comfortable talking about abortion but want people to get help if they need it. texas state representative erin zweener, thank you so much for joining us bright and early on this saturday morning. we appreciate it. coming up in our 7:00 hour we ll be talking with alexis mcgill johnson. we re going to be checking on recovery efforts. scientists are calling this week s storm a once-in-a-500-year event. but the tornadic winds will be back. climate scientists explain. how delta fears are putting a wrench in labor day plans and what you can do to stay safe. o e with the oreo shake get some whipped cream on the top too two straws, one check,
it has been quite extraordinary here watching the winds and gusts come up 50-mile-an-hour. and the rain that s been hammering here. stephanie is here in tampa as well. give ussen sight on what you ve seen. reporter: right now it s sort of picking up a little bit here. as you can see it blew me off a little bit here. i was standing here to show you how much the wind and rain is coming through here. i m not sure if you re familiar with tampa, you can see that s a road that runs right along the highway and the water was all way up normally high. and early yesterday, you can see that water had receded and people were out there. in some ways it s almost a blessing coming through at night and that that water s beginning to return at night because people were so fas natding. it s just a reminder to people that that is dangerous because
concrete wall just below me. we are standing on the first floor of the hilton hotel here. i have to tell you, michael, no one here was expecting the wind to be this strong. they were not forecasted to necessarily get this high. as the worst of it, we re told we could get category 1 storm. and you think that those winds are low when you consider that it wasn t a 3 or 4 it may not. it is an incredibly amount of wind for a human being to stand up in. i m a strong big lady and it is definitely hard to stand straight up here because of the windshield. we ve already seen some damage here ndiaye toe that beach as we
street at the moment, they re worried about looting. there s a he was police presence rooming the street of miami because without electricity there aren t any alarms to keep the bildtings safe. especially with the mandatory evacuation. there is no security personnel on sight and no people. also concerned we were talking about city financials about, there s potential temporary gas leaks here. that have been significant gas leaks if different locations and unfortunately they can t turn the electiricity back on until these gas leeks are taken care of. that ll be days. a lot of the utility companies can t smell ore hear the gas leak because the winds are still so strong. i ve had the opportunity to interview the mayor of miami beach earlier this evening. this is what he had to say about irma s glancing blow to the
what sort of responses to the curfew? there s a curfew there and here, people have been told to stay in place until this is well over with. you re seeing it pretty quiet there i imagine. oh, yeah well there was a curfew enacted at 7:00 eastern time in orlando. everyone was asked to stay off the street. emergency vehicles were the only ones we were seeing but once the winds got to 65 miles per hour those emergency vehicles stopped responded to anything. that s when power outages were starting and people were taking warning and going inside and being in the hotel rooms and the shelters that they came to orlando for to escape the coast. but certainly it didn t take much for people to get a little scared. there were some, you know, brave, or i don t know not very smart people start driving when we saw wind gusts like this, hopefully they re okay. but other people have heeded the warning. all right, bryn thanks so