breaking news, tops the hour, it's all about irma, heading directly at miami, possibly as a category 5 hurricane. the storm, a strong category 5, showing signs in the latest update of growing stronger and the death toll in the islands in the path, is rising. it stands at ten, at least ten,

that we know b we learned of four deaths in the u.s. virgin islands, 1 on barbuda, where the destruction is wide-spread and nearly complete according to the prime minute ter. turks and caicos getting hit hard and as we said at the top, there's one new sign at least that hurricane irma is getting stronger. which is where we start the hour is with tom in the weather center. let's talk about what is the latest, tom? >> well, you would say 12 hours ago or so, we saw a 5 mile an hour drop from the sustained winds, but you cannot tell the difference, it's still a category 5 and we are well in to 60 hours now. and at the 8:00 p.m. hour, we saw a drop in the pressure. that means it's trying to get stronger. it takes the winds time to catch up to the pressure drop, so it's still firing on all cylinders. of course, when we talk about it, we have to talk about the watch that was issued today, if no one knows this, it's a brand

new hurricane watch, it will change to a warning which means conditions are imminent for a category, 3, 4, or 5 storm that is approaching. when we talk about the track. this is important. yesterday, we saw a shift, 60-70 miles. and now, it's shifted backward another 15 to 20. when we get in closer, what does it mean? let's talk about the models. there's several models. when you have the watch, and you have the model shifting off the coast, this is what a good, you know, 5-10 foot storm surgery will look like. it's wave after wave of water crashing in to the coast line, it could extend well inland possible over a mile. got to keep it in mind, the models the spaghetti plots are hugging the east coast. now this is a way of looking at the computer models. and of course, we want agreement and that's what we have had for a week now t european model

places it, making it's way in to key largo and up biscaine bay, yesterday at this time, the center of the model was east and off shore. much like hurricane matthew was just last year. as it skirted up the coast line. this is significant. because this puts the wind r-- radius over miami and the heavily populated areas. the yellow is tropical storm force winds and red is hurricane force, and white, catastrophic, that is what the models are hinting at. both the european, which in cases 50 computer models and the u.s., the gfs, in cases, 21. so you have 70 models agreeing. if we can, we would like to see it move out, like, again, like matthew, caused huge damage. flooding up in jacksonville. this is the best case scenario, and unfortunately, it does not

look like it's going to be the case, anderson. so, again, worst case scenario is what we are looking at right here and now. >> before we get to jose, do you have a sense of the timeline for people in miami, when they are going to start to feel, you know, increased winds and rain? and then, when they are really, you know, when they are going to feel them the most? >> well, when we look at the storm surge, it's a great way to get an idea of when we expect the waves to shove the water in to the coast line. right now, for miami, it's 5-10 feet. if you get in closer, you can get more of a timeline, as far as friday night should be off the coast of cuba, we are expecting saturday a turn northward. by sunday morning, it's putting it right off the keys. and then making landfall in the day on sunday, making its way northward on monday. it can still stay off the coast line. notice, it's hard to read. it's from the national hurricane

center. north miami beach, then you have north bay village and miami to the south. everything in blue is 1-3 feet of water. if you go south, you get more of the storm surge, the bright orange is 6-9 feet. that's why i was showing you the water level coming up. this does major damage. people think it's just the beaches, it's the dunes, it's not. it's well inland and yellow, 3-6 foot storm surge moving further in. >> and jose behind. we will check in with tom throughout the hour and ed rapoport with the storm center shortly as we get new information coming in. kay caicka kay -- heather and i spoke. you are stranded in a hotel in turks and kaicos, where are you

right now and are you safe? >> we are safe, we are actually -- they had several buildings on the property and we are actually located on the third floor in the caribbean building. >> i know you have your 11-month old child with you, how is he doing? >> he is doing very good. obviously, he doesn't know exactly what is going on. we have been trying to be positive and we have him asleep right now in a crib in the bathroom, where we think is the safest place for him to be and away from harm's way. >> what is it like trying to get off the island? >> it's been a little bit challenging. we started preparing several days before, knowing that it could potentially hit this area. we reached out to delta, multiple times via twitter, facebook, phone calling and we were unsuccessful. so, felt a little abandoned by the airline, not really knowing what they were going to do. still showing our airline -- our

