reporter: the state of florida understood unrelenting attack by hurricane irma. it many leaving behind a deluge and death and destruction. don't come out of your house until the sun is up and you can clearly see. reporter: for days floridans have been hearing the ominous warnings. today they are feeling and witnessing the violence. hurricane irma is a category 2

storm packing 105-mile-an-hour winds while unleashing torrential rains. we know of two storm-related deaths in florida. 3 million homes and businesses are without power. kelly: the grim predictions are those numbers will likely rise before this storm is history. there is growing concern right now that georgia and alabama may soon be in her sights. >> every storm is different. so take the manual and throw it out the window. be prepared for some out of the box thing that we have never seen before. kelly: let's check in with

meteorologist adam klotz in the fox news extreme news weather center where he has been all day following the details of irma. >> the center of the storm slowly moving to the north. about 25 miles south of lakeland. big changes in the last several hours. here is your center of circulation. we are now completely over land. we have been so for a while so the storm is slowly beginning to wind down. still a category 2 store. a powerful storm as we continue to spin over land. we are going to see this continue to drop. before too much longer this is going to fall to a category 1 storm. there is tampa. we are going to keep moving up to the north. tampa will stay on the west side

of this storm which will be good news for them. as this thing continues to drift that direction. good news for tampa, but you can tell from where we are moving our tornado watches and warnings, we are keeping this on the front right quadrant of where that spinning storm is. we have seen tornadoes throughout the entire day. that will continue to be the case. so areas now as far north as jacksonville may see some tornadoes run onshore throughout the rest of the evening in the overnight hours. still a category 2 storm. you put it into motion as you move north of the tampa area. by early tomorrow, falling down to a tropical storm. but you mention as a tropical storm it moves into georgia and

alabama. different than what the folks in florida are dealing with, but it doesn't typically see hurricane or tropical storms get up that direction so it will be a unique challenge for them. you see the storm lifting closer and closer by early tomorrow morning. all this mass moves into south georgia, south alabama lifting into the states. the winds will be the biggest story as the storm moves on. those are hurricane-force wind in the red area. but everything in the orange surrounding it is talking about winds gusting up to hurricane strength, so still getting up close to triple digit and everything in the yellow. this is a huge area. it will be stretching over to the carolinas. that's tropical storm force

winds throughout the overnight hours and we have florida dealing with much of the same. i think wind will get up to 75-80 miles per hour. as this thing tracks north through florida, everyone will be dealing with powerful wind. when all that is over then we start he talk about the storm surge. storm surge still watches and warnings surrounding the entire state. but where we were topping off at 12-15 feet of storm surge. we are now looking closer to 6-8 feet for storm surges in tampa or farther down toward fort myers. but it's still a big storm and a lot of people in the path of this one. kelly: you unpacked a lot.

i'm reminded this will hit places like savannah and possibly hilton head. they are accustomed to storms, but not of this magnitude. >> 80 miles out from the center of the storm. as it moves up, 80 miles out from this storm is where some of these strong winds are. so that covers a huge area, large portions of the southeast from the carolinas all the way into alabama and tennessee. there are a lot of folks that have to be paying attention to this system. kelly: adam was talking about tampa. mike tobin is live in tampa with the latest on conditions there. mike, what can you tell us in terms of how tampa is bracing for this monster of a storm? reporter: we are seeing in this

hour and it looks like it will stretch throughout the hour. ballpark some of the winds may be 75 miles an hour or less as far as what we have seen. but i'm not seeing a lot in the way of destruction. if you look behind me you can see a lot of debris in terms of palm fronds on the road. but also as you look down the street you will notice the lights are still on. we have seen the lights flicker as the storm has progressed. but we haven't seen a major power outage. you can see a lot more in the way of mine you're debris that's been knocked down to the road. if this as bad as the wind event gets, i think you will have city and county leaders in this area quite happy at phase one of this storm. but the problem is, it's only

phase one. they have been warning when the wind event is over, the danger isn't over, the problem isn't over. they don't want people to look at phase one in terms of the impact we have seen thus far in tampa. and i should say what we have seen thus far in tampa is what week see through a microcosm. you can't do a broad survey of the damage until the storm clears. that's part of what the authorities are saying. see if there is damage and downed power lines. before people of want to return from the high ground they have sought from the shelters. it's unpleasant for the people in the shelters and anybody who is away at a friend's house. some higher ground. foremost in their mind is how well did my house do? they want to get home and look at their belongings. but the authorities are saying give it a little while, let's make sure the storm has cleared

and let's make sure it's safe before you come back and get a look. but it's too early to say they have dodged a bullet by a long-shot and certainly not throughout the state. but the wind event we are seeing, this is as intense as it gets. it's not going to be as devastating as people predicted or feared would be a better way to put it. >> we have seen the worst of the wind event but we are watching it now. minimal destruction from our perspective. you still have a flooding event from the future. kelly: one of the good things we have seen through this process is the fact this storm was downgrade and was starting to break apart as it made landfall down there in the florida keys. then that helped them in terms of what they are anticipating to

arrive in tampa as opposed to getting a full category 3 or 4 strength hurricane. that's a remarkable turn of events for the people in tampa. reporter: i would agree. you had a lot of people hoping for the best, planning for the worst. you had mandatory evacuations in the low-lying areas. and the threat hasn't dissipated. you have the storm surge potential off in the future. that could bring the seas as high as 15 feet above their normal level. that's why we had this mandatory vac waiption of zones a and b. the water could come up. anything below those levels means 15 feet above sea level and anything below that. you will have a lot of damage with structured below the water. so they still -- it's too late

