Center is where you have storm force winds. This is a giant storm. Its going to take awhile for it to move over. It was standing in a tornado for a half hour. Thats the intensity of this. So still 175 mile an hour winds. Tomorrow its going to be passing coup pa. Its going to be passing the eastern most tip of cuba. Look at this. The cone barely goes over the mountains of cuba. Not enough to weaken it then its in the straits of florida. Right into the center of the cone over the tip of florida. Up florida, all the way through jacksonville at the category 4. And into georgia and downgrades to a category 1. This is probably going to be the most destructive path. More coming up in a few mngts. Thats the sound youll hear across miami. Homes and businesses boarding up windows preparing for the worst of wind and rain. E we sent tim furlong ahead of this storm. Hes following how people are bracing tonight. A beautiful evening and lots of people taking their e boats out here. We saw a yacht go
Makes landfall on the u. S. Mainland. Some hunkering down ready to ride out this storm at home. It is very serious. Is the miami skyline in jeopardy . And floridas southwest coast bracing for what could be a catastrophic storm surge. The frightening projections, plus, states of emergency all the way up to virginia. Our david muir and amy robach on the ground leading our Team Coverage with all you need to know. And good morning, everybody. Lets get right to the breaking news. Hurricane irma bearing down on florida. Theyre calling it the big one. Look at the satellite imagery. It is a massive, massive category 4. It is extremely powerful and extremely dangerous. Now, that view is the true from space but this is the the view from an air force reserve plane that flew right over the eye of the storm. As we come on the air, things are changing furiously including where its headed. Here are the major headlines. The track shifted significantly further west. The eye wall is now forecast to hit
Impact of Hurricane Irma expected to make landfall sometime tomorrow morning. Abcs Stephanie Ram mows live with the latest on the system. Reporter so many iconic miami spots are ghost towns, no traffic or people, so many homes boarded up as the deadly storm rages toward the coast. Hurricane irma is inching closer and closer to south florida with winds with 106 Miles Per Hour. The storm shifting further west. The eye of the storm with its sights on the florida keys and tampa. The National Weather service tweeting this is as real as it gets. Nowhere in the florida keys is safe. We are running out of time. The storm is almost here. If youre in an evacuation zone you need to go now. More than 5. 6 Million People have been asked to evacuate. Many in low lying coastal areas. Cars for miles. Reporter as time runs out people are trying to escape the storm. Traffic so bad on the three routes out of the of south florida, some abandoned their cars. Those trying to get out by air finding themselve
Some hunkering down ready to ride out this storm at home. It is very serious. Is the miami skyline in jeopardy . And floridas southwest coast bracing for what could be a catastrophic storm surge. The frightening projections, plus, states of emergency all the way up to virginia. Our david muir and amy robach on the ground leading our Team Coverage with all you need to know. And good morning, everybody. Lets get right to the breaking news. Hurricane irma bearing down on florida. Theyre calling it the big one. Look at the satellite imagery. This storm is a massive, massive category 4. It is extremely powerful and extremely dangerous. Now, that view is the true from space, but this is the view from an air force reserve plane that flew right over the eye of the storm. And as we come on the air this morning, things are changeous fuhrously including where its headed. Here are the major headlines. The track shifted significantly further west. The eye wall is now forecast to hit the florida key
Worldwide exchange on cnbc, im sara eisen. Im wilfred frost irma has been downgraded to a category 1 hurricane the storm is packing sustained winds of 85 Miles Per Hour right now irma is 25 miles northwest of tampa nearly 5 million homes and businesses across florida were without power and some 12,000 flights have been canceled due to the storm. Weve got full Team Coverage of the monster storm cnbcs Contessa Brewer on the ground in fourt. Lauderdale. Jackie deangelis is standing by. Lets start with cnbc meteorologist david biggar. Good morning. Hurricane irma were watching it very carefully i wanted to show you what the track is still looking like. We have a category 1 storm it will continue to track up and along floridas western coast line weakens as it does so eventually becoming a Tropical Storm. Its eventually starting to shift from more of a wind producer to a rain producer. I wanted to show you the current wind field this is what it looks like right now. All of these colors, that