Night. Jeff, good morning to you. Reporter gayle, good morning. So the winds have shifted now. Yesterday they were coming from in front of where i am. Now theyre coming from behind. The surf is up behind us, winds still coming down significantly. The wind is blowing significantly. The rain coming down as well. We saw the worst of it here from about midnight until 2 00 a. M. But it is by no means over. You look out and tarps all over the roads here from tents that were up in this area along st. Pete beach. We have, as far as i can tell, maintained power all of the night here. But when you look out there appear to be larger stretches where power is not on. Irma has, as she moved up florida, moved more inland, and so raked more inland but also slowed down the speeds at least as she moved up. The back side of the storm here, at least as far as we can tell even though it is raining, appears to be drier with not as much rain as there was last night when this first started but, again, many Po
Some big this is the cbs weekend news. Glor and this is our western edition. Good evening, im jeff glor in st. Pete beach on the gulf coast st. Pete beach in florida on the gulf coast. Anthony mason and meteorologist eric fisher are at the cbs Broadcast Center in new york. Hurricane irma beat up on florida all day as it trekked up the gulf coast. It is now approaching fort myers moving northward at 14 miles an hour. The storm made initial landfall this morning in the lower keys east of key west at a category four. And again this afternoon on marco island just south of naples as a category three. Irma is now a category two with maximum sustained winds of 105 miles an hour. The keys have been swamped. They could get as much as 20 inches of rain before its over. Irma is blamed for three deaths in florida so far, after leaving more than two dozen dead in the caribbean. Power was knocked out to more than three million homes and businesses statewide in florida. We have extensive coverage ton