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during the day, sending many people on florida's gulf coasts to emergency shelters. almost 200,000 customers now without power. it could be many hundreds of thousands more in the days ahead. the governor pleading with everyone to still evacuate while they still can. >> if you have been ordered to evacuate you need to leave now. this is your last chance to make a good decision. evacuations are in place in areas across the state. more than 6.5 million floridians have been ordered to evacuate. now is the time to do the right thing for your family. >> all right, get that number, 6.5 million people in florida have been told to evacuate, it's a staggering number, isn't it, tens of millions are currently around hurricane watch. karen mcginnis is joining us

now. tell us about this new track the latest information we got in the last hour or two and where it's headed. >> well, one thing you can say about irma, you can say about every hurricane, they're fickle. if you remember about a week ago we're looking at miami, miami seemed to be the focus of where the computer models, the european the north american model was kind of aiming it then as we went along it kept shifting. lot of dynamics take place with hurricanes and now an interesting dynamic has occurred. the latest information right here, the eye has really gone through an eye wall replacement cycle. it's looking tighter now that's pulled away from the coast of cuba. by the way, you can only imagine what happened when this was a category 4, made land fall as a 5. became a category 4. what kind of damage must be seen

there. it looks like the florida keys are going to be battered for hours. it's still 90 miles per hour. we have this great vulnerability and it's looking very impressive on the satellite imagery by the next advisory we may see this creep back up to a stronger hurricane. there's a lot to be said. numerous power outages reported across the keys, particularly key west. the storm surge but let's zoom in across the region here are the florida keys, essentially the everglades. we go up toward marco island and naples florida, we can zoom in and show you marco island, it's beautiful, gorgeous, but there are all of these limit inlets in here. if we're looking at a storm surge of let's say, conservatively, 15 feet, could be 18 feet, we're looking all

this beauty going under water. this is a very fragile ecosystem across this region as well. let's go toward naples and cape coral, you can see the different inlets across this region as well. and still we go to our graphic here and give us an indication that sanibel island, captiva, many visitors there, can be expected to be under water. with 15-foot storm surge. they'll be repeatedly battered, in the worst possible zone of this hurricane. other the next 24 hours. where do we expect landfall? let's go up a little bit further. we zoom in across cape coral, here we go, we're looking at the regi region right around punta gorda.

if that storm surge is in your home, that's major devastation. let's zoom out a little bit more, go up the coast. here's tampa and here's st. pete, here's that waterway, an additional 15 feet of water possible across he region. this jutes out a little bit. this has already moved toward the northwest just slightly. we're looking at being battered by that upper right quadrant that's where we see the potential for very high winds, the potential for tornadoes. already i saw fisher island, 57 mile an hour wind gust. key biscayne, 65 mile per hour wind gust. if you shifted from the east coast of florida to the west coast of florida thinking you're safe there, we know now the coast is very vulnerable.

this hurricane is 90 miles away from the florida keys. still this great impact. when do we anticipate landfall? it looks like it may just hug around the coast it could possibly not make landfall until about midnight tomorrow night possibly around naples could be sarasota. probably sarasota or perhaps further north. we'll have to keep looking at it. michael, back to you. >> yeah, karen mcginnis, thanks so much. last hour with spoke with the mayors of both pa naples and tampa both worried about this latest track what it could mean for storm surges in their towns and cities. we got more of our breaking coverage of hurricane irma coming up, as the storm closes in on florida. miami beach continues to fill

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very warm welcome back, you're afternoon withing cnn's continuing coverage of hurricane irma. i'm isa soares coming to you live from miami. now south of florida is already starting to fill the impact of hurricane irma. the changes in the path of ij packet has been quite drastic. our correspondents throughout south florida have been seeing it and feeling it first hand. take a look at this. >> cnn is everywhere this storm is expected to be. we're here in downtown miami, we're still about half an hour

or so from high tide. >> starting this evening they anticipate the storm surge. two of me at the height of me -- we could see a wall of water come across. that's something they're very concerned about it. >> a sign of what you're in for. maybe even stronger and b even very soon. one of those outer bands from hurricane irma hitting miami right now. >> people who may have gone to miami for their inland are going to come back to the beach because we're right near the ocean. the storm surge is still in zmrekt hurricane irma has take than turn to the north-northwest which means the winds and rains we're feeling will continue to tomorrow. 12k34r right now, just like that, it's totally closed out. the rain is coming vertical and

