155 or greater. We passed that threshold. We are looking at the store but running up on some of these outer Barrier Islands to cuba that obviously has not we can do it. We gained a little bit of strength. We are expecting this to run across the coast in the overnight hours before eventually making a turn and heading towards the state of florida. Weve seen some changes. Previously, we were looking at this being a category 4 going over some warm water, perhaps jumping up to a category 5. Our latest model says it stays account 4. Still, a massive storm when you run along the ground. Here we are, even the latest model is shifting this a little bit farther off to the west. We are looking at this being a western side of florida running up the gulf coast instead of the east coast. When will it be making landfall . Sunday morning. I think conditions are going to start to deteriorate as early as tomorrow morning. You should start to notice that tomorrow, even though it wont make landfall until sunday morning. You see the storm throughout the entire day sunday and into early monday running up to the state of florida into georgia 40 monday afternoon. Things will be all clear. Notice if it stays a categorr some warm water in this is a very powerful system, the sum of those wins still around 150 miles an hour. When you get that much wind, you will start to see some pulling up of the storm surge, in our most recent model, there will be 510 feet above sea level and with florida being so level, you are talking about 89 feet of standing water above the ground in many cases. That will put a lot of florida underwater. A lot to be paying attention to here, jon. There is a watch for Central Florida but i wouldnt be surprised if in the next 24 hours if that turns into a warning as well. More and more to the north. Adam, a lot of people have been told to evacuate. A lot of people might say hey, ive seen the images on tv, im not going to go until morning. Here are suggesting especially for those in the south, if they want to go, they should go basically now . Yeah, florida is so tough because theres basically two roads you can take. The more we look at this, south florida is going to be impacted. Theres no way around that. Storm surge is very strong winds. Folks need to relate either have a safe place in mind already or they need to be hitting the road. Jon a storm surge of 510 feet, that will overwatch just about anything in the florida keys. So many places when we talk about these storms, 10 feet might not do it because this is very lowlying land. In florida, its unique, 510 feet could go miles inland. Its not necessarily the folks you see right along the coast. It could go quite a ways inland and still be impacting people. Jon it was a whopping 13 feet above sea level because i was on some kind of a choral bluff when i lived there. Very safe place to my place in miami. Lets go to fox news correspondent Steve Harrigan. He joins us from miami shores, florida. Hows it looking . The windsor picking up. No rain yet and across southern florida, 5. 6 Million People have been asked to evacuate their homes, making for some very treacherous conditions on the roadways. Theres been widescale gas shortages and people abandoning their vehicles after theyve ran out of gas. Sometimes traffic moving at about 5 miles per hour. Very difficult decision for a lot of families, whether to stay in their homes and face possible destruction and then later from the storm surge or to get on the road, perhaps difficulties finding gas or finding a hotel room. Thats how its been here. Shelters across miamidade county, more than 40 of them have opened up. A capacity of about 100,000 people. Some of those shelters already at near capacity. People have seen the dangerous nature of this storm and the destruction, the fact it has caused so many deaths in the caribbean. Making one island in inhabitable andnocking down major structures. Especially shelters that accept pets, those are filling up rapidly. Some unusual messages from officials saying First Responders as is traditional will not go out when the winds are more than 45 miles per hour. Even saying dont call 911 during the heat of the storm because no one will be able to rescue you. Certainly some disquieting messages. Also, the scope of this storm becoming clear from the airport shutdowns. Miami international announced its last flight has departed. No flights scheduled saturday or sunday. Same with ft. Lauderdale international airport. Shut down completely and now we just heard tampa and orlando airports are shutting down tomorrow. Jon, back to you. Jon Steve Harrigan reporting live from miami shores. We will have information about pet evacuation and how that is handled in florida. Lets head over to fox news correspondent Rick Leventhal. Hes in Daytona Beach with us. Rick. Jon, very rare for Daytona Beach to take a direct hit. Theyve only had one since 1950 and that was donna in 1960. They wont take a direct hit from a irma but they will feel the effects in they do get other storms. Matthew hit Daytona Beach and Volusia County last year he ended some 65 million worth of damage. A lot to the oceanfront hotels. Thats a big concern at this time around because irma could bring Hurricane Force winds, roughly 48 hours from now to this part of florida. They have been bracing for it and preparing for it to be demonic sandbag locations in south Daytona Beach, tremendous numbers, thousands of them. Residents were encouraged to fill as many as they could come up to 25 each. They had to fill themselves and haul them up themselves but that they could have some peace of mind as they protected their homes. Potential floodwaters here, officials told us they felt like they were getting ahead of this thing. We are always concerned but we are ready. We are as ready as we are going to be. We will be ready to respond afterwards and we will be out as the storms pass and after the wins come down to 35. Theres an evacuation a mandatory evacuation for the beach side of Volusia County and for lowlying areas and anyone in manufactured homes or mobile homes. People have been boarding up some of those lowlying homes and some of the beach areas. Volusia county, the size of rhode island. 