The storm surge reached 8 to 10 feet high, and the governor warned that the biggest threat is river flooding especially in the northern part of the state n. Charleston, south carolina, heavy rains are causing a flash flood emergency with the widespread flooding reported in downtown. Navy ships loaded with supplies are headed to the florida keys right now where irma made the first u. S. Landfall yesterday morning, and the second landfall has left all of marco island in florida without power or water, according to authorities. In miami, the streets of course yesterday became rage rivers. Miami International Airport remains closed even at points inland where many from the coast evacuated to where those spots were not spared either, and in orlando area, 220 rescues were made in a single hour to dday. And now 65 of the state of florida and that is 6 million customers without power. It could take weeks before that power is fully restored. Cnn has a team of correspondents spread out across the southeast and where the storm went and are where it is headed now, and we will begin in northwest florida where we will find kaylee hartung, and the rain has apparently stopped there, but you been watching the rain get worse over the last few hours. Tell us about it . We have, jake. We have been watching the waters rise over the course of the day. The waters here are two blocks inland as the st. Johns river pours into downtown jacksonville, but if you are believe it, it is a et beer scene than what we saw a couple of hours ago. The best way to illustrate is this pile of debris here at the edge of the parking lot, because that is how high the waters of the st. Johns river came into downtown jacksonville. Where we are standing outside of the omni hotel as you said, unprecedented for anybody to see anything in this area of this nature, but it is explained to me that this curvature of the st. Johns river behind me is one of the narrowest points of the river, and so not surprise ing that this is an area of of storm surge pulling the water up, but nobody anticipated it to come up this far. With the waters being as unpredictable as we know they can be the local officials are saying go up but not out, and many of the people are not heeding the warnings and folks here to my left taking the photos and takeing in the sights downtown. What we have learned from a lot of people in the aer rea, and l said, im just outside of the omni hoteling because people came here thinking it is a safe place to shelterer, and people down south whether it is polka raton, or ponte vedra is not far from here, but these waters are rolling up right here onshore, jake, of what jacksonville will be seeing next. Than you, kaylee hartung, stay safe. And now i want to go to cnn Weather Center with tom sater. And irma has covered an amazing amount of land since the landfall. Yes, and lets back up and talk about this amazing storm which is only two weeks after harvey. We see what we are talking about as far or actually, missing the graphic not in here, but we will talk about this in more duration, coming off of the coast of africa and developing in 24 hours from what was a Tropical Storm to category 2, category 3, category 4 and hitting the Northern Islands of the lesser antilles, and devastating the islands and the dutch evacuating many off to the n thenet erlands and five days now without food and power and without communications in the need of shelter. The u. K. Is sending a navy ses sell to the u. S. Virgin islands and the u. S. Is there for the virgin islands, and then staying off course of the dominican republic, and so they were breathing a sighf of relief. The heavy rains moving into the dominican and puerto rico. Then it turned to the turks and caic caicos, and that has never happened before. It sustained winds of 185mileanhour for three days pass i passing typhoons and other hurricanes, such as the typhoon that devastated the pill fenes four days ago. Then it made landfall as a a category 5, the strongest since 1924. And the now, for florida, we had it as a category 4 in the keys, and that is between big pine key and key west and that category 4 landfall is the second one this year, after harvey, and the first time in history to have two category 3 to make landfall, and then on the same logic, and latitude as wilma 12 years ago. And here is what we are seeing, the records broken northward as we are starting to see, and i mentioned it jacksonville, jacksonville, because it is so broad in the storm that the winds coming in from the ocean were pushing in the winds for a longer duration, day after day. Now the records of jacksonville are now surpassing matthew last year, and dora since the 196f 0s and since the records started in 1846 they have not seen this type of flooding from the st. Johns river. And the now, savannah missed by 0. 2 of an inch where we are seeing there and just going into charlotte. At the charlotte harbor, it is half a foot above the record of matthew last year and starting to recede, but a flash flood emergency remains in effect in this area, and that is more than the Flash Flood Warning which means it will continue. And for the first time in history, from georgia in towards atlanta getting a storm warning and that has never happened. And there 69 tornado warnings in one period, and that is a record are. The rain is continuing, and flash flooding and power out of georgia and alabama and the carolinas, and the storm not overwith yet, and we will continue the are recap it and talk about the record books and i could talk for 20 minutes of the number of records broken, but the good news is no more hurricane watch or watch, just the Tropical Storm to the west. Thank you, tom. And Hurricane Irma is pounding charleston right now are the Flash Flood Warnings have been issued. Joining me on the phone is the m mayor of charleston. Can you tell us about state of the conditions on the ground there . Thank you, jake. And tom mentioned charleston a couple of times, and we have a couple of extra feet of water we could share with charlotte if they needed it. We have a remarkable event with storm surge really occurring over 200 miles a wway from the center of this storm, and the wind came from off shore