Guthrie live from new york, and lester holt, live from florida. Welcome back to this special edition of today, sunday morning, the 10th day of september, 2017, 11 30 on the east coast, 8 30 out west. We came on the air 6 00 a. M. Eastern time. Weve been watching the conditions deteriorate. Yet its still early in this whole process. Weve got places like tampa, major population centers, potentially bracing for a direct hilt. Lets get the latest on what its shaping up to be, an historic storm. The southern tip of florida began to feel irmas impact on saturday. It didnt officially make landfall in the keys until just after 9 00 a. M. Eastern today. As expected, irma actually gained strength overnight to a category 4, with 130mileperhour winds. Utility officials in florida say more than a million customers, i think its 1. 4 by now, are without power. Thats a number thats been climbing and is expected to climb throughout the day. Heres going to put that in perspective. Irma is so massive a s
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
Manchin sympathetic to Economic Growth. Two modern republicans will be there too. Erin hatch, pat toome you in pennsylvania and toun. The highenergy president will travel to as many as 14 states barnstorming high cuts. Now, before we tell you about todays market rally consider this. In unanimous sanction sanctions on north korea. Diplomacy continues. The military option still on the table. Irma, yes, was disruptive specially in the keys, two third of florida remains without power, millions face the frustrating way to get back home but it was not the catastrophe in economic terms that it could have been. Put it altogether. Look at this. Another move up for stocks at the opening bell after a 259point gain monday, the dow will come within striking distance of new record high today. Yes, it is another very big day. Varney company is about to begin. I regret to say, keys hit very hard, all three of the keys hospitals including Emergency Rooms are closed and dawn to dusk curfew till in place
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