...out odors all day. hey your shirt's making me hungry. so don't half-wash it. downy and it's done. . sandra hurricane irma hitting harder in the state of florida. knock out power to 2 1/2 million homes and businesses as authorities warn of potentially lethal storm surge. welcome to "fox report" i'm sandra smith, bill hemmer is in orlando tonight, bill? bill: good evening to everybody at home watching and waiting to see what irma does next. in orlando, irma has arrived and winds out of the east are picking up by the moment here. hour-by-hour, as the storm gets closer, where we were yesterday and day break today and how large the storm was in the keys and how it moved its way toward naples and made impact there, and now it's moving on fort

myers and has a long stretch to go. we woke up this morning at a category 4, it made landfall at the keys that the level and went to naples at a category 3, downgraded to a category 3 but dangerous, packing 110-mile-an-hour winds, and we've got a long night ahead of it. we are just at the beginning of this year in this part of the state. team fox coverage now this hour, mike tobin to the west in tampa. i want to start with meteorologist adam klotz in the fox weather center to tell us what we expect. adam, good evening again. adam: good evening, bill, continuing to track this as it moves right up the coast. community most recently hit hard, the ft. myers area, that's the outer wall to the north there. the really, really strong winds moving through that area, getting a bit of a break at the moment but they saw real powerful storms move through the area. everything to the north of,

that the entire state of florida look at tornado watches in place. we have seen it on the eastern side of the state, that's generally where this happens on the front right quadrant of the hurricane, that's where you see tornadoes spin up and that's the case. there's one way up north towards the jacksonville area, but we've seen them fire up throughout the afternoon hours, still want to be surprised if we saw more of that as we continue into the overnight hours. here's future radar, there is center of circulation down to the south. pay attention to it as it lifts to the north. we're looking at really getting into 1:00 a.m. from midnight to 1:00 to the tampa area, the outer bands continuing to lift to the north. that's where the center of circulation is. as you get on past, that 2:00, 3:00, 4:00 in the morning, things calm down in the tampa area but all the winds suddenly shift and as the winds are coming out of the west it's

going to grab all this water and that's when you see the storm surge be a problem. early tomorrow morning when storm surge is the worst for the tampa area, and that's one of their biggest threats. if this passes us by, it does not mean the system is over, it will continue to climb to the north early monday morning. what are concerns going to continue to be? additional rainfall. this isn't including what we've seen, you're looking fairly widespread, spots getting 6, some case 8 inches of precipitation on top of what we've already seen, not including the storm surge, that's another way we could flood. winds are going to stay strong. these are recent wind totals, 142 miles an hour, we're going to continue to see very strong winds and obviously that storm surge i mentioned, that is a big one, especially 10-15 feet. 5-10 feet, still dealing with this all the way into tomorrow. bill? >> i'll take it from there,

bill will get his shot back up in just a second. it has been nearly 100 years since a major hurricane hit tampa. that's changing now. hurricane irma charging to tampa area, home to 3 million people. mike tobin is live in tampa where we spoke with the mayor earlier, mike, and he was saying this his biggest concern at this point is going to be the storm surge. reporter: yeah, and that is what starts tomorrow. what we're seeing immediately, though, certainly in the last hour since we talked to you is that the rain has become rather significant. coming down in sheets and sheets, seeing a big increase in the wind, and seeing the first bit of debris knocked down by the wind. you can see the palm frond, branches blown off trees. here is something significant, sandra. power is still on in this area, certainly that we're seeing in tampa. you can see the wind blowing around the palm trees, that is bayshore boulevard. the street lights are still ochl looking down here, so much

rain coming down that the water is rush downing the street. you talk about the concern with the storm surge. i'm reluctant to call this rain runoff flooding because that's not the big flood event that the officials out here are losing sleep over. what they're worried about is the storm surge that will come in on the heels of this. on the back end of this storm sometime tomorrow. but in the immediate -- right now in our immediate present if i should say, i want you to look down bayshore boulevard, because you should get a good picture of just the extent to which the rain is now coming down. sheet after sheet of rain. the wind is picking up a little bit right now. you should see the palm trees blowing around. we're definitely into the tropical storm-force winds. really doesn't feel like hurricane-force winds at this stage of the game. the crew and i, sandra, are getting ready to retreat to the other side of the hillsborough river, because our safe space,

