Wherever they can. Shes one of my pets. Even in Car Dealerships as they try to ride out this storm. This is the first time the sheriff ever came down our street. To order you out . Yeah. The first time. Cities in irmas path, deserted and boarded up. The governor warning people to be on guard. This is clearly a lifethreatening situation. The storm surge comes after the strongest winds. More than 1,000 americans rescued from st. Martin, now sharing their terrifyinging stories of surviving the storm. Some abandoned by hotel staff, facing armed robbers. Our david muir and amy robach on the ground in florida. Leading our team coverage. With all you need to know. This is a special edition of Good Morning America. Hurricane irma, monster storm. Good sunday morning, everyone. All eyes are on Hurricane Irma. The visuals were seeing. The pictures are just remarkable. Irma churning up the coast. Its a monster storm. It is as we speak, making a direct hit on the vulnerable, lowlying florida keys. Were getting fresh images in from the keys overnight. Overnight, irma gained strengths. Packing 130mileanhour winds. Catastrophic storm surge. On top of all of that, tornadoes. Now, word of the first weatherrelated death. More than 70,000 people are ridinging the storm out in shelters. Hundreds of thousands of people have lost power. Fear of catastrophic and lifethreatening danger. We have team coverage. Led by david muir. He is on the ground in naples. We have gmas amy row b y roy in miami. Were going the start with ginger zee. Irma is getting ready to make landfall . Landfall is imminent in the keys. The eye wall giving them an extreme wind warning. 115plus mile per hour gusts. That creates potential for damage. The eye movers northward. Who gets it next and when . Most of the areas south of naples and marco island is the everglades. Tonight, fot. Myers. A gat goir 3. Still considered major. Then becomes a 1 as it reaches tallahassee and makes its way into tennessee and alabama. We can stop talking about it wednesday into thursday. There are big cities. Tampa. Metro area. One of the most vulnerable places in the country to storm surge and flooding. Are they prepare snd. I dont know that you can be, for a five to eightfoot storm surge. Thats the area five to ten feet that includes sarasota, ft. Myers beaches. And south, 10 to 15 feet. Think about how high your house is. Filling your home with water rushing at a high pace. Thats why storm surge is so, so powerful. Miami has seen threefoot surge this morning. The eye is still 100 miles away. Theshore flow keeps on going. Melbourne, only in the one to four. You say, oh, not so bad. Add ten inches of rain. Then well talk significant loss of property, if not life. The gorger has said pray for us. We want to go now to amy robach, who, as we said, is in miami, where theyre feeling the effects. The heavy wind and the rain. Amy . Thats right, dan. Good morning to you. Its remarkable when you hear ginger say that ir mas eye is 100 miles away from us because were experiencing some incredible wind gusts here. Well over 60 miles per hour. And it just keeps getting worse. Weve been out here since about 5 00 this morning. Every 30 minutes you can hear and feel the wind picking up. Its howling. Its moving things. We have a bunch of broken tree branches. Flying across the streets below us. We have a lot of debris. Some construction orange cones all across the road. And even more dangerous, some power lines have been knocked down by the trees. Theyre flying across the very wet road. Sparking. Its very dangerous. Were safe. Were on a balcony on a sixth floor. I have concrete walls on both sides of me. You could not be Walking Around there. So many people evacuated. A lot of people hupgerring down inside their homes. Hearing the fearneierceness of wind. We have ponding. We have biscayne bay right to the left of me. Nearby is my colleague, gio benitez. He was evacuated from the florida keys earlier this week. You have experienced it all, gio. Youre feeling the winds right now. Were feeling them. We have a bit of news. The city of miami beach has announced on twitter they will not be sending any First Responders out if the streets if people need help. It is just too dangerous. They say the winds, extreme sustained winds are too powerful. There was a reading from the airport close by, saying 72 miles an hour. Youre hearing the Freight Train sounds coming through here. They just keep going. Were seeing the wind and the rain whip around. We did evacuate. We knew it was going to be too dangerous down there. We need to see what is happening in the storm surge. Were feeling 100 miles from the eye this. It is very intense what is happening in the keys. Youre being safe as well. As we all are here in miami. Really feeling the brunt of irma as it makes its way over the florida keys. Back to you, dan and paula. Well be here throughout the morning. I want to pick up on the issue of safety. Our viewers who know and love both you and gio. Will be concerned. Youre in a reasonably protected area. We see gio holding on to a tether. So precautions have been taken. Yes, were being