3 jose. The island chain of turks and cake icos getting hit right now. This looks pretty threatening. Youll hear from the turk and caicos governor. An american trapped on the island with her family including their 11monthold son, it has been a horrible three days for the caribbean and a taste, just a taste of what could lie ahead in florida. Today floridas governor had a simple message for anyone facing evacuation orders. Once the evacuation order, get out. We cannot save you when the storm hits. If youre in the keys and still home, leave and get out. If youre told to evacuate, get out quickly. We cant take care of you in the middle of a storm. Again, turks and caicos getting a beating right now. Lets go to tom sater in the Weather Center. Not much of a change, anderson. We found a slight drop in the pressure. Typically that happens as this goes maybe through some strengthening. Takes a while for the winds to speed up to catch up to that pressure drop. Thats really the only change right now. Were going on hour 60 that this has been a category 5. That really staggers the imagination. We went 24 hours without a landfall. Although in the turks and caicos now, around cookburn harbor, theyre getting pounded pretty hard. There will be a fewer smaller islands that take landfall. But its still mainly over the open waters. A big thing happened today, do not take this lightly, National Hurricane center placing a hurricane watch. This is a big, big deal. They dont do this lightly. They dont slap one somewhere on the u. S. Because it costs millions and millions of dollars to do this. With the federal and state and the local resources, and the money that pours into this for evacuations, for getting gear in place, this is a big deal. Theyve studied it, analyzed it. This is going to become a warning. The other watches will be posted up both coasts, as we watch the new plots coming in, some still want to interact, of course, with cuba. But mainly the computer model, at least these, the spaghetti plots, still kind of favor that east coast. But when we look at the track now from the National Hurricane center, instead of shifting eastward again like it did yesterday, it went back to the west about another 15 to 20. That puts miami, unfortunately, anderson n the worst possible position. Lets talk about how the various models changed the risk for florida depending on which way they return. Lets look at the european, which consists of over 50 models. And the u. S. Is another 21. These are ensembles. Last thursday, the european was exactly the same position, just amazing how it handles the environment. But it shifted back westward. Landfall, pretty close to key largo, just to the west. We have the keys, in the strong winds as well. Miami is in that front right quadrant where you do not want to be, where the winds are the strongest, storm surges are the worst wrapping around the system. Up through possibly all the way to orlando, through the entire center part of the florida peninsula. The u. S. Model, which was offshore, anderson, yesterday, has shifted significantly, almost in the same location. Now, the possibility exists here tomorrow they may shift backwards. Thats why every day is critical. Both of this, this is right on key largo, biscayne bay, miami, hugging the coast a little bit more. That would mean the catastrophic damage will hug the coastline. This is critical to watch both of these. Hurricane jose is coming along, hard to imagine thinking about anything else right now but irma, but hurricane jose is coming up along the same islands. The 5 00 advisory, they upgraded jose from a category 1, which yesterday just at 5 00, we got katia as a hurricane, and jose is a major category 3. Katia will slide down to mexico thanks to a cold front. Too bad that cold front wasnt moving through on friday. Now weve got a major category 3 hurricane. It is sliding toward the Northern Islands of the lesser antilles. Can you imagine if you were in rockport and you were devastated by harvey, and 24 hours later you get another hurricane watch. Thats whats happened for barbuda, angila. I dont think it will take a direct landfall, but it doesnt have to be this close. Those Hurricane Force winds are going to spread all that debris from all the damaged homes across these islands, they cant evacuate, its barely habitable according to the Prime Minister, and they do not have a Houston Convention center. They barely can go anywhere. This is extremely a sad situation when you have forces of a category 3, thats major, and most of the buildings can barely give anyone any shelter. Well have to watch it closely. Lets hope it stays away a little bit. Thank you, tom. To underscore, miami is in irmas prime target right now. First, more from the caribbean islands. Because turks and caicos is getting hit right now, communications are difficult. Just before air time i spoke with the local governor, john freeman. Governor, what are the conditions like right now in turks and cake os . Well, it all depends which part youre in, actually. Im on the biggest island in terms of population. The hurricane winds are followed with a minute or two. Weve had tropical winds before that. Other parts of the island, grand turk, was the first to hit in the eastern part of the island. Its been having hurricane winds for some time and theres quite a bit of damage on that island already. 