full, is on the other side of the river where, we intend to be when things get really bad. as it's picking up now, it's time for us to pick up and move shortly at the end of this live shot. looking around, you can see everything that's going on with the development, the increase in the wind, as the pressure goes down. we get closer to the center of this storm. the trees are blowing around. i can also point you towards the hillsborough bay, that's where we saw the dramatic effect of all of the water that had drawn out to join the storm surge and predictably, at least the predictions say it's going to come rushing back into the bay with such a vengeance and so much additional volume that it's going to come 10-15 feet up over the normal sea levels. that can put these type of areas and all of the low-lying areas underwater. that is why the officials out here made such a point of placing the mandatory evacuations into zone a. everything 11 feet and below

across tampa bay and pinellas county, put the mandatory evacuation into effect for zones a and b. that's everything 15 feet and below. they told people to get out. now, however, the authorities have changed the story, they say it's too late. if you haven't made your evacuation, now is the time to batten down the hatches, hunker down, you are in for a long couple of days. sadly means the same thing for shelters, the shelters aren't pleasant places to be, kids are going to get fussy but you can't necessarily return. we've got the big wind event coming tonight and can't return as soon as the wind event is over. you've got the flooding after that and they want the officials to have a look around, make sure it's safe for people to return to their homes, sandra? >> great point, when we spoke to the tampa mayor earlier, he stopped sending first responders, police, firemen, winds over 40, he's not sending

them out. mike tobin, thank you. stay safe. reporter: got it. bill: sandra, we can feel it here as well. you're talking about the rain with adam a short time ago, there's going to be such a great amount of water that's going to drop on the city of orlando throughout the night tonight and also where mike tobin is. he's about 80 miles to our west here just down the i-4 corridor. want to bring in senator bill nelson from florida on the phone. you were in tampa earlier, i think in orlando now. you are feeling what we're feeling certainly. give us your sense of the concerns have you tonight and really the early stages for this part of florida experiencing irma, senator? >> well, first of all, i'm very, very proud of floridians. they obeyed the evacuation orders. they're very orderly in the various refuge points, but what we are -- fortunately the

hurricane is weakening a little bit over land, but, bill, i'm back in orlando now, along where you are, and you're feeling the effects of these outer bands that are still quite strong in the northeast quadrant, well ahead of the eye, which is down there somewhere north of ft. myers right now. bill: senator, when you consider the damage in texas from harvey, and when you start to consider the extent of the damage in florida, this storm has shot up the spine your state, and we'll see tomorrow at day break after she passes to find out, well, what's left, and who hit the hardest. what is your level of confidence about getting the help that you need? >> we'll get it. fema is stretched, no doubt. they held back people from going to texas so they could

preposition them to go into florida in hillsborough county over in tampa. they've got fema people already there, so they're prepositioned, but, bill, that $15 billion that we passed a few days ago, that's going to last just a few weeks. when you consider the amount of damage done in texas and florida, it will run out mid-october. we'll have to go back with another emergency appropriations bill. bill: and that will happen sometime very soon, sir, i'm sure we'll have that debate then. but as for tonight, you need to get through a long night here, and when you describe those winds in the northeast quadrant, that's what you're feeling. we still have power, that's a pretty good thing here, but the tropical force winds are picking up by the moment and we'll see how this goes. sir, you are watching our

coverage i'm certain throughout the day here. what did you think, being a floridian, as you -- and a pilot as well, and an astronaut for that matter, watching this radar literally cover the entire state of florida as we watch it here tonight? >> that's right, and it basically still is. southern tip. the keys are beginning to merge from all the rain bands, but the entire remaining part of the state is covered up all the way over to tallahassee as we speak, and i'll never forget looking at that right now on the radar, i'll never forget looking out the window of our spacecraft 31 years ago and i looked down on a hurricane. it was one in the southern hemisphere, so its rotation was clockwise instead of counterclockwise. it was over the indian ocean,

and it's just a massive storm with all of the swirling clouds, and that's what is covering up virtually the whole state of florida right now. bill: yeah, i bet it's a beautiful thing from space but a hell of a thing to go through on the ground, and millions are experiencing that now. senator, good luck. we'll speak again very soon. bill nelson, the democratic senator from florida, riding this out through orlando tonight. sandra, on we go. irma is here, back to you in new york. >> things changing by the minute. bill. irma pummelling florida with hurricane-force winds but authorities pointing out the biggest danger comes from potential storage surge. we're going live on the ground in naples next where they're bracing for a potential 15-foot wall of water. oh. hey mom. now that we have your attention... capri sun has four updated drinks.