flight that was scheduled for friday, was still on time. and then, we did get added to an earlier flight, which was an existing flight for thursday. still showing was on time and unfortunately the hotel, the resort here, has done a really good job with updating us and they informed us that the airport was closing wednesday at 6:00 p.m. local time here. so we did not get any information from delta and so we were unsuccessful in getting out and we at the time, don't know when we will be able to leave. we have not been updated from delta with any information. >> that hasur yewer -- infuriating to have the airline saying that you are good to go, and not informing you that the airport is shutting down. >> correct. we got notified through the hotel that they were going to be hosting a meeting for all of us still remaining which they said is 600 of us on property. they have done a great job with

preparing us and updating us with information. they were the ones that told us that the airport would be shutting down. so, we had no information from the airline whatsoever. >> what do you plan to do during the night? i spoke to the governor who said the worst of it is going to be essentially for the next several hours. >> yeah, we did hear the hurricane sirens already going off, the windows are vibe rating, the power has gone off and on, and i believe we are on generator right now, so, it is, it is quite scary. we have put -- the hotel and resort has given us information to prepare. we have put mattresses up against the windows. pillows, blankets and made sure water would not come in. we secured the doors and the blashes, we have done a lot of anything that we could to make everything secure. i don't know if we are going have a good sleep tonight. but we have done everything that we can. we filled the bath tub up with

water in case we run out of water. the resort has done a good job giving us food and water and we have done anything that we can since we know it's a very serious hurricane. >> i mean, the good news is the hoteli hotel itself is staying open so you can stay there? >> yes, they have been fantastic. they were still serving food to all of us until 5:30 this evening, which is just before the hurricane was still 40 miles away from us, and they have still been serving food and providing linens and water. so, they have really done, stepped up to the plate, highly excellent service for them. >> heather. i wish you and your family the best and everyone there, we will continue to check in with you in the days ahead, thank you. >> yeah, thank you so much. >> well, making sure that everyone needs to get out of the miami area does make it out quickly is one of the many responsibilities for the miami-dade mayor, carlos

jimenez. do you feel like people are taking this seriously or are you satisfied with what you are seeing? >> i'm satisfied with what i'm seeing, but again, there's going to be people that will not heed the warnings, and so, you know, that's all we can do. we can warn people. i'm satisfied with the preparations. i think people are taking the storm seriously. it is a very serious storm. and a very serious situation for us. so, you know, we are get everybody prepared, we have given 600,000people eevacuation ors yesterday and today, and hope ofly they will heed them. >> how easy it for people to evacuate. if somebody is trying to drive out or get a bus out, what is the traffic like moving north? i know there's only a few direct routes north. >> we don't mean you are evacuating miami-dade county, you are evacuating in to a friend's house, family, and we

have probably more than we have experienced in the past, people leaving miami dai-dade county. the police department in conjunction with the florida highway patrol is keeping the i-95 and the florida turnpike that are the two main ways north out of our county open as much as possible. and so, right now, we are not hear that we are experiencing problems with people leaving, but tomorrow is a different story. i think tomorrow as more people try to leave the area, not just here in south bay, and dade county, but throughout the state, that may be a problem. that's why we are telling our residents that if you are leaving, you better leave today. if you want to leave tomorrow, i think it's better for you to just stay in place, find a place, find a shelter to ride out of the storm. we don't want you to be stuck in the middle of the highway during a major hurricane. >> yeah, mayor gimenez, good luck to you and everyone else there. ahead, we will go live to the

florida keys where not everyone is following evacuation orders and the question is why not and the russian probe, donald trump, jr., talking to senate investigators and giving another version of his meeting at trump tower with all those russians. ♪

