hello and welcome to our viewers all around the world, i'm michael holmes here in tampa, florida as we continue our coverage of the progress of hurricane irma. >> and i'm isa soares coming to

you live from miami where it's just turned 1:00 in the morning. thank you very much for being with us. >> and yes, we continue our coverage from here in tampa. the storm is still a powerful hurricane, it's still a hurricane and it has weakened, and that has been good news for the people of tampa. if the eye of the storm has gone to the west of the city, there were great fears about storm surge causing havoc here. this is a city that is vulnerable to storm surge and has low-lying areas, a lot of development along the water. even some of the cause ways, the bridges are fairly low. there was a lot of concern. we spoke to the mayor yesterday and that was his worry. the eye have moved to the east, which is a good thing. we'll check how the storm surge is going to look now. i can tell you the water is

still going outbound at the moment because of how the winds are going. the river here as dropped marketley over the last 12 hours. let's bring in karen mcginnis and talk more about where irma is, where it's headed and how strong it is. >> michael, yes, there are a lot of interesting die namics as there have been for days with irma. there's a lot of interest information we can glean from this radar. first of all, irma is just over lake land, that's between tampa and orlando, 25 miles to the south of lake land. what we can see are some of the really strong bans just about over the central portion of florida, just to the north of tampa. what is interesting here is that we're seeing kind of an enhancement of the wind. we were checking the win conditions around daytona beach,

towards jacksonville. they are very strong. we've got dry air intrusion, that means the system is not sitting out over the open water so it's not tapping the warm moist -- moij coming in from the gulf of mexico but it is being enhanced by being picked up, carried over the atlantic and enhancing some of those storms moving through. still the risk in this upper right quadrant for the potential for tornadoes, that is one of the most dynamic areas. specifically from about jacksonville all the way towards the cape, that's where we're looking at wind gust from 60, close to 75-mile-an-hour. tampa's interesting, the system now lies to the east of tampa. the winds are essentially going out, but eventually over the next couple of hours, we're watching as the system continues

its drip towards the north, and it is generally speaking moving north fairly rapidly. that is good news, we want it to move pretty swiftly so none of these conditions linger like we saw with harvey over texas, about 16 days ago. it will move on shore and as they do we'll see the water come in. it's going to be very dramatic, not as dramatic as some of the initial computer models we're suggesting but let's give you a different overall perspective of what you're looking at. right now you can see the winds offshore. as we go through time it starts to shift more time onshore. all these places from tampa, clear water, tar bond springs, towards knew port richie. so, as you can imagine, the longer it stays over lands it will continue to weaken, but

that broad field of rainfall is still going to be in position. this is kind of a forecast radar. we go through monday morning. ba by the way, you can imagine the tampa airport is not going to be in full operation for tomorrow, nor is miami. miami international airport has major water damage, they are closed for monday, september 11th. they hope to open on maybe a reduced schedule on tuesday, depending on how much repair they can get done. looking up towards atlanta, georgia even into atlanta. the national weather service is suggesting 4 to 6 inches of rainfall, but the wind is going to be tremendous here too. so, this is -- i'm glad we're on this particular image because i can show you, some of those enhanced bans that are coming in off the atlantic, daytona beach, jacksonville you're not in the

thick of it just yet. as time goes on you'll start to see these bans reach more north ward, so even into places like savannah, possibly into buford south carolina, you'll start to see pretty heavy rainfall and the wind is going to pick up. partly because irma is moving but partly because we got that enhancement of that moisture wrapped around that northern edge. the dynamic north upper right quadrant. here's tampa right now. i'll reenforce that idea, off hurricanes offshore. in the next two hours or so we'll start to see that shift. the high tides across this region are not dramatic. through here it's roughly a foot, maybe a foot and a half. but our storm surge is going to be 1 to 3 feet. so, michael, this is as you say a lot of low-lying areas here.

it has really built up over the years and this is going to be one added troublemaker going into the next couple of hours with that onshore flow. >> yeah, it sure is. the city alone has been seen as vulnerable to this sort of storm and risk of storm surge. what you say, karen, makes perfect sense. we've been watching the waters here going outwards. when the winds turn around it's going to come inwards. the risk is there for flooding and damage to those very expensive homes along the water's edge. also, businesses, there is a hospital back there that is low lying as well. hopefully not as high a surge as was initially feared when irma was coming up west of the city out over the water.

