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Hurricane irma, the most powerful atla ntic Hurricane Irma, the most powerful atlantic storm ever recorded, has caused major damage on a number of caribbean islands. It made landfall, hitting Antigua And Barbuda before moving to saint martin in some parts, and is believed to have caused widespread flooding. The category five storm with sustained winds of one had an 85 mph has had the British Virgin islands and a state of emergency has been called in puerto rico sustained winds of 185 mph. It is thought automated florida by the weekend. Airports have been closed and many islands and people have been stocking up on emergency supplies. This is what it sounds like to be in the heart of one of the strongest storms recorded in the atlantic. The winds, like a jet engine, roar through the eastern caribbean. The category five hurricane ripped roofs off homes, devastating some of the oldest buildings in saint martin. And all communication was lost to 2000 people stuck on the island of barbuda where there are reports of a 20 foot storm surge. Irma has become known as a beast. And as she barrelled towards the Virgin Islands, hundreds tried to get to safer ground. This rare view from the air gives you an idea of the sheer scale of the storm. Around the eye are catastrophic 185 mile an hour winds. And this is what they fear on the island of puerto rico. The aim is to try to save as much as possible. Neighbours in this area are handing out wood boarding and supplies. This shop owner describes them as angels. We are a strong island, you know, we have been through this before. Its a lot of emotions going on, you know . The governor inspects one of the shelters set up for the thousands who are expected to evacuate low lying areas. He says the next few hours of preparation could be the difference between life and death on this island. A big impact, should those hurricane winds hit puerto rico. We are hopeful that it will skid off somewhere north east of puerto rico, but we are prepared for the worst as well. We cant leave anything to chance and our priority right now is to make sure the people of puerto rico are safe. These families hope they will be safe in this school. This woman tells us her house is already filled with water. Irma is closing in and all people here can do now is watch and wait. Laura bicker, bbc news, puerto rico. Were joined now by nada marjanovich, the executive director of the air Ambulance Service in haiti which is in the path of Hurricane Irma. Shejoins us from there now via webcam. Hello, thank you very much for being with us. Just how bad could it get for the island of haiti . Well, u nfortu nately for the island of haiti . Well, unfortunately this storm inaudible moving away from us, whereas yesterday inaudible all right, nada, i am sorry but the line is very, very difficult to understand, understandable given the circumstances in the caribbean at the moment. Thank you forjoining us, we will try to get back to you if we can establish a better line. You are looking at some of the pictures coming out of the caribbean, just how ferocious Hurricane Irma has been so far. I think we have managed to get from nadain think we have managed to get from nada in haiti that the storm was beginning to move away from the island of haiti, and of course the Dominican Republic. So the island of hispaniola. So the folk in haiti feeling that perhaps they have dodged this one, to a degree. But many other islands further along the caribbean, moving east to west, still lie in the path of this thing. Earlier i spoke to our weather presenter ben rich about the ferocity of the storm. The whirling swarf the warnings we re the whirling swarf the warnings were for a catastrophic storm, and from the early reports from eastern side of the caribbean that is exactly what we are seeing. The storm system made landfall across the Leeward Islands, the eye of the storm is moving across the island of barbuda. In the idea itself, the winds are extremely light. The eye of the storm is a phrase we have for a good reason. But it is the white cloud you can see on the edge, the eye wall, that is where we have had really strong winds, sustained winds, a steady wind of i85 really strong winds, sustained winds, a steady wind of 185 mph. A strong category five hurricane, stronger gusts. Next it moved further west and was st martin, we have seen some pictures from blair and some significant damage which is no great surprise when you imagine the intensity of the storm. The way it develops, on the moving satellite picture you can see that when you see a storm like this with a big cloud shield, a very clearly defined eye, you know we are talking about a major hurricane. So the big question is what happens next. The Virgin Islands are going downhill rapidly, then were looking at puerto rico, is seeing some wet weather during thursday, extremely windy as well. The north of hispaniola, parts of haiti, for example, the Dominican Republic, cuba and then we have moved all the way through to saturday and sunday, it is not until this point that the south east of the usa and the bahamas gets in on the usa and the bahamas gets in