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any signs that it may be slowing down at all? >> the forecast track has been pretty spot on the last couple of days national hurricane center had it at a continuous speed and motion, it held that. it looks like it will begin to slow as it approaches southern florida before it makes that turn. but that's being forecasted by the national hurricane center through their products as well. >> what was your flight like? >> pretty intense. category 5 storms are rare. some of us could go our entire careers in the line of work without seeing one and flying through one. so, just immediately, as you start flying through the storm, you recognize the power of it, and you know you are flying through and it can be relatively smooth until you get to the eye

wall area, and that's what you start to get josteled around, you are obscure with cloud cover and rain, what is unique about the major hurricanes is, as soon as you hit the eye wall, and punch through it and it opens up in to the clear blue sky and calm winds. so, it's incredible. >> you talked about you could feel the power of the storm as you were flying through it. how do you feel that in an aircraft? >> well, one example is there's something that we call slip. and so, when you are flying through the storm, you know, you are trying fly in at a straight line, and but, you know, you are getting blown from the side so much, so, we have a slip. so we were at about 35 degrees slip. that means to maintain a constant heading, we had to be 35 degrees pointed the other direction. it's an example of how extremely strong the storm is. >> major, i appreciate all the

work you and everybody is doing right now, so, thank you so much for talking to us. >> okay. thank you. >> the governor of florida said under no uncertain terms if you are are in the florida keys get out now. not everyone is heeding that advice. bill is in key largo, you are on a boat and you met somebody who is not, not going to leave. is planning on riding out of the storm. >> not only going to leave the keys, but not going leave the boat. of all the places to ride out of the hurricane. imagine being on the sailboat called the salt shaker. it will be the storm shelter for a guy named rich cunningham. i have to ask you on behalf of america are you crazy? have you seen what is out there? >> we have seen what is out there. we just feel confident that it's going to do what it's projected to do, we have seen the latest models and we feel they are going to be far enough east of

us so that we can withstand that hit. we are looking at a back end wind pushing our boats out, instead of a front with the waves and the surge, and we feel we have done our work here. they are not just tied up boats. >> reporter: it's not just ropes and an anchor. it's 185 mile an hour winds. >> these boats are built to ride them out. >> reporter: you were explaining at this point, you have to make the calculation, do i risk the gas lines running out of gas, on the turnpike, all of these are calculations when from afar, it feels like get out of there? >> yes, we feel it's a smart play. we have a lot of friends and neighbors, there's 12-14 other boat owners that are full-time live aboarders that are here protecting their property and way of life, i'm here to lend a hand with them and they are here to do the same with me. >> reporter: this is known as ha hurricane hole, if things get

dicey, do you have somewhere to go? >> yeah, i mean, yeah, the final hour, it's crunch time, the bail out plan would be if it is that tight and the storm is route on top of us, we have the building here itself, the marina, we are welcome to hang and chill out here. >> reporter: that's made of wood, rich. that's your plan b? >> this is what is on the highest ground. prior to that, i mean, if it's looking just -- with the early bail out, we could just shoot -- head south, head to key west if the storm is going to skurt this way. not really too much of a plan of just going that direction. >> reporter: you are a new jersey guy,s that dream of yours. >> i am. >> reporter: talking to the old salts that have been living here forever, they talked about when andrew went through, these boats were fine. >> absolutely. sn sfwl >> reporter: it teams so me that it's such a crap shoot, why

leave if it's going to miss me. is that a fair rationalization? >> we are not saying it's going to miss us. we feel we will get a good kick on the storm. we just feel it's the smart play. we don't want to hit the road and there's no fuel. the truck broke down. anything could happen on the road. you are not calling aaa up on 95 south, you know, heading northbound on 95 and getting rescued during this hurricane. >> reporter: but you realize that as far as we talked to the coast guard and the sheriff's department, they say, you are on your own. >> absolutely you are on your own. these are things that i have heard down here from locals. they were saying that, oh, there's guaranteed going to be gas stations opened up on the florida turnpike, and -- >> reporter: i don't believe that? >> i don't believe it, other locals said, take it with a grain of salt, you are on your own out there. i totally believe that, if i'm going to be on my own, i will be on my own here on my boat. >> reporter: i hope i do not have to come back and do a

