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there s one big heavy band just to your south that s going to rotate up to you. but just to the north of there, a little more imminent up here, fort lauderdale, a tornado on the ground at ft. lauderdale airport that came off the ocean as a water spout but onshore as a tornado. if you re just to the north and northwest of that airport, i need you to take cover. more than you re taking cover now. stay away from windows. that could certainly tear sithis up. we saw a tornado near palm bay, quite a bit of damage, at least an ef 1 tornado there. possible all night long in this entire box right there, john. all right, chad myers in the weather center. thanks for that. let s try one more time to go to rosa flores. i want people to see what has happened on it s streets of downtown miami, and what was the mandatory evacuation zone, and now rosa, i think we get a sense just why officials wanted people out of those areas.
all right. this is cnn special coverage of hurricane irma. john berman here in miami. we re on hour 17 or so of just relentless winds and this is the fiercest they ve been here by far. i m in miami. out there, past the white fog and rain, is miami beach, which i think is getting it even worse than where i am. kyung lah is there. what are you seeing, what are you feeling? reporter: so i can t it s just getting worse and worse. we re getting much more rain now, john. you can see there s water in our lens. we ve lost the ability to zoom and amy cameraman lost his ability to use the view finder. just like water is getting into our camera, water is pounding these houses all across miami
are right next to the cranes and not everybody evacuated from those apartment buildings. we ve talked to several residents who are concerned about the cranes toppling over and saw what happened in miami. look at this over here. intense bursts. i mean, we are in the window now of hurricane force wins hitting us here in palm beach. the storm surge could hit at any moment. look at that scene right there. john, back to you. reporter: yes. an intense storm, brian. a huge storm. this is pounding you up in west palm beach, getting me here in miami. of course, the worst yet to come on the west coast. back to the weather center now and chad myers. you know, chad, i just can t get over the duration here and the size of the storm we re dealing with. hey, john, you re half way done. how about that? that is scary, and that s why people need to pay attention to hurricane forecasts. i know how wet you are inside
key largo. so there as prepared as they can be. senator nelson, appreciate your time. thank you. good luck to you. thanks. yeah. senator nelson, traveling around. in orlando earlier, went to the eoc trying to check on as many locations as he can. looking at john berman in miami, our reporters, getting hammered there in miami and chris christie starting to expect some turn, some bad, really bad weather according to chad myers in the next hour or so. our coverage is going to continue obviously from here and at all point across southern florida and beyond. we ll be right back. tech: when you schedule with safelite autoglass,