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

at some point that water is going to come back. even if it's not as fast as we thought it was before it could be really rey dangerous especially with the winds ripping around. for the most part the street are clear, people are not out here. we talked to a few people who are staying in high-rises downtown and they knew they were going to ride it out. they knew they were going to be in for a stronger sway higher up but they did that. 28,000 people in this county, hillsboro county which tampa is in are in 45 shelters around the area. they say they still had room but if you're not there don't go out. there's no reason to come out here right now. while it may look like this is a calmer moment it changes on a dime so fast. you can feel you're taken offer your balance by the win and the rain so it's not worth coming out here. it's much better to stay inside, stay with your loved ones and

check on everything else tomorrow. as far as things are concerned right now, i can tell you that it's started to feel like it's starting to pick up here in downtown tampa with the winds and rains coming around -- the rain coming around. sometimes it kind of takes your breath away. but yeah, so far -- but not as much as we thought it was going to be doing earlier in the night. michael. >> yeah, steph i know what you mean it picked up here in the last couple of minutes or so and it's howling down the river. appreciate that stephanie elam here in tampa, florida. we came to tampa early yesterday morning, to tampa from orlando because we thought tampa was going to get hit harder than orlando. because of the movement of the storm going inland like it is, orlando is getting hammered. how is it now?

>> reporter: well you don't have to be on the coast to really get hammered but the storm. it's just enormous and covering the state and everyone really in its path. we're in the downtown part of orlando where there's tall buildings and that's just creating wind tunnels where sheets of rains are coming at us with these strong wind gusts. earlier we had a fracture of what we're experiencing, and i can tell you in the distance we saw a bright blue skylight. then a transformer blew. we saw a bunch of emergency vehicles because at that time it was safe for them to go about the street. we inquired what they were racing towards, it was someone was in their car and crashed and when emergency vehicles responded that person had died. it was one of orlando's fatalities according to the fire

chief here. of course ininvestigators couldn't really investigate that because of these terrible conditions. it doesn't take much for this storm to be super dangerous. even with orlando being if the center, people on both coasts coming here to evacuate are certainly seeing conditions be pretty difficult. i also want to mention here in orlando at the convention center, they're housing a thousand of emergency vehicles ready to respond all across the state. those vehicles coming across the country, but it's going to take a while before this storm to die down before they can get anywhere and see where the damage was from this storm. back to you. >> yeah, and bryn when we were there the last couple of nights, the city was quite lively, people were out in about and enjoying the clubs and pubs and being rowdy at times.

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

much. take care of out there. back here in tampa it's really picking up at the moment, the rain driving through, the wind driving through. people are being told to stay in place, don't leave your home even when this blows through people are being told to stay where you are so authorities can get out, access the damage and they'll let you know when it's okay to start coming out. i did read one disturbing report, which is in one county in florida, miami-dade. there's already been 30 arrests from looting and burglary. some people taking advantage of the situation here. people being out of town of course, 6.5 million people in florida were told they should evacuate. we don't know how many did. it's considerable and obviously some -- some less than honest folks are taking advantage of that. let's go down to miami now, isa

soares has been there throughout all of this. isa fill us in on what you've been seeing. >> and michael, while i was listening to your conversation with bryn there, it is incredible just to listen to what she's starting to see, what you're starting to see and what we've been through in the last 24 hours or so. you cannot trust the weather any moment it basically turns and we have seen that for ourselves. this is brittle, this is the financial area here in miami, and this is the very expensive real estate of miami. this -- where the banks are and what is behind me is a street, michael, that has been turned into a river. it is starting to die down slightly and to recede some of the waters. as you can see behind me there is so much water still on this main road. at one point during the day, it was not as high as 3 feet of water. coming driving up here from where we were yesterday, trees

have been uprooted, so many people without power. 3 million people in the state of florida without power. we ourselves have been without power throughout most of the day in our hotel and its made life impossible for so many people. but at the same time, michael, i keep being asked, is it safe to go outside. no it is not. that is what we keep hear g from authorities. you have to wait for the green light to come out. why? one, because there's still so much water outside. two, as you can see the winds, there's still a strong gust mine me. with that comes debris, not just from trees ripped from buildings, we've seen from our correspondents through the the day. pieces of buildings, debris from buildings have been falling as well as scaffolding from some of the buildings.

