Hurricane force winds, a much broader area so that is bad news. You can see the center of the storm right now north of cuba and whats happening, its moving into warmer waters. Waters south of miami is about 90 degrees so that likely will intensify the storm. This is the latest track, we just got this in and this brings it into the central keys of florida near marathon as a cat five hurricane early in the morning on sunday, 160mile maximum sustained winds, that is the strongest category hurricane. It pushes inland near naples marco island and continuing to push it up the spine, west of the spine of the panhandle as a category one hurricane, cal storm near jacksonville and then pushing near atlanta, that will bring some flooding rains, also some storm surge. So, we do have now hurricane warnings across all of south florida from West Palm Beach to naples area to the south. The watches from melbourne to tampa. Part of the problem its a storm surge, its inland flood, iind. This is going to
Will be no safe place on the keys when this storm hits. First of all, its enormous and its actually gotten bigger. The eye wall is now 40 miles across. The maximum sustained winds did weaken a little bit over the past 24 hours due to that eye wall replacement cycle but as it moves north of cuba its moving into warmer waters. That will likely intensify the storm. So, the latest from the National Hurricane center does bring it into the florida keys, Central Florida keys around marathon as a category five hurricane, very early sunday morning, maximum sustained winds 160 miles per hour, gusts more than 200 miles per hour. And continuing to make that turn near naples florida, by sunday morning as a category four hurricane and then pushing it just west of the spine of the florida peninsula by jacksonville a Tropical Storm and then pushing all that heavy rain into georgia as a Tropical Storm. So, we have hurricane warnings in effect for all of south florida, really every place south of fort p
A big sigh of relief for so many people that this storm didnt leave the kind of catastrophic damage that was expected in places like this. But irma is still leaving its mark. Today flooding in charleston, savannah and breaking records in jacksonville. What was Hurricane Irma now moving north. While floridians statewide start to assess the destruction left by this giant storm. We got a lot of damage, a lot of cleanup. Reporter neighborhoods like this one in naples under water homes, airplanes and the front of this Senior Living center torn apart. Its unbelievable. Reporter trees uprooted, this one in bradenton taking part of a house with it. Its an incredible sight. Reporter the first image from the keys where irma made its initial u. S. Landfall as a category four yesterday morning now coming in showing houses barely standing, cars buried beneath sand with bridges closed, residents who evacuated are now trying unsuccessfully to get back. Very anxious and we all just want to go home and
Stuart breaking news, meetings all over, out reach, here it is senator schumer and nancy pelosi will be meeting at white house with President Trump for dinner tonight, fox business learned that president invited both of them, our sources are expecting schumer and pelosi to push on dreamer protects and stabilizing healthcare market. I want to get back to irma. To marco island that took brunt of the hurricane. Jenkins is there. You can show us what damage marco island suffered. Reporter stuart i want to break a little bit of news, in florida keys, southern key, key cudjoe, and key west area, bad newsman recounty sheriff confirming 3 fatalities. He said it looks below mile marker 15, like a nuclear bomb within off. But when irma came here, it anything everything down, it can see roofs collapses and palm trees blown about like they were leaves. The folks here on marco island got who i can say, lucky, while it was ravaged, a lot of structural damage, and flooding caused by a couple of feet
What that means, if that track verifies, the worst of the storm would be staying out to sea. This shows the chance of Tropical Storm force winds. Those are winds more than 39 miles per hour. And it shows the best chance getting closer to cape cod. As we zoom in in our region you can see that shade of green. Thats a 20 percent chance of Tropical Storm force winds. So, if this track holds, we have a 20 percent chance of those winds along the coast. So, again, that would keep the strongest part of the storm out to sea. So, this is what we know. Jose will be bringing rough surf, rip currents through the weekend. Its next week. A big concern for beach erosion and tidal flooding. Still uncertain the exact track along the coast and that would really determine any extent of rain or wind. Ill have more details coming up in the full accuweather forecast. Sharrie. Cecily thank you. Our Team Coverage continues with action News Reporter bob brooks. Bob is live in brigantine with how people down the