shelter area where people will find refuge but what else is happening? reporter: well, we re actually see the preparation at play here for the american red cross. we re used to see volunteers at crisis scenes. preparations began days in advance as the storm was churning north toward san bernardino. behind me are volunteers who not only live in the area but also volunteer their own time to provide food, water, shelter. this makeshift disaster relief center is a high school cafeteria here in redlands, california. there are services for the elderly and there are animal services. san bernardino county has sent numerous officers here. they don t want people to evacuate because you don t want to leave your pets. for many of us, pets are members of our family. they don t want residents to
this is the main drag. it is a big one. two lanes here. got an island in the middle and then two more lanes, completely flooded out. this all as a result of what people were worried about, and that is storm surge. biscayne bay is just that way, about two blocks. the water last night when we were out was overflowing the banks a bit. the wind was whipping around and this is the end result. what s interesting now, the current all day long has been going north to south. going this way. but now the water is moving south to north. and our producer was checking out radar and it appears we are going to get smacked again at about 10:30 tonight. these are the last bands of hurricane irma, the southern part of the storm that are going to hit us once again, and you can rest assured that this street will rise. the waters will rise. now, there s a little bit of housekeeping to take care of. miami-dade county has issued a curfew. it began at 7:00 p.m. tonight. it goes through 7:30 tomorrow
we have seen several in brevard county over the course of the day, those will continue as we head through the overnight hours. the conditions are just right, especially in the front right quadrant of these storms that s where you see the tornadoes spin up, they are not usually long lasting but they will continue to move in area. i have seen several in the orlando area as well. currently category 2 storm. passing over the next really large metro area, tampa, that s going to be happening around 1:00 or 2:00 in the morning. still a category 1 storm, still very powerful winds as that continues to track to the north eventually becoming a tropical storm, running through atlanta, even atlanta could see winds 50, 60 miles-an-hour. this is going to be a powerful storm through florida as it runs into georgia as well. here s a look at the timing of this. you can see farther to the north bands of big rain continuing to batter areas like orlando, gainesville, jacksonville, farther to the north, run
mike, really has to be in places like alabama and georgia. listen, you know georgia well. you ve got those pine trees up in the atlanta area. you know, if they go down and they take the power lines with them, and then you ve got another emergency there on behalf of the people in georgia and perhaps alabama and parts north, so, you know, it s not just going to be unfortunately an event here in florida tomorrow. it s going to extend throughout the entire southeast. so we ll watch those four things as we move throughout the night. melissa: i heard you say earlier the temperature had dropped considerably in the path i think you said about 90 minutes or so in the past, i think you said about 90 minutes or so. what does it feel like there? what has changed? we re standing out here in the rain here. it is chilly. it was not that way yesterday or this morning at day break. but, you know, mike tobin describing those millibars when
adam was telling you about what was happening in the atmosphere, i don t understand all that, i just know when things drop 15 degrees and it is chilly out here, things are changing in the atmosphere. this is a displacement of the atmosphere when the storm moves to the north. it was a stunning thing to think about how hot and humid it is in orlando on a typical day like yesterday and how considerably colder and chillier it is now when the storm moves through. i will guarantee you this, tomorrow when the storm passes, we will have blue skies and it will be hot and humid again in the state of florida tomorrow. melissa: it is amazing. it really struck me when you said that before because of course you would think that you would be boiling there in that raincoat basically, but as the temperature changes as the storm flows, it s interesting to see what happens and we hope that you all stay very safe out there. yeah, you bet, sure will. you know, rick leventhal was complaining about his gea