horizontal if you can tell, john. >> with the track changing, with the forecast showing it's showing all west they don't want people to become overconfident and think they can come back to miami beach. >> as the night goes on and the winds and the rains pick up, very dangerous to be moving about. officials say, if you made the decision stay, hunker down, be careful, be safe, make good decisions. >> please stay safe and stay with cnn. >> as you just saw there from our correspondents it's so deceptive, the weather can change so quickly so it's important not to be complacent as they were pointing out there. we know miami beach area is under curfew from 8:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m. on the phone now with jimmy morales, city manager for miami beach. jimmy, thank you very much for

taking your time to speak with us this morning. >> my pleasure. >> are people abiding by that curfew. >> most people are. people are abiding. we're making sure the beaches are clear the streets are very clear. always one or two people who come out. by and large people are respectful and they're smart enough to realize you want to stay out of the elements right now. >> what is the biggest challenge, now, for you, jimmy, would you say. >> well, you were talking about the complacency issue. the biggest challenge when you're xenlting a potentially category 4 storm, but a strong tropical storm with hurricane gusts people think it's okay to go out and come back to the city, come back too early, there's still threats out there, there's still storm surge, power outages, potential flooding, tornadoes that get spun off by these storms.

maybe the worst avoided us, but there are still dangers out there, hunker down. >> absolutely there are so many elements at play. you pointed out the curfew is in place to really protect everyone. important they abide by those rules and heed that advice. jimmy, when you look -- let's look ahead if we can after hurricane irma hit what's the game plan? what's the strategy from your perspective? >> well first thing we do, we have strike units of fire and police works, they clear roadways, main arteries so that folks can move around. make sure that our key facilities, fire stations, hospitals, applicatipolice stat

accessible. then we begin assess the damage to public facilities and homes in that process. obviously, we're a strong tourist economy. we want to try and help that hospitality industry get back up as quickly as possible. those are important jobs in the area. try to get back to normal as quickly as possible. hopefully there won't be any recovery or rescue issues. we'll have to assess that as well. mostly cleanup and resuming trying to get the economy going back quickly. kids back in school as soon as the schools are clear. one critical element after a hurricane, our building inspector will send out inspector inspectors to make sure builds are safe. so, there's a lot of work to do

even when we have a near-miss hurricane potentially. still a lot of work to be done before we can give the all-clear. before it's time to go back to the status quo. >> on your on earlier point on complacency for those people still dithering, still undecided on what to do, what do you say to them? >> well, at this point, it's too late to evacuate. we'll be getting probably the strongest of our tropical storm winds rooifing in the next couple of hours and they'll be here until, you know, much of tomorrow. at this point, bunker down, stay at home. wherever you are. stay alert to the communications and notices that are being put out there. again, even though we're going to get cat 1 or cat 2 forces, we're going to have strong winds, downed power lines,

flooding. so, again, until -- i would say folks please stay where you are until you get the all clear from us and allow us to go out and assess, because anything can be a danger, downed power lines. structures that have been compromised by the winds and the water. you know, no matter how safe someone thinks they are now until they get an all-clear they need to stay where they are and protect themselves and their families. >> absolutely, there could be so much debris as well. jimmy morales, appreciate you taking your time. do keep us posted and come back to us in the hours ahead to see how you're doing. thanks, jimmy. there are so many elements to think about not just the loss of really of power but also the

rain the wind, we're covering this story from all angles. you're watching cnn's continuing coverage of hurricane irma.

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and welcome back to orlando, florida as we continue our coverage of hurricane irma. miguel marquez joins us now from pen that gorda on more's west coast. bring us up to date on what's happening there. i know there's been a lot of people that have gotten out of dodge. but what's the situation? >> reporter: the winds are growing stronger, the rain the coming down harder. it's just increasing every moment toward when the main brunt of that storm will get here. this is an area that is very very sensitive to these hurricane. 13 years ago, hurricane charley came through here, much smaller storm and it almost leveled this town. the path that irma is on takes it to a similar route of charley. just west of pin that gorda, on

the dirty side essentially where all the water and wind will come in creating a storm surge through here, basically a giant wave that will wash through much of this county and wash back out. that's what they are larger concerned with. they only have the ability to build three shelters here because so much of it is low lying. all the shelters are jammed packed, they can't take any more people so they've arranged with sarasota county to take their residence there. there are four shelters open in sarasota county for people from here. if people are desperate for people when they show up for gas, the gas stations here, there is no gas left. we went but several gas stations, wen online talked to people, there's no gas to be had. you pull up in one of these gas

stations and have a discussion and people think there's gas there and people pull up in minutes, and there's a nice discussion of where you can find gas and there's no gas to be held. in the event people come to a shelter without gas elderly they'll take them. all the hatches are bent down. now it's just a matter of waiting out the storm and seeing how we do. back to you. >> yeah, hunker down. miguel thanks so much. that is all we have time for this hour, i'm michael holmes live in orlando, florida. >> and i'm isa soares coming to you live from los angeles. we'll have a lot more stay right here with cnn. ♪ we are not here to observe,

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. hello and welcome to our viewers all around the world i'm michael holmes living in orlando, florida where there is a little wind, a little rain but the main bring of this storm won't hit here, orlando for another 24 hours or so. >> and i'm isa soares coming to you live from miami, it is 1:00 here on the east coast. michael, like you were saying the wind has slightly started to pick up. the rain has come and gone and this is all very deceptive because it changes so quickly. this is just the beginning of things to come.

