Like its going to be a category 4. Five days of food, two weeks worth of water. My generator is filled up. Help is on the way. The house has passed a 15. 3 billion disaster aid package for hurricanes harvey and irma. Which the president could be signing as early as today. In times such as these we see the strength and resolve of the american spirit and see the k d kindness of our people. America stands united and i mean totally united. While five former president s joined forces in an unprecedented message to raise money for harvey victims. As former president s, we wanted to help our fellow americans to recover. Weve got more love in texas than water. We love you, texas. Good day, as we continue our breaking News Coverage of Hurricane Irma, now a category 4 storm with 150 mile per hour winds, hurricane conditions will be felt along the south florida coastline in the next 36 hours, even before irma makes landfall early sunday morning. State and federal officials sending an urgent messa
And breaking now. A massive Security Breach possibly affecting more than 143 million americans and your Social Security numbers. Good evening tonight from south florida where this evening as we travel through miami, you can see it everywhere. Families, store owners, boarding up, getting supplies and in many places, searching for gas. This is a monster storm, and the new track just out shows a category 4 slamming into the city and all of south florida, and then moving right up the state. Already a deadly and devastating path across the caribbean. Just listen to the winds tonight. That is irma tearing across the island of anguilla, a category 5 storm right now. Winds of 175 miles an hour. On the island of barbuda, nearly every building and home damaged or destroyed. And as we come on the air tonight, irma is now plowing into turks and caicos. The most dangerous side of the hurricane hitting there. This evening, a hurricane watch is now officially in place right here in south florida. Are
Eastsoutheast of south florida. The eye of irma is moving through turks and caicos. 175 miles per hour. Irma is moving to the westnorthwest at about 16 miles an hour. Over the next several days, we expect irma to remain a categor category 5 hurricane. Turning northward, and approaching the florida peninsula sunday. The new track, a little bit to the left of the previous track. Inland over the florida peninsula, making landfall as a major hurricane somewhere in the vicinity of south florida on sunday. There is still some uncertainty as to where the northward turn will occur but everyone in south florida should be preparing for the landfall of a potentially catastrophic major hurricane on sunday with category 4 to 5 winds and a potentially lifethreatening storm surge. We have a hurricane watch in effect for the east coast south of Jupiter Inlet. All of the florida keys and lake okeechobee. We have a storm surge watch in effect south of Jupiter Inlet and bonita beach. Including the florid
Still a few waiting until the next advisory in about an hour and make their final decision then. For the most part people who wanted to leave got their boats and took off. Gas lines are pretty long if you can find a gas station open. Basically everything is shut. The stores are closed down, houses are boarded up, people got out. One of the local businesses, they rode out the last big hurricane here, they say theyre kind of torn. When you talk to locals here for hurricane andrew they tell you the same thing. Half want to stay, half look at that video coming in and that satellite image of this massive storm and trying to decide what to do. Take a listen. Probably one of the largest ones weve seen in a long time. Those are the ones you have to worry about. Its good everybody took out, had time to get out and get away. Not everybody is stuck and has problems. You know this area still with islands, take a look, this is barrier key out here, locals say this will help key largo, it stops a ma
Radar composite. And the white shows you the cloud cover shield, which still goes from cuba all the way to clouds now. If you walk outside in North Carolina and look up in the sky, those are the clouds from irma far to your south. The green shows you the rain shield. All the way now approaching central sections of georgia and south carolina. And we still have rain bands down there in the florida straits. I can estimate it would take me about 15 hours to drive that far, to go all the way through this storm. This is the eye of the center as it made landfall, as we went throughout the 4 00 hour near marco island. And now it still hasnt even reached the i4 corridor here. Its taking its sweet time. I want to point out we still have tornado warnings in effect. One is for the titusville area. Look at this outer band. It comes up approaching areas in the bahamas. It comes back up into the space coast. And there is probably 70 Miles Per Hour wind gusts like that. We had a tornado warnings with