Could reach 15 feet in places like naples, florida. Thats where National Correspondent jay gray is live. Good morning. We have seen rain all morning. It is building, as you can see. The wind gusting at times as well. The same situation just to the north. Lets take a look at ft. Myers where you can see the trees bending there and the rain pouring in. These are just the outer bands of irma, as the storm moves closer to the keys and targets the coast. Violent wind and frightening rain. Irmas assault begins hours before landfall. Hurricane irma is now impacting our state. Millions of floridians will see major hurricane impacts with deadly, deadly, deadly storm surge. And life threatening winds. Oh, my gosh. 18 million or more could feel the effects of this massive storm. Winds gusting well over 100 Miles Per Hour. 12 inches of rain or more in some areas, and a storm surge that could reach 16 feet. This is a deadly major storm, and our state has never seen anything like it. More than 6 mill
Are sustained probably just below Hurricane Force when you get to the top of the building, because they dont have anything to stop it. The other angle is the wind and the rain, just horizontal sheets of rain battering here in the brickell section of miami. Well have to take a look when we go over the bridge to see what kind of impact the water is having downtown. The water is coming right off the river into downtown miami. Look at this wave action here, this is like a noreaster off the coast of new england. Ive seen waves like that, but not an inland water way. This is not the open waters of the atlantic. Gosh knows what the waves look like out there on miami beach. This is quite the visual that weve had all morning here. And for safety reasons, were going to be packing up here and heading to Higher Ground so we can get out of harms way. The surge is starting to come up, were expecting about a five foot surge. Weve seen the water ramp up, we want to be safe. Later this afternoon the wi
Up. All of it with Major Concerns over storm sturge, that could get as high as 15 feet some some areas. Power obviously, people losing power. A major concern. A number of people without power is increasing by the power. When we first came on the air at 6 00 east coast time. This morning, 200,000 people without power. That number is now over 1 million. Well probably continue to see it climb. Weve got a team of correspondents across florida, as Hurricane Irma hammers the area. Lets start with correspondent Miguel Almaguer in florida city. Miguel good morning again. Reporter the wind is still blinding out here, the and ten miles inland from the coastline, they say the storm sturge is is not going to be a major issue. But these winds here that continue to knock down power lines and knock out power to this entire city. Still, much of this region remains in the dark here. The winds are Strong Enough that First Responders now say they will not leave the station. They are hunkered down. Were a
Coverage of this storm we are in Bonita Springs and Jackie Deangelis out there and diana olick north in atlanta we want to start right now with carl good morning to you. Reporter good morning to you. As becky said, the storm is very much a force in northern florida, will be in georgia later. Were in southwest florida landfall was southwest of naples were on a bridge overlooking one of the waterways the good news if you can call it that, the estimates of storm surge, 10 to 15 feet, didnt really happen. You have all of these condos, hotels, gated communities that dont look that much different from the pictures that we shot here yesterday of course, im going to give that a big calf fee at given we dont know the fate of tampa and tampa bay. When this was considered to be a doomsday scenario in miami beach, the impact there was very real, when it was considered to be a direct hit, that was a high end real estate story. That picture remains true. A lot of these homes out here, mental heal mu
Fall this friday. Good morning, karen. Good morning. Take a look we can see winds whipping down the shore, rehoboth beach, delaware beaches are affected and in new jersey as well. Lets head over to sue serio , good morning. Wind will be biggest thing we will feel from jose, we will even feel inland. 5 00 oclock update is in and has not changed in strength category one with 75 miles an hour wind is still on the northward track at a rate of nine, 240 milese northeast of Cape Hatteras in North Carolina so that is on track to give us the effects we have been talking about, wind, little bit of rain and coastal flooding. We will talk about that in detail coming up but dont be surprised if you see a shower at new jersey shore this morning. Steve keeley already has. We have a five out of 10 in your weather number mostly for shore points feeling effects of jose. Bus stop buddy has just in case umbrella with him. Temperatures still mild in the 60s and 70s, 71 degrees. Sunrise time 6 46. We will