on the island, and many are related to looting. i hate to use the term looting because we think of people going into stores and robbing. it s not what s happening. people are going for food and water. it is a lawless situation, according to the dutch government. they ve put troops in the city to try to restore what they can. this was the first category 5 storm to hit cuba since 1932. they evacuated a million people off of the key islands of north earn cuba. this is what, in many ways, slowed irma down. we are expecting a cat 4 or cat 5 landfall from irma. cuba slowed it down. the pictures are from havana. the flooding came in six blocks into the city of havana, surrounded the u.s. embassy up to waist-high water. a difficult scene. as we ve heard, at least ten people killed in cuba. it was interesting to listen to the interview you all did with
closed the beach off now. we have people in our evacuation shelters. we re just standing by for the storm to pass through. we re confident. we were looking at a category 4 or category 5 storm. there s a substantial difference between what we were thinking we were going to get and what we re going to what s going to happen to us. so we feel blessed even though we know we re going to get some damage. we were surprised and had a lump in our throats over marco island and naples earlier today. for folks not familiar, especially with the gulf shoreline in florida, you are on the outer edge, the western edge of tampa bay, the greater tampa bay. what have you been told about timing. when can you relax about the storm surge and assume if it
the northern keys of cuba. these were 125-mile-an-hour sustained winds. this was the first category 5 storm to hit cuba since 1932. a lot of the area that was hit are these one-story buildings. you can imagine the damage that was taken there. the flooding then went into havana. some video from havana. this storm surge came in about five blocks. it came into the u.s. embassy. it surrounded that entire area. and it s waist deep water at the very least for five blocks into the city of havana. here s what i don t like. we haven t heard specifics out of cuba. we haven t heard a death toll or anything from the florida keys. marco island. we haven t heard cape coral. we re not seeing those images. so we have this lag time here, and while it s 2017 and the technology is instantaneous and we want it right away, the storm was incredibly powerful. and, bill, it probably weakened.