Like this. I mean, 15 feet of storm surge above the ground level, i dont know how you survive that. Right now that storm has already started to slam parts of south florida. Some areas already experiencing tropical force winds. People without power right now. Were told it will climb into hundreds of thousands if north north of a million. We just got the new advisory on irma. Here is meteorologist bill karins. Here is how it works, every three hours intensity, every six hours path update. Next path at 11 00. This is intermediate advisory they call this. Center of the storm off the cuban coast, drifting off the cuban coastline painfully. Thats the biggest headline with the new update. 120mileperhour winds. It was 125. So they have lowered the winds a little bit. The weaker the winds the better. That means well have that much less wind damage. These storms do manage in many different ways, though. I think when its added up, the storm surge will do so much damage than the wind will. The win
This especially the hurricane emergency. Our correspondents are across the storm zone. We have forecasters standing by at the National Weather service and in our cnn Severe Weather center. Right now lets go to cnn martin savidge. This storm is about 100 miles from where you are. Update our viewers. Reporter no question that we have Tropical Storm force winds that are starting to impact the outer Barrier Islands as well as the beach communities that lie along the atlantic. The concern is for the storm surge in this area. There could be six to nine elsewhere. Theres no question the storm that people have waited so long for, well, florence is here. The days of waiting are over. Today the threat becomes a reality. Reporter Hurricane Florence is already making its way presence known along the carolina coast. The window for people to evacuate is closing fast. This is a very dangerous storm. Were asking citizens to heed a warning. Your time is running out. Reporter thousands of people are alr