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a continuing question for millions of people, where in florida will hurricane irma hit and after that, when will hurricane jose. ed, first of all, i want to go back to something, i think you said in the last hour, did you say it's very possible that the entire statute of florida could see hurricane winds, has it ever happened before? >> i don't have the statistics in front of me, but we do have a previous track that is similar to what we are forecasting for irma that was back in 1960, which was hurricane donna, caused massive destruction up the peninsula, category 4, we are expecting irma to be 4, maybe 5 when it comes ashore. >> what do you make of the guy that was in the keys saying he

will ride it out on his boat? >> i was surprised and disappointed to hear that. if the hurricane comes ashore, not far from where they are, at the intensity that we are seeing, his chances and the chances of the other dozen people he mentioned to survive are low. you do not want to be in a boat with 150 plus mile an hour winds with a 5-10 foot storm surge in 20 feet waves. he said we will leave, we have an hour. we are talking about tropical storm force winds for 36 hours and hurricane force winds for ten hours, you cannot go anywhere once they start. if i cannot convince them to leave, i want to tell everyone else that has not left, to evacuate now. >> you are talking about hurricane force winds for ten ours? >> yes, we can do the math, the storm will be moving at ten miles per hour, and it's going to be about 100 miles across in terms of hurricane force winds.

that gives you ten hours of hurricane force winds and within that, you will get the winds as high as category, 3, 4, and maybe 5. >> tom, what is your biggest concern at this point about irma? >> besides the guy that bill interviewed, yeah. that's a great question, anderson, you know what is different about the storm, with harvey, harvey after landfall, we knew after that devastation, it was all about rainfall. we knew that we could watch the historic rain drop and watch the rivers rise, with this one, it's the you know unknown, as it makes its way south to north across the state of florida, what we will see, why one may be saved and another demolished and how they get saved to the south where they need it, and who may need it. i think the unno one, it will be something for the books. so, besides that, do you mind if i ask ed a question? >> sure. yeah. >> ed, we have been throwing it around in the severe weather center here at cnn all day long,

when andrew made land fall 25 years ago, it in from the west and slammed in at a perpendicular angle. what is the thinking behind irma coming up from the south on its spin and maybe, is it the curveature of the southern coast of florida, why only 5-10 feet right now? >> well, we have to, pardon me, you have to remember we are using a different threshold back then. we were using storm surge with a different boundary, now we are talking about above ground level had, we started using that a few years ago. we cannot really compare the two. 5-10 feet above ground level will be at the shore line, plus the waves on top. there's a difference of course between andrew and the storm and that is as you said, andrew affected one county very significantly but this will affect perhaps all the florida peninsula. those who were in broward county, who went through andrew,

they did not have more than tropical storm force winds. in this case, they can have category, 2, 3, and 4. >> and ed, for those in the area where the eye passes over, how much, do you know, general things are calmer when the eye is passing over. how long will people experience the eye for? >> depending again, on if they are through the middle of it and we are talking about them being at 10 miles an hour. the problem is -- so, this is not something you can put off and say, well, we will ride it out here, you can't do. that you have to be in a well fo fortified structure. >> i was stuck in a three-day h hurricane in saint bards.

i realized that i could not get out, it was just the eye. >> it's not as strong, and it came ashore, the people went outside and went down to the water when the eye came over, and then the winds came in and the storm surge came in and we lost many people because they were not aware of that backside. >> good thing to keep in mind. ed, thank you, tom, thank you as well. it's one thing to see video of a category 5 hurricane, but another to try to stand. tell us about it, explain what you did, randi. >> well, anderson, we are out covering -- getting through those, i did it in a safer way, i went to have a tech university where they have a wind tunnel, they will crank the winds up to 190 miles an hour. we didn't go that high, but it

was pretty tough to take, here's a look. i'm all attached to these cables and i'm in a harness for safety. we are going see here, i'm going to see personally what it's like to battle those winds, experience a tropical storm force winds, we are going start to crank the winds up now, then we are going try to reach category 1, 2, and maybe a 3. we will see, at some point though the winds will get so high, that you are not going to be able to hear me speak, because i will not be able to speak. and those that head up the wind tunnel facility will start to give you a bit more of the narration of what i'm going through. i'm just going to hang on and see how long i can keep talking to you. your mouth gets pretty dry, i can feel my jeans are already flapping a bit at the bottom. i'm going to sit back and hold on, the wind can be so strong against your chest, that at some point it's going to feel like you can can't breathe.