to minimize -- too early to minimize this storm and it certainly is too early for people to come home. that's what the authorities have been saying. if you are under evacuation order it's tough to do. everybody wants to go home and see what happens. wait it out for a little while longer. laura: it's a very important message. as we are going into these hours of darkness it's a dangerous time. while the worst rains and winds are behind them, it moves north along the west coast of the state. but it's not to say the many dangers spawned by the hurricane are over. steve, i watched you all afternoon. tell us about the threats the communities still faces. it looks a little calmer than what we saw earlier today for

you. reporter: right now the mayor of naples just said that city has largely been spared by the storm. there were catastrophic predictions about what could happen with a 10-15-foot storm surge. by moving slightly to the east those predictions did not happen. there has been significant damage from the winds. sustained winds of 130 miles per hour has caused a lot of damage just from our small vantage points of walking around a couple of blocks. you could see large trees pulled up from the grounds. some structural damage to houses. a lot of roofs torn off. but not the catastrophic home-smashing damage we have seen in other storms. they are still getting a handle on what the damage is. there is no electric power for

210,000 clients? collier county. it's a dark and rainy night for most people here. even at this hour with the conditions going down a little bit here. it's enough for sheriffs and firefighters to go out and clear the roads. that's priority one. trying to get the trees and power lines off the roads. assess the damage and rescue anyone who needs help and get people to the hospital. 12 inches of rain here creating flooding. we saw 2 to 3 feet of flooding in areas where we were tomorrow. and we expect to see further damage in the morning when we get a clear assessment of how hard this storm has hit the naples area. laura: how is the temperature. bill hemmer was talking about how it was warm and muggy during the day, but when the storm was coming through it dropped and he

was really cold. he was talking about a 10-15 degree difference. how is it where you are? reporter: it's cool and windy. these storms often come in bands so it can change from a light drizzle to rain that can almost knock you over. 45 minutes of the eye when it goes from dark to light and realtor mention rains and 135 miles per hour to perfect calm and a lot of birds come out. a lot of variety while this storm passes through. laura: joining us on the phone. state senator gary farmer. senator, i understand you evacuated tallahassee and moved around a few times in your evacuation plans, is that right? >> i seem to be a little bit of

a hurricane magnet. next time we'll head to alabama and hunker down there. we were a mandatory evacuation zone as of thursday. so we got out of there. it looks like the east coast has avoided certainly a direct hit and the brunt of the storm, and now we are starting to get positive reports in naples and to spft west coast that some of the worst fears were not realized. fingers crossed. the storms are so unpredictable you don't know where they will end up. better safe than sorry. >> where you go to an area where you thought it would be safe, and you are told to evacuate again. i wanted to ask how things were going in broward county. you have a large population there. while there wasn't that direct

hit people feared. there are reports of power outages. boil water orders in some places. what else can you tell us about that? >> we did get the back end, the dirty side, as they call it, of the storm. very significant winds. lots of tornadoes reported. unfortunately. so that's caused significant problems. we have the boil water alert. we are on curfew. that's going to be reviewed in the morning by the county commission, and may be lifted by noon or thereabouts. broward county has 700,000 people if my last report is accurate without power. fpl is doing a good job. they put their assets in strategic places and they are ready to come in and fix these

transponders. broward county has taken a lot. that's a perfect example how the storm is so unpredictable. you can still suffer damage. laura: we want to keep checking in with you. florida state senator gary farmer. we appreciate you being with us tonight. for millions of floridians there will be no calm after the storm. kelly: the daunting task of mending so many tattered lives in the wake of this storm. we'll talk to someone willing, ready and able to lend a helping hand. andre is confident. but when it comes to mortgages, he's less confident. fortunately, there's rocket mortgage by quicken loans. apply simply.

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the peace river canine search and rescue in inglewood, florida. thanks for joining us. i wanted to ask you. what is the difficult task that lies ahead for you. what are you hear being the search and rescue efforts you have to conduct. peace river canine rescue will be waiting until daybreak to start search efforts. in some ways although the storm has been incredibly intense, it hasn't been quite as bad as we thought in charlotte county which is on the north end and charlotte on the south. so we are expecting, hoping the casualties will be light. but we are going to be working with the engelwood fire district

and that puts their resources at our disposal as well as our own resources. we'll be checking were injured people and checking flood areas for survivors. our team members for peace river will be on boats and fire trucks, jet skis. we have sonar we can use. and of course we have talkings trained for water rescue. kelly: so you have a lot of tools at your disposal. we know governor scott sent out warnings long before the storm got close to florida so people were told to evacuate in those areas they thought would get hit and as a result many people did follow his advice. those who comoas to stay have sheltered in place or they have gone to shelters.

do you anticipate having any cass use the or people that might be lost that you need to find? >> i think so, and for a couple of reasons. in our area we have a lot of retirees. there are many, many senior communities. and i learned something very interesting this week which was that sometimes people don't evacuate because they don't have that choice. i was talking to a woman in a check outline at a supermarket and i said are you going to evacuate, and she shrugged her shoulders and said, where would i go? i spoke to a woman at the pet store and asked if she was evacuating. she said we can't evacuate we have 30 animals. sometimes there are people who don't have a choice. kelly: i understand.

