Center for us with the latest on the track of the storm. Tom . Anderson, latest advisory issued, we see a wind change. 125 miles an hour to 120. We are only ten miles away from from getting to category 4. The interaction with the cuban coastline has tried to starve the system of its energy, some of the dry air trying to infiltrate it. Youll see it on the eastern flank. But the bright colors are telling us its going to strengthen. The eye is actually getting quite bounded as well. Everybodys asking what happened overnight . Why didnt we have this shift . 2007 shift was going to continue. And until the storm moves to the north, we still can tell anybody what time and where landfall is. It still has a track to the west, northeast. Through the caribbean, we thought at some point this week this area of High Pressure would either slide away to the east or break down. That would allow this trough coming in to the easterntous pull it north. Its strong, keeping it west ward. But this trough is not as strong as we expected as well, so its stuck between High Pressure, the High Pressure in the gulf is going to keep it from moving towards texas. Eventually its going to slide north ward. What were seeing are these bands coming in with rainfall where, again, just like we saw with harvey in the heavy rainfall in houston or into beaumont and port arthur, its going to drop heavy rain. Were seeing severe weather. We have a tornado watch in effect for the southern half of florida. Were starting to see a few warnings. We have one now still in Broward County north of miami. Were going to continue to have that overnight. The entire state of florida is under a warning. There are watches to the north that will change to warnings over time as the storm decides to move up. Where is it going to make landfall. Fit continues, we think its west, northwest track. It may barely make landfall in key west. Fit wobbles east, 2 00 p. M. In the afternoon, give or take a couple hours, Port Charlotte, if it wobbles east, may not be until tomorrow evening. Theres a lot of ifs right now. The storm didnt know about computer models, it could care less. I heard this morning from marco rubio, he said do not play chicken with this hurricane, and hes right. Everyone shifting to the west coast yesterday and theyre wondering if they should go east. Just hunker down. This model wants to place landfall near ft. Myers when the eye is halfway over land, you consider that landfall. Keep in mind the outer bands this is where the wind is strongest. A path of the destruction up, of course, the entire western a half of florida. They may think theyre fine in the southeast, parts of miami and hollywood up to delray beach. Youre going to be still into significant wind bands and attorneys. Concern now into georgia with the winds sustained around 50, maybe gusts, 60, 70, thats pine country. The pines in this area have weak root systems and theyre massively tall and theyre downed all the time. We could have Power Outages in many states. Notice ft. Myers, 134 Miles Per Hour. 71 down in miami. Jacksonville at 72. Some of the models want to put moisture and rainfall. The path and the track still looks pretty much the same. Well get a new track, anderson, in just a few hours. Again, still uncertainty exactly where landfall will be. A massive storm and most likely will get to category 4. Well look it in as soon as the storm moves north. Well check back with you. Ill be on the air for the next three hours following this story, so well be talking to tom a lot. I want to check in with bill weir in key west. Hes now in key lar go where there are a lot of folks still riding out this storm. Bill, the scene tonight is what . Youve been talking to a number of people riding out the storm. Ive been talking to them throughout the day as well. They cant say situation there . What are they facing . Im going to give you a sense of that here. You dont have to be a meteorologist to know common sense. You hide from wind, run from water. Stay away from the coast. Theres a community of sailors, old salts down here in the keys. Thats just not in their dna. I met a scuba boat captain by the name of timothy jones. He lives aboard a vessel, and this is his logic. This is home. This is a two bedroom, two bath condo. Two cabins, two heads, living room, kitchen and dining room on the boat. You hope its still a floating condo. It will be. This is your refuge in here . It used to be a Sailing School rigging shop. We have what they call a ship stored at the end, and some offices. And were sleeping in the offices. This is home. This is where we are. We brought the stuff in here to get it out of the wind. We shut the doors. And life is good. This is solid concrete. Its not going anywhere. Tim like so many other locals, their logic is based on fear of the highways much more than fear of irma. They were worried about losing glass and being stuck in the everglades. That dye is cast and now its up to the fates to see how that decision plays out, anderson. Yeah, and, of course, obviously one road in, one road out. A lot to watch for tomorrow and in the days after in terms of