect for the east coast south of Jupiter Inlet. All of the florida keys and lake okeechobee. We have a storm surge watch in effect south of Jupiter Inlet and bonita beach. Including the florid
Family. [inaudible] abby Hurricane Irma an hour away now from the eye of the storm making landfall on the west coast now bracing. Hundreds of thousands of the entire mayor. Sustained winds of 130 Miles Per Hour and could reach 15 feet in some areas. Others are forced to stay behind. Team coverage this morning. Pete with Griff Jenkins on the ground right now. Reporter in naples the wind is terrible. Its about 25 come in maybe 30 miles, but it coming and key west which is just minutes away from a direct impact with 130mile per hour winds are near to the west coast. They are hunkered down. Officials here describing it as a worstCase Scenario because you will have high wind combined with storm surge. The mayor telling me the biggest concern is storm surge. The west coast of florida will take the water row. Just behind me to bring it back in. Upwards of 15 feet above ground level search starts hitting here, it is going to absolutely flood everything and you do not want to be there. Thats wh
Think of the sports teams headquartered in tampa. Irma is now a category 2 hurricane. It is no longer a category 3. This does not affect storm surge at all which we expect to be the worst part of the storm. 5 00 here in the east coast. 5 01 p. M. , in fact. Perhaps you heard there the news from the National Hurricane center through bill carons our meteorologist as weve been watching mike bettis from the Weather Channel. The good news and it is nothing, but good news for those in the north as this formidable, sprawling storm makes its way there is that we are no longer talking about a category 3. Irma is a 2. So it looks like bill caron, our biggest weather gust in the last hour will turn out to be 147 miles an hour. Yeah. 142 was the one from naples there and that was the highest that i saw. Im just trying to get the new stuff from the 5 00 update. It is now moving to the north at 14 Miles Per Hour. We were at 12 and now to 14. Why thz more thhas it more t its speed . Its hitting the t