i know an arduous task lies before you. peace river k9 search and rescue. thanks for shedding light on what you will have to do when the fog lifts from the storm, a monster storm. as we continue to follow the developments of hurricane irma's extreme wind and strong rains as irma ranges up florida's gulf coast. laura: we are continuing to track the storm right after the break. ♪

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kelly: there is a curfew in daytona. reporter: we are getting whipped pretty good. we were a couple blocks north at ocean avenue where there was a wind tunnel effect. there was an opening that led right to the beach and the wind was coming down that street so fast we had a hard time standing up in it. as soon as we packed up and got back into the vehicle and were heading back this way, the windows of the storefront across the street started blowing out. it was a clothing store so sweatshirt and outer times of clothing were flying out of the front of the store. some clothes hit our vehicle. but there is stuff flying around out here. you can see the trees are whipping in the wind behind me,

the palm trees. if you want to look over this way at the intersection where the traffic light and street signs are swinging in the breeze, it's pretty powerful. the county officials told us to expect tropical storm force wind until late tomorrow morning and hurricane-force gusts. we are pretty sure we felt those. this sign flew off of a post and it's metal. there definitely are dangers in the air, and people are observing the curfew, and just sort of a bunch of people here taking this all in marveling at how wicked this storm is. not nearly as bad as it was on the west coast. it's bad enough for volusia county and daytona beach. the sheriff told me that they

believe that a tornado touched down in orman beach and took out a house that was vacant. certainly there will be property damage, trees down and power lines down. there will be people without electricity tomorrow and perhaps for weeks to come. kelly: how does this impact all the crews that have been stationed there waiting to go out into all of florida to help people restore power? >> there i a few hundred of them in this hotel. they weren't going anywhere anyway until this storm passed through. the guys are here, ready to head out as soon as the wind die down so they can get out safely and start doing that work. i know you are a pro out there, but be careful.

laura: a lot more ahead of us. adam? i'm looking at that behind you. what have we got? adam: still a long ways to go as we are looking at the center of circulation south and east of tampa. i wanted to show you, getting up into daytona beach, we have seen consistently heavy bands of rain running up in that area. we seen tornado spinning up. i have no doubt you are seeing big thunderstorms up there and strong winds on the outer bands in areas of central florida and northern florida. but from orlando to daytona beach there are big storms moving that direction. we'll continue to as we watch the core of this slowly lifting up to the north and west, just some to the southeast of tampa.

there is the future radar. there is the time stamp up in the corner so you can get an idea where this is moving as we see this creep up the coast. tampa should be on the back side of this. that's when you will see the storm surge because of the direction of the wind. they will move over the gulf of mexico on to shore and you will see the storm surge get up to 6 feet. you are looking at the heaviest rain in all that bands of wind moving up into areas of south georgia and southern alabama. we are expecting a really big storm. and i know folks in florida have been getting ready for this. but there are areas where you are not used to seeing stuff like this inial bam pa and north georgia. these are spots where you will get tropical storm force wind.

a thunderstorm can bring 50-60-mile-an-hour winds. but it's there for 15 minutes. but wore talking hours and hours. you see the same thing throughout florida. this is a wind gust forecast. 75 miles per hour, back up to 80 miles per hour. it's still far from over even though it's beginning to feel like it's farther south. then up the line. guys, still a long ways to go. lawyera * thanlaura: , thank yo. kelly: miami was spared the eye of hurricane irma, but storm surge remains, leaving behind significant flooding and damage.

bryan llenas is in miami. reporter: we are getting gusty winds. and we are seeing a very dark miami and dark south florida. i'm using a flashlight. we have downed trees. you can see that. right? this is blocking the entrance to people's homes all over south florida, which is why authorities have a curfew in place from 7:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m. you have a traffic signal that fell on the grounds. and that is a power line. this is exactly why they don't want anybody in the streets. it's dark. people have lost their power. close to 900,000 people in

miami-dade. and the conditions are ripe for more trees to continue to fall and more traffic lights to continue to fall. this is why the curfews are in place. the cities of miami beach and others-need time to assess the damage. and think won't be able to do a good job of it until tomorrow morning when the winds go down and they will be able to see. once that's done, they can look and start allowing people back into their neighborhoods. miami beach, they said they won't let people back until noon. that's a lot of the damage we are seeing. a lot of downed trees and downed power lines. and people will have to be extremely patient. with these times of winds, there is no way they will be able to put the buckets in the air and start getting these hour lines repaired.

until hurricane irma is out of florida people need to be patient and hunker down in their homes without power. kelly: we'll get back with you as more developments take place there. the changes we have seen there going on in miami alone. yesterday it liked like miami would be all right. then we saw that storm create that storm surge and that wind. and we have seen the changes there not only in miami but other parts of florida. that's why this is such a dangerous storm. laura: the power lines are down. when they make sure everything is cool and everything is okay, there you have it. as all the warnings were to get ready and stay ready, that means stay down and wait for your local officials to tell you what to do. kelly: for those of you who

can't see us, hopefully you are listening on radio. hopefully you are paying attention to what fema and leaders of your city and state stated, stay off the streets and out of harm's way. speaking of the hazards. there are widespread power outages as we have seen a moment ago in florida. as irma makes its way through the state. laura: we have much more to tell you and show you. stay with us as our extended coverage continues. during our made to move 2017 clearance event, you can do endless online research. or, you can take advantage of our best offer ever on an xt5. don't wait. our 2017 models will be moving fast. you can drive a car... or you can drive a cadillac. come in now before the end of

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two deputies were with the palm beach county sheriffs office. these two heroes were killed in a car collision sunday while in the line of duty. despite many dangers posed by hurricane irma. they did not leave with the evacuees. deputy bridges was pick up supplies for a hurricane shelter when she lost her life. reporter: miami is one of the counties under a curfew after a punishing day from hurricane irma. the county is facing threats from toppling kraints to looters. joe, irma is well north of you, but we understand that there is some damage left in her wake. what can you show us?

