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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20170910:02:02:00

hurricane strength. here comes irma. kirby is now in effect for miami and all of broward county including the fort lauderdale. the number of power outages are growing by the minute. irma is just kissing the east side of florida and more than a hundred 19 homes and businesses are without electricity in florida so far. the winds are just getting started. more than 6 million people have been ordered to evacuate statewide. most major airports are closed. we have box coverage for you. let s begin with mike in tampa. one of those places that wasn t expecting to evacuate. mike, the governor said the last time a major hurricane hit tampa had about 10000 people in it and now there are 3 million. reporter: right.

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20170910:02:36:00

change the curfews. you see the center of circulation with the storm and you get on the east side of the state and there is a little less going on because of this more westerly track. you will see these curfews be more strict on the west side of the state as compared to the state of the state. harris: everyone is talking storm surge. when we bring you later in the hour two things will happen. we will get a top of the hour, adam, i know that first bowl and several hours update on where this thing is going and i think you ll better tell us about the storm surge to. adam: yes, i ve been working on storm surge things. i will have it. harris: thank you very much. you are hearing that tampa has not yet taken a direct hit from a major hurricane in nearly one century. tonight they are bracing for the worst. i busy, some of the worst has been done by irma as she starts to move in and kiss that east coast and move over to the west coast of the state. tampa mayor is with us.

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20170910:02:17:00

it look like the i will be more halfway between us and key west. it is still close enough to this part of the keys to do some significant damage. harris: all right. this is just crossing on the associate press wires. national weather service now says officially the first hurricane windows have been recorded in the florida keys. irma is inching closer. adam, not only are you describing what they are describing but now it is official. a hurricane is in the keys. adam: harris, it started about 10:00 o clock this morning and we been out of power here for about 12 hours. you can still see pockets of power in certain parts of the northern key islands. as the date grew on you can see that gradual building and this is my tenth hurricane so we have some history of doing these things but you can see a build and you can hear the sound. the only way to describe someone who hasn t been in a hurricane it sounds like there is a jet

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20170910:02:12:00

that is a great question. thanks for pointing out that in puerto rico and the virgin islands irma has already struck and it s been destructive and deadly force. the coast guard has been now in our third day of response operations in puerto rico and the virgin islands and in the virgin islands, particularly ste me, st. thomas and st. john, there was loss of life and significant damage in the coast guard in addition to forming search and rescue missions has also been working very hard to get the ports of puerto rico and the virgin islands open again for critical commodities such as fuel and food but also for the ferry system there that can move first responders and immediate supplies from one place to another. as for the evacuation question, there were a number of americans numbering over 1000 on the island of saint maarten which is a dutch territory and the department of state together with the dutch government and the department of defense has begun the process of evacuating people f

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20170910:02:23:15

Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20170910:02:23:15
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