David muir, amy robach and our Abc News Team spread out across the storm zone. A special edition of gma starts now. And good morning, america. Florida has never seen a storm like this. That is naples. That is drone footage of naples. The destruction there yesterday. Right now the storm hitting jacksonville and expecting a powerful storm surge there. At one point sunday the entire state was covered by this storm. Such a massive force. Now making its way toward atlanta where theyre facing a Tropical Storm warning. And we are now just starting to see images from the areas hardest hit being the keys. It hit there first and hit there hard. Hurricane irma has claimed five lives in florida, 27 across the caribbean. It was a category 4 storm when it first made landfall in florida shortly after 9 00 a. M. Yesterday with wind gusts topping 140 miles an hour. This morning more than 5 million customers without power in the state. World news tonight anchor david muir is leading our coverage on the ground and has been there throughout the storm and amy robach is there headed to the devastated florida keys. Chief meteorologist ginger zee tracking the hurricane from the very beginning. She starts us off with the latest on its path. Good morning. Good morning, george. The impacts still being felt for 415 miles. Thats how far the Tropical Stormforce winds go and this morning jacksonville is under a flash flood emergency. 6 to even 12 inches of rain has fallen. They had aid record storm surge in jacksonville but those flash flood warnings go up into brunswick, georgia. See where it will go next. It will move through georgia and then eventually into alabama as a Tropical Storm, and then it will just be a depression. Either way you still have gusty winds. Extremely heavy rain in places and, remember, these are places and times that its going to be tough on a monday morning heading into atlanta through the afternoon and then finally dying out as it goes into tennessee but look at some of those numbers. You could see more than 8 inches on top of whats already fallen. Ill give you an idea of what happened and whats going to happen. Hurricane irma heading north hitting tallahassee right now and Abcs Steve Osunsami is there on the ground for us. Good morning, steve. Reporter good morning to you, robin. Im soaking wet. The rain is coming down and wind gusts have been a real problem here. I want you to take a look. You can see the trees are blowing and were not even during one of the highest wind gusts. The big concern for people who live here in tallahassee is, of course, theyre afraid theyll join the millions across the state who are without power as these branches fall. There are many people who came here from south florida hoping to escape this storm who are now dealing with this now, but the big problem is ginger mentioned in jacksonville, florida, because of that storm surge and the high, the heavy rains theyre dealing with a water emergency. Police are having to rescue families from flooded apartment buildings and other buildings. Thats going on right now. Also overnight, we have some really, really incredible pictures from orlando and lakeland, florida, as the storm moved through. Those families will have to wake up and see whether the pieces of their roofs are still there and as ginger mentioned atlanta. There is now a huge concern in atlanta, schools are canceled. I know the generator at my house is on the ready as people are worried whether theyre going to lose power because of all the trees and the wind knocking down tree branches over power lines. All right, steve, stay safe there. The massive scale, Hurricane Irma first made landfall as we said in the florida keys. Just after 9 00 a. M. Sunday and it hit hard. The Emergency Management director fears it could cause a humanitarian crisis. The entire area under mandatory evacuations, residents still barred from returning and amy robach traveled through the night to get to nearby florida city. Good morning, amy. Reporter thats right, george. Good morning to you. We got up very early and drove for about an hour from miami and we got to this point. Yes, near florida city where there is a police roadblock. No one who isnt on official business can get through past this point. This is the point of u. S. 1 where it narrows into a twolane highway surrounded by water and so officials have to get in there, clear the debris from the road, assess the damage and make sure those bridges that take you to key west are sound and safe before they will allow residents to return home. This morning, we are getting our first glimpse at the devastation in the lower keys. After irma stormed through with 130mileperhour wind gusts. Boats on the roads. Cars buried under sand. Store windows blown out. Houses barely standing. Debris everywhere. Residents advised to boil Drinking Water. As irma came roaring in, these two Storm Chasers tried to measure the wind speeds unable to hold their ground. Transformers igniting. Trying to drive from miami to the keys overnight, we got a firsthand look at the devastation irma left behind. Its a tree down right there. Wow. None. The streetlights are working. All the power is out. So everyone has to drive very carefully. Thankfully there arent many people on the road at 3 00 in the morning. In key largo david kay choosing not to evacuate documenting irma as she moved in watching his property engulfed from the storm surge. Were doing all right. Reporter this morning the painful process of cleaning