Week long. The situation in tampa is watching and waiting. Some of the outer bands of the storm have brought some light rains compared to what is to come. And people here know that. The story, the pictures we have been watching out of miami on brickell boulevard, water just pouring down the street. Thats where we find our john berman right now. John, i mean you know, again, the people in tampa who luckily still have electricity are able to watch some of those images youve been bringing coming out of miami. Its extraordinary what they have seen. And they know that is coming here, and likely even worse. Yeah, i hope theyre watching and getting the warning that they should be inside, that they should heed the warnings, the calls to evacuate from the officials there in tampa. Anderson, im holding in my hand parts of a plastic light that just snapped off a little bit down the way there and flew at me. I thought it was glass, and thankfully its not. Its just plastic. But you can see the debr
Pounding us for hours and hours and hours. All right. Im chris cuomo in naples. We have been waiting to see what irma would do to the west coast. There are vulnerable areas here and were starting to see it light now. Reported gusts in excess of 80 miles an hour. The situation has changed here. Theres now a significant debris field, and it has been hours of punishing rain. Weve seen this phenomenon with Hurricane Irma where the energy is given and taken away. The water sha should be here on the gulf side of naples is gone, and were waiting for it to come back in the form of storm surge and people are very worried what that will mean. The good news is, most of this place, according to the city manager, of about 19,000 normal residents, have evacuated. They believe twothirds have done so. Now, the question is, what will the rest of the people encounter . For that we go to chad myers. Chad, what is the timing and what should we expect here and along the west coast and parts north . Marco i
It is the largest evacuation in american history. This is the scene earlier in tampa, florida, as folks tried to get out of town. We heard from the governor a few minutes ago. Some 76,000 are already without power in florida. Millions expected to be without power. Some of them perhaps for weeks. Shelters already overflowing. They are opening new shelters in parts of south florida. The storm has been called historic, catastrophic, devastating, and deadly for a reason. It has already ravaged parts of the caribbean, slamming into cuba as a category five. This was the scene in st. Martin. Officials there saying 90 of the island has been all but destroyed, insisting they have never seen anything like it. Moments ago Florida Governor rick scott delivering a stark message to residents, irma is here. Hurricane irma is already impacting florida. The heart of the storm is quickly approaching us. Millions of floridians will be seeing impacts with life threatening winds tonight. Tonight. If you ha