>> all right thanks isa. let's get to cnn's meteorologist karen mcginnis. tell us about irma's latest track, where it's headed and what you know. >> we have so many things to tell you. first of all, its position puts it 80 miles to the south southeast of key west. it has slowed down. we watched it march across the atlantic and it was moving towards the west just about 18 miles an hour, that was probably at its peek. then we noticed as it approached the islands and into the turks and cay kos this started slowing down a bit more. yesterday we were looking at it about 12 miles per hour, now look at what it is, the latest update from the hurricane center has it moving at 6 miles per hour. the slower it moves the best cans we're going to see it in crease in intensity. water temperature here is from about 85 to close to 90 degrees, perfection combination.

there's nothing that's going to sheer it, you got that warm water. it is bumping up against the southern florida peninsula and the coast of cuba. we can only imagine what happens along the coast of cuba but it is a strong category 3. our next update from the national hurricane center comes about 2:00, so we'll have some idea. my guest is it's right on the edge of becoming once again a category 4. there's a slight jog to the north with that eye. there is something that we watch, even though the overall trend is to the northwest, i as the word protobase. that just means like a little jog, nothing's ever going to be in a straight line. they take maneuvers as it's acting with different land mines

and currents. in the red shaded area, the entire peninsula of florida even over as tallahassee there are hurricane warnings. the impact, even though we're along the east coast a lot of people say, oh we're not staying here to miami in this area we're going to move to the west coast, and now the beg threat is to the west coast, miami is seeing a wind gust of 53 miles per hour. there's wind gust on fisher island that has winds 57 miles per hour. ft. lauderdale, 40 miles per hour, at kind dendal almost 60-mile-per-hour winds. tropical storm out. i know this area like the back of my hand. for atlanta there are tropical storm watches out, they've

already canceled the public schools. all right, maybe we can see this if you zoom in a little bit dennis. there has been an eye wall replacement cycle, what does that mean. well, it's as if it's trying to reorganize, it's going to be gaining some strength, it's not interacting with the coastal areas, where you see this red shaded box, this is our tornado watch, because this is where we really see the strong dynamics for tornado activity and indeed over the last 12 hours or so we see these, strong bans that start to move across. they have lots of lightning and twist in the spheatmosphere. it's very moist and unstable so we can see these fire up easily. all right, once again dennis must you can zoom in on this, there is that slight jog to the north. what does that tell us? it's just really hard to say

because we know just how fickle irma has been. i want to show you one other thing before my time is up here. this is a storm surge where you see the red, zoom in and all the way from the florida keys, the highest point is about 12 feet of sea level. you can see a storm surge of 5 to 10 feet, it'll be underwater, marco island. all these areas could be inundated with 10-15 feet of water. this is an estimate at this point. then as we go up the coast towards port charlotte this beautiful area where a lot of these inlets, santa bell, capetillo va those are areas that could be 15 feet storm surge. possible landfall going into midnight tomorrow. a very different scenario but in an hour another update. michael. >> look forward to that.

karen mcginnis in atlanta. let's take you back to miami, florida now where isa soares is keeping an eye on things. isa. >> reporter: thank you very much michael. just listening to what karen said there, 10, 15 feet of the surge is so hard to imagine, to visualize that. but karen putting it all into perspective from us. what we just heard from karen there's a shift going from event northwest and the city of naples is along that route and that's where we find ed. ed, give us a sense of what is happening where you are, in particular on the weather front. >> reporter: well, you know it's interesting we haven't experienced much of a hurricane irma just yet. the winds very manageable, slight drizzles if you will, nothing terribly dramatic as of yet. clearly that is going to change and will change in the overnight early morning hours where you'll

begin to see the initial outer bans began to strike here in naples. because of that you have seen emergency responders here in callier county which has a population, a little more than 300,000 people, really taking those here late in the afternoon and evening hours taking the last minute precautions and preparations getting ready for this storm. in fact we were on marco island, home to about 16,000 people. we met up with the police chief there as he was about to make his final rounds before going inside an emergency shelters, that's where police and firefighters will be staying on the island, ze ployed in various locations, high ground locations ready to respond to any rescues. talking with the various officials here throughout the day, a number of people, they feel very confident saying that