i feel like right now, like the wind is going up my jeans, it's getting a lot stronger. the next thing we will hit will be a category 1, that will be about 80 miles per hour. i'm just going to sort of put my head down in to it. it's real loud in here too. so, i'm going to stop talking. >> so, with him, obviously, randy is in strong winds now. what category is she at? >> she just hit category 1. >> so, just to be clear, the wind speed that she is experiencing right now. >> right now, we are just passing through 80 miles an hour. >> so, somebody is there on the ground feeling these kind of winds, what is going on? >> they are holding on for dear life. the force on randy right now is up to 150 pounds and it's hard to stand up if in that -- with that kind of pressure on you. if she was not wearing a harness? >> she'd not be able to stay

still unless she were to lie down. >> i see we have a tablet that we are still monitoring it. where is she at now? >> 115 miles an hour. she has reached category three. >> category 3? >> the force on her body is 220 pounds. >> so can anyone at this point stand? >> you would have to be in a very low crouch and you would have to be very strong. >> what did it feel like? >> well, anderson we got up in tend before it was over to 123 miles per hour, and it was really hard, you saw me probably shake my head at the end, that was any signal to bring it down. my cheeks were flapping the skin on my neck was vibrating and the skun -- and the skin on my arms was flapping. it was hard to breathe, i was able to lean in to chains so that took the weight off the

chest. it felt like there was a brick on your chest or you were up against a brick wall, it was hard to breathe out and it was loud in there. i had ear plug hads in. and it got really cold, it got in the low 50s once the wind kicked up. it was tough and i will tell you the speeds as you know, they are no joke, anderson. >> and that's not up to cat 4, cat 5, more ahead, including the head of emergency management in the bahamas and what they are doing to save lives and the russia probe, what investigators want to know about donald trump, jr.'s meeting with a russian lobbyi lobbyists, he answered questions on that today, details ahead a basketball costs $14. what's team spirit worth? (cheers) what's it worth to talk to your mom? what's the value of a walk in the woods? the value of capital is to create, not just wealth, but things that matter.

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together, we're building a better california. . we are going to have more on hurricane irma coming up. we have a lot of news in the multiple russian investigations, first, sources tell cnn that staffs were told that he could not remember details about the white house's response, revelations about his meetings

with russians at trump tower last summer. those same sources say that trump, jr., insisted that he never told his father about the meeting. i talked about all of that testimony. but first, we are reporting about the special council's investigation. cnn sources say that robert mueller is interested in the white house's response in the trump tower meeting. especially how the misleading air force 1 statement was put together. what are you learning about the move by the special council? >> well, anderson, we have learned that special council, robert mueller has reached out seeking interviews with white house staffers that were aboard air force one when the trump tower meeting stau ining statem crafted and it omitted the key fact that he was promised incriminating information about hillary clinton. it's said that president trump was involved in the crafting of the statement, as well as an

a.d -- as well as an aide and now, mueller wants to talk to that aide, they are interest in the response to the trump tower meeting. mueller wants to know had how the statement aboard air force one was put together, whether information was intentionally left out and who was involved. >> do we know if mueller has asked to interview the president himself or is that something they would ask? >> our sources are saying, he has not put in the request to interview the president. of course, that could happen, typically in investigations with lower level people and staffers, you build your way up, and we are told this is an investigation that could last months or even years anderson. >> what more do we know about the meeting today that donald trump, jr., had with the senate judicia a judiciary staff? >> he met with them for five hours today and we learned from

sources that he told them that he did not recall the involvement, the extent of the involvement the white house had with the initial misleading statement that i just referred to. it's the same statement that his own father helped to craft aboard air force one and the statement that was released in his name and he maintained that he did not tell his father about the russian meeting before and after it happened and he said in the opening statement that he agreed to take the meeting because he was interested in any information that would raise questions about hillary clinton's fitness to be president and claims if any incriminating information was handed over, he would have consulted council. now, some say that after this, that his answers raise more questions than answers and they are pushing for an open public hearing with him. we will have to see if it happens. anderson. >> it's interesting that he does not remember any white house involvement or the level of white house involvement. it was a short time ago. thank you for that. >> senator richard bloomenthal, i spoke with him.

