but that could rise even higher, as officials carry out more search and rescue missions today and work to access areas cut off from flooding. more than 800,000 customers are still without power in the state. and new today, the ft. myers police department is warning residents to be on the lookout for hurricane recovery scams. ft. myers beach will be closed for the next week. as some are demanding answers over whether lee county ordered mandatory evacuations soon enough. every loss of life you have to say to yourself, what could you do differently next time. should that have been done differently? unfortunately, we can t bring anything back. we ll look and find out. i want to know because it s an issue i had as governor trying to stay what did i learn to make sure we don t lose a life? the new york times had one of the six models, one model said 40% probability. and that s what they re hanging their story on. we have done everything we can from using state resources,
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.
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