The storm. Were doing whatever we can to help. Shepard lets get to it. Good friday afternoon from the Fox News Deck. Were tracking Hurricane Irma. Floridas governor says the window to escape the path of the storm is closing. With each updated forecast, the chance of a direct hit on some part of South Florida and then up the peninsula of florida are increasing. This as the head of fema says i dont know anybody in florida has experienced what were about to get. The florida says we should expect life threatening conditions from coasttocoast. He says this is a catastrophic storm like our state has never seen. Over 500,000 people there from mandatory Evacuation Orders, including miami, miami beach, the keys. Rick scott telling people to be
patient when dealing with crowded highways. He says more troopers are on the road to help with the flow of the traffic. He says the state has sent school buses to get residents out of dangerous areas. Some gas stations have long lines. Others have no fuel
Radar system cover the entire state. you could literally throw a dart on the map and find a news story as it relates to irma, as it relates to florida right now. i mentioned three million without power right now. that will change throughout the day. some of the power is shut off intentionally. they don t want to overload the system. in order to get it back online they have to go slowly and take it step-by-step. i would turn our viewers based on the large scope of geography in florida to a couple of areas. watch for more news out of florida keys. let s see how miami beach recovers after the flooding of yesterday. let s see what the damage is on marco island. aluminum siding ripped off of homes and flooding as well. let s see what happens as a result of now what is the first time that we have seen sun in about two days here in orlando. then as we move further inland up and around atlanta, georgia. for the first time ever you had a tropical storm warning for the city of atlanta.
As we remember the tragedy in new york there is a humanitarian crisis unfolding in florida. bill hemmer is in orlando tracking hurricane irma. good morning, bill. there will be updates throughout the state of florida throughout the day and really it will change by the hour. we re about 315 miles due north of key largo where about 140 south of jacksonville and a sense of the scale of the story we re trying to cover today. the very beginning of the florida keys once you leave south florida we re getting word from the mayor down there that cell service is bad. not a clear check of everything there. they believe 25% of the residents who live in the keys rode the storm out as it struck land as a cat 4. a lot of communications getting established here, there are no reports of injuries in the florida keys. now, granted, it is early.
Back and appear sooner than that. so that s the head lean here in the tampa bay area, what could have been much, much worse, an area that hasn t been hit by a major hurricane in nearly a century, will wake up to much better conditions, a lot of cleanup, but not as bad as it could have been. all right. thank you. all right, so we have been tracking irma s path for you over the past couple of days, as you can imagine. the question this morning is about the wind gust. bill karins, talk to us about where the wind gusts were. we get the daybreak and helicopter shots and the pictures of where the worst damage is with the wind, there will be a million pictures of tree damage. as far as structural damage, it s the naples area, when that eyewall came on shore, we had that gust. that did structural damage on the coast.
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