>> i know you are a man who appreciates good news. the hospital not far from here tweefght out two hurricane babies were born as the storm was surging. we understand they are doing fine. so that's fantastic news. life obviously continuing during the storm. meanwhile we have stepped out of the water. i have been coming to you from knee to him deep in the water behind me. this is downtown brickell known as the wall street of the south. the lone we are out now while others remain in. we heard a transform and saw port of it blowing out in the distance. we don't want to take chances with electrified water. this is why first responders caution against coming out immediately after a storm. the truth is most of people don't die during a storm, but

after a storm. i just noticed while we were out here and it may have just washed away, but they were -- here is some of it, chunks of glass from a window. this is a tiny shard, it's about the size of a quarter. but in 120-mile-an-hour wind gusts his would rip your eye apart. it's like a bullet to your head. as far as power outages go, the last number we got which was a little while ago was 880,000 in miami-dade county without fourr- without power. but i'm sure that number has rise in the last bit of time. this is the southern exposure. we are waiting for the southern end of irma to hit us and smack

us from the south back up towards the north. it never happens. my produce der was never look at the radar out here in the field in miami. it never occurred, and it seems that sort of was on the back end. we never got these bands. and the thinking is that they are no longer coming which is why i have taken the jacket off. no more rain falling and the water receding. i know there is a lot of negativity. things seem to be on the up and up right now. kelly: the greatest up and up is two babies were born at the hospital. i'm glad you brought that up. we'll follow the developments and later on we'll show pictures of the two stories. joe, you stay safe, my friend.

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laura: some special deliveries during the hurricane at a hospital in miami-dade county. here are the babies. they were born just before 3:00 just as hurricane irma was closing in on the coast of florida the second baby irma was born just about an hour later. the hospital says both mothers and new babies are happy and healthy. moms if you have power there, congratulations from all of us and dads, too. they also offered special congratulations. the hospital emergency department continues to accept patients through the this storm.

kelly: there was a third baby born, but she was born at home and delivered by the mother. hurricane irma unleashing its full fury on key west sunday morning. joining us is davis gonzalez. 10 employees and 54 cats survived irma. how did everyone do? >> we are doing great here. we are fortunate and blessed that we didn't receive a lot of the hurricane activity. very low flooding zones here. we have taken a drive around the island this evening. actually, there were only two streets that we could not go down. kelly: the cats? >> all 54 cats are accounted for and all 10 employees as well.

we have a lot of landscape damage. no structural damage and anywhere we saw on the island. a lot of trees are down. limbs and leaves all over the place. we are dodging limbs and trees. other than that, we are happy to say i don't see any structural damage in key west. kelly: ernest hemingway was the famous writer who enjoyed life in key west. that museum is important in terms of his legacy and life as a writer. but to the neighbors what's your message to them about the kind of storm they had to endure and overcome? >> if you are in a low-lying area or flood zone consider evacuation. we have a unique environment.

we are at the second highest point of ground in all the florida keys. we are in a 16-inch thick limestone block building that has been here since 1851. it's a fortress. that's where we sought shelter. everyone else along the florida keys, the correct thing to do would be to evacuate. we are out and about, setting up our generators. they are providing our air-conditioning and fringe ray tore systems. we have food and supplies on hand. for everyone else if you are in that low-lying area, consider evacuation. kellyanne: rrp if anyone is in need would you open that

building for evacuation. >> we are a private company and we did provide shelter to our employees. if you are in low-lying areas that are unsafe. they came to us and we provided a safe facility for them to ride out the storm. kelly: thank you for safeguarding that ernest hemingway house and museum. laura: a storm unlike anything seen in recorded u.s. history. kelly: stay tuned, our live coverage of hurricane irma continues next hour. just one application gives you superior hold even at the end of the day fixodent. strong more like natural teeth. you're more than just a bathroom disease. you're a life of unpredictable symptoms.

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laura: this is what hell looks like. an ominous message from a until official. but some refuse to be intimidated. >> i have lived here my entire life. i'm laura ingle in new york. kelly: i'm kelly wright. florida continues to be ravaged

by storm forces never before recorded in this country. laura: officials say it will take weeks and perhaps months to restore power to over a any homes and businesses. the destruction will likely be unprecedented and the images are heartbreaking. >> this water is going to come in quickly. it will cover your first floor potentially or more. and then it will come out. i don't know how you are going to survive that. laura: let's check in live with our mike tobin. >> for all of the fear that this was going to be a direct hit on tampa, we now know the eye will pass to the east of tampa and with the storm potentially baits

has been broken up. in terms of the intensity we expected to see here, from my snapshot of the world i have seen worse. there is a lot of debris knocked down from the trees. mostly just palm frond that came down from the trees. but you notice as you look down the street, the lights are still on. we see the lights flicker during the course of this storm. but they never went out all together. looking back behind me the same kind of thing. a lot of debris on the streets. you don't see the broken windows or the roofs that have been turned off. as far as the wind event, we expected things -- we feared things would be worse than they are right now. that doesn't mean it's over. the wind is the show, the water is the punt. all the authorities have warned throughout this process that it doesn't end with phase one.

