To make landfall in the florida keys sometime early sunday. The latest track puts the west coast of florida in line for much of what the worst of irma will bring. Were talking from fort myers through sarasota, st. Petersburg, tampa as well. Floridas governor. The mayors across this state are pleading with people still in evacuation zones. Those mandatory evacuation zones do get out and get out now. Hundreds of people, thousands of people across the state are headed to county shelters. And some people spent the night on the west coast sleeping in their cars on the side of the road waiting to get into a shelter. Because this is what is coming. Look at this. Irma. Beating up on cuba. There are, i mean, feet of water in some places. Thats not an exaggeration, considering what our Patrick Oppmann who is there on the north coast has been showing us. 160mileperhour winds. Broke the equipment there that records the wind speed on the island. You know, we are tracking irma across florida. Weve g
This is mark demaris. Hurricane irma remained a category 4 storm moving north at 9 Miles Per Hour. We expect that to accelerate during the day. The storm made landfall over the cudjoe key area around 9 10 as a category 4 storm. The keys are actually still getting the effects of the storm on the back side. They are not completely out of the woods yet. As the storm moves up the coast we are getting observer reports of hurricane gusts in miamidade. The center of the storm looks like it will be moving you have the southwest coast of florida over the later today. And we have a hurricane warning potentially for the entire state of florida except for the western panhandle because of the large size of this system. We have the hurricane is expected to remain a major hurricane when it reaches the southwest coast. It will weaken as it crosses the tampa area. But this will be a major wind and surge event as well as i rainfall the next couple days. The surge event. Southwest florida is especially v
Over here and then see by looking over here the wall of water, or the storm surge coming in. Ye yeah, wow. Guys, i have to say, this is the strongest. Im going to take a knee for a second, kind of like exhausting to stand there. The trees falling behind you. Gabe, remember, it takes nothing for rotation to start in these storms, so be on the lookout if the wind starts really swirling in a circle. Yeah, thats exactly right, brian. Directly above me i am covered. This is the rain thats wow. Hitting me. Wow. Okay, gabe, why dont you get under the overhang there, buddy. Its a good thing i was covered, brian. Right above me, im covered, were going to get wow. Maybe get a little more covered. We are right here. We are. Were going inside right now. And this tree, we had been seeing several of the trees nearby that were swaying a bit. The winds picked up in just a few seconds. Obviously, this one fell right behind me. Luckily, i had been covered. Otherwise that would not have worked out so wel
Weather center, 120 miles an hour, nothing to mess with. No, when katrina made landfall 12 years ago, that was also a category 3, people are saying, oh, its weakening, it cant bring much of a punch, it certainly can. This is going to be a storm surge issue. Certainly the winds at 120 per hour is going to be very hard on a lot of structures but the storm surge is water that comes from the ocean and piles up along the very vulnerable areas across the west coast. Now i just want to move in with radar, shepard, i know that you have been talking about marco island. Thats the strongest of the core of the strongest winds at 120 mierp 120milesperhour sustained. Everglades seeing the worst of the weather. Sustained winds. The worst of onshore flow and potential for tornadoes in Northeast Quadrant of the storm, that will remain a concern not only right now but throughout the overnight hours and into tomorrow, so we have tornado watches in effect and right now tornadowarned storms. I know that yo
Right now there is no food, no water, no electricity. First responders are in triage mode. Their supplies and communication, limited. This is cudjoe key. This is where irma made landfall. The water is not working. The sewers not working and theres no electricity. So its very tough. In jacksonville, flash flooding has swallowed entire streets. Flood levels along the st. Johns river surpassing a 153yearold record. The surge unlike anything residents have seen before. The mayor and local authorities asked people to hang white flags outside their homes as a signal for help. Just within the past few minutes, the line here has started to build. According to early insurance estimates, irma causing 20 billion no 40 billion in damages in florida. We are watching still out in the atlantic, jose. It is a hurricane. It is something we have to watch and have to be concerned about. A new report claims that lawyers representing President Trump in the russia probe wanted his soninlaw Jared Kushner to