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Put the plywood on. at this point in time we kind of secure everything as best we possibly can, furniture inside the rooms. keep any flying debris secure. and hope for the best. we have insurance. and reporter: i am hoping and praying for you guys, gregg, and evacuation orders were mandatory here on barrier island. please make that decision, quickly. thank you so much. reporter: history is on their side. there hasn t been anything higher than a cat 1 according to local authorities that s ever made landfall here since they ve been keeping hurricane records but again dorian has just been so unpredictable that everyone here hopes that it sticks with what the history books have said and, you know, holding their breath and making those final decisions in these critical last couple of hours before the weather turns. yasmine? i want to give people context if you re looking at a map here as we are seeing on our weather wall here in studio, mariana, ....
And when the storm clears out, another blast of winter is right behind it. abc s senior meteorologist rob marciano at the weather wall in new york. rob, good evening. reporter: good evening, tom. the air behind this current system is cold enough to bring us lake-enhanced snow showers in the month of april. big winds, as well, doiwell, doi and delaying flights across the east. high wind warnings up until after midnight and freeze warnings across the mid-south. look at the numbers in the morning. wind chills from the teens to 20s. from chicago to pittsburgh to new york city. certainly cold enough to sustain snow, and another snowmaker that will ride across the great lakes and get into upstate new york by friday morning. another system potentially bringing snow as far as d.c. on saturday. tom? still so much snow. we ll stay tracking those storms. okay, rob, thank you. and across the country today, those tributes to the reverend martin luther king jr., marking one of america s darkes ....
Saturated, not that it was going to soak in at all any way, but the surge coming we ll see this rain that is now going to mix with the saltwater just continue to make the flooding worse. reporter: let me interrupt you for one second. do me a favor. keep talking people through about what s going to happen next. i m going to go down to the street level so we can figure out, you know, what this means and i can get a better set of eyes for you on the road. dave s going to keep giving you the shot. i ll be out of it for a second. i ll be right back in a minute, okay. fair enough. here s what i would like to show you, for any one who s still in naples. let s come back to the weather wall here on camera one. all of a sudden the spike from the naples tidal gauge is here, the spike that we anticipated for the entire day has now arrived. it s because the eye wall itself has gone by all of the forces of the wind that pushing the water out, all those forces are now gone and so therefore, the ....
This is a deadly storm. and our state has never seen anything like it. all right. that warning was issued this morning from governor rick scott of florida as hurricane irma barrels toward south florida where it is expected to make landfall in less than 24 hours. the storm is now pummelling the north coast of cuba, after arriving overnight with winds up to 155 miles an hour and ten-foot high storm surges. irma s already cut a path of destruction through the caribbean where so far it s claimed the lives of 23 people. we re expecting a new update on the hurricane very shortly. i want to bring in wnbc meteorologist rafael miranda. yeah, we re awaiting that in minutes. i want to take you to the weather wall and what we re looking at. as of 8:00 a.m. it was a category 4 storm, but we ve seen a lot of weakening going on this ....
Grip. many cities seeing single digit temperatures days the snowstorm clobbered the northeast and mid-atlantic. look at louisville. these are current wind chill temperatures. minus three in louisville. they have enough problems. do you have internet in louisville? see what happened in alaska? just asking. chicago, minus eight. beautiful low, minus four, four in new york city. i ve been looking at rick s ten-day forecast. we re above 32 degrees before super bowl sunday. it s everywhere. feels like it is in the minus 20s around the dakotas. school districts canselling classes because even for minnesota it was just too cold. rick is on the weather wall which looks just too cold. ....