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to earlier today, and officials will take time to assess the actual damage here to naples. this afternoon week saw sustained winds for more than 30 minutes at 130 miles per hour, just walk around the small area that we could get to. it was clear there was significant damage to the area. a lot of trees down, not just branches but large trees, some of them snapped in half, others uprooted. damage to roofs as well, too. a lot of tiles down, but not complete destruction, not obliteration of buildings. not windows smashed everywhere. so serious damage but not clear how far it goes. power is out too for 170,000 people in this county for three million people across florida. it is a very dark main street in naples behind me. real question concerns the flooding. there were at least 12 inches of rain in the naples area, there were real concerns about back end of this storm, there could be a storm surge of 10-15 feet, that would be enough to

flood the first floor of buildings or entire single-story houses. the real assessment the come tomorrow when emergency responders get out, there it's going to be a tough thing to do with no power with, a lot of trees and downed power lines, they'll have their work cut out for them to see how bad naples has been hit, bill. bill: steve, here we go, live in naples and getting worse by the moment here. we're under a cover here so we can protect ourselves a little bit and as i mentioned that's west and that's east. if you look east right into the wind and the rain, it just kind of comes in bands and strikes your face and you can see, you can hear the thunder and see the lightning crack on the other side of interstate 4. there's a storm rolling in here tonight. irma has arrived and she's packing a punch. category 2, 100 miles an hour.

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orlando floored around a mandatory curfew through tomorrow night. rodrick s. williams joins me on the phone. chief, thank you for stepping aside for a moment to talk to us. what is the situation like in orlando right now? >> thank you for joining us, the situation in orlando is like we experienced in nape else and tampa is experiencing heavy rain, moderate to heavy rains and winds. currently we have sustained wind of 35 miles per hour and gusts of 63. sandra: what kind of calls are you getting from residents, if any? >> well, right now we're just getting general assist calls, medical calls, nothing significant yet. downed trees and quite a few power outages at this point. our units are hunkered down and they're still responding until winds get a sustained 50 miles per hour. sandra: what are you advising residents based on the forecast? >> based on the forecast, number one, we have a curfew in

place, stay in the house. only call 911 when it's a true emergency. be vigilant, be smart, just don't go outside. you see a downed power line, call 311 or 911 for assistance. right now things are going well, getting a lot of rain, quite a few power outages, but for the most part, things are going well at this time. sandra: tornadoes, obviously, become a huge concern as well. what we just heard from the tampa mayor is that he's not sending first responders out because winds have exceeded 40 miles per hour, it's unsafe for his police and firemen to go out in this. are you continuing to answer calls? are you continuing to send out your men and women? >> at this time, we set the bar at 50 miles per hour in the city of orlando, we will continue to send our units out until they get to that point. right now we're at 34 miles per hour with gusts around 63.

so our units are still responding. again, but once they hit the 50 mark, we will stop units until the winds die down. sandra: chief, you obviously sound like you are inside. i'm co-hosting with bill hemmer on the ground in orlando, his shot took a drastic turn in the last few minutes. wind and the rains picked up a lot. what are you seeing as far as the current change in your situation? >> i can tell you, over the last hour, winds, the rain has went from real light to moderate to heavy rain conditions and steady winds, as you look at trees, trees are bending, debris moving around on the streets. as you look at the lights, you see rain going east, west, all over the place. sandra: what are you seeing as far as power outages? >> a couple thousand power outages in the central florida

area. all depends where you at, what side of town you are on, and whether or not a transformer fell on the lines. sandra: all right, fire chief, thank you for jumping on with us from orlando, where you continue to wait to see what the worst of this storm will be. thank you so much. >> thank you, and just let everybody be safe. sandra: chief rodrick williams, thank you for your service. bill? bill: can't say it enough. sandra back here, we got bumped off a little bit. we'll try and hang as long as we can as the conditions continue to deteriorate out of the east now. we saw the lightning week saw the thunder and really going to be the story throughout the night here, which will be a very long night in orlando. irma downgraded category 2, storm surge a very real danger too as the winds whip around. joel waldman watching a lot of that with the waters rising in miami, and joel, you've had debris flying off buildings, you have seen that yourself, have you flooding and winds as well. bring us up to date in south

