i want to get down to thomas roberts who is in miami beach. thomas, empty behind you there. right? they ve cleared the beach and they re doing the last-minute preparations. yeah, they are. they re doing the last-minute preparations, hallie. not totally empty. as you can see this couple just leaving. if you had come back to us 45 seconds earlier you would have seen them asking them to get out of the water. i was talk to them as they were leaving and they said they wanted to get in one last swim before the storm. big oversized flat bed trucks pulled off bungalows that are coordinated with the different hotels and residents that will house beach chairs or towels, lawn furniture. they just took off that way. if you can see all the way down by that green and white life guard tower. there are certain life guards on the beach, roughly about 15, 20 minutes ago when we first arrived, one of the first guards who is on the four wheeler over
you can here s the recent track, we re going to watch this storm move across the bahamas and today, we re into tomorrow and it s going to move across the northern part of cuba. then all four have it making a northern lift. if that storm attaches to cuba or eyewall, we may have a subtle adjustment in the strength but we may even see in the 11:00 update, that it got a little bit stronger because prior to that, at the 8:00 update it was making a little eyewall replacement. when it does that and the wall shifts and replaces in the center of the storm, you may weaken the wind speeds for a while. then that storm is a perfect energy generator keeps churning. i want you to see this before we wrap quickly. the long-term track for this storm as we have it, we have it hitting 2:00 a.m. sunday at 150-mile-per-hour winds in the center keys, then moving up the center. so by monday at 2:00 a.m., it s
evacuate. boca raton high school and west boca raton high school. it is a massive storm and eminent that we will have hurricane-force winds here in boca ruto bo boca raton. many people have evacuated to points north. of course, we re asking people to evacuate from the low lying areas to just inland with friends, if they can. and this is about neighbors helping neighbors in their time of need. in addition to neighbors helping neighbors, is the government sending out folks to help some older people who have issues with mobility or medicines or different medical devices that they need to be bringing with them? well, yeah, operates a special needs shelter here in our county for those who have special needs medically. and some of the cities in our western areas, especially the cities around lake okeechobee,
negluigible difference between a category 4 and category 5 storm. movement at 16 miles per hour. what we have been hearing about all morning long is not only the hurricane risk, the debris risk and the issue from the bahamas all the way through to the florida coastline of surge. jupiter inlet, all the way down to key west. that is a massive stretch of coastline. we could see up to five to ten feet of surge and, again, that is a result of all the wind and the breath of this storm, which is close to 400 miles. and then on the west coast now from bonita beach all the way to key largo, another five to ten feet of surge possible. in the keys, we could see 10 to 15 inches of rain and then the big issue still remains. what happens to this storm? is the path going to be as predicted? will it stay to the east? will it go to the west?
this image from nasa showing clouds associated with andrea blocking out most of florida. this is not just a florida storm. there are flood watches, flash flooding or regular flooding from rain extended all the way from the florida coast well to maine. this is at least two days. still of heavy rain. sam champion, abc news, cedar key, florida. all right, this storm is impacting up to 90 million americans, andrea barrels north into interstate 95. our coverage continues at accuweather with meteorologist jim dickey. good morning, jim. tropical storm andrea continues to spin its way further northward as we speak. you see the center circulation with andrea moving its way northeast right now. it will be accelerating. by 8:00 a.m. this morning off the coast of south carolina, eastern north carolina and eventually through the weekend up into new england. it will interact with the system