the kind of damage were seeing in the keys, throughout the keys, and the ability to get aid and supplies to people who are in need. As you know, authorities have been telling people have at least three days of supplies in your home or everywhere you may be. Bring what you can with you. Were going to continue to check in with bill weir in key largo. Hes been in the keys for days. Lets go to john. You saw his vantage point. You saw the wind and the rain. John, what is the situation in miami in terms of the beginning of any storm surge . Clearly youre getting wind and rain right now. Yeah. Right now its about the wind and the rain here, anderson. Weve had gusts consistently touching 50 miles an hour or so. A second ago it was just pouring. Its bad, but this is not as bad as it was just a few minutes ago. We got an inch or so of downpour. The concern here is like all over southern florida is storm surge. Behind me you can see this marina here. That would put the water up to my knees or higher here, and that would go i would not and get into the first floor store front seat here along the coast. This is downtown. Behind me is miami beach. That is a lowlying area where theyre concerned about the storm surge. Not as bad in the west, but enough to cover a serious part of that Barrier Island. Its after 8 00 p. M. Eastern they have a curfew. They dont want anyone out on the streets. If they see you out on the streets, they say youre going to get arrested. That said, First Responders, law enforcement, they dont want to be out right now either. Once the wind gusts and the sustained winds get above 40 miles an hour, they will not be out there. They also wont be responding to 911 calls. I cant imagine why anyone would want to be out in all of this. As the night goes on and the winds pick up and the rains pick up, very dangerous to be moving about. Officials we spoke to say, if you made the decision to stay, hunker down, be careful, be safe, make good decisions. Anderson . Yeah, john. As the storm moved west earlier today in ft. Myers, authorities here faced a new situation. They actually expanded the evacuation zone. Now they add in zone a to zone b, which is downtown west, and south down river. Basically all in that direction and also across the river on the western side. That basically meant even more people were being told, there was a mandatory evacuation. The scene at some of the shelters today, people were standing in line for hours and hours, thousands of people. Well show you that coming up. I want to go to ed lavandera. I was told youre heading to san marco island. Where is it exactly . Right now we have just left the city of of naples which is further south of where you are. On our way down to marco island, popular vacation spot for many people in this part of the country. It is a Barrier Island. Could be one of the most significant spots off the florida keys that will take a direct hit from this hurricane. We have been driving around the naples area in Collier County which is home to about 300,000 people. And this town is absolutely desolate. Spoke with the mayor just a little while ago, and he told us that many people here in this area had started heeding the evacuation warnings early in the week. Many people were extremely worried about the path of this hurricane and they left early, and the signs of that very clear throughout the city. Every business closed down except for one or two restaurants that are still open. We are on our way to check out the scene in marco island where they have been asked people to evacuate that area. That is definitely not an island you would want to be on as this hurricane approaches much were going to check out and see if anybody is still there. But the mayor here in naples says that hes very encouraged by the number of people who listened to those evacuation warnings and left town. The entire city is under a mandatory evacuation, and theyre concerned about all of the homes. There are multimillion dollars homes up and down the gulf coast there on the western edge of the city of naples. So these are an area that will be very close that storm surge which could be up to 15 feet. These are stunning numbers and many people around here who have lived here a long time say that they lived through hurricane wilma back in 2005 and they dont think what theyre about to endure here will easily rival what they experienced here 12 years ago, anderson. Ed, its incredible when you think the new storm figures came in in which in naples they were talking about a potential of 10 to 15 feet of storm surge, that doesnt even include obviously any wind on top of it is going to be creating away from his on top of that storm surge. So youre talking about a huge amount of water potentially. 