Wherever they can. Shes one of my pets. Even in Car Dealerships as they try to ride out this storm. This is the first time the sheriff ever came down our street. To order you out . Yeah. The first time. Cities in irmas path, deserted and boarded up. The governor warning people to be on guard. This is clearly a lifethreatening situation. The storm surge comes after the strongest winds. More than 1,000 americans rescued from st. Martin, now sharing their terrifyinging stories of surviving the storm. Some abandoned by hotel staff, facing armed robbers. Our david muir and amy robach on the ground in florida. Leading our team coverage. With all you need to know. This is a special edition of Good Morning America. Hurricane irma, monster storm. Good sunday morning, everyone. All eyes are on Hurricane Irma. The visuals were seeing. The pictures are just remarkable. Irma churning up the coast. Its a monster storm. It is as we speak, making a direct hit on the vulnerable, lowlying florida keys.
Wherever they can. Shes one of my pets. Even in Car Dealerships as they try to ride out this storm. This is the first time the sheriff ever came down our street. To order you out . Yeah. The first time. Cities in irmas path, deserted and boarded up. The governor warning people to be on guard. This is clearly a lifethreatening situation. The storm surge comes after the strongest winds. More than 1,000 americans rescued from st. Martin, now sharing their terrifyinging stories of surviving the storm. Some abandoned by hotel staff, facing armed robbers. Our david muir and amy robach on the ground in florida. Leading our team coverage. With all you need to know. This is a special edition of Good Morning America. Hurricane irma, monster storm. Good sunday morning, everyone. All eyes are on Hurricane Irma. The visuals were seeing. The pictures are just remarkable. Irma churning up the coast. Its a monster storm. It is as we speak, making a direct hit on the vulnerable, lowlying florida keys.
Hurricane ever. Massive size. At least 24 hours of danger ahead. Right now Hurricane Irma officially a category 4 with winds clocking in at more than 130 miles an hour. That is the scene in miami. Where a construction crane was blown down by the storm. And those winds not the only danger. Already we have seen tornados reported across florida. That danger will continue throughout the day. The eye wall has passed over the florida keys now leaving dangerous flooding in its wake. You see that right there and irma approaching the mainland with the entire west coast facing deadly walls of water. Naples first in line, then ft. Myers. 10 to 15 foot storm surge possible there and tonight tampa and st. Petersburg. They are as vulnerable to storm surges and will feel irmas full force. Our Abc News Team is deployed across the storm zone and right with me is ginger zee. We just saw the flooding in the keys and the storm has move passed. More storm surge to come. Remember it rotates counterclockwise
Up the coast and when it gets here, ginger said the biggest concern is the storm surge, thats the case here. I talked to the mayor earlier. He told me the same thing. 10 to 15 feet storm surge well inland. 10 to 15 feet of salt water moving at incredible force both in the beginning of the hurricane and sweeping back behind it. The winds picking up already. We saw a giant tree go down next to us and debris everywhere and once the winds reach about 100 Miles Per Hour, gusts up to 125 as we just saw in that map t model that just came out. Thats going to be sustained for quite some time and theyre expecting considerable damage. I want to head back to amy robach in south florida in miami. Amy, you had 100 mile per hour winds in south florida as well . Reporter we are in the worst of it right now. It is certainly strong winds here, up to 82 Miles Per Hour gusting now. Hurricane forced winds here in downtown miami. I wanted to point out that the streets are starting to flood. I heard ginger m
Familys home threatened and some of his family lost their homes in rockport, so he knows what a hurricane can do. Its a little rough, but im on the fourth floor. I want to show you why we position ourself here, not only for the safety, but because down here is where we think we will see that storm surge. So it is here, just there. If you look over there, those buildings, they are right on the water. So the street here, i guess were not going to have enough cable. We get the basic picture. There you go, come on over. There we go. Guys, there you go, so the damage right now is to palm fraudule frans and stuff, but it will get worse. We just got the 2 00 p. M. Update. It is a category 3 now, but minds at the center is 120 to 150. If we officially get land fall, it would be a category 3. It was a four in the keys, this would be a three now, im not going to pay too much attention to the category, because im still most concerned about the storm surge. The wind on tv that destroys stuff, it l