Buildings. Reporter its not just the rain doing damage but this powerful wind. Reporter whoa, i just got part of a wave. Reporter tremendous amount of wind. It feels like a sandblaster here. Hundreds of thousands remain in shelters this morning. Trying to just survive, helping one another whatever way we can. As irma moves north threatening millions more across the southeast. Reporter still affecting charleston and savannah today. Every now and then we get something that almost knocks us off our feet. Theres no advantage to being tall. Those guys are still in it this morning as is gainesville. Morgan radford is there. Hi, morgan. Good morning. Reporter matt, savannah, good morning. The eye of that storm is headed our way as we speak. You could feel these winds. The rain has been battering down on us. Because we are on the east side of that eye. That means woo ere in the thick of it right now. Were getting the worst of it because its about 50 miles southwest of us. Weve seen it cause th
Is a special edition of today Hurricane Irma with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning, everyone. Yes, welcome to this special edition of today on a monday morning. Were going to be with you for several hours this morning trying to figure out whats happening with this storm, where shes going, and what shes left behind. Its been a long night, long weekend for our friends in florida. Lets get to where things stand with Hurricane Irma. Its a category 1 storm now packing 75 mileanhour winds still. We are waiting an updating from the National Hurricane center. Theyll give a sense of where its headed. We were talking 140 miles an hour yesterday down to 75 today. It can still do damage. Nearly 5 Million People without power this morning. Record Power Outages for the state of florida. People could be in the dark for awhile. Florida power and light is warning customers this is not going to take just a couple of days to restore. This will tak
Right now the most widespread impact has been Power Outages. Nearly 6 Million People are without power as we speak. Of the the two dozen storm related deaths, just one that we know of so far occurred in florida. As all of this is going on of course as youve been watching the country is marking 16 years since 9 11. The worst terror attack on u. S. Soil. The president will take part in a moment of silence shortly. Well have that for you when it happens. And in the meantime, we want to get the latest on Hurricane Irma. We do have a team of reporters spread out across the state of florida and we start with nbc meteorologist bill karins. Youve been tracking the path. These pictures coming out of jacksonville. I was expecting to have a nice little easy, you know, forecast and the damage part was supposed to be just about over with. Now im looking at the tide gauges prediction in savannah, georgia, which is going to be two feet higher than last year in matthew, which was the record. There wer