miami international airport where flights are canceled for today and tomorrow. airlines are trying to reposition their planes here in south florida out of south florida as hurricane irma approaches and that means those cancellations will continue to rise, david. we can see the lines forming behind you. amy, thank you. amy, alex, gio, linzie. all of our teams out in the storm. we thank them all. stay safe, and we ll have much more for you first thing in the morning on good morning america. in the meantime, we turn to the other major news, president trump and a deal made today in the oval office. a deal with the democrats. many republicans tonight are not happy. abc s mary bruce on the hill for us. reporter: in the oval office today, that stunning image the president cutting a deal with democrats and blind siding his own party. just an hour earlier, the speaker of the house blasted the democrats proposal to raise the debt ceiling and fund the government for only three months.
than 500,000 without power there already? reporter: yes, david. the head of the power company says it could be between four and six months before power is restored so some of those areas. we re being told to expect sustained hurricane force winds for at least a couple of hours tonight. there s also major concern about storm surge and flash flooding. it will be a long night, david. long night indeed. linzie janis and our team in san juan. stay safe tonight. as we told you here last night in the broadcast, we were looking at two possible scenarios for florida. tonight, a much clearer picture here. the new models are in. also north and south carolina declaring states of emergency. let s get right to chief meteorologist, ginger zee, tonight. she has been tracking irma with us all day, and where is she right now? reporter: irma is northeast of san juan, puerto rico. by about 50 miles. that center of the eye, which the eye is about 20 miles across, is moving west, northwest at 16. so
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said they are running what has been described as a concentration camp system, today were baffled. they said what side is the u.s. on? we had an interview with someone very close to assad s office who was saying are you helping the terrorists? maybe that s what they call all the extremist groups there, who s side are you on? to a degree they have a point because it s not clear whose side we re on. richard, glad to get you on this broadcast. there will be more because what s coming next week. so this time there was a strike, maybe there s not going to be great consequences because it was limited but who knows where this is going. this is really delicate stuff. thank you, my friend. stay safe tonight in turkey.
maybe there s not going to be regret consequences because it was limited but who knows where this is going. this is really delicate stuff. thank you, my friend. stay safe tonight in turkey. i want to bring into the conversation courtney cube by. you ve been doing absolutely yeoman s work and really good reporting. you ve been way ahead of the curb in terms of anticipating these things and describing them. i hadn t to grachg congratulate you and thank you for helping us report this over the last 24 hours. zblauch one of the things we had conflicting reports about today is how much damage was done. we got some sort of hard to read, hard to assess reports from the ground in syria saying not too much damage was done to this base. certainly it s still functioning as an air base.