550,000 residents here. While the sheriff says he doesnt think people most people will heed the mandatory Evacuation Orders, he hopes that people will stay inside during the heart of this storm and that they will staff the beaches and streets when it hits. Jon we are still on the d of the storm come out of the. Wind and rain will be a major factor to us. There will always be something to do something stupid. And now it puts my responders in danger because they have to go out and save that person. The sheriff told me they have those military vehicles, the m rats, they can drive up to 8 feet of water. If they need to make a high water rescue, they can do it but obviously their hope is that they wont have to. Jon Rick Leventhal entitlement in Daytona Beach. Philip levine, mr. Mayor, thank you for taking time on such a busy evening. What is your greatest fear tonight . Our greatest fear has been storm surge. Thats something for us that would be catastrophic. The number one concern going in is making sure our residents are listening and leave miami beach and evacuate. We seem seen tremendous cooper. I think its the fact that we started early. Before a mandatory evacuation. We took to social media and all types of media and our residents have responded. There are people still here. The majority, a big chunk has left. That got to the shelters throughout miami. Now we have to deal with what the effects will be in the next 48 hours. Jon i imagine hurricane when the hurricane hit texas, it probably helped make your case that this is not something you want to try to endure sitting in your living room. You are 100 correct. When they see the amount of flooding and water damage, the one thing i can tell you, we understand flooding. We are a lowlying carrier island. Raising our roads, thats just to deal with sealevel rise. When you put a hurricane on top of that, thats something totally different and of course, this is not just a hurricane. Ive said it and i will say it again, this is a nuclear hurricane. This is something causing havoc throughout the region. Jon 5. 6 Million People have been told to evacuate in florida. Do you have any indication how many of your citizens and miami beach . We dont know what the numbers are but driving around miami beach, all the way three tonight, our streets are empty. Theres no one walking around. Ocean drive is empty which usually has some laypeople. It really truly looks like a ghost town and i never thought i would say it but im happy to see that, it shows that the people are responding. Jon gratifying scene. Now they are saying that this hurricane is heading a little bit west, but it appears to be heading more of the west coast of florida. Miami beach might not be seeing the kind of damage it would have had there been a direct hit and that will cause people to save next time, oh, i dont need to evacuate. How do you handle that . I hope not but we know that even though it may not be a direct hit, its a title should surge and thats also just as concerning. If its shifting completely and will not take a major impact, my concern is looking at the western coast of florida and all those cities towns all the way up there who need to get prepared as fast as possible. Jon miami beach is an island. If people want to get off, they have to go over the bridges. How long will the bridges be open for those procrastinating . Most of our bridges are fixed bridges. Pretty much free. Almost virtually fixed. The bridges arent up. Once they have the mandatory evacuation, we lock any bridges down so people can get over but in the last 48 hours, its been a fluid and uncongested, not a lot of traffic. Its gone very, very well and miami beach. I think because we have educated the people he had communicated, you know, one thing ive come across there were people that would not leave. Today, and 92yearold woman. At a senior center. She would not leave. I tried to convince her and i said listen, heres my cell phone number. If something happens and you need my help she turned to me and said mayor, let me give you my cell phone number and you call me if i can help you. It shows you the spirit of miami beach. Jon well, we hope it goes well for your town and any residents who decide to stay. Mayor philip levine, miami beach. Up next, retired baseball star breaking kill joins us on the phone to tell us why he is refusing to evacuate his home in florida. 83 try to eat healthy, yet up to 90 fall short on getting key nutrients. Lets do more. Oneaday mens. Complete with key nutrients we may need, plus Heart Health Support with b vitamins. Oneaday mens. I enjoy the fresher things in life. O. Fresh towels. Fresh soaps. And of course, tripadvisors freshest, lowest. Prices. So if youre anything like me. Youll want to check tripadvisor. We now instantly compare prices. From over 200 booking sites. To find you the lowest price. On the hotel you want. Go on, try something fresh. Tripadvisor. The latest reviews. 