we re still dealing with tropical force winds and pounding rain here. we are in high tide. the water behind me inching closer but as you can see we have not witnessed and we are probably not going to see any catastrophic storm surge here, which is excellent news for people in this area. this was a part of the mandatory evacuation zone. we have been here now for about 24 hours and very little humans in sight. people abided by the evacuation. in fact, one of the fire chiefs here saying that people evacuated so well they were able to do a second sweep in this area. so this place is practically a ghost town. janice was mentioning those on shore winds and we are definitely feeling them right now. the water inching closer to the land but it looks like we are just not going to see any terrible flooding. sun is coming up here, so we are not able to totally survey the damage in this area, but the manager of the hotel that we re staying at sent us some pictures and said there is a howard johns
the authorities, guys, are telling people to stay sheltered in your place. and if you were evacuated, absolutely do not try and get on these roads and get back to your property to assess it, because it s a dangerous situation right now. brian: all right. thanks so much, griff. we ll see. and a lot of those people in naples, they pretty much were hit first and relatively surprised. if you told people on thursday naples is going to get slammed they will say no, it s really on the east side and ends up by the weekend ends up being naples. ainsley: several of our reporters that were down there in south florida over the weekend were watching coverage and they were comparing it to hurricane harvey that they had all just been through. they said thankfully this is not as nearly as bad. it was quick-moving. harvey just sat there forever and pelted them. brian: came back a couple of times u. steve: hurricane force winds were much stronger. this was one of the strongest hurricanes of all time. ha
heather: hurricane irma battering florida, bringing more rain, wind and damage. ainsley: massive storm blamed for at least five deaths, including two police officers. the storm now down graded to a category 1 storm. the danger is not over yet. look at this sign that s down here. huh. look at that strong current. danger. no joke. but i tell you, we are not done with this storm yet. it s still whaling pretty good. wherever hurricane irma goes, we will be there first. i want everybody to survived this storm. we can t send out first responders to save you, so everybody needs to be cautious. president trump vowing to head to florida in the wake of hurricane irma. we will go to florida very soon. i mean, the bad news is that this is some big monster. but i think we are very well coordinated. steve: this is a fox news alert. hurricane irma, the
going to be dealing with this into tuesday and remnant low and sits and spins across the tennessee river valley. there is the radar right now. you can see the core of the strongest winds right here. then we also have the offshore flow. so tampa you are still going to get the potential for heavy rain and that storm surge moving. in it won t be the incredible storm surge amounts that we were predicting yesterday. but, still, very vulnerable coast line and the potential for, you know, water levels to rise. future radar shows this storm system moving north and westward into atlanta, georgia for the first time in history, atlanta georgia is under a tropical storm warning. that s incredible. we could see the potential for hurricane force winds moving into parts of georgia and the carolinas. there are your rainfall totals. obviously this is not a harvey story like we saw in houston. but still incredible rainfall totals of over a foot of rain. the potential for upwards of 4 to 6 inches. so fla
became the surge. brian: go ahead, steve. steve: meanwhile in palm beach county on the east coast deputy danny cunningham saved an american flag battered by the hurricane. claim egg he couldn t just bear to watch it get blown apart. he got out of heir car and did the best he could. ainsley: that is great. brian: we saw a lot of the water retreat. when the water retreated. it exposed a lot of sea animals, one of which was a manatee, stranded by hurricane irma after the water got sucked to sea. the rescuers quickly sprung into action, despite the rain and winds. they threw tarps on it, dragging it to deeper water. i guess the manatee lives. ainsley: isn t that great? another manatee there, too, that they thought wasn t living because they said it wasn t breathing. steve: it need water. ainsley: they drug them both back over to the water and they both swam away. steve: crazy situation in the bay because of super low pressure the water just disappeared and it exposed those critters.