extremely safe. Safety is the most important thing. I know you have been out here. I have covered many hurricanes before as well. Were taking every prekaux. Its remarkable were able to show you the wind and rain and still be very protected. I have an overhang. Concrete walls. I have things to hold on to. But were being very safe and just wanting to show everyone that this is a powerful and deadly storm and no one should be out in it, dan. Back to you. Powerful and deadly indeed. All right, gio and amy, thank you for your coverage. We want to go to david muir, our anchor of world news tonight. Hes in naples. David, folks in naples, you, youre bracing for a direct hit later this afternoon. Bracing for a dekt hit that is still about six, seven hours away. Were already seeing major wind gusts. Show you some of the damage. One of these they have 100yearold oak trees. Palm trees here in naples. These are toppled from the outer bands. Theyre expecting once the storms get here. Were going to be the right side, the most dangerous side of the storm. Hours of 130mileperhour winds gusting hirer than that. There could be tornadolike damage. We have seen the warning from the National Weather service. The National Hurricane center in key west. Given the winds that theyre seeing, perhaps lower than what we may see here. Theyre already saying tornadolike damage could happen. Thats the expectation later today. Makes you think of the season of katrina, wilma, rita. I remember being autoall of them. The very beginning of katrina, we were in the superdome. Waiting inside for that hurricane to hit. Think of the people of naples, who got the word late yesterday when the track made the shift that they, too, had to evacuate. They had to be out by noon. Many of them went to the jermaine arena. Many of them will be there. I remember the top of the superdome beginning to peel off. When youre talking about winds surpassing 100 miles per hour, we could see significant damage. The winds and the storm surge can take lives. Naples is only three feet above sea level. Theyre expecting a storm surge of between 10 and 15 feet. You heard the governor warn that that can take houses. Cars. Can certainly take lives. We should point out that this team that im with, were going to make sure were safe. Going to do our very best. And during those very difficult moments later on, well be hud. Ed deep inside this building. Good to hear youre going to stay safe. This bad joke the universe has played on folks who went from miami, thinking thats where the storm damage was going to be most concentrated. They go to the west coast. Places like naples and tampa. Now thats where the storm is headed. Speaking of where the storm is. Feeling the worst of it and the winds right now. We want to go to zack. Hes riding out the storm with his family of five in key west. Good morning to you. Youre in a threestory concrete building with your family of five. Ginger says you should be feeling the worst of the winds right now. Can you tell us what the situation is . I dont know if you can hear it. I believe this is absolutely the worst. You can hear it. This is through concrete building. Through shutters and the door. That wind is blowing. We have a sink. We can hear something going upon the winds seem to be sucking through that. It is a i wont lie. Its definitely, you know, a frightening my wife is here. She can add. Its were not sure what is out there. Not sure what well see when we open the door. From what we hear, there is definitely stuff blowing. We can hear the eerie whistle in the background. We thought it was cell phone noise. Its the storm. You have children with you . How is everybody doing . Were doing well. Were all together. Um you know, were you know all five of us in here. We have no power. No power overnight. Were doing fine. So, we have one child with us. Logan. Hes with us. Hes the one that, you know, is taking some of the videos. Hes doing fine, as well. Were holding up together the. Were supporting each other. I know youre supporting one another. That whistle, we cant get over it. How disconcerting s ining is it the wind outside . Its horrifying. Absolutely horrifying. Thats my wife, candy. Kandy, can you tell us how that is . Are you regrettinging staying . Well, given the information that we had, we originally kid decide we were going to leave. As the storm shifted, we decided we would not go to miami, as we originally intended. And then itt changed again. At a point in time, we made up our minds to stay and we were committed. I dont know that we would do anything different because we wouldnt have had any different information. Boy, that howling is harrowing. Do you can you tell us about the precautions, kandy and zack, that has you have taken to deal with what youre facing . We boarded up our house. Were at a friends. His condo. Hes on the third floor. Our fear was storm surge. Life jackets. Generator. Weve boarded up. We have a radio. A total of 20 cases of water. Nonperishable food. We filled the bathtubs up with water. So if we need to flush the toilets, we have we have prepared for the worst and are hoping for