was donald trump, jr., forthcoming today? >> the interview today left as many questions unanswered as it did answered. in fact, it raised more questions than it answered. there were huge, gaping holes of information that we need to fill and we are determined to fill it by having him come back, under oath in public at least i will urge that it be done by subpoena if necessary. and other witnesses also that may have knowledge about various areas where he was perhaps less forthcoming than we would want. >> it seems like one of the things that he claimed not to remember was involvement by the white house in the crafting of the initial staumt about the meeting. is that correct? >> the air force one staumt is very, very important about that june 9th meeting and the cnn reporting today, about mueller

asking questions of white house staff is highly significant. and as in other areas, of his testimony today today -- today, he left as many questions as he did answers and we will need to pursue the answers by subpoena if necessary. relating to not only testimony, but also other documents that may help us get answers. >> do you think he opened himself up to any legal exposure? your colleague put out a memo after the hearing that detailed the penalties of perjury. >> the question of possible perjury that prohibit material false statements to a congressional committee is relevant here. i'm not prejudging and not talking about specifics of his testimony. but it's something that we will have in my mind as we go through the transcript. >> in his prepared statement, donald trump, jr., said he wanted to take the meeting to learn about the "fitness, character or qualifications of

hillary clinton" and he believed that he should hear them out. which had -- which is really a complete other version of the story as to why he took the meeting. as you know, it was initially said that it was about adoptions. >> the accounts or explanation of this june 9th meeting has changed and evolved over time. but the plain fact is, that the principal e-mail, leading to the meeting, led donald trump, jr., to think he would receive incriminating evidence. in other words, dirt about hillary clinton. to which he responded love it. now, that's the lead to the meeting. and we still are unclear about who said what to whom, and what followed the meeting, equally important, whether there were additional meetings or other e-mails and that is why additional testimony is necessary by him and by others,

everyone at that meeting, and also others in the trump campaign. >> i mean, the other thing that i have always been confused about the meeting, in the e-mail that was sent to donald trump, jr., it complains that the russian government is backing his father campaign, there's no sense of surprise from donald trump, jr., on that. or even a, wait a minute what are you talking about, it's new information to me. is it, i guess, i mean, can you say if that was -- i assume that was raised today, the question of course is did he tell his father what he had learned from this meeting that the russian government was backing his campaign? because it's hard to imagine that he would not have said that to his father. >> that's a central question, anders anderson, and it remains in my view, unanswered. that's why we will need to hear from donald trump and it should be in public and under oath and the american people can judge his credibility in that forum as

can all of us. and also, people in the white house who now, bob mueller, the special council is also investigating or at least interviewing in a separate investigation. it is separate from ours. but we are making efforts to avoid any conflict with him. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. >> well, when we come back, the latest on the hurricane irma, potentially on the way to a direct hit on miami, how the bahamas are preparing for the worst, next. the reason i'm telling you this is that there will be moments in your life that... you'll never be ready for. your little girl getting married being one of them. ♪ ♪

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low populations and have been evacuated. the danger has not passed. irma is racing toward the bah a baham bahamas, as we speak, do you feel your country is prepared for the storm? >> yes, we are prepared as best as we can under the circumstances for category 5 storm approaching. we are monitoring the storm for the three or four days. based that we evacuated some people from islands. >> you said this is the largest evacuation in your history. do you know how many are in shelters? >> probably as much as 170 persons in shelters. all the others were able to link up with family members or loved ones in the province. so that's a good sign. >> i understand the

international airport is shutting down tonight. what is your advice at this point for anyone in the bahamas, right now? >> like we've done in the past, urging all people, the bahamas, whether visitors, residents who are in the bahamas at this time. to find a way to safeguard themselves. find a safe place, a safe shelter. if you're living in a low-lying area, try to find yourself some area that is clear that you can be safe. if you're not comfortable of the integrity of your home, find a suitable location to move to, move from along the coast and get into interior lands as best you can. >> what sort of storm surge are you anticipating, do you know? >> we're category 5 storm.