florida tonight. good evening? reporter: bill, good evening to you and all the viewers, around 8:00 a.m. this morning, we got a loud, we're getting a wind gust from south to north, but around 8:00 this morning we got a loud bang, bang, bang on the door and managers from the hotel said, look, windows are blowing out. everyone's got to evacuate into a ballroom in the center of this hotel and did a fantastic job. not easy to literally move a thousand or more hotel guests, everyone piled up on each other and hunkering down in the shelter just became too dangerous with glass shattering everywhere. you talk about the storm surge, we'll take you on a tour. this is the heart of downtown miami an area called brickell. this is brickell avenue out here. an absolute river. pretty much impassable. although now the water has come down a little bit, and in the last i don't know 30 minutes or so, we've seen a few utility

vehicles making their way through it. people are already working. what's amazing is that power here has not gone out in downtown miami, in this immediate vicinity, but there's power out to millions. these buildings are giant buildings with big glass windows. we're hearing a lot of the windows were shattering but along with the buildings come big generators, the power was actually able to stay on. you mentioned some structures getting damaged. well part of that came from at least two cranes that completely collapsed at the height of the storm. when we landed in miami wednesday, forecasters were talking about two main things. high winds and storm surge, and there were articles all over florida about these high winds and specifically in miami about the cranes, as a construction boom here, amazing real estate development. there are a dozen, 20 or more

cranes this -- in this area, two of them snapped last night. it takes about two weeks to take them apart, they could unlatch them and let them spin around like weather vanes. while the eye went over the western side of florida, certainly in the wrath of irmawe're hearing, bill, that schools are canceled for the foreseeable future. bill? bill: joel waldman thank you, reporting in miami. you talk about the crane. sandra, there is a crane off to my left across interstate 4, it's too far away, too dark at night. i had an eye on that throughout the day wondering that can withstand what we're about to experience with a category 2 storm coming here. see how we do. there are reports from miami, there's going to be a major cleanup process in southeast florida. sandra. sandra: absolutely, the flooding in certain parts of

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battering the state of florida, now a category 2. the path of destruction through the gulf coast and here's what it looked like in tampa. the first major hurricane that we have seen, frankly tampa has not seen a major hit or direct hit in about 100 years and there was a lost concern this might be the one. it does appear that will be the case. irma dousing the state in torrential rain, places getting 2-4" per hour and we can feel that in orlando, it's going to be a wet night. adam klotz in the fox extreme weather center, looking at the rain and a lot more. what are we in for? good evening again. adam: in for more rain, 2 to 4" an hour, we could see additional, anywhere from 4, 6 to 8" across the state. especially the center of the state right where you are. very heavy rain from now throughout rest of your night.

as you've seen in the live shot, active in the center of the state and reaching farther to the north. there is the eye north of ft. myers, from tampa stretching up towards tampa, orlando, gainesville, all the areas where outer bands are bringing heavy rain, all of the areas under a tornado watch. there is big thunderstorms, we're going to spin up tornadoes through the overnight hour, waiting for the eye to slowly drift up the coast. here's where that is as you're seeing the spinning, still in the eye wall where the winds are the strongest. north of the ft. myers area, but the winds shift. once you are in it, it moves past you, suddenly the winds come out of the west once you are south of the storm, that starts to push all the water from the gulf of mexico onto shore and that's when you see the storm surge and that could be when things get the worst. here's what we're looking for storm surge forecast, and again, it's always the most active south of where the storm is, so the numbers beginning to

climb in portions of western is florida. we could see 10-15 feet in the areas getting towards ft. myers or naples. these are the areas where water is incredibly high. as this storm continues to move to the north tampa is experiencing that, five to ten feet of water. that is passing through that area. here's our hour-by-hour forecast, you can pay attention to the time stamp up in the corner, think midnight to 1:00 a.m., that's when this really heavy part of the storm will move by, suddenly on the southern edge of the storm overnight getting into early, early tomorrow morning, that's when you see the winds coming in from the gulf of mexico, it's going to start to pile this water up and at that point, we're going to be seeing storm surge flooding begin to move into that area and going head north and north from there, bill, a very long night for folks in tampa and for you as well. bill: adam, the temperature feels like it's dropped 20 degrees in three hours. that happens when these storms

