Page that shows the middle of the eye. And heres why. Imagine this. Were going to do a comparison. This is the category 5 hurricane with winds about 185 Miles Per Hour extending outward 50 miles from the center. Then they turn into lesser winds all the way outc to the site. So imagine youre right here and youre enduring that. Youre not doing it like a tornado. That would be an ef4. Maybe a weak ef5 if theres such a thing. That moves by very quickly. Its through. But imagine that you are now having to endure thoeds winds for 30 or 60 minutes as this slowly passes by. Now yacnot only get them coming but you get them going. Thats a comparison. As to the power of this and what you would have to fwo through standing in a tornado for 30 to 60 minutes. Thats pretty much what these folks have had to go through in parts of the islands and approaching puerto rico. Now right now, 185 mile an hour winds moving west to northwest at 16 Miles Per Hour. The pressure has dropped. Its 9 14 so its inten
Major highways are clogged with cars. You can see from the Helicopter Shot as evacuation orders are sending people inland and to the north in order to get out of irmas path. Local leaders say that people who chose to stay in the areas that are now under evacuation wont have any help later. We boarded up the house, and were hoping for the best. Thats all we can do right now. Its a mad house. I dont want to run out of gas on the road. If you stay, you think youre a tough guy, then youre on your own. We have Team Coverage this midday as the bay area already prepares to help as soon as irma hits. Lets start with meteorologist kerry hall. This storm track, is it still aim towards Floridas Atlantic coast. It is, and unfortunately we havent seen anymore shifts off towards the east, which would make it a lesser blow to florida that the point, but we are now seeing that major hurricane just to the north of hispaniola right now moving towards the turks and caicos and we have some more hurricane
Retailer slashing prices on thousands of items what this could be signaling about the company and its rivals power lunch starts right now im brian sullivan, stocks are mixed this hour but on track for first losing week in three weeks. The dow is the only major average that is higher meantime the u. S. Dollar, the greenback weakening against most of the world major currencies, the dollar index now at its lowest level since january of 2015 kroger beating estimates but the shares getting pounded apparently because of aggressive discounting, chipotle taking another hit. Zumi sext. Soaring, a smaller than expected loss and beating sales estimates. Good afternoon, thank you, brian. Lets get you caught up on Hurricane Irma the white house set to hold a briefing in about 30 minutes from now the latest on the emergency efforts, well carry that briefing live. Meantime the president tweeting, warning everyone in the storms path to be vigilant and heed all recommendations from government officials
Chaser, talked to him a second ago, he was on the causeway in the florida keys, said those were the heaviest winds hes ever dealt with in his line of work. Right now, irma is right on top of the florida keys. The eye reaching there in the last hour. Sustained max winds remain at 130 Miles Per Hour, making it a major category four storm. In addition to wind and rain, storm surge is another major problem with this one. It could be as high as 15 feet in some places. The storm has lead to the largest evacuation in florida history, more than 6 Million People there. Hundreds of,0 hundreds of thousands told to evacuate in georgia. In florida city, south of miami, migel almaguer is there. Good morning again to you. Reporter good morning. It is really coming down. These are conditions that worry First Responders. Theyre not going on the road any longer. Saw a fire truck coming down the road a short time ago. Want to show you what it looks like. All the palm trees are bending sideways. As i send
2017. And we want to welcome you back to this special edition of today on sunday morning. I am matt lauer with savannah guthrie, as you just heard, lester and al are in tampa, florida, going to check with them in a moment. Lets get the latest on the storm. Heres where things stand. It is a powerful category four hurricane and it is slamming southern florida at this hour, with in some cases 130 Miles Per Hour winds. As you might expect, Power Outages are really widespread, hundreds of thousands of people are without power and we are hearing about more of those with each passing hour. Thats right. In all, more than 7 Million People have been evacuated in florida and also in georgia. More than 400 shelters are now open. Talking to dave price and the latest forecast or update on the storm, Hurricane Force winds up to 80 miles. Tropical Storm Force Winds up to 220 miles outside the eye of that storm. Thats a big area. It is a big piece of business thats going to touch every single piece of