the best. Obviously, we prepared for the worst. Were in the midst of the worst, right . A lot of people asked, why did you say . How is that choice made . This is all encompassing. We saw this, it was the entire state of florida. Where do you go at that point . Where do you escape the this . You just make a decision and you the great thing about key west is its one big family. We have neighbors. We all bonded together. Were riding this out. And zack, and kandy, you have a child with you . Yes. A teenager. Hes 19. But yes, hes my son. Hes 19. How is everybody doing . Your spirits . Enduring this has to be so frightening. I think were all holding up very well considering the situation. Were supporting one another. So one is losing control. Were just making the best of it. And we do feel secure and safe here, where we are. Even though wind is very loud sand sounds like were not. Were in a safe place. I think were better off here than at our own home. Nothing but our best wishes. Stay safe. Thank you for joining us. Thank you. Lets get back to ginger once again. Ginger, just to make this clear, the kind of peril theyre in right now. They are basically in a situation where its about to make landfall. Yes. Moments. Minutes, really, from it. You could hear it in that whistle. That whistle will stay for the next hour or so as the eye passes just to their east. Between there and marathon are feeling the worst of it now. You have seen the pictures of miami and south of miami. Thats where were going to go next. 85 miles northeast of the eye. We have ian from wplg in florida city. Just south of homestead. Your last tweet said extreme wind. Rescuers will no longer be responding for the city of miami. What are you seeing on the ground there . All night long. Wind gusts. Rain coming horizontal. Were just south of where the turnpike ends. Further south, you end up in up thor keys. I want to let owe syou see some the damage. We have been talking about this all morning long. This is the sign in front of the hoe tale that weve been hunkered down in. There used to be white siding all around the sign. The its whipped off piece by piece. You can see how strong the winds are. There are pieces of metal, branches, things like that scattered all around. Were starting to see an accumulation of rain as well. Theres a parking lot, a restaurant behind us. Theres starting to be an accumulation of rain. To the right, these trees that were pointing to, have bent over. Theyre holding on by their last roots. The wind is swirling. The rain has been coming side waist at us. So hard at one point, it blew over one of our reporters. We had to help her back undercover. We lost power about 3 00 a. M. Weve been watching transformers blow. All night long. We have been seeinging green. Gnats because there are hundreds of thousands of people here in miamidade that are without power. 3 00 in the morning, that happened to us, live on tv. We were talking about it. And then the lights flashed. Everything wept out. Weve been out power since. Dealing with this sort of rain consistently. Right around midnight, 1 00 a. M. We were seeing these gusts. It would give us a break. At this point, dan, paula, ginger, its just been consistent, steady, hard rain and winds. Ian is describing the bands very well. They come, some of them have thunderstorms within nice and cannot here, and more particular, the delaware and lehigh valleys, beautiful sunshine out there, temperatures nice and cool, and no humidity to speak of, the exclusive accuweather sevenday forecast falllike today, mostly sunny with a high of 74, crisp overnight. Lows had in the 40s and 50s. Then for tomorrow, sun and clouds with warmer 78. Maybe some remnant rains from irma by wednesday. With us now. Where is the area of greatest concern for you as the storm marches up the west side of florida today . Immediate is keys. Then everglades. A few brief hours of reprieve. Then marco island and naples. Up the beaches of fot. Myers. Right into the tampa bay tonight. Well see images of water piling up. Not just on the west side of the state. On the east side. We have seen three feet of surge in miami. All the way up to coast eventually. That water piles up. Rob will come back later with the waves and the wave forecast. For those praying this thing changes course and weakens, what are the chances . A prayers are wonderful. But as far as the forecast, there is no solution for us. Within the cone, something we should have been paying attention to the hole time. The entire peninsula of florida needs to be on alert. The more water on the right side allowed to push into the communities, the beaches, saniber, captiva. Even up into the bend of florida, sthat catastrophic. A category 4 storm takes a long time to die down. About to make landfall in the keys. Its just beginning. Well be covering this. Stay here. Well be right back. Oh, look. Another antiwrinkle cream in no hurry to make anything happen. Neutrogena® rapid wrinkle repair® works in just one week. With the fastest retinol formula available. Its clinically proven to work on fine lines and wrinkles. One week . That definitely works rapid wrinkle repair®. And for dark spots, rapid tone repair. Neutrogena®. See whats possible. 