we're anticipating surge ranging from 20 to 25 feet in certain areas as the storm passes. example, greater nagua. they can expect surge up to 20 feet of water based on the strength of the storm. but water would not settle. it eventually runs off. the destructive force of a 25-foot surge is our greatest concern. that can really cause catastrophic results. >> and in terms of supplies, gasoline, access to gas, water, food, for people in the aftermath, how are you situated? >> again, like i said, as long as new providence, the capital, is well, we can survive like we normally do. we have a series of freight boats that transport supplies on a weekly basis. we have a series of shipping

companies, florida, to bring supplies to new providence. again, that all -- florida impacted as well. we service those islands that will be impacted as a result of a storm. >> captain russell, we wish you the best in the hours ahead. thank you very much. >> thank you, too. >> the last thing we want to think about, another hurricane. category 3 hurricane jose making its way behind irma. this wouldn't be the first time major hurricanes hit the united states one after another. we'll take a look at that next.

adds florida braces for what's looking like could be a direct hit from hurricane irma, it's the last thing anyone, of course, wants to think about but hurricane jose is right behind it. two massive storms close together would be devastating, but not, however, unprecedented. right now, irma's a cat 5. it's been 25 years since a cat 5 hurricane hit the u.s. randi kaye has more. >> reporter: september 2nd, 1935, the great labor day hurricane hits the florida keys. packing sustained winds of 185 miles per hour, the tightly-wound storm brings with it a storm surge nearly 20 feet above sea level. the hurricane kills more than 400 people and leaves a path of destruction 40 miles wide. another powerful cat 5 storm hits mississippi decades later,

august, 1969. hurricane camille has 190 mile per hour sustained winds. the highest winds ever recorded for a hurricane making landfall in the u.s. it demolishes waveland, mississippi, and chews through nearly all of coastal mississippi. all told, camille kills 259 people. august 1992, another category 5 storm. hurricane andrew barrels into south florida. andrew is the last cat 5 to hit the united states. it's been 25 years. >> it's destroyed. we were there during the hurricane. the children are terrified. having nightmares. the whole house, the roof was caving in. >> reporter: after its intense winds caused catastrophic damage in southern florida, including the destruction of about 127,000 homes, hurricane andrew moves on to louisiana. andrew takes the lives of 26 people. years pass before florida is in the bull's-eye again and it

stays there. in 2004, the sunshine state is walloped by three back-to-back storms. >> she's devastating, you know, it's just -- you know, you never expect this at all. >> reporter: the first is hurricane charlie in august 2004. it makes a last-minute curve to the right, sparing tampa, and smacking port charlotte and punta gorda leveling both communities. before it's over, the category 4 storm kills 15 and causes $15 billion in damage. before residents even have time to catch their breath, a few weeks later, hurricane francis slams into florida's east coast as a category 2 storm. six people in the u.s. are killed. then only three weeks later, hurricane gene. >> worse than the first time, a double whammy. >> reporter: gene makes landfall near stuart, florida, at virtually the same spot that francis had come ashore.

in august 2005, a powerful category 3 hurricane named katrina slams into the gulf coast, paralyzing southern louisiana and parts of mississippi. the massive storm floods communities and destroys entire neighborhoods. katrina causes more than $100 billion in damage and kills more than 1,800 people. just weeks later, louisiana is hit again, along with texas, as hurricane rita, a category 3 storm, makes landfall. after witnessing katrina, millions flee to escape rita. one of the largest evacuations in history. still, the storm devastates coastal communities with a 15-foot storm surge wiping out some areaareas. now with irma roaring through the atlantic and hurricane jose behind it, millions are left wondering if they could be next.

randi kaye, cnn, miami. >> lot to watch for. hurricane coverage continues throughout the night, of course. time now to hand things over to don lemon and "cnn tonight." this is cnn breaking news. >> our breaking news, tracking a killer storm. monster hurricane irma heading for a direct hit on florida. this is "cnn tonight." i'm don lemon. millions of people running for their lives in a mass exodus ahead of a storm the size of texas. irma slamming turks and caicos tonight. miami right in the path of a storm so large and so powerful officia officials' advice comes down to this, get out of the way. warnings of life-threatening storm surge, and wind impacts. look at the scene in turks and caicos.