the water event is still coming tomorrow. the storm surge they are all predicting. we'll see what the levels end up. but what they don't want is people to look at this wind event, happy that they haven't seen a lot of destruction and return together scene. they are asking that people hold out for a little while until the authority can go out, get a survey of the damage and the remaining danger and put up the all clear before people go back it's a hard thing to do. if you are out at one of the shelters and went to a friend's house or neighbors house or relative's house. the authorities are asking people to gift a little bit of time. you still need a little more time for the experts to come out and make sure there are no downed power lines or other dangers in your property. laura: one of the things you

talked about, about the water and the storm surge, we are looking to see how bad it's going to be. a lot of people on social media taking pictures in tampa bay and looking how the water went out and now we are waiting to see how it will come back in. reporter: that was remarkable to see all that water go out and spooky. all that volume of water going out of tampa bay means it's gathering somewhere. all the redikss were that it would come back in, particularly when it comes into tampa bay, it's got nowhere to go other than to flood the low-lying areas. that's why the mandatory evacuations went into effect. we have to see what materializes tomorrow. they predicted it could be 15 feet over normal level. so it could be potentially

devastating still. that's why the authorities want to be so very cautious. if this is the worst we have seen of the wind event, good. but we don't know that the worst of the water event has passed. laura stay safe out there, mike tobin, thank you for that. kelly: now for the latest on this storm. let's check in with meteorologist adam klotz. what's the latest that you have? adam: we are continuing to track this storm as it moves more and more into central florida. when this made -- we were tracking this 24 hours ago. it's moving north at 14 miles an hour. so the's weakening just a little bit. now a category 2 storm trying to hang on to 100-mile-an-hour winds.

most of of the activity right now is happening to the north of this center of circulation. that's where the wind gusts have been and we have seen a couple of tornado get spun up and that's where the heaviest rain has been. here is our future radar taking you from 2:00 a.m. we are going to see this whole system climb with that leading edge of rain leading the way. so still folks from tampa all the way to the north will be getting this in the overnight hours. we are from jacksonville. portions of southern georgia running along the gulf coast. pensacola and stretching up into alabama. this is going to continue to move. you and it will stay fairly powerful, those winds. a lot of people will see this storm system. it's been hanging on to that category 2 longer than we thought it would but we do

expect it will be dropping down to a cat 1 storm before too much longer as it slowly begins to make that track. it will cut across georgia and alabama as well. tennessee, memphis, we'll see the remnants of this system as it moves up that direction. north georgia, 50-60-mile-an-hour winds. even the rest of tonight, here is the motion. here is the forecasted wind gusts throughout the rest of the night. orlando, winds getting up to 60-70 miles an hour. still in tampa even when you are on the back side of this system. those will be the winds that grab the water and pump in that storm surge. we are still under a storm surge watch and warning across the entire state. the latest date a we have been seeing probably not a 10-foot storm surge. but that still is enough to do a lot of damage. that happens really early

tomorrow morning. so we still have a longways to -- a long ways to go, kelly. kelly: the experts are calling hurricane irma unprecedented in terms of her strength and destruction. joining us by phone to provide more insight on this historic nature of this storm, a research scientist from colorado state university. and a meteorologist to shed some insight on what we can anticipate from this storm. irma is setting records, but not as powerful as it could have been. >> the shift and interaction with the keys the last few days helped weaken the storm. it's been an active season. that interaction with the keys weakened irma a little bit.

but the big concern with irma not only for the main intensity but also for the size of the storm. tropical storm force winds. to have that wind area moving up into florida. but the hurricane-force area is small early about the size of massachusetts. you had that moving into an area. we did see irma reintensify back to the category 4 hitting the keys thanks to some internal processes going on in the storm, eyewall replacement cycle. the thunderstorms that make up the initial eye dissipating and getting replaced. but that ends up making the storm larger which can increase the surge. kellekel. kellyanne: a couple week --kelle

were dealing with harvey and louisiana and texas. it spawned so much flooding that people in houston were not prepared for. and now we see irma and the state -- the governor of the state and the leaders of the state warn people to get out of harm's way, in fact made mandatory evacuations. so perhaps we'll see a good thing out of that type of activity. but off in the distance, not too far away is hurricane jose off the caribbean right now. so we are seeing a lot of activity this season. and this is the height of the hurricane season. we are anticipating this will go on through the end of october and the early part of november. why are we seeing so much activity? >> so far we have 11 storms.

the average for a season is 12. we see seasons go from being active to inactive. we have seen seasons where we have had less activities than normal. the last big season was 2005. in 2005 we had four major hurricanes. dennis, katrina and wilma make landfall on the mainland of the united states. we have seen hurricanes but they haven't interfered with the u.s. sometimes it's perception of how sack tough the season is based on how many storms we see hit the u.s. but this year is a little unprecedented. this is the first season we have seen two category 4 storms make landfall on mainland u.s., which is just unprecedented. a lot of this comes down to the ingredient that allows storms to

develop. the first one is how warm is the ocean waters. that's something by september 10 we see across the entire tropical atlantic. the second ingredient is how moist the air is that would allow thunderstorms to develop and turn into a hurricane. and the last one is wind shear. a lot of times we see these ingredients are all in place at a given time. and this season they are more favorable than most of. kelly: the caribbean waters have been extremely warm. i was in turks and caicos just two weeks ago and i remarked to friends how warm the water was. of course, hurricane harvey was pounding texas and louisiana at that time. and i just kept remarking this water is extremely warm. it could happen here. then we saw what irma was able to do there.