on the action. By this stage, of course, the track is a little bit uncertain. With so many of these weather stories, the track becomes more uncertain the further out to be low, but it is no surprise that such large swathes of florida have been evacuated already when you think of the low lying areas on the storm surge, the big waters of the sea rising sun 12 feet potentially above sea level, it could well inundate whole communities along but coast. What is horrific and fascinating at the same time is it is literally island hopping, as it heads landfall with barbuda some of the winds may die down a little bit but then it gets over warmer water, it gets refuelled and then it goes on, getting more powerful as it island hops across the caribbean . What you need to break these hurricanes up, cooler water can do it, you will not do that because the sea temperatures are above where they should be, above average in this part of the caribbean. We also have very little land mass, were talking about small islands, you would need a big landmass with mountains to break it up. One of the interesting things is the track it takes across hispaniola and cuba is quite crucial to its future development, because those are fairly big islands with big mountains and a direct hit would ta ke mountains and a direct hit would take some of the energy out of it, at the moment the track does not give it a direct hit, it takes it to the north where it remains over the warm waters, gathering fuel and it is likely to remain a major hurricane, perhaps category three or four, as it arrives across the south east of the usa. Four, as it arrives across the southeast of the usa. Hurricane harvey was downgraded to a storm, thatis harvey was downgraded to a storm, that is when the trouble began because it sat over parts of louisiana and texas and just dumped rain . This is a very different storm. When harvey arrived it was much weaker, it was briefly a hurricane and then a week and back toa hurricane and then a week and back to a Tropical Storms. The winds were not the story, itjust to a Tropical Storms. The winds were not the story, it just sat there for so not the story, it just sat there for so long pulling in tropical moisture and dumping more and more rain. This is moving a lot more quickly, it will take a few days to get to its final destination, if you like, but it is moving more quickly and the big question will be how quickly does it move up the coast of the usa, how quickly does it continue its journey . Given we are talking so many days ahead, we will have to keep a close eye, but at the moment it looks like a different storm to harvey, much stronger in terms of the winds but one which seems to be moving more quickly. Our weather presenter, ben rich. We can show you these live pictures from puerto rico. This is the capital, sanjuan. We have shown you the shot from the same position over the last hour, hour and same position over the last hour, hourand a same position over the last hour, hour and a half or so. If you were not watching as early as watching us not watching as early as watching us earlier, these pictures have got gradually more cloudy and much, much wetter in the space of about a0 minutes or so. The outer edge of Hurricane Irma is beginning to really make its presence felt on puerto rico is this thing moves east to west across the caribbean. It has already caused a lot of problems in Antigua And Barbuda, in st martin, which is a french territory. President macron has made it clear that he believes there may be casualties, there may be deaths. We are not sure where he is getting this information from bertie he believes that there may be fatalities as a result of irma moving across. In fact, i can tell you now that there have been casualties, at least two deaths, according to the French Foreign minister, the overseas minister. This is on the reuters news agency, two people have been killed, two seriously injured in the french caribbean territories. It has had st martin quite hard, heading towards the British Virgin islands, puerto rico, the pictures you are seeing now of that territory. That could be hit next. On to cuba. And then according to satellite photographs and modelling from weather experts in america, this thing could fear further north and head towards a sudden united states, hitting the florida keys sometime over the weekend. We have already heard the local authorities down there are giving out sandbags, water, people are stocking up on supplies before they are heading to underground shelters in order to deal with what has been described as the worst hurricane ever produced in the atla ntic hurricane ever produced in the atlantic basin. We were talking to nada marjanovich, the executive director of the air Ambulance Service on the island of his spaniel, one of the biggest landmass is in the caribbean. As a result, if this thing hits hispaniola, the Dominican Republic and haiti, that could help take some of the herath some of the ferocity out of this thing moves along the islands of the caribbean. Nada talk to us but the line was not the greatest. I think we have there again, can you hear me, nada . Good day everyone, thank you for having