horizontal if you can tell, john. with the track changing, with the forecast showing it s showing all west they don t want people to become overconfident and think they can come back to miami beach. as the night goes on and the winds and the rains pick up, very dangerous to be moving about. officials say, if you made the decision stay, hunker down, be careful, be safe, make good decisions. please stay safe and stay with cnn. as you just saw there from our correspondents it s so deceptive, the weather can change so quickly so it s important not to be complacent as they were pointing out there. we know miami beach area is under curfew from 8:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m. on the phone now with jimmy morales, city manager for miami beach. jimmy, thank you very much for
an island with request we know it, we live it every day. it s a whole different world down here. when my mom and brother died last year, dad brought the ashes and we spread them out here. dad lost him in my arms and spread the ashes here, they re all down here so it s an emotional attachment. i m not going anywhere. we talked about that last night, that s part of the reason you stayed that emotional attachment. john, great to talk to you again hope you re doing okay and hopefully we ll talk again when this is over. thank you so much. still to come, much more breaking news coverage of hurricane irma, the huge storm expected to effect most of florida, it is the size of florida. we ll have reports from along the east coast getting hit by high winds and heavy rain when we come back. stay with us.
speak of hunkering down, john heins joins me over the phone. he lives in key west, florida waiting out the storm. john, good to speak with you, you said you were confident if a strong building. what has it been like? well, it s gotten worse of course. we re in a strong building a concrete con zoe. we re hunkered down, the lights are out so can t see anything. that makes it a little moree rere: ree, it s loud noisy and rainy. as i peeked through the curtains it s loud here. things are bringing.