of the airplane. neither is happening fast enough. the longest line might be here on the road. this is a live look at interstate 75 near central florida. as people try to escape the dangerous storm. that s because authorities in florida have told more than 5 million people to evacuate. it s one of the largest in the country history. the national hurricane center is forecasting life threatening storm surges up to 12 feet in some areas in power companies say the strong wind could cause outages for about 9 million people. the first alert weather team is monitoring every update on this dangerous storm. we got new information minutes ago. let s go to tammie souza with the latest. the storm has intensified back up to category five. the last 12 hours it looked like it was wobbling and going west. it just dove south. it s making a very early land fall. right along the northern coast of cuba. it is a very dangerous category five. again it has been upgraded because of the winds a
breaking news out of the lehigh valley. a police officer is in the hospital after being shot in whitehall town shin. th individu we re working to learn more about how it all unfolded.shin. we re working to learn more about how it all unfolded. we have a crew on the way. and now more on the latest path of hurricane irma. krystal klei is tracking the storm this weekend and also our weather. yeah, and we re very lucky to have some quiet calm weather this weekend, so we ll start with hurricane irma. the update to the track and conditions of irma are just coming into the computer right now. so ten mints from now, i can bring you the latest update. but infrom a couple hours ago, 160-mile-per-hour winds moving to the west at 12 miles per hour. we are waiting when the turn to the right will hit and the movement to the north will edge toward florida. but at this point still movement to the west. the track shows that it has just brushed up against cuba making a landfall in cuba as
they track along florida with the updated track. remember it s more about the cone than the direct red line that you see. that is just the potential track that is most likely at this point and you can see the cone still covers much of florida here from about sunday early morning to tuesday early morning. so this is not just a day event here that we re looking at. winds at 155-mile-per-hour with hurricane irma and it s moving to the west/northwest. so we are seeing that it will edge more to the north and make that turn. look at the track, riding the cuba coastline through today. overnight into early sunday, it looks likely that it will start to impact and make landfall somewhere over the florida keys before it moves right along the western coast of florida through about tuesday in those early a.m. hours. so irma is very soon going to be directly impacting florida. there are hurricane watches and warnings over pretty of the entire state. those in red are under right now the mor
20 tomorrow morning. thousand we go live to sarah rosario in forth laud. reporte ft. lauderdale. reporter: the wind is starting to pick up here as hurricane irma is less than 24 hours from landfall. hurricane force winds expected from coast to coast, raising the potential of life threatening storm surge. the message clear. you need to go now. and a has exodus followed as irma showed its strength. we were here for wilma. nothing really frightening as this. reporter: many heeding warnings as the most powerful atlantic hurricane on record battered the caribbean taking lives, homes and leaving more than a million people without power. this is a catastrophic storm that our state has never seen. reporter: many shelters are full. gas stations and airports closed. i don t know what do. reporter: preparations made across the state. from protecting animals at the miami zoo to shutting down the happiest place on earth, disney and other theme parks close as irma sets sigh
not one the interim director stands by. the worker has been fired. he says she made a bad call. clearly she didn t follow our policies, but good old commonsense would tell you if a cat is wearing a caul callinoll. we ve had boardline death threats. reporter: he s going to work with staff to make sure it hasn t happened again. he made a facebook page for all who want to see the good work, to come in. wegman is demanding change. you have the opportunity to change this. you have the opportunity to make clearly, thousands of people happy. make the right choice. reporter: the shelter will work to do just that. he says nothing is going to bring the cat back. he has offered the family a replacement animal. that is something wegman says she and her family are just not ready to accept right now. the shelter is urging all that are out there that are moved by the story to get involved and help out your local shelters to insure nothing like this happens there. reporting live in b