they believe that the vast majority of people from this county and this area heeded those warnings and evacuated. not just today but earlier in the week as well, even when hurricane irma's landfall haven't been pinpointed just yet. because of that the threat of it a lot of people took off and headed north. there are people who are staying back, in fact we ask the police chief down there on marco island, for anyone whose decided to get cold feet as this storm get closer, is it too late in his opinion to hit the road. he believes the time is up. this is time to shelter in place and brace for the worst of this storm. isa. >> reporte yae /* roerp. >> reporter: yeah, now is not the time. michael over to you. >> isa thank so much.

speak of hunkering down, john heins joins me over the phone. he lives in key west, florida waiting out the storm. john, good to speak with you, you said you were confident if a strong building. what has it been like? >> well, it's gotten worse of course. we're in a strong building a concrete con zoe. we're hunkered down, the lights are out so can't see anything. that makes it a little moree rere: ree, it's loud noisy and rainy. as i peeked through the curtains it's loud here. things are bringing.

>> yeah, we've been hearing about the storm surge, a lot of people up there in the west coast, florida worried very much about storm surge where you are. it's not exactly high ground. how concerned are you about that surge? >> well i'm not concerned about it for us, because like i said we're on the fourth floor. storm surge is not an issue for me. i'm sure once daylight get here and irma's done doing what she's going to do we'll go out and clean up, access the damage and mess and we'll help to rebuild and get the public back to where it used to be. >> tell me, you were pretty confident last time we spoke 24 hours ago about your decision to stay. any regrets at all or no? >> no, sir, i'd much rather be here on this side than having to fight 10 million people scrambling to evacuate then having to evacuate again. if one of the bridges goes out

i'd much rather be on this side at home with my food, girlfriend and everything we need here, as oppose to being on the other side of the bridge, wondering when i'll get back home, where am i going to stay. 10 million people have to come back down through south florida that's going to be a nightmare. i'd much rather be here and we're fortunate we're in this building. the first responders are next door in a concrete building too. we're waiting for it to be done and we'll go out and do what we need to do get people back to work. >> you mentioned the power being out, we can say that all 29,000 customers in the keys area of florida are without power so you're not alone in that regard. you told me the other day other people have chosen to stay as well. are you in contact? what are you saying to each other, what are you talking about? >> well, i was over next door earlier today, i live between

rain ban, we're hunkered down and waiting for this thing to do what it's going to do, get out of here and get back to business. >> have you had moments of nervousness tell us what the experience has been like? >> well, i don't get that nervous around stuff like that. i joke with me, you know you can't scare me jan more i've been married. it is what it is, windy, noisy it's loud and when it's over it's over we'll do what we do. we'll recover and rebuild it and clean up what needs to be cleaned up and get on with it. >> there are some great communities down there. i mean, are you worried about what daylight will reveal or when the waters do recede what the damage is going to be like? what are you expecting? >> well, i am concerned with the storm surge, i think that'll be the biggest thing that hurts down here. all these billings down here are hurricane rated. this is what we do, we live on

an island with request we know it, we live it every day. it's a whole different world down here. when my mom and brother died last year, dad brought the ashes and we spread them out here. dad lost him in my arms and spread the ashes here, they're all down here so it's an emotional attachment. i'm not going anywhere. >> we talked about that last night, that's part of the reason you stayed that emotional attachment. john, great to talk to you again hope you're doing okay and hopefully we'll talk again when this is over. thank you so much. still to come, much more breaking news coverage of hurricane irma, the huge storm expected to effect most of florida, it is the size of florida. we'll have reports from along the east coast getting hit by high winds and heavy rain when we come back. stay with us.

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florida. >> reporter: and i'm isa soares coming to you live from miami. you are watching cnn's continuing coverage of hurricane irma. >> and winds are lashing south florida right now as hurricane irma nears the u.s. mainland. let's have a look at some video now, the storm a category 3 but expected to gain strength as it crosses very harm open water between cuba and florida. warm water feeds a strong like this. now, irma's path has shifted towards the west. many people from naples through tampa are seeking shelter from the storm surge expected to follow. we're seeing fleets of utility trucks headed down south mobilizing with power outages which has already affected more than 200,000 customers.