and continued to push water into charleston harbor, and we say that we have is one of the best natural ports on the east coast, so ships can easily come in and out, and the water has been coming in but not easily out because of the wind pushing it in. This is the big difference between this year and last year with hurricane matthew. This event occurred exactly at high tide midday today. A year ago even though we had a direct hit from matthew, it happened at exactly low tide, and that sixfoot differential in the tide made a world of difference in the am of flooding that we have received. Mr. Mayor, what are your immediate concerns in the hours coming up . Well, in the immediate hours, im a little concerned about the tide going back out. It is not decreasing as it normally would, because winds have continued to push into the harbor and so we may have to wait a psyche ol or two before we really get the a cycle or two before we can get the drainage when the low tide occurs. We stand ready. We have pumps, and as soon as the tide goes out, we can pump out, and drain out, and then we are going to clean up, and we will be back to normal but my heart is going out to those in the caribbean and florida that have really sustained a lot more damage than we have. We are going to be just fine after we dry out. But it has been a unique event. What is your message for the good citizens of charleston . For the rest of the day, stay put still until this storm passes, and when it does, we will cleanup and get back to normal real quick, and invite everybody to come visit us in charleston as we love to do. Thank you, charleston mayor john tecklenburg. 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I was about in the same place, and about 12 feet over, and this entire marina was nothing but mud, and the people who have lived here their entire live s have not seen this, and even when hurricane charley came through here, that did not happen here, and irma is still raging. Reporter slamming florida with heavy winds and strong rain, and still making its way up the southern edge of the u. S. Now weakened to a Tropical Storm the danger ist not yet over. The streets flooded from the florida keys to south carolina. Tonight, more than 6. 5 million are without power in florida alone. Jacksonville hit with a record irmagenerated surge turning the streets into rivers. Storm surge warnings in effect for much of the western florida coast and the entire georgia coast. Charleston now feeling irmas wrath as the waves are crashing on to its shores. Ripping through the middle of florida late sunday, irma battered the entire state with sustained winds and massive wind gusts. Rescue efforts continue for those who stayed to wait out the storm. In martin county, floridas treasure coast, a marine unit is dispatched after two people tried to ride out the storm on the sailboat. They survived. And a scuba diver dangling by a rope rescued near west palm beach, and the storm delivering more than destruction. Coral springs emergency crews were called out the tlifr a baby in the height of the storm using their Armored Vehicle to navigate through strong winds and high water. Miami streets flooded and left with huge sinkholes to leave Hazardous Conditions a as the cars tried to steer through the murky waters. And the devastation felt across the caribbean where it made landfall killing at least 36 people in the path, including at least ten in cuba as it passed over the caribbean i island over the weekend. The cost of the damages are yet to be assessed and one estimate is that it is going to top Hurricane Katrina even before it hit florida. Now, the people here in punto gordo dodged a ul bullet yesterday when irma jogged to the right or eastward a little bit sparing them a direct blow, and there is over 60 of the people in Charlotte County are without electricity and cleaning up the treeses downed and local flooding, but thankfully, that is the worst of it here. Jake . Thank you, miguel marquez, so much. And of course, naples, florida, did take a direct hit from then Hurricane Irma, and we will speak to the mayor about the extent of the damage to his city next. If you have moderate to severe plaque psoriasis,. Isnt it time to let the real you shine through . Maybe its time for Otezla Apremilast . Otezla is not an injection or a cream. Its a pill that treats plaque psoriasis differently. With otezla, 75 clearer skin is achievable after just 4 months,. With reduced redness,. Thickness, and scaliness of plaques. And the otezla prescribing information has. No requirement for routine lab monitoring. 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And it gets, you know, it makes a it difficult on top of the damage that we have sustained yesterday, and to be without w power is really going be you know, it just gets ugly, that is all. The eye of the storm obviously passed through your city last night, and do you are have a sense of how extensive physical damage is to the structures are, and also how are the people of naples . Well, sure. The people of naples are really doing well. The early evacuation helped, and harvey was a real wakeup call. I didnt see any complacency, and with getting out. And those that didnt or chose not to, a loft them went to the shelters, and we had 27 shelters here, and people were great as far as the as far as the damage, it is just very depressing to ride around with neighborhoods that we cant get into yet, because of the flooding, and fortunately, we did not get the huge storm surge, you know, but still flooding and trees are blocking streets, and just all of the beauty seemed to have been kind of sucked out of the city. It is going to be a massive cleanup, and, you know, it can only be worse. I listen to you, and i listen to talk of around the state that was hit worse than us, but it was not a pleasant experience that anybody wants to go through. All right. Mr. Mayor, thank you and stay in touch and we know that the beauty of naples will return, and stay in u touch. Thank you. Byebye. Many places in florida are getting a first look of the damage left behind by irma, and bill weir is in one of the hardest hit areas of the keys. 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