us on day everyone, thank you for having us on the show. No problem, it is great for you tojoin us on the show. No problem, it is great for you to join us. You were saying earlier on a line that was not so good that the hurricane seems to have veered away from the western half of his spaniel and that may be haiti has missed the brunt of this thing the western half of hispaniola. It appears that that is how it is going to shape up. The far edge of the storm will skirt across the coast, the northern coast of hispaniola which would include haiti. We are expecting that. Many would argue that perhaps we might dodge this bullet. You are the head of the airambulance, dodge this bullet. You are the head of the air ambulance, there is no way you can take off in these conditions, even if you get distress calls . Conditions, even if you get distress calls . We are monitoring the calls now throughout the storm and into friday, but do not expect to be able to fly before friday at this time. Have you had many calls . Today i think everybody is in preparation mode. We have had calls from some of the government personnel in charge of First Response as well as the hospitals in the north. We will be supporting them should the need arise on friday morning. Haiti has suffered a lot of national disasters, earthquakes and so on in recent yea rs. Disasters, earthquakes and so on in recent years. One wonders just how prepared the country can be for something as devastating as this . think what we are expecting on the north coast is anywhere from five to ten inches of water, which is a considerable amount of rain. We have two helicopters that are fully equipped for medical evacuation purposes. Nevertheless, we cant lump them in sites with water or fly them in 80 mph winds, which are currently expected. But we have protocols, were permanently based here so we have the relationships with the hospitals, that should they need attention and if they have patients they need to transport out, due to the overwhelming number is expected to them, we will be there to support them and balance the capacity of the overall medical infrastructure in haiti. And the northern coast, was that affected in the earthquake in 2011 . Not as much as Port Au Prince was. Most of the devastation during the earthquake was here in Port Au Prince, and then recently when matthew came across the island it was primarily in the south. U nfortu nately we have it was primarily in the south. Unfortunately we have a little bit ofa unfortunately we have a little bit of a round robin going with the disasters coming into haiti. Nevertheless, the people here are, of course, resilient, they have seen a lot. Many of the people we talked to almost see this as a nonevent, almost thinking, well, things could change, it could be enormous, at which point i cant do anything anyway, it could be nothing, so i am going to go on with my day and take my precautions and see what happens tomorrow. Yeah. In the south, for instance, many of those areas that are ahead by Hurricane Matthew last october has not yet recovered and they there probably will be many inches of rain. We have done some outreach to the key hospitals to make sure they have numbers at the ready as well. Thank you very much indeed for that update, nada. Stay safe, as it were. Nada marjanovich, head of the air ambulance in haiti. Giving us the latest. The modelling seems to suggest that the hurricane has skirted the Northern Edge of the island of his spaniel, the Dominican Republic and haiti, of course, but bringing with it high winds and a lot of rain the island of his spaniel. These are live pictures of puerto rico in the eastern caribbean, these pictures, we have been showing the camera shot for the last few minutes and it has gradually got worse, this guys have darkened and the surf has really riled up as the winds increased. Hurricane irma moving across the caribbean are making its presence felt in puerto rico. Lets get the latest from laura bicker, who centres this report, she is in puerto rico. The full force of Hurricane Irma is several hours away from puerto rico and already you can see and feel the effects on the island. The power is out, people have been told to stay indoors and stay safe. Several evacuation centres have been set up to ta ke evacuation centres have been set up to take around 60,000 people in case they need to. The governor has already called for the federal National Guards help in the aftermath of the storm. Over the next few hours we are expecting that these winds to pick up, the rain will pick up. Low lying areas will be flooded, they expect. When the eye of the storm heads puerto rico, the current forecast is it will hit just 30 miles north of here. Already we are seeing winds of 185 mph in the eye of the storm. Round about it, you could see up to 160, 150 mph hitting these low lying islands. This is a poor part of the world, they are already struggling with a debt of 75 million. They do not need to be saddled with the debt of a clearup, need to be saddled with the debt of a clear up, something the governor is highly aware of. Also, he says, his priority is lives. 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