15 feet, that will cover somebodys house if its a onelevel house. Absolutely. The homes on the western side of naples, multimillion dollars homes, it will be interesting to see what kind of impact. Anderson, as were talking to you, we just arrived. This is the scene on marco island here this evening. I think a lot of people who might be familiar with this island who have vacationed here over the years will find this shot interesting. As you look out onto the streets, still a full 15 hours or so before the worst of this hurricane makes impact here. This is the scene that we see repeatedly on the streets around here tonight. You can see how desolate everything is. The power is still on. Thats the good sign. But that wont last for long. This is an island that will take a very strong hit here in the next 15 hours or so. Yeah. Ed, be carefully out there. Well continue to check in with you again. All day long this thing has been moving at 8 miles an hour. So relatively slowly. Its going over warm water since it left cuba and over the keys. It will likely become a category 4 as it picks up strength. Well look at images from fort lauderdale. A lot more from our correspondents all throughout the region. Well be right back. Nic sfx tmobile mnemonic sfx tmobile mnemonic tmobiles unlimited now includes netflix on us. Thats right, netflix on us. Get four unlimited lines for just forty bucks each. Taxes and fees included. And now, netflix included. So go ahead, binge on us. Another reason why tmobile is americas best unlimited network. Sfx tmobile mnemonic to make something original. Has grown into an enterprise. 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Myers whereas earlier you saw heavy rain in miami and certainly looks like a lot of wind there in fort lauderdale. As i said before the break, this is a slowmoving stofrm, 8 miles an hour or so. So even if it hits the keys, starting with Hurricane Force winds tomorrow, early part of the day, its not going to hit tampa with Hurricane Force winds until sunday night around this time, around 8 00 or so. I want to go to tampa right now and talk to the mayor, bob buck horn who woke up to a differentiate situation to what many in tampa were hoping and praying for. They were hoping this was more of an eastern storm. Mayor, im wondering what your day has been like. I know a number of people left miami and came to tampa thinking that was going to be a safer area for them. I talked to one person who was considering driving back to miami or what they should do. Hour things this she stated . What is the situation right now in tampa. Youre absolutely right. This is a day unlike any other, and i imagine tomorrow will be unlike anything weve experienced. We have not been hit by a hurricane in 90 years. This, for us, even though we trained for this every day all year round is going to be an experience unlike anything weve ever seen, particularly given the magnitude of this storm. Shelters are filling up. We still have some availability. What i am concerned about is given sort of the right shift of the storm is the impact is going to be more severe than we anticipated three or four, five days ago. Now were the ones that are in the eye of the storm, and we now have to execute our plan, anderson. The storm surge, the latest estimates ive seen for tampa, and it might change, was five to eight feet down in naples they were looking at ten feet. What is that going to do to tampa . It would hit us pretty hard. We are a lowlying city right on the hillsboro bay. Our downtown is right on the water as you well know. There are reasonable areas in it, one of which is mine. My family is evacuated. Youre going to have Significant Impact on some of the residential communities around tampa bay, downtown tampa will be affected, harbor island, davis island, bayshore beloved that is world famous will be affected. The wind and rain are going to be significant. But anderson, what is compounding the problem is that the surge will occur at the same time that we have a high tide. So early, early sunday morning from probably 6 00 to about 12 00, we will have a high tide as well, so that will increase the amount of water that is being pushed up onto land. Knock on wood, were going to be okay, but there will be damages and there will be flooding. If people wake up tomorrow morning in tampa and decide, im not going to ride this out, are there still shelters . You said theres still some room. Are there shelters they can go to still tomorrow in the early part of the day . There are. That capacity is dwindling fairly rapidly as this storm gets closer. I would suggest to anyone in flood zone a, if there are sustained winds of more than 40 miles an hour, tampa fire and rescue cant come and get you, we cannot put those Public Safety personnel at risk in those conditions. So my suggestion to you is you still have probably 12 to 15 hours to make this decision. Get up in the morning and move. You dont have to go to georgia or tennessee. Just move to another flood zone. It may be a couple blocks away or two miles away, but just get out of flood zone a and let us do our job. Mayor, we wish you the best. I think were going to get to tampa tonight and be there obviously in the morning and throughout the day tomorrow. Of course, everybodys plans can change on a dime along with this weather. Well continue to talk to you through the storm, mayor. Good luck you to and everyone in tampa and all around florida tonight. 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