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
Fate of so many in the caribbean who lost everything. You can see just how enormous this hurricane is from space, right behind it, hurricane jose, about to bring more havoc to already hardhit areas by irma. Elizabeth thanks for joining us. Welcome to this special threehour edition of americas news headquarters from washington. Im elizabeth prann. Leland its going to be a very long weekend for folks down in florida and beyond. Nice to be with you, great to be with you at home. A lot of Team Coverage here, im leland vittert. Were awaiting a News Conference from governor rick scott who is going to be in rare park, florida, and hes checking on preparations and already 7,000 natural guard troops called up, back to the governor in minutes. Miami beach, high winds and rain are lashing the beach. Hurricane irma is 22 miles south of miami and barrelling toward the florida coast after literally flattening a number of caribbean islands. The storm has been downgraded to a category 3, but the offic
Family. [inaudible] abby Hurricane Irma an hour away now from the eye of the storm making landfall on the west coast now bracing. Hundreds of thousands of the entire mayor. Sustained winds of 130 Miles Per Hour and could reach 15 feet in some areas. Others are forced to stay behind. Team coverage this morning. Pete with Griff Jenkins on the ground right now. Reporter in naples the wind is terrible. Its about 25 come in maybe 30 miles, but it coming and key west which is just minutes away from a direct impact with 130mile per hour winds are near to the west coast. They are hunkered down. Officials here describing it as a worstCase Scenario because you will have high wind combined with storm surge. The mayor telling me the biggest concern is storm surge. The west coast of florida will take the water row. Just behind me to bring it back in. Upwards of 15 feet above ground level search starts hitting here, it is going to absolutely flood everything and you do not want to be there. Thats wh
West at about 9 Miles Per Hour. We can see the eye of irma on the radar from key west emerging off the coast, rain bands are beginning to are still moving across the florida keys and over much of south florida bringing Tropical Storm force gusts to the region. During the next 24 hours, we expect irma to turn north northwestward and move right along the coast of the florida peninsula, reaching the fort myers area around sunday evening, passing by the tampa bay area and moving up to north florida by monday morning and then weakening as it moves inland across southeastern georgia to a Tropical Storm and, finally, a tropical depression over the Tennessee Valley and southern appalachians by the middle of the week. Florida, much of the state of florida is under a hurricane warning, both coastses from the east coast all the way from the georgia border southward including the florida keys, were especially concerned about the west coast and southwest florida seeing the direct impacts of a major
Markets, we are issuing general licenses permitting transactions that were otherwise be prohibited under the executive order. These include a 30 day wind down. Certain dealings in specified debt instruments that trade on secondary markets and certain dealings with u. S. Entities owned or controlled by the government of venezuela. Also, the executive order carves out shortterm financing for most commercial trade, including the export and import of petroleum. This executive order builds on a number of actions taken by the u. S. Government to prevent the flow of funds to maduros regime. In my first day in office, i was with you here at this podium when the Treasury Department designated the venezuelan Vice President under the kingpin act and this year alone, we have sanctioned 30 venezuelan officials including maduro himself. We urge those within the regime, including those who have been sanctioned, to distance themselves from the violence in the dictatorship. President trump made it clea