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The thousands of lives lost. This is the first year that President Trump a native new yorker observes todays ceremonies as president. First bill hemmer joins us from orlando as irma continues to batter the sunshine state. Bill good morning to you. More than 3 million in florida waking without power. It was 24 hours ago the storm came across in key west. It is still a big story and will be throughout the day but it is also a moment where we pause and we reflect. A significant time for reflection for all of us across the country and around the world. September 11th, the day yet again 9 11. Well see you later in morning in florida. Jon and shannon, back to you in new york. Shannon he will join us later for more extended coverage of the storm. A moment of silence to mark the Moment United Airlines flight 75 was flown into the south tower. President trump and melania will arrive at the pentagon for the ceremony there. Vice president mike pence will take part in ceremonies at the flight 93 m
Delivering destruction and devastation to the state of florida as we speak, it is delivering a hammer blow today toe na. Weve heard reports all morning about dramatic rescues of people stuck in buildings that are flooding. Up in jacksonville, there is serious concern about unprecedented storm surge, levels that they have not seen on the st. Johns river since the 18 hundreds. Again, the story about irma is the size of the storm and cnn is all over it with reporters in every location that we could get them to in the state of florida because so many places in florida have been effected. In miami here, it did not get the eye of the storm, but it got relentlessly pounded for hours and hours and hours, hurricaneforced winds, storm surge on this street that would have been up passed my waist and thats just miami. Lets go over to naples which did get the brunt of the eye, chris cuomo is there. Reporter john, it saw the wind here. I think they had record gust of 140 miles an hour. But a good ne
Right now the most widespread impact has been Power Outages. Nearly 6 Million People are without power as we speak. Of the the two dozen storm related deaths, just one that we know of so far occurred in florida. As all of this is going on of course as youve been watching the country is marking 16 years since 9 11. The worst terror attack on u. S. Soil. The president will take part in a moment of silence shortly. Well have that for you when it happens. And in the meantime, we want to get the latest on Hurricane Irma. We do have a team of reporters spread out across the state of florida and we start with nbc meteorologist bill karins. Youve been tracking the path. These pictures coming out of jacksonville. I was expecting to have a nice little easy, you know, forecast and the damage part was supposed to be just about over with. Now im looking at the tide gauges prediction in savannah, georgia, which is going to be two feet higher than last year in matthew, which was the record. There wer
Roads. The predicted storm surge didnt happen. A lot of people told us they were grateful for that. 20,000 people taking refuge in shelters, fearing the worst. What is next is to get electric power up. 210,000 customers, about 200,000 lost their power. So now you have many families at home alive in their houses, whole, but without electricity, without air conditioning, without phones and many of the schools still closed because they are damaged, too. Neil, back to you. Neil to your point, this could be the case for weeks, right . Half the state is out of power. Its a huge problem and a huge effort by authorities. Theyre marshalling the biggest power effort in history to try to get power back up and running. Lines snapped here in naples from gusts of 140 Miles Per Hour everywhere you look. Thanks, steve very much. Steve harrigan. In the middle of that, you might be surprised at what youre about to see now. A big day on the corner of wall and broad. Stocks soaring on that it wasnt worst.