15 roofs have come off, and theres damage to part of the roof of the hospital. Are many of the buildings in the islands, are they prepared in terms of how theyre constructed for this . Obviously hurricanes are something that have happened before, but nothing this size. It varies. I mean, the more recently built, yes, because they meet contemporary standards of hurricane proofing. The older the buildings are, the more vulnerable they are. Of course, people try to improve and renovate them and make them stronger. Theres been quite a deal of preparation for people to secure their houses, and where theyre not secure to leave their house and go to the shelters the government has provided. Do you know what time its expected to be at its worst . Well, again, it depends island to island. But for this island, providencial, its between now, 7 00, and 2 30 in the morning our time. And have people evacuated, or are there shelters for people to go to . There are. We put out evacuation orders on two islands on tuesday and wednesday. Where there is a smaller population. And others in lowlying areas, where theres a high risk of inundation, theyve been encouraged to go to family or friends to higher up on the island or go to the shelters which are open and now getting pretty full. Do you have any sense of how many people are in government supplied shelters . I dont know the exact number, im afraid, off the top of my head. But for example, in grand turk, where there are two shelters operating, the figure must be of the order of 300. National shutdown i understand was declared today in the turks and caicos, freezing Emergency Services until the storm has passed. Thats obviously a common move in many places, because it can be just too dangerous for Emergency Personnel to go out during the storm. Is the message to people now just, stay where you are . Yes, it is. Its hunker down. Stay where you are. Because you cant go out, because the winds are just far, far too strong. Nobody can get to you either. So, you know, theyre a little while on their own, or with their families or in the shelters. We took some steps before the storm came, of course. In terms of the shelters. For example, yesterday i was visiting hospitals. So we brought in women who were pregnant and at risk of having confinement over these three days, we brought in all of those who needed to have dialysis, which only lasts three days. They were in from 4 30 in the morning all day having that dialysis done. So things have been done to prepare as best we can. Even against those kind of medical emergencylike things. Just in terms of supplies of gas, petrol, of water, of food, how are things . Well, water production, the pumping goes down, of course, with the electricity. So in grand turk, which as i say is the first island hit, water pumping went down quite early. But people stocked up a lot on water. Just as youve seen in cuba and florida and elsewhere, people have been collecting water. People have been collecting water. You know, just to drink and for other purposes, too. Governor freeman, we wish you the best in the hours ahead. Thank you. Thank you very much for your time. Some of the information on irma comes from storm chasing planes flying above and sometimes directly into the storm. Just before air, i spoke with air force reserve flight meteorologist jeremy dehart. You flew in the hurricane last night. You still have planes up tonight. Is the storm maintaining its strength . It is, actually. Its kind of unprecedented that it is maintains a strength, for such a strong storm, a category 5 for almost three days now. Its the strongest category strongest storm to come out of the atlantic on record, in the atlantic ocean. So its Pretty Amazing that its been able to maintain a strength for this long. What about its organization . Any signs that it may be slowing down at all . The forecast track is pretty spoton the last couple of days. National Hurricane Center has it at a pretty continuous speed, forward motion. Its held that. It looks like it will begin to slow as it approaches southern florida before it makes that turn. But thats being forecasted by the National Hurricane center through their products as well. What was your flight like . Pretty intense. Category 5 storms are rare. Some of us could go our entire careers in this line of work without seeing one, flying through one. So just immediately, as you start flying through the storm, you recognize the power of it. And you know, youre flying through, it can be relatively smooth until you get to the eye wall area. And thats when you really start getting jostled around, completely obscured with cloud cover and rain. Whats unique about these major hurricanes is, as soon as you hit that eye wall, punch through that, it just opens up into a clear blue sky, and calm winds. Pretty incredible. You talked about, you could feel the power of the storm as you were flying through it. How do you feel that in an aircraft . Well, one example is, theres something that we call slip. So when youre flying through the storm, you know, youre trying to fly in at a straight line. But youre getting blown from the side so much, so we have a slip. So we were at about 35degree slip, which means to maintain a constant heading we had to fly 35 degrees pointed the other direction. Thats just one example of how extremely strong this storm is. The eye is incredibly large on this storm. And everybody ive talked to whos flown over it has just talked