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
Gathering in the streets of mexico city. Hundreds of miles away from the epicenter. The earthquake has created a potential tsunami threat to several Central American countries. Including the pacific coastline of what a mullah honduras mexico el salvador and costa rica. The threat braced to nominate was being evaluated for hawaii mom and other pacific islands. There are reports of Power Outages in mexico city. To put it into perspective. The earthquake which devastated the bay area in 1989 was a sixpoint nine. That was considered a strong quake. Once you get above 8 on the Richter Scale it is considered great. That kind of earthquake reduces major damage and destruction to buildings. And is felt over large regions. We will continue to follow developments. Hurricane irma moving to the north of cuba and expected to make landfall in florida on sunday. The governor warned it could cause catastrophic devastation. Category 5 storm has decimated islands in the caribbean. Including barbuda. And
By sunday morning. Here is the latest. National Hurricane Center has just issued hurricane warnings for south florida and the florida keys. There is a mass exodus underway as floridians heed the warnings and evacuate. Right now the hurricane is over the turks and Caicos Islands and is approaching the northern coast of cuba and the Outer Islands of the bahamas. The new evacuation orders. And the new difficulties. Reporter right now so far the hurricane has killed at least 11 people in the caribbean. Evacuations have spread in florida. The governor ordered all schools colleges and universities to close. Time is running out. And so are resources. Reporter Hurricane Irma immense power pounded the caribbean. At a relentless and record breaking speed thursday. The winds swept past the Virgin Islands after bringing distractions and death to places such as st. Martin. The Dominican Republic not even in the past also felt the fury. In antigua the category category five damage could be seen from
South florida, maybe near the every glads every gladz, maybe near everglades, maybe miami. Unless there is a change in that pattern, that could certainly happen. We are getting closer, we are get intoing the window where the acura seep improves. Low clouds yesterday where many did not see the sun. Off and on drizzle with light rain. That has since moved ouf. Another low has dropped in. A little cooler on these lows. 50s and 60s for your temps. The delta breeze which was howling yesterday has calmed a little bit. You see the circulation right there, thats the next drop in. It will be headed towards southern california. Tomorrow, 60s, 70s, and 80s. But it does look warmer as we look into the weekend. We finally made it here and here we are. Traffic is moving along okay if you are driving on the altima pass. I think getting on the road early today will help. Right now it looks good to livermore and really all the way into the bay area freeway system. This is a look at the 880 north and so
Winds have hit the keys tonight. The eye of the storm will move across the keys with 120 mile perhour winds and traveling across the state on sunday bringing 1518 inches of rain. The significant storm surge is expected to reach 15 feet in the coastal communities and more than 6. 5 million floridians have been ordered to evacuate. So far hundred and 70,000 people are without power tonight. Hurricane irma is beginning to batter the florida keys with dangerous winds and continues to remain a category 4 storm. It is a deadly storm. Our state has never seen anything like it. South florida feeling the effects of Hurricane Irma after its lambs through cuba after it destroys the instruments being used to measure it. Our meteorologist is tracking the storm and first we will send it over to joel in miami, joel what is it like right now . Moments before we came on error i thought i saw you were standing in some floodwaters, whats going on . Reporter we are definitely getting the effects of irma,