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In car accidents. We want to go back to world news tonight anchor david muir. Leading our coverage on the ground from naples. You have been talking with ginger this morning about the storm surge. The winds are a real concern. The water is an enormous concern here in napeles. Three feet above sea level. Theyre expecting a surge up to 15 feet. We do have with us this morning naples mayor bill barnett. Who has lived here in florida since 1973. Mayor barnett, its david muir. This westward shift of the track we learned about 24 hours ago. Are you confident people had enough time to get out of harms way . Yes, i am. Thank you, david. I feel that i feel that our people have been our citizens have been evacuating isince eary in the week. They really took the storm seriously. Compared to wilma, where there was a lackadaisical, complacent, no, were not going to have a hurricane. This time, everybody has heeded. Our town is like a ghost town. You bring up wilma, mayor. I remember being in key west for wilma. We were preparing for significant damage there. It was better than expected there. But much worse here in naples. If i remember correctly, there was about 125mileanhour winds you saw in wilma. Thats what theyre forecasting for later. What kind of damage are you expecting this afternoon . Youll feel it for hour upon hour. It is a wait and see. Were certainly hoping for the best. Because, remembering wilma very well. We probably had more horticultural damage than structural. And what were really worried about is the storm surge that everyone keeps that the forecast says is going to happen. And, if it does, i im just reluctant to say what could happen. Because hurricane donna in 1960 actually was got right on the date. And, um, so it could do catastrophic damage to our downtown and to businesses and everything else. And homes along the beach. So, again, were certainly hoping for the best. Mayor, that storm surge itself, is that your biggest concern when you look at the hurricane . I know youre fully aware that as it moves up the coast and hugs the coastline over the warm waters, its just going the fuel this. We here in naples are on the wrong side of the hurricane. That is my biggest concern. If we had to put them in degrees, which is top priority, which is bottom, it would be hard to do. The storm surge would probably be at the top of the list. Naples mayor, bill barnett. Thank you. You did a great job getting so many people to the jermaine arena. Theyre waiting for the storm to hit. It must be an anxious time for those families inside the arena. I mentioned it earlier being inside the superdome. Its sown settling when you bring just a few belongings with you not being sure if you can return to your home after storm hits. Theyre all huddled here. David, great interview. If theres a Silver Lining from whereat is going on in napeles is that that did heed the warnings. The residents got out or went to a shelter. They listened to the warnings. David, thank you. The point he makes about the anxiety of the folks who evacuated, theres a lot to worry about right now. And for more on where this storm is right now and where its heading, up north of where david is. David is in naples. Rob is in sarasota. Its calm. But not for long. Give us your sense, rob. You asked me where its going. Its coming here. Coming here tonight. Where sit right now, dramatic, exclusive accuweather for falllike, highs around 74, no humidity. To be inundated, if not over my head, in this sarasota area. Were going to continue to cover Hurricane Irma righere on gma. Well be right back. I have a pet butter sandwich . Yeah, you sure can. Can charlie have one, too . Charlie can have one too. And one for charlie. gasp look mom charlie took a bite. with full mouth unbelievable. Feed his imagination, with the fresh roasted peanut taste he loves. Where theres jif, theres love. 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The ceilings started to come down. It was like poltergeist. The walls were shaking. One woman told linzie she and her mother were on vacation. Her mother 80 years old. Cars flailing in the wind. Exploding. Groups of men in hair hotel, raiding it, looting it, stealing from ges the punching a tourist. A truly terrifying situation for the tourists and those who remain. The race is on the evacuate more from those eye lapds. How slong that process expected expect ed to take, james . To get the americans left behind in a horrifying environment. You lack power and rule of law. Reporter well, absolutely. I mean, the thing is, there are other weather fronts coming in. There are jose, another hurricane, thats thought it might cut the edge of the British Virgin islands, the american virgin islands. Its unclear how long it will take for the americans to airlift people to safety. 5,000 waiting. Many of them without power. Having seen massive devastation. 