much. let s go to tampa with anderson cooper. reporter: we talked a lot, john, about first responders, and we re now starting to hear about some of the things they have to respond to during the nighttime hours and even today they ll be responding to a lot of calls. i want to have you meet some folks from coral springs, florida which is north of fort lauderdale. it was a dispatcher, and assistant fire chief all join me now. lou, you got a call. the call came in it was about a woman who was giving birth, what was the call? well, yeah, it s, you know, the life of 911 dispatcher is 24/7, 365 and i want to say thanks for having us on. during a crisis like this you never know what s going to happen. usually it s not positive, this one is very pleasant, because of electric emergency in a negative way, it was a positive, we were going to bring life into the
the northern half, there is two more lightning strikes with that convection in the northern half of this. irma doesn t want to die quickly. it s on a slow journey, painful journey. and millions of more are going to lose power up there as we go up the coast. and we ll continue to monitor that. now understand that. thank you. i had not understood that. it s very similar to other storms. if you go back and if you want to google it, you can look at the radar loop of katrina when it came on shore. we lost the back half of that storm too. it s not uncommon radar signature for a land-falling storm, especially one that sucks in a little bit of dry air. i can always return the favor if you have questions about v-8 engines of the 1970s. i can go deep on that subject. pilot training. i always wanted to fly. yeah, i always wanted to fly. let s go to tampa. chris bruin is the meteorologist for the weather channel. we have been watching. he doesn t know this, because we ve really been eave
weaken. we saw the inner eye deteriorate last night and it took over and rebuilt. let s go to tampa where lester hold is standing by. all eyes on tampa, at this point we have evacuated some of the lowest lying places, but there are a lot of low lying places in tampa. we but they have a little more time here because this is considerably north of the storm, but there is concern the tampa bay area could be the next land fall. they are taking preparations. keep in mind people here were feeling they might be spared but everything changed in the last few days. we were in ft. myers where
coming, a personal mobility vehicle. if you check this out, you can drive around the show in it and check it out. the cool thing about this is it s for people who maybe have a hard time getting around but you can ride it like a skateboard and it will follow you around so you can actually put your shopping on the back of it and it will come and follow you around as you walk so it s kind of cool futuristic stuff. nic miles for us. it s been a pleasure. thank you so much. absolutely. that s great. i like that little personal mobility vehicle. that s nice. there you go, yes. college football national championship set for tomorrow. let s go to tampa now and coy wire is live there. i know he s excited. reporter: alabama has won four of the last seven national championships, but as head coach nick cbsan outsmarted himself this time. he got rid of his offensive
week one of the nfl we start with the cowboys hosting the giants on sunday night football. jump to the beginning of the fourth quarter, the cowboys dez bryant gets up with a limp after a reception on third down. tough luck forlass, it turns out the all pro receiver broke his foot on the play and will need surgery. he ll miss the next four to six weeks. end of the quarter, giants with a three-point lead, decide to pass the ball on third and goal inside the 2 yard line, the pass is incomplete and new york has to settle for a field goal, with about is 1:30 left in the game. six plays later, tony romo completes a game winning drive that ends an 11-yard touchdown pass to jason witten. it gives the cowboys a 27-26 victory, that one is tough. let s go to tampa and the battle between rookie quarterbacks winston and marcus mariota. mariota outshinds the number one overall draft pick tossing four touchdowns to lead tennessee to a 42-14 blowout victory.