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Today Hurricane Irma. With matt lauer and savannah guthrie. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And lester holt live from florida. And good morning, everyone. Welcome to a special edition of today on sunday morning. Lester and al are in tampa. If used just visiting us, its going to a special day on the florida state. Lets get the very latest now on the storm. It has been battering the florida keys all morning long. But its center just made official landfall there at 9 10 a. M. Eastern time. Utility officials in florida now say more than 1 million customers have lost power as irma has hammered that state. That number is expected to keep rising throughout whats going to be a long day down there. And to give you an idea how big the storm is, a Tropical Storm warning was just issued for atlanta, georgia. Yes, thats 600 miles north of southern florida. It is inland and north ....
Up. All of it with Major Concerns over storm sturge, that could get as high as 15 feet some some areas. Power obviously, people losing power. A major concern. A number of people without power is increasing by the power. When we first came on the air at 6 00 east coast time. This morning, 200,000 people without power. That number is now over 1 million. Well probably continue to see it climb. Weve got a team of correspondents across florida, as Hurricane Irma hammers the area. Lets start with correspondent Miguel Almaguer in florida city. Miguel good morning again. Reporter the wind is still blinding out here, the and ten miles inland from the coastline, they say the storm sturge is is not going to be a major issue. But these winds here that continue to knock down power lines and knock out power to this entire city. Still ....
Patrol and monitor status throughout most of the night. They are taking a break preparing to go back on the front lines. They told us the fire is 75 contained. The new jersey forest fire command is preparing for another day of battling blazes. They watch firefighters pumping water from a lake and dousing hot spots. Now that the humidity that made the fire smolder early this morning has burned off smoke is rising again today. Drying conditions prevail making it more susceptible for fires. When the relative humidity is below 23 you can have cigarette fires. You can have exhaust fires. Reporter rangers say theyre on top of the situation. They faced foam around Historic Structures and kept an eye on people camping out. We had some private campgrounds inside of the forest that were needed protection structure protection. We did that. We had a historic church. Reporter the area contained is about 710 acres. They dont plan to evacua ....
Obviously most out over the water but included in that northeastern South Carolina, the east coast of North Carolina, and eventually those will be extended up into virginia and new jersey as well. So winds are at 75 Miles Per Hour, but notice the path of the storm still moving northnortheast at now 9 Miles Per Hour. It still has to take this turn to the northwest which isnt expected until about monday. But look at the size of this storm. Its huge. And we are going to see this storm continue to affect areas all across the eastern seaboard pretty much at the same time. When were talking about the effects of new york city and long island were also talking about similar effects down across new jersey into maryland, into delaware and into washington, d. C. As well. So th ....