hit. go ahead and explain why that, is quickly. adam: it's eating up the energy, the downdraft, the colder air has to go somewhere, shooting out with the bands that you're seeing big winds moving through the area, heavy rain and i think you are just getting started with, it bill. bill: yeah, just started, thank you, adam for that, reassurance, adam klotz in our extreme weather center. sandra, i think a dozen hurricanes so far, and i will tell our viewers this about a hurricane, no two are ever the same. every one has its own personality and its own character and you never know what these storms do once they start interacting with land and we've seen that play out starting at day break earlier today. sandra: such an interesting point and people who live in the areas where they experience the hurricanes they often reference life events from certain hurricanes. we're going to speak to a resident. bring in carlo, he lives in

naples and joins us by phone. carlo, how are you fareing? >> so far, so good, sandra, thank you. sandra: are you a full-time resident of naples? >> we're, we've lived here about 12 years. sandra: okay, so what are you seeing so far as damage? >> well, lot of downed trees, i mean a lot of high water. we got about a 45-minute reprieve because the eye of the hurricane came right through, it was an eerie calm, no wind, no rain, and the back end started hitting again about, an hour ago, and we're just about through that, we have high gusts right now. sandra: so as i understand it, you live further to the coast, but you moved inland a bit to another home? >> yeah, we're only seven feet above sea level. we are literally a block from the gulf of mexico on a bay,

and we evacuated about four, five miles inland to laically resort, and it's a little better here but the devastation is unbelievable. the downed trees, street signs are down, the waters -- the streets are full of water right now, but we think that the worst of it might be over for us and this is what the areas north of us, bonita, sarasota have to deal with this, not dealing with it right now. sandra: carlo, so many people are communicating via social media and updating neighbors that may have fled further than you did on the situation in naples. have you spoken with anyone else that chose to ride this out in naples as far as what they're seeing, whether it's more in the downtown areas? >> the downtown area was pretty much evacuated. we had some of our neighbors said they were going to ride

out the storm. last minute, last night they said it wasn't worth the risk and they all pulled out. just about everybody that we know has pulled out of naples itself, and they've moved a little further east or out. that's the feedback we've been getting from people. sandra: how about power? >> no power. we were fortunate enough to have power up until about three hours ago or so, and then it was flickering in and out and we lost all power and we've been without it since, so that's our next issue that we have to deal with. sandra: i've found over the past couple of hours, people write in saying there's a lot of people who don't live in the area full-time like you do, they live up north in the summertime, and then they end up checking in with those that are there full-time. are you getting that sort of -- are you involved with that sort of correspondence? people worry about their homes if they're not there? >> absolutely. we have friends all over that

are interspersed throughout the country, and they've been texting and calling in and wondering what's been going on. they've been hearing everything that's been going on in the news, and we've sort of been giving them, you know, on the ground you know, firsthand information to keep them abreast of what's going on, so, you know, that's kind of where we're at right now. sandra: it is a quickly changing situation and naples received already 12" of rain, we'll continue to watch how this all plays out there. carlo, a local resident from naples calling in for us, thank you. >> thank you. bill: terrific guy, brave guy too, right, sandra? and very interesting to get his reaction in the heart of that storm. if you go 80 miles to tampa, you can go 50 miles to daytona beach. all covered in irma right now. it veered to the west coast but the east coast is not out of danger. we'll take you live to daytona as our coverage continues tonight on a sunday evening as

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♪and the world's gonna know your name♪ . bill: sheer size of this storm is just unbelievable. irma veered west, we know that, but the eastern half of florida still feeling the effects. at day break today, 58 of 67 florida counties under a hurricane warning and the tornado warnings have come throughout the day here. right now there is not one in orlando, but there was up until 7:00 this evening this is a look at daytona beach on the atlantic coast, 50 miles to our east. all flights in and out of daytona airport canceled clearly, no telling when the airports get back to normal working hour and unclear

whether or not that's tomorrow or day the after and officials reminding people of that, the airport is not a shelter, rick leventhal is live in daytona beach where he's been camped out today. rick, how are things where you are tonight? reporter: we're on the international speedway bridge. this is a bridge that connects the beech to the main land. all of the bridges along daytona beach and south and north of us in volusia county have been shut down. the sheriff's department says they won't reopen the bridges until it's safe to do so. they're getting very strong winds. tropical storm-force winds and could gust up to 75 miles an hour which would be a category 1 hurricane. they take the worst of the winds and worst of the winds will be between 11:00 p.m. and 10:00 a.m. and urging people to stay off the streets. the paramedics will be limited response once they get to a