up. Thats our sign. Thats our tree. Reporter remarkably, as you just saw there the only insight we have into the actual damage in the keys right now is from people who are able to still use social media or skype or have some sort of connection because no officials have actually gotten in there until just now this morning we saw a huge convoy of army trucks going in with supplies and equipment for the people who are there and certainly to clean up whatever needs to be cleaned up and there is significant damage as we can see but in the meantime, a lot of residents are lining up trying to get in and the police are having to turn them away. It is certainly an unknown whats inside. We talked to a group of monroe fire rescue and said they had no idea what they would find once they got in. The unknown, amy. Thank you. We know Hurricane Irma has been so devastating. To world news tonight anchor david muir leading our coverage and he is there in naples where they received the bankrupt of the hurricane sunday. Are you getting a sense of the damage there now . Reporter yeah, at first light, robin, as you knew would be the case. Take a look behind me. You did see the extent of Hurricane Irma. In fact, the highest wind gust reported from the storm in naples, 14 Miles Per Hour and see this apartment building, those of these families likely evacuated during the storm but will find their cars are completely damaged. The state emergency chief saying this morning we cannot have the full extent of this damage until theyre able to go out but warn everyone to stay inside after the storm. Take a look at this drone video right out of naples overnight and this gives you an idea of the water from the storm surge. The mayor here was relieved it was not as big as expected. They were forecasting 10 to 15 feet but still it brought a lot of water into naples and streets underwater this morning and take a look at what it was like as Hurricane Irma beared down on us right here coming right over where our location was. 400mile wide storm moving up the coast of florida making a second landfall on marco island. Look at this. This is just incredible. The hurricane then moving slightly up the coast hitting us here in naples after 4 00 p. M. The hurricane hovering right above. We are blocked by two sort of concrete barriers which is the only reason were able to talk. It feels like youre being blasted with a firehouse. Now the rains are coming in sideways here and the winds just continue to pick up. Reporter the highest wind gusts from Hurricane Irma here in florida, 142 Miles Per Hour. Theres a giant vacuum sucking everything out. Reporter naples residents rushing to shelters. This mother and daughter and granddaughter making it just in time. Pandemonium. We were nervous, scared. Reporter the shelter door cracking under the pressure as the National Guard taped up the glass. People clearing the front doors bracing for impact. They actually just cleared out this whole area. It was packed with people just in awe watching the winds just pick up. Reporter for a time our own team seeking shelter in a stairwell. This is what happens when these buildings and just be careful, tom. The awnings on the outside of the building are crashing down breaking these windows inside the hotel. But Hurricane Irma was not finished yet. Continuing on her northward path, ft. Myers next. Tom llamas was there. Reporter Hurricane Irma is right over us and im concerned about the projectiles but at this hour ft. Myers is getting absolutely ripped apart. Reporter at 11 00 p. M. The storm was centered 50 miles southeast of tampa. The mayor of that city said they were about to be tested. We have a densely populated area, some 3 Million People who are now either need to be out of here or they need to be hunkered down. Reporter the eye wall of the storm containing the storms ferocious and violent winds then passing over sarasota. For sarasota for tampa bay, the wind is blowing offshore with the current track so there is no storm surge here yet but hopefully folks are in shelter and away from the water. Reporter this morning, sarasota is still on high alert. Amid storm surge warnings up the coast. So many of these families have y yet to come home and see the damage. I remember being in the superdome in katrina as that storm barreled through the roof, sort of ripping off as we were all inside and i can only imagine what it was like for the thousands of floridians inside these shelters throughout the state and that track shifted very quickly over the weekend, many people had to very hurriedly get out of their homes and to the nearest shelter. What was it like being in that highrise . Reporter it was stunning to see on the balcony protected but the top of the roof began coming off and tiles going through the air and thats when we went in the stairwell and as ginger and rob predicted the eye was over us and this lull in the storm. Sort of extraordinary to see the science overhead and should point out nearly 6 Million People in florida without power this morning and likely waiting to come home to see the damage. Yeah, that number could grow. David, thank you. Hurricane irma raced through tampa. The first hurricane there in nearly a century. T. J. Holmes was there for it all. Good morning, t. J. Reporter hey, good morning to you, robin. So how bad was it here in tampa . Frankly, we dont know yet. It hit in the overnight hours. It was dark now the curfew still in place and emergency officials are trying to assess how