Hurricane irma, monster storm. Here now, chief anchor george stephanopoulos. Good morning, welcome to the special edition of this week. All eyes now on the monster storm. As we said, Hurricane Irma has decimated islands across the caribbe caribbean. 24 hours of danger ahead. Right now, Hurricane Irma a category 4. Winds clocking in at 130 miles an hour. The eye wall is over the florida keys. You see the winds whipping right there. Those winds not the only danger. You have seen tornadoes reported across south florida. That danger will continue throughout the day. And the entire west coast of florida facing potentially deadly wals of water. Naples first in line. Then forth meyers. 10 to 15foot storm surge possible there. Tampa, st. Petersburg. Vulnerable tonight. Theyll feel irmas full force. Right here, ginger zee. Ginger, you have been on this for days. The story right now, key west. We get this brandnew video. Some of the people that didnt leave. Storm chasers. This is simon brewer. K
The surge could be the greatest danger. Multiple reports of tornados. Heres what we know right now. Category 4 storm. 130mileperhour winds. It was a weaker category 3 yesterday but gaining strength as it hits florida. More than a Million People are without power. 7 Million People in florida, georgia, South Carolina have been told to evacuate. Our Abc News Team is from the caribbean up and down florida. We begin with world news anchor david muir in naples, expecting a hard hit in just a few hours, david. In fact, just moments ago, george, the emergency manager in naples saying now we have to wait for the storm to get here. The eye is going to be extremely close to naples. And he makes a good point. It doesnt matter whether its category 3 or 4. It will bring a lot of devastation to this area. They are very concerned about the storm surge. The forecast still holds, george, anywhere again 10 to 15 feet storm surge. They will see saltwater very high in this community. For a significant amou
People as barrelled through the caribbean and puerto rico. Were waiting for an update from the governor, rick scott and we will bring you as it begins. We know more than 6 Million People were evacuated from florida. It includes roughly 1 3rd of the states population. Not everyone was able to or chose to get out. Take a look how Hurricane Irma looks on radar, in some area, the rain and winds so strong, emergency crews are no longer able to respond to sfts calls. Were going to take you live. This is a live picture in West Palm Beach. This is actually inside of a News Conference were waiting on the governor to give us a briefing on the storm so far and as he steps to the podium well bring it live. In Fort Lauderdale, a Tornado Warning was issued. Take a look at this video. Appears to show a tornado forming, residents have been urged to stay inside and to hunker down. A man riding out the storm in key largo captured this piece of video as the strong winds ripped off a piece of the roof. Di
Other. Tonight we have Team Coverage, meteorologist Melissa Magee has the latest on the storms path but we will begin with brian taff in naples in the eye of the storm is passing, brian. Reporter walter and sarah this has been a absolutely surreal hour or two hours, here in naples florida right now. Forgive me as lie around as i stay out of the path of flying debris. We just passed through eye wall, the strongest wins of what was a category three hurricane. We clock the wind of a gust of 142 miles an hour. That is stunning. Wind speed by any measure. Things have incredibly calmed down, from that point, in just the last five minutes. That is how quickly this storm is moving. Five minutes ago we could not see those trees behind me, and now as clear as day. Jason, come on out here survey some of the destruction. From what we have seen in just the last, couple of hours, of these incredible, wind speed, that building behind us is part of its roofies torn off. Jason, go ahead, look down. Tho
The win, brunt of the storm came through, about 45 minutes to an hour ago, that is when the eye wall crossed over the top of us. That gave way to a surreal several moments worth sky were blue. Forgive us as we wiped off the camera lens as it gets socked with the rain as you see pelt ing in the back of me. Irmas now 5 miles north of naples. So about 30 miles south south east of fort myers. It is now a category two hurricane. It was every bit category three as it roared a shore sustain winds of 100 miles an hour. We have gust ted to 142 at one point and destruction has been widespread. A few moments ago when eye was above us and it had been calm, we took out drone six for just a couple minutes and try to launch it. Lets roll that now and give you a sense of what we saw. This is on the front side of the hotel, the commercial corridor, route 41, known as the trail, not a lot of people live there, fortunately. Destruction there limited to trees coming down here and there. Not the case on th