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continuing coverage of hurricane irma, i'm isa soares and you are joining me in miami. i'm in the financial portion here of miami t not one point during the day when really the hurricane, when irma was pounding through here, the water was as high as pretty much 3 feet, up to your waste. as you can see its receded so much. many people here are thankful the damage hasn't been as bad as some were expected. the officials need to assess the damage. let me show you video of some of the worst damage we have seen throughout the day here in miami. street practically covered in flood waters. miami being battered with powerful winds as well as heavy rains. this is some of the -- a first look at some of the damage. take a look at this dramatic

video we're about to show you. this is the moment a roof was ripped off, yes, ripped off a 2-story apartment building downtown. this construction crane really couldn't withstand the strong winds. and the cranes were a huge problem here in miami. 20 cranes that was still standing and they couldn't take down because it could have taken about seven days to take down. they were kept, tightened but objectives some of them could not withstand some of the strong winds. derrick van dam was with me throughout the day yesterday and he's being battered from all sides of the rain and the wind. he joins me from miami beach. derrick give our viewers a sense of the damage in miami beach. >> reporter: we're on pine tree drive in miami beach.

we definitely felt the hurricane-force winds in this area, category 1. we got a glancing blow from hurricane irma's extreme power. we know the keys were hit hard. marco island and still raising across the peninsula. a lot of down trees, down power lines, stuff you'd expect with a category 1 hurricane or impact from a category 1. there are over 850,000 customers without power in miami-dade alone. that's 79% of the people who live within this particular area that have electrical power -- electricity from that region. it's incredible. the reason why we don't have power here is because of trees like this continue to fall on power lines taking down the electricity. it's not only concerns for the police officers and fire officials out scouring the

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

city. >> i think miami beach did relatively well. those were some very strong winds. thank god our pumps held, our -- very well and we had very minimal flooding especially in the areas we approved for our sea level projects. power lines down, you'll see branchs and trees and all different roads across the city. we've maintained our curfew, no one's allowed to be out at 8:00 at night and no one's allowed to come back to miami beach for a day or so. we haven't decided yet. we'll have crews coming in to clear out our roads to make sure we can get back on our feet as fast as possible. >> isa, this is a wealthy neighborhood i'm standing in right now. the house where this tree fell over on the fence in the front portion of this person's yard is about $2 million. may be a glancing blow for these

individuals, a couple of days of cleaning up before they get themselves back on their feet. we have to think about the people that are a little less fortunate than this with the widespread damage we've seen across florida keys and florida. isa. >> absolutely. i heard you interview there with the mayor on miami beach. we know officials will be coming out on the streets at 5:00 to assess the damages and start picking up some of these down trees. thanks very much derrick van dam. miami beach. we'll touch bases with you later. michael, what we're starting to see here in miami is the water starting to recede. the damage was trying to assess the damage. and thankfully, michael it isn't as bad as many were anticipating. nevertheless, many still without power, thousands of people without power here in miami. that means that you just have to

wait a bit longer before you can return to your homes, before you can get that green light, that's still crucial because the winds are still strong. and of course with water still here in the main motor way it becomes very dangerous indeed. michael. >> it certainly does isa. thank for that. we'll get back to you in a moment. it's interesting, isa talking to people without power. that number is now approaching 4 million without power in this state. an extraordinary number. it's going to be days. there's a lot of utility crews headed down from out of states, as far as away as the carolinas to help out down here. it could be weeks for some people before they get the power back on, hopefully days but it could be weeks. the rain has really been picking up here in the last little while. it was just coming straight at us horizontal the wind picking

up. not far from here, clear water florida, that's where our ryan young has been reporting from. i wanted to play you some video he recorded earlier. let's listen to that. >> reporter: we're south of the airport. you see how the wind is just crossing from left to right. that is the biggest --. we actually -- some parts of -- and we've seen billboards at this point succumb to be wind. as ilene forward you can see how fast -- we've seen 80-mile-per-hour. it seems like no matter what we do it gets a little tougher. it's all good. for the most part we've been tremendously safe and most people have gotten off the roads. in fact we haven't seen a car on the road ways for an hour and a half now. it seems like people realize the

worst of the storm may be coming at this direction at this point and they're beating it by staying inside. people in this area were worried about flooding because it does flood when there is a strong rainfall and that is something people are concerned about in these late hours. the idea there could be serious ponding in the morning. >> ryan young in clear water florida, not too far from us here in tampa, which is being hammered at the moment by hurricane irma as it makes its way north fortunately overland which is causing it to weaken. it was still pretty severe. there were trees bending, rain driving and the wen howling. we'll take a short break and be back with more coverage of hurricane irma. stay with us. lash sensational full fan effect mascara from maybelline new york. our unique fanning brush reveals layers of lashes for the sensational full-fan effect. lash sensational mascara.