certain point and curfew in effect from 9:00 p.m. tonight until noon tomorrow and the sheriff explained why. >> the intent of the curfew is so that people are safe, we want to discourage loitering and looting and any other criminal activity which we will not tolerate. reporter: county officials know they dodged a bullet and things could have been a lot worse and predicted to be a lot worse in volusia county, we were expected to expect category 2 or category 3 wind gusts as the storm made its way north, that's been dialed back. authorities are telling residents this is not a time to get complacent. >> that would be a giant mistake because you can see we still are going to have severe conditions, gusts up to 75 miles an hour so it's a dangerous situation plus the ground is saturated. you're going to have a potential of trees falling over, branches out of trees,

electric lines being down, and like we said this is the best projection we have at this point it. could get better, it could deteriorate. reporter: and that is already happening, bill. there have been reports of lines down in volusia county and trees down and flooded roads as well, that's going to get worse as the rain continues to pound this year. they're saying the next 24 hours will be the worst for volusia county and encouraging residents to stay in place. this is the first time the rain has hurt here, this is when you find out your rain pants are not waterproof. bill: oh, my! makes for a much longer night, rick, wow, hang in there, okay. we'll get you better stuff next time. clearly conditions are getting worse by the hour here. this is expected, if you think about the forecast going back 24 hours, this is really how they laid it out. and the national hurricane

center did a pretty good job whether you are using the american model or the european model we've been talking about for days, they were pretty good trying to predict where this thing was going to go and when, and so far, pretty close to spot osandra. sandra: so many people affected. an update coming in. more than three million people in the state of florida without power. we'll have more on that coming up. thank you, bill. hurricane irma unleashing fury on florida. tracking the path along the gulf coast and checking in with floridians in the areas hardest hit.

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. sandra: growing power outages from hurricane irma. learning the storm left at least 3.3 million homes and

businesses in the dark. a resident of marco island, florida joins me by phone on marco island off the southwest coast of florida. so you decided to stick it out, you are there and what are you seeing? >> good evening, so far right now everything is starting to slow down a little bit. there's been storm surge so far also. maybe a foot of water all over the place. which is pretty darn good because they were expecting a lot more, so hopefully another hour or so it will start to dissipate. sandra: can you give us perspective where you are, you are saying can you see a foot of water covering streets? >> yes, yes. sandra: go ahead. >> from my location, yeah, i got the main tag on the front of me, the sign tag on the side

of me and, of course, compound in the area, no matter which way i look, there is a foot of water all the way around. sandra: the big warning was the storm surge that was coming, wayne, and you're saying in the last few minutes you've seen things pick up on that front? >> yes, yes, ma'am. sandra: describe that. what does it look like? are you looking at the second floor of your home? where are you? where are you looking at? >> i'm on the third floor and looking out the lanai slider door and off the main drag in front of me. thank goodness for the blinking light on the water, you can see there's a foot of water out there. sandra: wow, so this is changing, we're looking at a live shot of naples right now, marco island, naples took the brunt. they took a huge hit. that happened about 3:30 p.m. eastern time, and now you're getting that storm surge, the

huge warning from local officials on the ground. after the eye of the storm passed and moved north at about 13 miles per hour, that storm surge was the next major problem. you decided to wait this storm out. why? >> well, originally, believe it or not, i was supposed to fly out first thing this morning, but due to what the governor had to do, which you can't blame him from doing, canceled everything out, so that's why i just said, you know what? just sit back and, you know, hope for the best, and you may call it bravery, you may call it stupidity, being on the borderline, but so far, i did everything that all the news channels was telling people to do, you know, batteries, flashlights, so on and so forth, i followed the rules and i'm doing okay, hanging in there. sandra: wayne, we have to leave it there as we continue to look at live shots all over florida.

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please stay safe and your crew. i'm sandra smith. we will watch you in the morning by the way. thanks for watching. america's news headquarters is up next with melissa francis and mike emmanuel. >> a monster on the loose in the sunshine state. >> irma barrels through florida, carving a path of destruction with a heavily populated tampa st. petersburg metropolitan area next on its hit list. good evening i'm mike emmanuel. >> i'm melissa francis. welcome back to fox news, continuing coverage of hurricane irma, the 400 mile wide storm now a category 2 is already responsible for at least 2 million power outages and damage that will take weeks to assess. >> and the storm is still on the move. tampa bracing for a direct hit from irma in a few hours. we will check in there in a moment as part of our live team coverage of this massive storm. >> but