isa soares in miami, they say those people -- the number of people effected could go up into the hundreds or thousands more and it could be week before some get power perhaps. >> absolutely, i mean you just don't know. you're looking at the strength and the breath of this hurricane, mike when it's really hard to predict, as we've been hearing from karen mcbegun necessary in the last 20 minutes or so. here by miami beach, officials are not taking any chances, they put a curfew in place from 8:00 p.m. local to 7:00 a.m. in the morning. derrick van dam is monitoring the conditions. derrick, definitely seeing where i am in miami, winds starting to pick up and rain coming down. not as strong as we were earlier but definitely weave seen that shift haven't we? >> reporter: isa, we're between

that heavy ban right now. it's good they enforced the hurricane curfew to 7:00 a.m. along miami dade coastline we've got a tornado watch, a flash flood watch, a storm surge warning all that on top of mandatory evacuations. the wednesday we know, it change so dramatically as these feeder bans continue to move in and the eye of irma edges closer and closer to the florida keys and also the southern peninsula. there are four fire departments located within miami beach. we had the opportunity to talk to the miami beach mayor earlier today. he said flpolice and fire will remain operational as long as sustained winds remain below 40 miles per hour. i believe we have at least on terms of average wind speeds so

far, that should change as we head into the morning hours here locally. that's when the police and fire will start to pull their emergency services from the street. if you did not heed the warnings for evacuation you are ultimately on your own. i did check the miami beach police and fire twitter accounts and they are still actively responding to service calls. in fact, there have been numerous calls. a lot of alarms have been set off and tripped in some of the buildings here. they did rescue an individual who was stuck yan within the elevator shaft for an hour because of the power failure. we have 600,000 people without power right now. that number is just going to go up because as we look over the horizon, just to my left as we look towards miami city proper, we have seen transformers blowing up, lighting up skies

purple, blue haze quite freakily throughout the night. so that's an indication that the strong win gusts are knocking over maybe perhaps some of the palm trees and palm leaves and whipping up some of the conditions there. isa, it's going to be a long night ahead of us, we expect the worst conditions to pick up as we head into first light tomorrow morning. >> reporter: absolutely derrick there for us in miami beach. and michael, as derrick was just saying, the most important thing is we've been hearing from officials in the last hour is not to be come place sent. there are so many elements at play, not just the storm surge but also the debris that may come from some of the storm surge, but the winds that we were expecting. so, it's worst waiting until you get -- it's worth waiting until you get the green light from officials on waiting to come back to your home. i know many people are concerned

about the damage to their home but better than safe. i know officials have been saying we can build your homes and not your lives. michael. >> yes, of course we were talking with military men who oversaw hurricane katrina and he was saying the aftermath is also important as a prepreparation for a storm like this. making sure people get back home to safe houses and environment. we'll check back with you in a little bit isa, great to see you. let's go with george, he's the anthony administrator of st. martin's county. you're on the east coast of the florida peninsula, you must be a bit relieved, looked like the western side is going to get most of the e rains, what's it like for you?

>> good morning. we are on the eastern side and we realize that -- we're starting to see some of the winds pick up. we are expected storm winds to arrive at 3:30 this morning and continue for us until 9:00 a.m., september 11, monday. we'll look into a whopping 24.5 hours of irma's experience for us and we're taking precautions for that. >> yeah tell us about this precautions. >> sure, we operate an emergency center at level one which is a 24-hour operation. we've been very well staffed. we're working with our participating agency including local state and partners. in preparations for the hurricane we are inspecting clear storm water drainage structures. and equipment to facility removal and repairing damages

from the storm. we are also working with lights and electrical tropes. we've also been communicating on facebook. go ahead sir. >> no, carry on, sorry. finish your thought. yeah. >> we've been trying to communicate to our public what the conditions are, what they should be doing during the storm, reaching out on facebook, twitter, as many outlooks as we can to get the word out. >> all right george focus there. the county administrator. appreciate it. keep it right here on cnn for the latest on hurricane irma. we'll go live to fort meyers in florida from this monster storm are expected to hit in the coming hours.

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hello and welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world, i'm michael holmes live in orlando, florida. >> reporter: and i'm isa soares coming to you live from miami. we have started to see the winds pick up, it's started to rain. it's definitely started to see the impact -- the initial impact

of hurricane irma. let's find out where the hurricane is right now. karen mic begin necessary is -- mcginnis is keeping a close eye on irma. karen, you were talking earlier about that shift slightly northwest there about it slowing down. why is that important? >> it is important because the impact can be different. it doesn't take much of a shift for you to say, see a storm surge of maybe 5 feet as oppose to 10 feet. i wanted to show you this, this is interesting as far as model runs go. the national hurricane center at 5:00 p.m., you plotted out owl the coordination and this is what it was doing. it's going to make its way up towards sarasota. then reshifted just a little bit to the west.