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. welcome back to cnn's continuing coverage of hurricane irma. we are in tampa, florida. i want to take you out to daytona beach. sarah is there, i'm told you're getting absolutely hammered there. tell us what's going on. >> reporter: the winds are incredibly strong. it's the strongest winds we have seen since we have been here on the beach throughout this entire event. irma's winds are slapping the beach air really really hard. i'm having a hard time even talking to you because the wind is pushing on the -- so hard.

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

watch the winds pass by ripping plywood off the side of buildings. they were trying to save their windows, we've seen onyx go flying, lamp shades go flying. this is quite a storm here on daytona beach. we are not anywhere near the eye. the eye made landfall on the other coast more than 200 miles away and yet we're starting to get incredibly strong ban of wind. here on daytona beach i want to manager one more thing, michael that's important. within this storm, south of us about an hour's drive some 60 miles, we are told by the management folks that they have two tornadoes that are confirmed that would touch down in baa very county. two tornadoes church down there. they had some 40 tornadoes warning meaning the conditions were right for tornadoes. in these petty heavy winds there

are some that were strong enough to have tornadic winds. it is an incredible scene as you look out on the beach, the water is coming up on the boardwalk that everybody loves here ndiaye toe that. we are told by cnn meteorologist department that the worst of it is yet to come. we've got a couple more hours before the worst of the storm hits us. michael. >> sarah, i can't see the pictures where i am here in tampa but it sounds like an extraordinary scene where you are. do take care. we will check in with you a little bit later. sarah mentioning tornadoes, there have been a lot of tornado warnings throughout the state. isa soares in miami. back to you.

>> thanks very much michael, yes. listening to sarah i couldn't see it either, but i could visualize and feel the feel of that -- of those wind gusts because we too have felt it here. let's get more from karen maiginnis. give us a sense of where irma is now. >> isa and michael, it makes me so afraid for sarah. it was frightening to see the wind blow her around and she is not near the eye of the hurricane. and i will explain why they are picking up such high winds. i want to point out some of the went gusts we have here. we saw ryan in clear water, they had a wind gust around 60 miles per hour. all around tampa bay area the winds have been gusting around 60 to 65-mile-an-hour.

it took my breath away to see sarah out in such horrific conditions. the only thing that i can personally compare it to is when you go sky diving and you make that leap from the airplane. just that blast of wind that hits you in the face and there's nothing you can do about it, there's nothing else that feels like that. that's what it look like for sarah out in the elements. one is part of the upper right quadrant where we see the most dynamic force. now something had added to it, and that is dry air. that sounds counter intuitive but in fact along the southern edge of irma there's starting to be dry air. this is picking up the moisture. there's some sub sigh dance that's pushing that hair down.

there's such a force, that's the kind of thing. its enhancing it if anything. most of irma is over land. we do have outer bans out over the atlantic ocean, also the gulf of mexico. one of the other things that we need to understand, we've been talking about it for hours. my colleague tom slater was talking about it earlier and tom meyer, that is there is going to be a high tide for tampa. those are usually about 2 to 3 feet. that occur in the morning about 4:00 or 6:00 in the morning. and we'll see the wind shift. when that wind shift and it move on shore for tampa bay and clear water, st. pete and tar pa springs and knew port richie and crystal riffver you're going to see a storm surge. as been advised all along the

very massive storm surge are at this point expected to be about 3 feet or so. but now that we've got the dry air intrusion along the southern edge almost anything can happen now. it isn't just that north eastern quad grant of florida, but also we're looking at some of the heavy rainfall moving in across jacksonville, into fbuford, souh carolina, atlanta georgia. heavy rainfall expected around atlanta. and in miami, there was so much rain that they have had water damage done at the airport, they are closed. september 11th. and it looks like they may reopen on limited basis on tuesday, that's yet to be seen. here take a look at this, the forecast rainfall through tuesday. right around that jacksonville area, also between value das

that and towards daytona. that's what we're looking at. significant rainfall, how much? could see 10 to 20 inches of rainfall. 20 inches might be an outlier. compared to what we've seen over the last couple of hours maybe not so much. but there's still tropical storm watches out. they've closed the schools around the atlanta, georgia area. all i can say is i hope sarah take some precautions because that was one of the most frightening things that i have seen all day. isa, back to you. >> yeah, karen we hope she stays safe. what we've learned, haven't we karen, in the last few days this hurricane is so unpredictable. thank so much karen. much more on our breaking news coverage of hurricane irma. stay right here with cnn. ♪