to my friends in turks and caicos i am hoping they will fare well and not be hit by jose. but right here in america we have seen some of our major metropolitan areas hit by these storms. that's what's so striking. you will recall? 2005 when the storms were hitting. people were talking about the el nino effect. >> there are different conditions that play a role every year. one of the factors that plays into the activity is the thankeddian-julian operation. a cluster of thunderstorms moves around the equator. you will see activity in the tropical atlantic and the eastern pacific. and it goes back and forth from when we see activity in the northern hemisphere during the tropical season. the atlantic isn't the only place we see storms.

we see storms from mexico in the eastern and western pacific. usually we see a lot of super typhoons in the western pacific. and at a given time. this will be the atlantic period and we happen to have a number of thunderstorms come off of strike in what we call an african easterly wave. it came at a time when this was favorable for the atlantic. combine the fact that they allowed the storms to intensify and something we don't want to see. kelly: it seems we have sales been concerned about the cape verde storms coming off the coast of africa. what a great mini education lesson on these storms. and what spawns them and why we must deal with them. and of course the greatest thing we dock is have people like you keep us informed to forecast it

and get us prepared. and of course fema, the president of the united states and other leaders, governors of these states and mayors of these cities affected by it, they are always prepared because of people like yourself and adam klotz and our meteorologists here keeping us prepared and updated. it's early in the morning for some people, but it's never too late to learn of how we have to deal with these storms and brace for the impact. thank you, sir. well, -- laura: millions of floridians ordered to evacuate ahead of irma, more than ever in history. kellyanne: rrp some chose to ride out the storm and they are

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afternoon. reporter: the rain largely stopped falling. still some gusts of wind. naples was hit by 130-mile-per-hour wind. right now there are almost 200,000 people without electric power. but despite that the mayor is saying the city of 20,000 has largely been spared by the storm because there were predictions of a potential catastrophe from a flood surge because the back end of the storm was weaker than expected he says the surge did not materialize. there is significant damage around naples in the area we saw, a number of downed trees either snaps or pulled up from the ground. a lot of roofs damaged as well. but not major structural damage. that's what the city feared and that's not what happened. right now, even in the

nighttime. fire rescue teams are out there. their main goal is to clear the roadways. they are trying to clear that for any search and rescue operations to make sure the routes to the hospitals are open. as far as returning to homes. 20,000 people decided to goin shelters. they are being urged to stay in the shelters as the water is rising from the surge. laura: i know you have seen a lot of hurricane. it was interesting to watch you earlier when you were on with shepard smith. as bad as it was. you were saying it still wasn't as bad as what you had seen in katrina. now that you are watching what's happening now in the overnight hours. are you still feeling that way? >> you can't minimize the dan and destruction, especially in

mobile home parks where people have lost their roofs. some significant dpraj this storm and loss of life particularly in the caribbean. but for anyone who was in katrina, the overwhelming physical force when buildings and trailers and vehicles were thrown about, that's something that's hard to forget. kelly: more than 3 mill florida homes and businesses are without power. laura: as hurricane irma continues to unleash its fury on the state of florida our extended coverage continues after this. when you switch to progressive. winds stirring. too treacherous for a selfie. [ camera shutter clicks ]

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laura: hurricane irma downgrade to a category 2. 3.3 million florida homes and businesses are without power. nearly a third of the state. we want to get with meteorologist adam klotz in the fox news extreme weather center. what's the latest, adam? >> continuing to track this storm and we are going to sight move quicker up to 14-mile-an-hour motion of this general storm. this our future radar. i'm going to take you back just a second. this is the tampa area. we are getting the circulation south of it and to the west. so the real big thunderstorms, the real big activity has been north of this system. here is what it's looking like as it lifts up to our north. by the type we get up to early

tomorrow morning, we are look at the heaviest rains. areas like valdosta and albany. all areas that will initially get this heavy rain tomorrow. this will continue to push its way to the north stretching over into portions of alabama and the carolinas. as a result all of this area is looking at those going to be under tropical storm watches and warnings as we have the hurricane warnings farther to the south. this is the setup for that. your satellite-radar is showing the tight circulation. almost directly in line with the tampa area. this has been able to maintain itself as a category 2 storm. it's held together considering it's sitting over land. it will be tracking west just a little bit, but likely as it gets to the gainesville area still a category 1 storm as we'll continue to watch this

thing spin. that cat 2, i'll put it into motion. category 1. that will be tomorrow morning. 75-mile-an-hour winds. there is your notion taking you into tomorrow morning and back out. stretching from georgia and into alabama. all areas we are paying attention to. in the overnight hours, there is plenty to be concerned about. 50, 60 miles per hour, perhaps up to 60, 70, 80 miles per hour. the back side of this, suddenly the winds shift and they are coming out of the west. that's when you see the storm surge piling up. no surprise here. to the south we have now backed this down a little bit. the tropical storm warnings is the worst is still behind.

