Ravaged the caribbean islands. It pounded turks and caicos overnight. Abc news molly hunter is in any smyrna beach with the latest. Molly . Reporter its relatively quiet where we are on the east coast and those waves are getting progressively big as we wait for irma. Hurrican irma churned through the caribbean devastating the islands. Its the strongest recorded storm to hit the atlantic. I would not want to see it like this again. Irma stayed largely offshore in st. Maarten and the tiny island. Barbuda taking direct hits. The entire country has been decimated. Reporter irma with winds at more than 1507 Miles Per Hour now taking aim for the bahamas and cuba, and tomorrow south florida. Here on the coast of florida, you can see people are boarding up their houses. Many of these houses actually empty. People are heeding the call to get out of town. More than 1 Million People ordered to evacuate, desperate to stock up on gas and food. Im very scared, so im just trying to get as far north a
Safely evacuate. Joe waltman is in miami monitoring the latest developments. Reporter good evening to you and all your viewers. We are overlooked overlooking downtown miami. There are two major concerns. One of course is the wind there are so many highrises behind me that are basically made of glass. Large glass windows. The second major concern is storm surge. Calling for anywhere from 1020 feet. I ask everyone in the path to be vigilant and to heed all recommendations from government officials and law enforcement. Reporter with a path of death and destruction in its wake across the caribbean irma weakened to a category 4 friday. It is still remaining a major hurricane that appears bound for florida this weekend. The majority will have merit major impacts with deadly storm surge. Lifethreatening winds. We expect this along the entire east coast and west coast. Reporter south florida to the carolinas people are bracing. Mandatory evacuations in effect in many parts of the coastal south
As it moves forward. 3 to 5 as it moves into georgia. Well continue to monitor this storm for you. Dan . Spencer, thank you very much. More than 5. 5 Million People in florida are being ordered to evacuate before Hurricane Irma arrives. For days, weve seen roads jammed with cars and airports packed with people hoping to get a seat on some of the last flights out. This storm is wider than our entire state and is expected to cause major and lifethreatening impacts from coast to coast. This video is just in. The hurricane rolled past here and battered the turks and Caicos Islands with waves as high as 20 feet. Irma has caused the death of at least 22 people in the caribbean. Members of the Silicon Valley Air National Guard deployed to florida to help with rescue efforts. Most of the unit just returned from texas where they saved more than 100 lives. Danielle valdez and her sons are at the airport watching daddy deploy. Overwhelming at times. But were very proud of him. Eric valdez has bee
From right here in the bay area. Thank you for joining us. Im ama daetz. And im dan ashley. No more flights are going into and out of miami and ft. Lauderdale. Hurricane irma is expected to sweep by the area in the next few days. Spencer christian is tracking the storm right now. This storm is frightening. Lets look right now at the image. Its massive and powerful. This was the path, leaving the turks and Caicos Islands and now the eye is moving along the northern coastline of cuba as a cat 4, expected to take a turn towards the northnorthwest tomorrow. By late tomorrow, as a category 5 once again will slam into the Southwest Corner of the florida peninsula and move on sunday directly through florida, closer to the west side. But still the storm is so massive, it covers its wider than the state of florida. Monday, moving into georgia as a Tropical Storm and continuing northward up into tennessee as a low pressure system. The rainfall is unbelievable. The hardest hit areas can receive 1
Families. They can check in online or directly with the consulate. You can go directly to the web page in the internet from the Civil Protection system. And also you can get into the [ nonenglish language ] web page and, of course, the Mexican Consulate is here to help you. This devastating earthquake comes as mexican emergency officials are already preparing for hurricane katia. The cat2 storm is expected to make landfall along the gulf coast of mexico tomorrow. People had a short time to get to safety in mexico. It has an earthquake Warning System and this latest quake proves it works. So why doesnt california have one . Ktvus tom vacar joins us now with why were behind places like mexico and japan in Early Warning detection systems. Tom. Reporter its a nationwide system in mexico. Even a few seconds can help people avoid panic, get out of harms way, and function with some warning. Earthquake alarms in mexico city sounded more than a minute before the shaking from a massive 8. 2 magn