Florida, ripped through marco island, sana bell, naples and heading north towards cape coral the target later tonight, the city of tampa and st. Pete. Ordering mandatory curfews for residents at this hour as the storm spawned several possible tornadoes throughout the state and many waiting for the dreaded storm surge, the killer water slamming in from the backside in the gulf. Janice dean has been following this all day. Whats the latest status that the hour . I will get you the latest but want to show you five days ago how well the National Hurricane center predicted this storm. This was their kohn five days ago. Look at the center of where the storm went, over cuba and into southwest florida. Now there was a shift in the cone days out, but this is remarkably amazing forecasting. So, of course, hats off to the National Hurricane center who do an amazing job tirelessly day in and day out to try to save folks, thats exactly what theyre doing. Good work for them. Looking at the radar, so
North. A Tornado Warning issued in the past 30 minutes for the orlando area. We were warned about it. They have come and gone throughout the afternoon, a couple times, in fact, here in orlando, as we continue to track all of that as irma marches further north. Adam klotz, now, our meteorologist back in the fox extreme weather center, starts us off this hour with the latest on what irma is doing now. Adam, good evening to you. Reporter heres what were looking at as we continue to watch irma slowly work up the state, getting closer and closer to that fort myers area. These bands of very heavy rain, very strong winds are continuing to lift, and were going to start to see more Severe Weather towards the tampa area, towards orlando. Its only going to intensify. You just mentioned the tornado threat, its across the entire state. But where youre going to see the most to activity and where weve seen the most so far is this frontright quadrant. So youre getting there on the frontright side of t