on this. nbc s gotti schwartz joining us in homestead. joining me now al roker is in ft. myers, florida, which is where this thing for the moment is headed. al, tell us what the latest says. reporter: i ll tell you what s interesting, ali, right now, i mean, this is a beautiful day. we were in miami are lester holt and last night when we got the 11:00 briefing that it was going to look like it was really going to stay west we decided to get in our cars and drive out here. and that s where we are now. and i think lester s on his way as well. but as you mentioned, we do have a big change coming in the forecast. the 11:00 national hurricane center briefing just in and it s now a category 3 storm, 125-mile-per-hour winds. it s 175 miles south of key west. but here s the deal, do not things are getting better, it s weakening. it s been over cuba, over land
that have reinforced shutters made out of metal. so that s something we ve seen, but then you ve got this place here that is kind of a testament to the power of a hurricane. it s something that people in homestead drive by regularly. so the power of andrew and the power that irma could bring is still fresh in people s minds. all right. and this is important because when people talk about even the economic damage of hurricane andrew, it is so much different these days. if hurricane andrew had landed today, two things would happen is, one, that amount of damage would be greater because there are more people and more buildings, but to your point a lot of the weak structures are gone. and a lot of the new structures that have been built can actually withstand the wind power of hurricanes. but, gotti, the storm surge and flooding is still the thing that takes lives. reporter: absolutely. and one of the other things is we do see a lot of buildings
and is anticipated to restrengthen as it heads north away from cuba to florida. joining me now is nbc s gotti schwartz, i think it was your pictures we were looking at when we were speaking to the mayor of homestead as you had been driving through there. irma is expected to be worse than andrew in certain ways. what lessons has homestead learned and that we can all learn from homestead? rrtd it s all about building codes here. i m going to show you a mobile home park that was completely destroyed during andrew 25 years ago. but you were just talking about how this is now a category 3 hurricane. and it is still over 100 miles away from our location, but we re seeing these bands come through. i don t know if you can see this here, but that right there, that blue dot is where we re at right now. and you see those reds come over. again, we are over 100 miles away from this hurricane. these are the outer bands, and
this is a pride parade there. tens of thousands of people have come out. pretty striking images. interestingly this happens in the same day that germany legalized same sex marriage, so people pouring out for that event today in spain. it has been ten years since apple founder steve jobs introduced the iphone. it s hard to believe. critics then called it exceptional. today it seems indispensable, more than a billion iphones have been sold and the iconic device has revolutionized the way people live and do business. gotti schwartz has more. reporter: these days you can watch the moment steve jobs changed everything on the very phones he foretold. today apple is going to reinvent the phone. this is how you turn it on. reporter: a decade ago the smartest phones meant a tiny screen and a tiemy clicky keyboard and the tech announcement that changed our culture. a sleek, simple glass-covered
they re for brexit but not the kind brexit thee rhee sa may wants and the fate of brexit, the timeline, a you will of that now up in the air. stephanie? confusing day in london. thank you, lucy. we have the take you now back to this country. you remember former fbi director james comey, his testimony was just yesterday and, of course, must see tv. here s a question. how was it received outside of washington? nbc s gotti schwartz has reaction out west. when s the word? reporter: well, so many different opinions on what happened in that testimony yesterday. we have heard from people across the country, people that went to the comey watch parties a. lot of them were in favor of comey before the testimony even started but here in arizona we have been going up to people on their way to work, people that have been going about their day to see what they think. and for the most part, overwhelmingly most of them tell us that they think that this is