Into delaware and south jersey. Now, lets talk about irma. This storm bombed out over the past 24 hours. Maximum sustained winds 185 miles per hour. This is a strong category five hurricane. If you look at it you can see the eye of the storm clearly well defined wraparound convection thunderstorms and its very close to antigua. Its only about 135 miles east of the northern Leeward Islands continuing to move to the west. To put this in perspective weve only had one storm in recorded history stronger than irma. That was allen back in 1980. Ill talk about the latest path of irma and what it means for the u. S. Coming up in the full accuweather forecast. Monica and rick. Thank you, cecily. With irma bearing down on the united states, preparations are well under way in the miami area tonight. Folks are stocking up onas, water, food and the cash in the event that south florida does take a direct hit. And in texas, the recovery continues more than a week after Hurricane Harvey hits gulf coast
Cars destroyed. What some may not know about their crae. To new york city when flames shoot from the engine. The Emergency Landing. Good evening, and its great to have you with us here on a tuesday night, and we begin with that monster hurricane gaining strength in the atlantic and tracking toward florida tonight. The strongest hurricane since wilma in more than a decade in the atlantic. At this hour, irma is already approaching the caribbean islands before heading toward the u. S. Mainland. Right now, a powerful category 5 storm. Winds 185 miles an hour. The storm you can see right there, the eye perfectly formed nearly every model tonight showing it headed toward florida and several states to the north. This evening, florida is already in a state of emergency. Families preparing for a potentially catastrophic storm. Way. And so first up tonight, chief meteorologist, ginger zee, with the newest track out, and ginger, where is irma now . Reporter this is just a buzz saw of a storm head
Bank of america county. More rain where that comes from. Look at where the heavier stuff is rolling through. Starting to roll out. Vineland briefly missing here. Starting to move into Atlantic County. Good bit of rain over jersey. Pocket of thunderstorms rolling right through philly. Take a closer look here. Drop down to neighborhood level. Look at very heavy rain with lightning rolling through south philly. Just looked at camera over the link. You could see the lightning rolling through the area. Start tracking into center city and then northeast philadelphia as well over the next half hour or so. Temperatures mostly mid to upper 60s. 69 in philadelphia. 68 in dover. Atlantic city 70. Wont be a warmup today. Because of all the rain. Talk more about that in just a moment. Right now go traffic with jessica boyington. Watching an accident right now on the westbound side of the schuylkill. Camera actually a little bit shaky right now. Once in a while it starts to freeze. Doesnt matter. It
International space station and finally this is irmas eye as seen from a nasa satellite three different views but all say the same thing, this is a potentially catastrophic storm and its headed towards the united states. It is tuesday night the big story on action news Hurricane Irma preparing for landfall as a category five storm. People in puerto rico and florida are seriously battening down the hatches with irma producing the most powerful winds ever recorded in the atlantic ocean. The storm could reach florida by the weekend shells are already emptying out in grocery and home stores. Authorities are readying evacuation orders and Florida Governor rick scott has declared a state of emergency for all 67 counties before irma gets to florida she will pumpel small caribbean islands like anguila and here is the most frightening thing we heard the governor of puerto rico is calling it more dangerous than harvey and go to cecily tynan for the latest on the storm. No doubt about in this is
Did someone use the storm to cover up a crime . And reunited. Thousands of pets displaced in houston, the families desperately trying to get them back. Michael is there for an emotional reunion, how to keep your animal safe as Hurricane Irma approaches. We do say good morning, america. And a lot of news to get to on this wednesday morning. Were getting our first look at Hurricane Irma hitting the caribbean islands right now. One of the most powerful storms ever in the atlantic. We want to show you the image of the hurricane from space right now. There it is, it shows the eye of this now category 5 storm. It is moving toward puerto rico right now then florida, states of emergency are already declared and some cities have ordered mandatory evacuations. Officials call this a worst Case Scenario for the florida keys. As you can imagine the lines are growing in florida to get gas and many of those stations, unfortunately, are sold out. People desperate to stock up and hit the road and thats