Hurricane ever. Massive size. At least 24 hours of danger ahead. Right now Hurricane Irma officially a category 4 with winds clocking in at more than 130 miles an hour. That is the scene in miami. Where a construction crane was blown down by the storm. And those winds not the only danger. Already we have seen tornados reported across florida. That danger will continue throughout the day. The eye wall has passed over the florida keys now leaving dangerous flooding in its wake. You see that right there and irma approaching the mainland with the entire west coast facing deadly walls of water. Naples first in line, then ft. Myers. 10 to 15 foot storm surge possible there and tonight tampa and st. Petersburg. They are as vulnerable to storm surges and will feel irmas full force. Our Abc News Team is deployed across the storm zone and right with me is ginger zee. We just saw the flooding in the keys and the storm has move passed. More storm surge to come. Remember it rotates counterclockwise
Up the coast and when it gets here, ginger said the biggest concern is the storm surge, thats the case here. I talked to the mayor earlier. He told me the same thing. 10 to 15 feet storm surge well inland. 10 to 15 feet of salt water moving at incredible force both in the beginning of the hurricane and sweeping back behind it. The winds picking up already. We saw a giant tree go down next to us and debris everywhere and once the winds reach about 100 Miles Per Hour, gusts up to 125 as we just saw in that map t model that just came out. Thats going to be sustained for quite some time and theyre expecting considerable damage. I want to head back to amy robach in south florida in miami. Amy, you had 100 mile per hour winds in south florida as well . Reporter we are in the worst of it right now. It is certainly strong winds here, up to 82 Miles Per Hour gusting now. Hurricane forced winds here in downtown miami. I wanted to point out that the streets are starting to flood. I heard ginger m
Anns hall. In all of the instances, nobody was hurt. We still dont know if anything was taken or what exactly was taken. All we know is that some of the suspects were reportedly wearing dark black clothing and a dark mask. This is a story well stay on top of. Aaron, back to you. If youre driving along route 50 near bowie this morning, you may hear loud explosions or see thick black smoke. They are recreating a plane crash scene for a movie near the freeway airport. Filming is set to take place through friday from 10 00 in the morning to 6 00 in the evening. 4. 367891. Time for weather and traffic on the 1s. Tom is here with four things to know about the forecast. Look at the radar. Yeah, right now getting lingering showers far Southern Maryland. Theyre moving across the eastern shore, pulling away off to the north aas wednesday morning. Got a little haze in the air over the capitol. The four things to know over the next ten days, warm and humid mornings. Then some afternoon thundershow
Hurricane hunters flew into it yesterday and did not find that closed circulation. At this closed circulation. At this point, they are giving it about a 90 chance of becoming the next named tropical depression or Tropical Storm. Something interesting will happen. It will head toward the west over the next couple days. Through to saturday morning when its south. But an upperlevel trough or a dip in the jet stream is expected to pick this up and move it almost due north. Before it heads north . Most computer models keeping it near the bahamas but something we will keep a close eye on. This morning, still an onshore wind flow locally which is pushing spotty showers on the coast of citrus county. Through the day, almost like yesterday, almost all of the rain pushes east of 75. About a 30 rain chance between 2 00 and 6 00. So coming up in weather and traffic on the 8s at 4 08, i your wednesday. Gayle, back to you. Thank you so much, leigh. Right now, a st. Petersburg Little League is striki
Kimberly we cannot stop giggling about the same pattys Day Celebration in clarendon. Erin apparently we missed it. Kimberly Jeff Goldberg saw i it is in the 30s. We will be looking at most of the precipitation, light, drizzles. Sunday afternoon come evening, overnight into monday, we have the rain mixture changing over to snow. The temperatures all above freezing. Kimberly dont go to bed yet. We are full of surprises. We have more news coming up. I dont want to live with the uncertainties of hep c. Or wonder whether i should seek treatment. I am ready. Because today theres harvoni. A revolutionary treatment for the most common type of chronic hepatitis c. Harvoni is proven to cure up to 99 of patients whove had no prior treatment. Its the one and only cure thats one pill, once a day for 12 weeks. Can be cured with just 8 weeks of harvoni. With harvoni, theres no interferon and there are no complex regimens. Tell your doctor if you have other liver or kidney problems, hiv, or other medi