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Have been for the last week or so, glued to the forecast track. Seeing if they will be facing a direct hit here in the naples area. Once irma made the jog to the west. There was an immediate need for shelters to open up. People starting rushing in droves. There are about 15,000 to 16,000 people in the shelters. So many people live in mobile home parks. I spoke to man here who says if 15 feet is the situation, his roof would be under water. He would have no home to go back to. Thats the situation here. People are hunkered down. Theyll be here for the long one. Dan . Paula . Judges by the images behind you, it looks congenial. I have to imagine the level of anxiety is through the roof. Given what is heading their way. Can you tell us what youre hearing from people . Well, of course, people here are very concerned. Also happy that theyre in shelter at this point. We saw long lines yesterday as well. People trying to get into the jermaine arena. Trying to get to safety. People are concerned their homes could be destroyed. It caught a lot of people offguard. The plan all week was this was going to hit the east coast. Once it changed to the west, pre people had to get out quickly. Victor, thank you. Ginger, where do things stand . The eye is going over parts of the florida keys right now. If you feel calm, dont go outside. Its the eye. Just east of key west. One of the worst bands between pine key and marathon. We have already seen threefoot storm surge in miami. Close to 70mileperhour gusts there. That that will go for hours at a time. That tornado watch will ekd tepid. The track somewhat everyone has been talking about. It hugs the coast. Meaning big pushes of water towards those beaches on the west side of florida. Well still see surge on the east side. Even if youre not in that cone. It backs 4 later this afternoon. 3 early tomorrow morning. Late night sarasota through Early Morning tampa. Tallahassee by tomorrow. Monday into tuesday away from florida. That is the track as of now. It gets wrapped up with another dish bauns. Were living with this beast for awhile. Tur thank you, ginger. Well continue to cover the h n hurricane throughout the day. So Many Americans struggle with finances. Starting today, state farm is here to help. Giving us all the chance to simply sit down and learn. Visit letsstarttoday. Com or talk to an agent. Need a fast absorbing try nivea inshower body lotion. Wash. Apply. It absorbs fast. For 24 hour moisture. Quickly rinse for smoother skin. Ready to go nivea inshower body lotion. Also available with cocoa butter. And we want to welcome you back to our special coverage. We want to check in with gio in miami. Good morning. Were feeling the incredibly powerful winds and rains. Look at the streets. This is just really get lging hammered here in the part of downtown miami. Were in the northeast quadrant. Ginger keeps talking about the dirty side of the storm. Thats what were in. These conditions could really spawn some tornadoes. Really creator nay does in the area. People need to be watching iffer the warnings. Those tornado watches. To make sure that theyre not in an area gnats a threat. Now, miami beach, the city of miami beach has already announced First Responders, theyre not going to be going out. People cant be going out in this, walking the street. The you get hurt, the First Responders are not going to get to you. Key west, registering 90mileanhour winds. Make sure youre not in the eye wall. Dan, back to you. Gio benitez in miami, florida, holding a tether to make sure hes safe. This thing is just beginning. The brunt of this storm will be felt along the west coast of florida as this storm moves its way up from the keys where it is right now up the west coast of florida throughout the day. Well be covering it every step of the way right here on abc. Thank you for joining us on gma. Keep it here on abc news throughout the day as our coverage of irma continues. Im nydia han along with gray hall. Next we continue or coverage of Hurricane Irma, its barrelling into the southernmost part of florida right now its knocked boats and blamed on at least three deaths. Chris . You can see on Storm Tracker 6, the eye is just now crossing over the florida keys and it will bring extensive damage to the gulf coast area. Ill have the status and figures coming up after this. Action news, delaware valleys leading news program. Hurricane irma is unleashing its fury over the florida keys as the powerful category 4 storm slams into the southernmost point. The monster storm moved to the west where it has a potential to gain even more strength from the warm waters of the gulf of mexico. Good morning, im nydia han along with gray hall. With special action News Coverage of Hurricane Irma. Yyou can see the powerful storm as its hour bands moves ashore. The conditions are expected to worsen as the day continues. This is a live picture. West palm beach florida, Hurricane Irma began latching the state earlier, it was a powerful category 4 as it reached the popular destination spot of the florida keys there has been at least three storm related deaths already in florida. One man died when his truck stormed into a tree in marathon