our neighbors had time to prepare, the communities did. the so for the first time i think we were not surprised by anything that this storm did or could have done. i think a lot of us in south florida feel like it could have done more and we were very fortunate to only get the brunt of what we did get, not the full brunt of it. all right. mayor jack sieler, fort lauderdale. a lot of credit goes to the scientists, right? . victor blackwell thank you for your great reporting, all of our teams in florida. thanks for that. new day picks it up now. announcer: this is cnn breaking news. special coverage of hurricane irma, be very clear, it is not over. hurricane irma still battling the state of florida. right now some 24 hours plus after first making land fall. this is an unpress dentszed beating. even though the hurricane has
far into meteorology, for a while yesterday, we had an eyewall 26 miles across. then another eyewall built on the outside of that. that cuts off the power to the ideas ring. the inside ring dies and the outside takes over. that s where we are now, 50 miles across. eventually, that 50 miles across will get smaller and the speed goes up. think winter olympics. a lady on one skate with arms out, spins slowly, brings the arms in and spins closely. later today, it will bring its arms in and regain strength or maintain. cat 4, cat 4, cat 4 making land fall in the keys. somewhere around key colony beach in marathon. to the right of there is the
looked at the size of the storm when it was 185 miles per hour and they were mesmerized. now it dropped 30-35 miles per hour and it s at 150. for some odd reason, they feel that that is much better and it s not. you know, we are talking cat 4, but it s a high. it s a few miles away from being a category 5 again. andrew came at that speed and it was catastrophic back then and this will be now. they should heed the warnings, seek shelter. there s plenty of shelters available and only a small number of people are taking advantage of the shelters to this point. hopefully today we get a lot of folks into the shelters. if they are not going to go to a shelter, go somewhere safe. a friends house, family, relatives that have shelters and the appropriate measures have been taken and the necessary supplies to carry over for at least three days while the storm hits.
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