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This is the scariest storm ive ever seen. But were not in an evacuation zone. Were up in jupiter. So familywise, when we start to make a decision of what we should do, it just became, you know, with all the facts, it became best bet to stay here. So how many people will be hunkering down with you . Weve about five. Plus the kids, so that would make it seven okay. And are you high enough that you dont think youll be affected by storm surge, that kind of thing . Yeah, were far enough away from the ocean, and we have new construction, so we have hurricane windows and all that stuff. So i am confident that the house will make it, and were not close enough to the surf that we have to worry about the storm surge at the same time, its almost certain to be terrifying. Youve, im sure, seen some terri terrifying events in your day, but this could get scary. It could definitely get scary. The thing that i relate was im old enough to remember andrew that hit homestead, and my familys in construction. So i remember going down there as a child and seeing where you would see a house, you could see the foundation where it was 100yearold oak tree half a mile away for this one. I ve al be gi is to ha a back up plan i feel like all native floridians are used to hurricanes. We have a garage full of water. We have basically a life survival kid thats ready. So we have to go out and get minimal stuff. Usually i would evacuate, but my mom had dialysis today, so the scariest thing for us, when you start to look at everybody that was evacuating miami and everything else, and you look at 95 and the turnpike, and the amount of traffic and backups that they were having were only 200 miles away from orlando which was going to be one of our backup plans. But it was taking people 8 hours or more. So the scariest thing for me was to be stuck in that traffic without gas, and in south florida where gas is scarce, and you have all these different things. Can you get back . And my mom will have dialysis again on tuesday. So could we get her back with all the amount of traffic and everybody trying to get back to florida after the storm. So that was our concerning things. So with all that being said, we felt like our best option was to stay home. Rick ankiel we wish you well, seafronts like youve considered everything thor three, our best to your mom, and hope the Dialysis Center is open tuesday because its going to be wild down there. Storm chasers are gearing up for hurricane eric milt ir ma. Key lairgo, that could be the epicenter when this thing comes ah shore. What are you expecting and planning to do it has just been upgraded to a category 5. Its still been up grated to a category 5 hurricane. Were actually at aisle ah more rawed ah. You can see the ties coming up. This is one of the channels through the island here. We have a concrete structure above the storm surge level. The Storm Chasers im with, theyre veteran hurricane chasers. Theyre wellfamiliar with the geography of the florida keys out here. We want to get off to the florida keys. Its going to be deadly out here for most of the keys, regardless where the exact track takes. Though we have tornado probes that we normally deployed in the path of tornados that will be deploying in the path of the eye wall of Hurricane Irma, maybe possibly in the marathon area to measure the wind speed and pressure call inside the eye wall of hurricane arm ah. The probe, how do you get it. The probe, how do you get r. The probe, how do you get m. The probe, how do you get a. The probe, how do you get it there . We could strap it to anything as well. We deployed it during Hurricane Harvey in rockport, texas. We measured wind in excess of 120 miles an hour. And we saw extreme pressure variability in the front eye wall of that system as these tornadolike reservoirs are spinning around. Thats why in these strong hurricanes, the wind damage could be extreme in certain pockets because of those tornado like vortex that are spinning around. But the storm surge out here, most of this area will be under several feet of water with winds gusting to 180, 190, 200 on top of that. It is an absolute recipe for disaster for south florida we are two days past a full moon. That means higher than normal tides. The full moon bringing high tide. You get a storm surge on top of that and that will complicate a bad situation for florida. Yeah, and on top of that storm surge, you have waves on top of that as well. Some of the waves are measured in excess of 50 feet. Further out with the system as that comes to shore, the waves arent going to be that high closer in. But there is going to be wave action on top of that ask strong winds. You can see some lightning behind me as these outer bands are starting to spiral in. Those thunderstorms ive seen frequent lightning out of the southeast from here in isl. A. More rawed ah. We expect the Tropical Storm force winds to begin tomorrow, and the Hurricane Force winds. Then whenever the eye wall steps up, the wind gusts could approach 200 miles an hour. Next up, we go to the florida keys with adam housely, ready to brave hurricane armah suppositories for relief in minutes. And dulcoease for comfortable relief of hard stools. Dulcolax. Designed for dependable relief. Listen up, heart disease. you too, unnecessary er visits. And hey, unmanaged depression, dont get too comfortable. Were talking to you, cost inefficiencies and data without insights. And fragmented care stop getting in the way of patient recovery and pay attention. Every single one of you is on our list. For those who wont rest until the world is healthier, neither will we. Optum. How well gets done. Grandmas. 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