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going to one particular shelter near ft. myers. many of them are still waiting to get in. we re going to check in with our drew griffin who s there in the hour ahead. but first, let s get the latest most porntdly on where this storm is headed. allison chinchar is in the weather center. bring us up to date. right, anderson. take a look at what we have right now, imagery where we can see the latest on irma. winds 125 miles per hour gusting up to 155 miles per hour. the movement it s been what we call wobbling where it s going back and forth between west and north and west and north. the question is when does it finally start to make that really sharp turn to the north. we focus on the maximum wind gusts. notice for the most part it s the western half of florida where we have our strongest winds. key west, this will be our peak maximum wind gusts around 138 miles per hour. but say up around ft. myers 136, even tampa going to be in the triple digits right around 116 miles per hour. ....
what are you seeing? i lost you, chris. i lost you, chris, but if you can hear me, if we re still on the air, we have taken refuge inside a parking structure in miami beach, because i want to show you why the beach floods so quickly, why that storm surge is so dangerous. our camera man is going to stay underneath the parking structure, i m going to move over here so you can see just how fast the wind is moving. this is why the storm surge is so dangerous and why this area of miami floods. the wind is barrelling here up miami beach. it s very powerful. we re estimating over 60 miles per hour. police officers cannot be patrolling the streets when the wind goes over 40 miles per people evacuated even though the storm shifted west ward, this could be dangerous to leave your home even on the east side of florida, certainly down south around miami, miami beach, until tomorrow morning. be very aware of those high winds. the beginning of the eye wall starting to affect the keys, tho ....
we re on the west coast but the effects of hurricane irma are being felt all over this state still. there s a lot to report over the next two hours. we re going to be focusing on what happened in the caribbean where the storm has passed by the misery is remaining. there are now 16 deaths in the united states contributed to the storm. twelve of them here in the states and at least others in the caribbean. fema estimates 19 homes were damaged or completely destroyed. over the next two hours we ll hear from survivors who rode out the storm and people who coming home to see what s left behind or not left. virgin islands, the people there have told us they re feeling neglected. the three largest islands in the virgin islands, st. kroiks, st. thomas. here in the western side, they are shooting for september 22nd, that s next friday. more on that situation in a moment. first, we want to start in the keys. lisa, is a nurse who wrote out the storm in key west. i spoke to her by phone a ....
release her first book of photography. it s cold of love and war. that s it for today. have a great week and we will see you next fox news sunday . i am thrilled to announce that in the second quarter of this year, the united states economy grew at the amazing rate of 4.1 percent. if economic growth continues at this pace, the united states economy will double in size. more than 10 years faster than it would have under either president bush or obama. paul: welcome to the journal editorial report . i am paul gigot. that was president trump taking a victory lap on the news that the u.s. economy grew at a robust rate at 4.1 percent in the second quarter. the fastest pace in almost 4 years. here with a look at what s behind that acceleration is - - chair of the white house council of economic advisory. nice to see you. 4.1 percent. economists predicted 4.4, as you look at the details of the report. what do you like in it? it goes back to a piece i wrote a while back that co ....
that was president trump taking a victory lap on the news that the u.s. economy grew at a robust rate at 4.1 percent in the second quarter. the fastest pace in almost 4 years. here with a look at what s behind that acceleration is - - chair of the white house council of economic advisory. nice to see you. 4.1 percent. economists predicted 4.4, as you look at the details of the report. what do you like in it? it goes back to a piece i wrote a while back that corporate tax cuts would cause a capital spending boom. if you look at the average of the first half of the year, we got a capital spending boom in the average growth is 3.1 percent. it s not often that economists can nail it that tightly and it showed its working exactly as we thought. paul: capital spending in the first quarter was more robust than in the second quarter. do you have an explanation for that? one of the things that happened is for equipment spending you were allowed to expense it retroactive to october ....