i was talking about everything that's going to happen to our friends in georgia. from areas in the carolinas over to alabama. they are under a tropical storm warning. so there is still a lot to pay attention to. this will be running into areas where these folks aren't generally used to dealing with tropical storm type systems. so there is a lot of folks in the way of this before it's all said and done. kelly: the map behind you where you see the hurricane's path, it's actually over land. had it moved out to sea right there in the gulf of mexico, it would have caused more of a storm surge, is that right? adam: we are on the east side. this system is on the east side of tampa, east side side of st. pete. it would pick up more speed, a

little bit more higher winds. but then of course it's going to increase those storm surges. we were originally saying 10 feet in the tampa bay area and now it's looking closer to 60. laura: the fact that it's over orlando, i remember watching the early tracking of this. is this surprising that it's moved in towards orlando. a lot of people look at disney world and all the theme parks. adam: it's a little surprising. but we are getting to a very narrow area. this isn't too far off these big bands hopefully folks in orlando had a good idea this was coming. they are still in that front right quadrant where they can see tornadoes and thunderstorms and that's what's happening. laura rrm thank you so much.

we'll continue to check back in with you. kelly: disney is closed because of this hurricane. and hurricane force gusts and rain still lashing florida's east coast. let's finds out what's happening on the other side of the state. there have been tornado sightings in volusia county and sarasota. rick, has the wind dired down a little bit for you? reporter: no, i think the wind is consistent. but the rain has stopped. it was pouring for most of of the day on and off, then really coming count last three or four hours. the wind is kicking up pretty good on atlantic avenue. we have seen minor property damage. some signs have come down. and couple blocks north of here we watched some windows blow out

and merchandise clothing come flying out of the store. i think there will be some cleanup in the morning. county officials told us they were concerned about these overnight hours. necessity knew the winds would be at their peak between 10:00 p.m. and roughly 11:00 a.m. tomorrow morning. that's why they put a curfew in effect and told people to stay off the streets and shelter in place until this thing is done which will be sometime tomorrow afternoon. necessity closed all the bridges between the beaches and the mainland. so if you were on the beach pass of 9:00 tonight you had to stay on the beach. in an emergency you could get off, but nobody was getting on until the winds got below tropical storm force and authorities could judge the bridges were safe to travel on. this is a lesser storm now than it was when it hit the west coast of until, but it's still going to do some damage here.

definitely trees and power lines down. the sheriff said there was what they believe to be a tornado touchdown in orman beach that destroyed a home there. the storm is not as bad pass once predicted and it looks like they will be able to come through this okay. laura: conditions slowly improving in miami, the winds lessened and the flood waters receding and the people looking towards recovering from the damage left by hurricane irma. bryan, what's it looking like? so just a little while ago we saw heavy winds. are you holding on to your hat? now it looks like it has died down a little bit. reporter: it seemed we were

getting that last bit of airporta. we had gusts of wind and we were showing you downed power lines and trees. i'm in a residential neighborhood and you might as well just in the middle of nowhere. it's that dark. the power lines are down. this is what people are seeing there this is why people cannot get home. giant trees down. this thing has been here for a long time. this is coral way next to coconut drove. the green are you, this is completely down. you can see it's blocking the road. this is street after street after street in this neighborhood alone, and that's why people can't get home and that's why there is a curfew in place. from 7:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m. if you look over here you will see more debris and more debris.

to give you an idea how dark it is. down the street. that's just my flashlight to give you an idea. all the way down there. part of the issue is actually looters. think about it. everyone has evacuated or is hunkered down. and these homes. we have seen probably a half dozen of patrols going down with police shining their lights looking around neighborhoods. the miami police department tweeted this photo saying they arrested 28 looters or burglars thus far. they said thinking about looting? ask these guys how that turned out. the miami police department is out in full force look for burglars and looters. it's a serious threat and the police are going around. also for your safety, we have seen downed power lines and

trees. people have gone to shelters, they have traveled far, they have gone through the storm, it's exhausting. people want a hot meal in their own home. but not yet. we'll see at daylight tomorrow just how bad it really is. and the recovery process beginninbeginning with lines bet up and these trees being moved out of the way. laura: those trees are so large you just showed us. as you say that, the police are out on patrol. how are the police and responders getting around when the trees are down on those roads like that? how are they able to do those patrols? >> that's a good question. we had a tough time getting around. but apparently they figured out how to ma tiewfer and find their way around. if you go down one road you are

not sure if there is any way out of where you came in. if you get past a tree it doesn't work it's a bit of a maze out here. i think the police have gone the a good handle of which roads are accessible to people. we saw police stop the end of i95 to u.s.1 because of a downed line. much of south florida right now in complete darkness and authorities are just asking for patience. it will be a while before we get back. and it's hot. september is not an easy month. the humidity is high. we'll see. we just need patience as we clean up. laura thank you for bringing those pictures. as floridians anxiously await sunrise, some slightly better news for forecasters.

kelly: irma could soon be a tropical storm. but that's not to say florida has donged a built. we'll show you why when we return.

laura: hurricane irma is expected to be downgrade to a tropical storm in the morning. but it will continue to cause problems as it moves north. the mayor of folly beach, south carolina joins us. good morning. thanks for being with us on this very important news event. what are you telling your residents in our city at this point. this area is surround by water. you are watching his come your

way. what are you telling people? >> the thing we are worried about now is the coastal flooding with the wind and rain and extremely high tides we have against experiencing. that leaves us to low-lying areas and streets flooding and that's our main concern. of course, the wind damage. laura: i was wondering if you could tell us more about the geography of folly beach. i have been talking to folks who have visited your area and they describe as a beautiful white sand surf area where people come to enjoy and relax. it sound lovely. tell us about folly beach and the surrounding areas. >> we are about 10 miles south of charleston, south carolina.

