you r you re not going to tell the difference between tropical storm and hurricane 1. the season is taking off with really a punch. freappreciate it, tom. we begin with the insurrection. six months to the day. that s how long since we witnessed the worse attack on our democracy by americans since the civil war. think about that for a moment as you look at new video released just today from the justice department showing a mob of trump supporters attacking officers guarding the senate chamber, six months to the day. they say the defendant in the red maga hat climbed scaffolding while carrying a baton. his case, one of more than 500 being prosecuted. we ll let this run raw.
abc s senior mi rob marciano joins us now to time this all out and, rob, hurricane hunters are already flying into the storm tonight. they were in there this afternoon and found stronger winds to 85 miles per hour and really moving along to the west at 30 miles per hour. here it is on the satellite picture. the eastern caribbean racing westward. now we have hurricane warnings that have been posted for haiti, the dr, jamaica and parts a hurricane watch for eastern cuba and the track will bring it toward cuba as a hurricane 1 storm and weakening and getting into the gulf of mexico monday and tuesday impacting florida tuesday and wednesday,sphetti m better agreement but lots of uncertainty. the strength and track, either way folks in florida need to be prepared, whit? we ll watch it closely, rob, thank you. there s also concern severe weather could impact the search of that building collapse in
maybe the water will be choppy. these are tropical models. you see it running off the coast of florida eventually out to sea. maybe we see a couple bands of rain. i think you get pretty choppy seas as you get closer to the labor day weekend. but as far as the tropical storm a couple hours ago, dorian, it has the potential to become a powerful storm. we won t hit the lesser antilles until we get into next week. it s running into warm water. likely getting up to a hurricane 1. this is a long ways off. so there is time for this to shift either direction. but this will be a large storm we are paying attention to. this runs a bunch of different models. by early next week you run over
check the power of this toppled tree. caused a water main break here as well. one of the other concerns going about, you can imagine if you had a live wire fall into this water that would be very dangerous to step in. those are the hazards among many. the cleanup is under way this morning. christine, they really had full force here, hurricane 1 category 1 status but it could have been a lot worse. all right. thank you. as irma batters florida with wind and rain, how much will the damage cost? well it s early, but the estimates here is a price tag of $172 billion making it one the costliest storms ever. that s not just property damage. florida is the fourth largest economy. tourism alone generated $90 billion last year and it could
hurricane irma still in full effect, still battering florida as a hurricane 1 category, 75-mile-per-hour sustained winds. gusts far above that. we are getting reports of the damage as it moves through the states. and the numbers just keep popping. now the number of people without power in florida is 5.7 million. imagine what a big percentage of this state that is and how long it may last. we re also getting reports from jacksonville. the storm surge there, which is a big concern with this storm, especially in this state, now at an all-time record. they re not done with irma. they are just in the middle of the exposure to the front part of that storm. they broke their record from 1964 set by hurricane dora. these are the wrong kinds of