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. hello i'm isa soares and you're watching cnn's continuing coverage of hurricane irma. i'm here in miami, where the damage many officials are saying, the mayor has been saying it hasn't been as bad as many were predicted. nevertheless, roads have been turned into rivers. although the waters are now receded and trees have been uprooted. what we have seen so far is nothing compared really to what hurricane irma did to the caribbean when 26 people have died. i want to show you this video coming from cuba. we know the recovery efforts now are beginning in cuba. that's after the monster storm, i think its fair, we can call it monster storm made landfall

there on friday night. part of the fence that surrounds the compound there was knocked over by irma's powerful winds. and then listen to this. waves were so high, up to 36 feet high or 11 meters, that businesses along seaside drive sunday morning is part of what we've been talking about, that lingering storm surge. areas of the city flooded. many residence have been using boats to get around. we know, have seen and heard from patrick in the street there, who have been battered from all sides, holding on to rails and even had to hide inside a closet with his cameramen because of the power of irma. i want to bring in the one of the guests we have been speaking to in the last 24 hours. his name the craig. he's the national spokesman from the red cross. good morning to you. you and i spoke three or four

hours ago, in preparation -- in preparation for hurricane irma, give us a sense of how it's played out for you and your team. >> one of the good things about preparation and the way the red cross has staged its assets for this storm is all of the uncertainty and all of the changes in the track of the storm. we have brought -- as we talked about 24 hours ago, over a thousand red cross volunteers are on the ground in orlando and other parts of the state waiting to get the green light to move into the communities affected by the storm. we have 2,000 of our red and white response vehicles. we've located them in a way that once we knew where the storm was going to hit, we'd be able to get there but also to keep them out of harm's way. a lot of our assets are on stab waiting for daylight. as soon as we know where we need

to get our vehicles and our people we'll be moving them down into those communities. >> yeah, the question that many ask, in particular here in miami is how long do i have to wait before i can make my way home. o one gentleman we were speaking to today say he popped over to his house from the hotel to see if he still had lights and he did. what are you telling your employees? >> well that's the key thing, the the question is how long can we wait and when can we go. we're waiting for the same go ahead from the departments and emergency management to tell us the road is clear and it's safe to get back in. we don't have an issue getting into flabds if power is out. we need to make sure roads are

not mooded or doing harm or interfering with first responders are anything else. most of our concern at this point is over to the west coast where we know the neighborhoods have been more heavily affected than they are here in miami. and of course, we've had evacuation centers and facilities open with red cross volunteers and other people now for several nights. in fact, last night meeting, saturday night, we had 130,000 people in over 500 shelters in six states. 127,000 people were in florida alone. >> yeah. yeah, it is astounding when you put the figures out there to give us a sense of what's happening craig. i'm glad everyone's safer. like you said in your first answer, you know, you prepare for a reason. you make preparations and prepare for the worst and you really hope for the best. craig, i appreciate you speaking

to us on the line. thank you craig, we'll touch base with you in the next few hours. you are watching cnn's continuing coverage of hurricane irma. much more for you after a very short break, stay right here with cnn.

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welcome back to cnn's continuing coverage of hurricane irma. i'm michael holmes here in tampa where we are kwelting pretty hammered by irma at moment. high winds and horizontal rain at times pouring into this city, which is susceptible to storm surge, that's their big fear here. even as hurricane irma weakens. bill weir was out in key largo. the storm made land fall there. he was in key largo last week. went to a bar called snapper. hung out with the people there. got to know them. he went back today and found what happened to that place as irma went through.

>> i'm about to show you something that has shaken me unlike anything i have seen in 25 years and eight other hurricanes. thursday night i stood right here and interviewed the owner after bar called snappers and a bunch of very festive key west residents who were debating whether to evacuate or stay. peter, that time, was determined to stay. hold up inside his bar. he changed his mind. good thing he did. because it is completely gone. look at this. gone. the entire bar. right here. where i sat and had shrimp tacos with my crew after la live shot and hang out with these warm gracious people. gone. shoved up by the storm surge into the side of the fence of the neighboring businesses here. this was the bar. can you see they tried to board up with plywood and the storm, winds blew through it.

and inside the restaurant shoved everything up against the western wall of this place. and your heart just breaks. peter, the owner of this place, i just left him a voice mail. one of his employees told me he had aaa insurance. i hope that's the case. because this is a total write-off. these are slips for jet skrees th skis that have been shoved up, blown into the restaurant. this was a hugely popular place on the atlantic side of key largo. an institution from many years. peters, from the nejtherlands, bought it a couple years ago. >> that is the end of this

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