about how perfectly formed the eye is. Right. Yeah, we measured it at 25 miles across, which is a large eye, and perfectly symmetrical, perfect from a meteorological perspective, yes. They are rare. Especially in this part of the world. So quite a unique and amazing storm. Weve seen, you know, two basically different tracks, the european model, the u. S. Model. How confident are you in the tracking so far, that it likely will hit miami . Well, its important to note that with the hurricane hunters, were primarily data collectors. The National Hurricane center thats putting out those official forecasts, its our job to gather that realtime reconnaissance data thats so crucial to them, to be able to make those forecasts. So the Hurricane Center, the true experts when it comes to forecasting the storm. We provide the data they need to be able to make those forecasts as accurately as possible. Major, i appreciate all the work you and others are doing right now. Thank you very much for talking to us. Okay. Thank you. Were going to be hearing more shortly on the dimensions of this. From someone crunching the data, major dehart is actually gathering information for the Hurricane Center. It already pummeled islands leaving complete devastation in the wake. A woman says her homeland looks like a nuclear bomb was dropped on it. I spoke with her a short time ago. Josephine, what was it like for you when the storm was at its worst . I think its so incomprehensible. The significance of feeling the immense pressure at the time when it was at its worst. You know, we live in the hurricane belt. We are very familiar with hurricanes. And we prepare every year. Were happy when we go through a year and when theres none. And when we do have, weve developed a really serious good construction industry. And we feel proud of how were able to withstand these winds. But i think it was very, very clear when we heard the warnings from the National Hurricane center that this was going to be the worst recorded storm in history. And it was the first time that even i myself needed to hunker into a bathroom when the winds got as tremendous as they did. They were every bit the 225mile gusts that we anticipated. What sort of damage have you seen . Oh, angulla is a completely different place at the moment. If you talk about, for example, essential services. Our hospital, one hospital on the island, its lost a good portion of its roof. One Police Station on this island, its lost its roof. The courthouse lost its roof. The prison has lost its roof. All our schools are sorely damaged. They are basically open shells. Our churches seriously damaged. And weve had, you know, we pride ourselves on one church that was built back in 1830. One of the oldest churches here in anguilla. Completely destroyed. And its a shell. Its just the magnitude, anderson, is just its i keep saying incomprehensible, because thats what were seeing on the ground. You actually ended up in your bathroom to try to ride out the storm . You felt that was the safest place . You know, literally, what we were hearing outside, it felt you had to you felt the need, you had to move. The winds, i cant begin to tell you the zinging of that at that that sound. It was just allencompassing. And it really became at one point a question of whether we would live to see through it. Thats literally how it felt. You actually were worried about that, you actually thought this could be it . Absolutely. This was a few hours of such intensity, that you worried, you literally worried, and you listened to the people in anguilla, you talked to people on the road, everybody had a story. Who wasnt holding down a door, who wasnt witnessing, you know, projectiles coming through their house. I, for example, have seen a situation in which concrete and rebar was sliced sliced and its just incredible. Just incredible. What is the situation right now in terms of supplies, access to water, access to food, you know, Law Enforcement . Whats the situation there right now . It is very disorganized, anderson. You know, we are a british overseas territory. And i personally am very saddened with the response. It should have been different. And i must say, there werent boots on the ground. Our Electrical Services are completely gone. Even if you have a generator, as we did, you were advised you couldnt turn it on, because of such severe electrical failures islandwide. Poles on the ground. Trees. Its incredible. Josephine, im so sorry for what you and everybody else is going through. We wish you the best in the days ahead. Thank you for the call. Just ahead, as we continue to get new information on irmas path, we take you to the Miami International airport. 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Its actually really a mess. Its calm. People are staying in control. But its a mess. There are lines just to get checked in. Theyre kind of ebbing and flowing throughout the day. There are lines, security, also for people trying to get out of town. Right now, the biggest evacuation in Miamidade County is under way. So everybody, a lot of them at least are coming to Miami International to try and get out. And it is just a mess. The airport itself says it will stay open until the winds get to about 35 miles per hour. Theyre not taking any chances. Thats not even Tropical Storm winds. People are trying to evacuate with their families, their pets. One gentleman and his dock micka. Y