Major highways are clogged with cars. You can see from the Helicopter Shot as evacuation orders are sending people inland and to the north in order to get out of irmas path. Local leaders say that people who chose to stay in the areas that are now under evacuation wont have any help later. We boarded up the house, and were hoping for the best. Thats all we can do right now. Its a mad house. I dont want to run out of gas on the road. If you stay, you think youre a tough guy, then youre on your own. We have Team Coverage this midday as the bay area already prepares to help as soon as irma hits. Lets start with meteorologist kerry hall. This storm track, is it still aim towards Floridas Atlantic coast. It is, and unfortunately we havent seen anymore shifts off towards the east, which would make it a lesser blow to florida that the point, but we are now seeing that major hurricane just to the north of hispaniola right now moving towards the turks and caicos and we have some more hurricane
Im michelle griego. We have Team Coverage of the storm from tracking the storm and bay area efforts to help. First meg oliver is in miami beach where people are evacuating. Reporter mandatory evacuations went into effect along miami beach here at 12 noon. Now crews are working to remove everything off this beach from lifeguard stands to trash cans. Puerto rico dodged a direct hit from irma. The storms eye passed just to the northeast. But its 180mileperhour winds toppled trees and power lines. Nearly a Million People are without electricity. This mans family rode out the storm in their hotel. I could only imagine what the little houses by the coast and the little villages must feel like right now. So our prayers and thoughts with all the families. Reporter officials are still trying to get a grip on the extent of the devastation across the caribbean. Most structures in barbuda are destroyed. In st. Martin winds damaged homes, hotels and tossed shipping containers. Irma is still days fr
Get rid it of. Remnants of Tropical Storm lydia have come up here and moved into daly city. 66 degrees with 95 humidity. The water temps are warm too. Both of those, the tropical moisture in place and a system coming in helping to contribute to the humidity. There is light rain, maybe in the higher elevations. In the Santa Cruz Mountains there has been some. In the East San Jose hills and up towards Mount Hamilton as well. A lot of cloud cover. It will be a day where possible thunderstorms are popping up associated with the low. Thunderstorm activity northern Sacramento Valley and North Western california. 70 degrees in san jose. Hayward is almost 70 degrees. Very mild and warm. These ocean temps contribute a lot to that. Half moon bay, 64 degrees. There is a delta wind, not just a breeze. Vacaville is getting a west southwest at 22. That will do it. Cloudy to mostly cloudy day on the mild side. The highs inland are cooling off. Coast and bay are near average to a little above. 7 02. A
Effect for the keys and in south florida, and they kurt they are concerned that the gas stations have run out of fuel. State officials are taking emergency steps to get more fuel into the state. Fuel trucks Getting Police and military escorts this morning and the florida with governor rick scott saying that a shipment of 300,000 gallons of fuel was unloaded at the port of tampa. They are working to disseminate that across the state, urging all the gas stations to state open as soon as possible, promising to help the workers and owners out of the area ahead of the storm if they will stay to help people get filled up. There are hundreds of thousands of people in the Miamidade County area, an estimated 6 million floridians in the path of the storm. Some people are rushing to the airport to get out of the state, and they are concerned that no place in florida could be untouched by the hurricane. Tomorrow, nobody would be working here. Be patient, wait and hopefully the storm will stay on t
Virgin islands. 1 Million People in puerto rico. Mandatory evacuations are being ordered across many parts of florida. The governor telling people in those areas to leave right now. If they dont rescuers wont be able to save them when the storm hits. The latest on those evacuation efforts. Reporter all across south Florida Communities are clearing out with places like miami beach and south beach already under mandatory evacuations. Regardless of what coast you live on the prepare to evacuate. Floridians on the west coast cannot be complacent. It can still move west. Reporter now a deadly monster storm moving closer to florida where it will hit this weekend. Hurricane watches have been issued for self order in the florida keys. Irma already slamming parts of the northern caribbean killing at least six destroying buildings and leaving thousands homeless. We are with everybody in florida. We are working very hard. The largest hurricane they have seen coming out the atlantic. Reporter to s