against what you tell them to do. they are aware that if we can t get to you until the winds die down below 40 miles per hour. so because the curfew is in effect now, there s not going to be really anyone coming by for the next 24 to 48 hours. given boynton beach and where it s placed, are you more concerned about storm surge and wind or really a combination of both? it is a bit of a combination of both. we don t have much east of the inter coastal. those barrier islands are going to get hit very hard. but it s mostly i believe the winds that we re worried about. okay. well, mayor there of boynton beach, steven grant, best of luck as you ride this out. we ll be watching very closely what happens in your community. thank you, sir. thank you. when hurricane camille hit the u.s., it was a category five storm with 190 mile an hour wind. but it was hurricane katrina,
when hurricane camille hit the u.s. it was a category 5 storm with 190-mile-an-hour winds but it was hurricane katrina, a category 3 storm that s a lower category, but its winds had far more deaths and damages as people remember. the reason was this term you hear so much, storm surge. katrina s 28 feet far more than camille s 22 feet. richard louie joins us now. no wh noaa says that could be the big problem. wind is not the killer. we watch that often. the storm surge is the killer,
you re watching special coverage of hurricane irma. this storm is charting a path directly towards the florida keys and is expected to make landfall during the next few hours. the storm has again made a slight shift in course westward with the eye expected to go right through st. petersburg. hurricane force winds are already reaching the keys. it s only going to get worse from here on out. the storm maximum wind speed currently clocking at 130 miles an hour. it could pick up more speed before reaching the pan handle. reports of the power outages are climbing. more than 253,000 across the state. it could reach into the millions once irma has hit. steve, so this thing has gone from a category three to a category four officially in the last 30 minutes or so. what all does that mean? we ve had some people say hey, it s only five mile an hour difference, but there is a
former fema official lars anderson. to your point i m joined by some of those that are hardest hit by irma, the low income folks in south florida. we ve got albert garcia on the phone. he is the communications director with the new florida majority. what are they dog to make sure people are safe? we ve been not just preparing our homes, but we ve been helping our neighbors. we did it before. we were doing hurricane preparedness workshops. volunteers having organizing community operations centers. they ve been going door-to-door helping folks to evacuate, to provide some type of transportation. to shelters. also just trying to convince people that they should leave their homes. there s a lot of fear out there. especially in the undocumented families. so we really just are out there