Beach front hotels. Everybody is evacuating. Everybody has to go. Reporter are you planning to ride the storm out at the airport. If need be. This is where ill be. Reporter after seeing the devastating impact of irma in the caribbean most recently impacting cube the bahamas and the u. S. Virgin islands floridians on both coasts are heeding the warnings to get to safety. Lining up outside of shelters. We moved in together away from Hurricane Harvey but now were here and Hurricane Irma is coming. Reporter at least five of those shelters already at capacity. I dont know where were going to go. Reporter many of those evacuees are coming up from the keys which will start feeling the first effects of irma tomorrow morning. In New Smyrna Beach florida Marci Gonzalez channel6 action news. We continue to monitor the track of irma. We have our own action news crew on the ground in florida. Action news anchor brian taff is there right now leading our Team Coverage and well get to meteorologist ad
Hurricane force winds, a much broader area so that is bad news. You can see the center of the storm right now north of cuba and whats happening, its moving into warmer waters. Waters south of miami is about 90 degrees so that likely will intensify the storm. This is the latest track, we just got this in and this brings it into the central keys of florida near marathon as a cat five hurricane early in the morning on sunday, 160mile maximum sustained winds, that is the strongest category hurricane. It pushes inland near naples marco island and continuing to push it up the spine, west of the spine of the panhandle as a category one hurricane, cal storm near jacksonville and then pushing near atlanta, that will bring some flooding rains, also some storm surge. So, we do have now hurricane warnings across all of south florida from West Palm Beach to naples area to the south. The watches from melbourne to tampa. Part of the problem its a storm surge, its inland flood, iind. This is going to
Now, barbuda is expecting a direct hit from hurricane jose. About 2,000 people live there and the islands only hospital and only airport were both reportedly destroyed by Hurricane Irma. So people are getting off the island by boat. Thank you, alyana gomez in the newsroom. Now to our chief meterologist bill martin who is tracking umbrella from our weather center. Bill, irmas path now has her heading a little bit farther west . Yeah. Its still a bad path. Not the worst, worstcase scenario, but a bad case scenario. I was just shaking my head 5. 5 Million People under mandatory evacuation. San francisco holds about 750,000. Under a Million People. 5. 5 Million People. Um, and one of the things thats a struggle here is this storm is going to hold up as a hurricane as it moves into orlando and a lot of those refugees have gone to orlando because its inland, right . Its away from the coast, is what you want to do. But in this case, the storm is going right up the gut not the center now, more
Path of Hurricane Irma tonight. The storm continue on a destructive path and is in fact gaining strength. Jim is off. Im monica malpass. The big story is the 5. 6 Million People told to evacuate florida now ahead of Hurricane Irma. Governor rick scott said if you are not on the road by midnight, stay put and try to prepare. He said Hurricane Irma is a life threatening situation and everyone should evacuate but time has almost run out. Tankers were escorted to gas stations to keep folks moving. You have to be prepared. If you are in an evacuation zone, get out now to a friend, family, hotel, shelter, but get where you need to go. Do not wait. Supplies like bottled water and applywood are now hard to come by. Many communities have shelters up and running to welcome residents. Anchor brian taff is in Fort Lauderdale, florida. Dann cuellar spoke with people at the philadelphia interrnational airport and street station. Cecily tynan, you have the latest about Hurricane Irma. I did. Irma now
History. Looking deceptively calm in the hours before this ferocious storm arrives. The National Weather service tweeted a stark warning to people who live in the fllthral keys tonight saying please if you live in the keys time is running out. You still have time to evacuate. Irma is a life threatening storm. The storms current intensity. It is now stronger. Back to a category 5 status. It doesnt get any stronger than this. Take a look at this monster storm. It did make land fall in northern cuba. As you take a look at a closer image of the eye you can see it moving over land. It is expected to continued to dump some rain over cuba along with the storm surge. The biggest threat as it targets florida is going to be 8 to 12 foot storm surge and pouring rain. Just imagine the wind pushing a wall of water right on to the coast line there. Low lying area theres going to be flooding. Hurricane jose is a category 4 now so that is getting stronger. Still eyeing the Leeward Islands and hurrican