bad the damage was from the storm. What do we know . It wasnt as bad as it could have been. This area thats so vulnerable to flooding and that was the huge fear, we know that the storm that surprised everybody by starting to make a beeline here over the weekend also made a little bit of a shift to the east, so it spared this area, tampa, that huge, huge hit from a huge, huge storm. It was a category 1 still a hurricane but still the surge and so much expected and feared did not come to fruition. Im standing next to the Hillsborough River that dumps out into the bay. This yesterday was essentially drained and dumped out as we often see as the water gets sucked out and then the surge comes back. Well, that water as you see here live with me is back so theres still a flooding fear possibility here. Were still getting wind gusts of 40 to 50 miles an hour and driving rain so not out of the woods just yet. Still reason to be concerned. T. J. , thank you. Tampa spared a direct hit and miami was spared a direct hit. Cities still pounded by fierce winds that knocked down cranes and heavy rain that turned streets into rivers. Gio benitez was there for all of it. He joins us now. Good morning, gio. Reporter george, good morning to you. Theres so much destruction here in south florida. I want you to take a look at this. This might look like a park. This is actually a city street here in downtown miami. Theres the bike lane and were seeing so many dangers right here. You have this giant branch just dangling there. You have downed power lines, glass everywhere. Irma was just a beast. This morning, miami waking up battered and soaked to the bone. Things have gone from bad to worse. We keep waiting for the winds to die down and they just continue to pick up. It actually looks and im not exaggerating here apocalyptic behind me. Reporter completely uprooting trees. Just pulled straight out of the ground here. Reporter watch the ferocious wind rip the roof off this apartment building. The torrential downpour flooding downtown swallowing street signs. This hotel swamped. The citys financial district entirely underwater. I had a front row seat as irma unleashed its wrath on this city. I just want to reassure people i am roped down. Ive never seen anything like this covering storms here. We feared whoa. We feared these winds are really intense. Seeing branch, pieces of trees come from the sky obviously trees arent up there which means that a lot of these trees are sort of whipping around and coming around like that. Look at this. You can see this whiteout condition. Reporter the winds almost proved too much for our hotels shatter resistant windows. Looks like windows have started to pop open and getting reports now of some cranes in danger of collapsing. Three of those massive construction cranes ended up collapsing. And so we heard before the storm even hit people were talking about how it just felt different. Well, when it hit it absolutely was different. It was just so big that we were constantly just hammered by all of that wind, all of that rain. It was just relentless, george. We could see it all day long. Latched to that balcony but one thing we saw miami made so many changes after hurricane andrew back in 1992 and those appear to have made a difference. Reporter oh, absolutely and s resistant. They were hurricane resistant so thats the good news, george. Okay, gio benitez, thanks very much. As we know hurrica abcs alex perez is there in atlanta where they are bracing for the storm. Good morning, alex. Reporter yeah, thats right, good morning, robin. A state of emergency declared here in georgia. This is the worlds Busiest Airport and they are bracing for some major, major problems as irma makes its way into georgia and right here into atlanta. Now, today alone already some 2700 flights have been grounded because of the storm. And as you mentioned since it started the hurricane as canceled some 13,000 flights. Now, the big concern here, those powerful, damaging winds. That could make landing or taking off very, very dangerous. This is a huge hub for delta air and Delta Air Lines spent the weekend telling all of its passengers they should try to make other plan, try to connect at a different hub when possible. Officials have been doing everything they can to try to get ahead of the storm here but as weve seen in florida, its not easy. Robin. Okay, alex, thank you. We want to go back to ginger. More on irma. A lot of warnings for the southeast this morning, ginger. This morning, jacksonville, water rescue, flash flood emergency in place there till in that hurricane warning as is everyone in david murphy here with an update from accuweather weather, gorgeous day, kind of a can continuation of weekend, dry on Storm Tracker 6 live double scan sky six showing you sunshine with a little bit of high cloud cover, chilly with temperatures in out lying suburbs in the 40s, philadelphia 50s, but this afternoon, looking good, mostly sunny and noise in the city, 78 the high, tomorrow high clouds start to build in 82 high, then wednesday, spotty showers irma, a high of 76. Fter it hit the keys and look at that graphic. The hardest hit area in the everglades so no one lives there. That was a real blessing. As it weakened even lesser winds on the back side meaning less storm surge and a lot of those western beaches. Ginger, just dr. To say your coverage of this has been incredible. Calm, accurate. Absolutely tireless. 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