hurricane chaser whose in florida for us. mike good evening to you. you chase storms but have you ever seen a hurricane like irma? no i haven t. in fact the la tilast time we talked not a lot as changed. it s sad to see the images coming out of the caribbeans but this is what a storm like this will do. we spoke to someone who was in the keys and checking thing out and saying he didn t see much activity. what are you seeing in keilar goes? same thing. people are boarding up and a lot of people have left already. i believe the residence, tomorrow will be the day they go ahead and get out of here. this thing comes across the island at this force it s going to be a complete catastrophe and you don t want to be here for something like that. mike, are you by yourself?
straits of florida, near the keys of florida by saturday night before making a turn to the north. and probably impacting a portion of southern florida. whether it goes west or east of the peninsula it s just to the east of miami. it ll move just up to east coast of florida and eventually up into portions of the carolinas late in the weekend. when do you expect landfall again? well that s a little sticky. it may remain offshore just east of miami, not necessarily making landfall but the track is just grazing the coast of southeast florida. it s not certain whether landfall will occur in florida or further up the coast into south carolina and georgia. a lot of uncertainty as we get out in three days. all along the east coast need to keep an eye on this. it s a dangerous storm. thank you very much.
things to get back to normal in barbuda. my goodness. you grew up in this area. and you describe some of the people as tieing themselves to parts of their homes because they do they understand how powerful this storm was? well, we ve had strong storms here before, so, a lot of them thought that they could ride it out in their house because they thought their house was strong enough. but, it was really really strong winds and when it was too late, some people had to go into their cub bard, had to go into the bathroom for shelter. what i noticed is most of the people there said that because the eye passed over barbuda that saved them. when the eye passed it was calm
filling up everything, their cars, gas cans getting ready for storm. we ve been at this place most of the day, they ve delivered tens of thousands of gallons today. look at the lines, it s almost 10:30 at night the giant line. it s gotten much better. if you come around this way, this is u.s. 1, this is the main route from the keys that s already under evacuation where traffic has been steady all day. but given the concern that people have, the uncertainty of this storm and the strength of there storm, traffic going this way is going to get much worse in the hours and days ahead. four shelters already open in mime, dade. they started taking people tonight. the number there is are likely to grow. don. be safe we ll check back with you as well. joining me now on the phone is roman guest, the administrator
needed. so, my question is how are you protecting that rescue fleet right now in. our helicopters are on a reinforced concrete hanger in a southwest corner of puerto rico which was only brushed by tro tropical storm region during the storm. ships sailed out of the way of the storm and to the south. as soon as the seas allow us to return we ll be moving back quickly to the puerto rico and virgin islands. what are you hearing from your folks in the field? i got a report from our second commander in san juan earlier this evening reporting that they were experiencing tropical four storm winds. there was a power outage in san juan. that s consistent with what we ve experienced there. no major damage reports and i