we are a barrier island of course. and we are about 7 miles long and 3/4 mile wide at the widest point. that gives you not a lot of space. we do have a lot of surfing here generally. we are one of the places along the east coast that surfers migrate to for a lot of contests because of the waves and the way they break since we are an outside island from charleston. laura: we are all looking at florida but we are starting to turn our eyes toward you. how is the mood there? we have been talking with people in florida what is the mood there? are people starting to repair?

are people starting to get that this could be coming their way? >> well, we have been preparing for the last couple days. especially for the flood. just about 2,500 people that live here full time. and over the last few days we have given away 1,600, 1,700 sandbags. and parking their cars somewhere else and get their valuables out of what would normally be a floodwater event from like hurricane matthew, the last experience we had. so this has been on their mind and they have been working hard and the place is boarded up. but you prepare for the worst

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laura: floridians thinking about getting back home, it won't be easy. orlando airport won't reopen to traffic until the storm passes. fort lauderdale and tampa are

also closed. kelly: a storm of this size and strength poses a life-threatening risk to everything in its path. safety is of the utmost importance. joining us on the phone to explain about the dangers is severe weather safety expert and weather expert. thanks for joining us, charlie. when you look at a storm of this magnitude and of course i just talked to laura off camera how we are seeing the effects of the storm and the fact it is now downgrade to a category 2. there might be some people looking at this lightly and they don't take it very seriously. >> that temperature right, kelly. as the system moves north it will continue to weaken. as soon as hurricanes hit land it starts to degrade the system.

but it's going to continue to have hurricane-force gusts all the way up into southern georgia. so we'll see widespread areas from pretty much the rest of the evening from kissimmee to orlando and further north. an ocala up to gainesville as it makes its way up to the north. as it moves father north we'll see localized flash flooding. it will start speeding up, the forward movement is 14 miles an hour. the faster it goes the less we'll see in the flash flood threat. but the winds. those winds clearly are strong enough to down trees and down power lines. in those situations.

most of deaths from hurricane, tornadoes, flash flooding in the united states occur not because the danger snuck up on people it's because people pig mored the warning. they went into danger area, they drove into floodwaters. they weren't paying attention. they ended up driving over, stepping into an area that saw a downed power line and got electric cute. they did not -- they got electrocuted. as this system moves north it will continue to be a threat for large areas to lose power at times. you need to make sure the entire northern part of florida up into southern georgia and alabama where there are tropical storm warnings all the way to the tennessee state line. make sure you prepare for this to power outages. you have got food, water and medicine for two or three days

of power outages. kelly: i recall hurricane fran hitting north carolina. we were living 100 miles inland and we watched fran come up the coast and into over land mass week here seeing irma do over florida and still strike everything all the way up into the virginias. into the virginia area. so to the people watching this right now and living in those areas you just mentioned, they need to be on guard, right? >> that's exactly right. once you get into southern georgia and eastern alabama as the storm moves north. there are a lot of rural areas. we'll see trees down and power lines down. folks in those rural areas. it could take a few days to get power back in some of those

extreme cases. that's why you need to stay put and be prepared. the damage still, we'll have millions of dollars of damage in areas not hardest hit by the eye. we are talking about georgia and alabama. kellyanne: charlie, thank you. it's very dangerous. be prepared. hurricane irma is moving north. lawyerr stay with us, our extended coverage continues right after the top of the hour. [ "livin' thing" by electric light orchestra ] ♪ sailin' away on the crest of a wave, it's like magic ♪ ♪ rollin' and ridin' and slippin' and slidin' ♪

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♪i will always, i will always ♪love you . >> the state of florida under attack by the unmatched period of nature as hurricane irma continues to report march leaving behind a trail of death and destruction. >> we will see a very powerful hurricane make its way up county by county you can clearly see. >> good morning we are hearing those dire warnings with hurricane irma period

and the numbers are staggering downgraded at a category one but their lease two new deaths related also spawning tornadoes and storm surges were than 3 million homes and businesses are without power. >> the for this storm is history but it is far from over and there's growing concern that georgia and alabama and baby in her sights next. >> every storm is different so be prepared for some out of the box. >> now for the latest we will check in with the extreme weather center and adam klotz.

>> looking at 85-mile per hour wind still gusting at 120 miles per hour here is the center of circulation with a leading edge that has been impressive numbers right along the corridor toward to orlando talking about this area that is very heavy rain was strong wind. looking at 80 miles per hour obviously damage stretchy into the orlando area. now back to the tampa area on the backside but nothing like what we are seeing currently. currently category one east of to above but put this on the move by 8:00 in the

morning it is in gainesville it will continue to go along the gulf coast turning into a georgia and alabama looking at why did spread rain in this area. as far as the land in north georgia with those 55-mile per hour passed through these early morning hours likely getting up to 70 your 80 miles per hour moving through the orlando area. there is still some impressive wind damage that will be happening but that brings though planned with it all the way into portions of georgia getting up at 65 miles per hour into tomorrow.

looking at the hurricane watches and warnings all of central florida is under this morning. the only thing that is left now is the storm surge the wind damage has now been moving off now moving to the north also tropical storm watches and warnings into georgia and alabama and the carolinas. so just hours ago that was under a watch now it is a warning so they do continue to extend this. want 2.0 quickly this is all the activity we pay attention to but with social media asking me a about hurricane jose here is a bunch of tracks category 3

they all looked added doing a big loop before turning back right now it has a turning away from the country the our ears perked up a little bit but this is the we will pay attention to a. >> absolutely. we will check back with you in this hour. >>. >> now we're watching tampa so a lot of people are watching and wondering all happened with the category 1 with that storm surge what a dealer anticipate in that area?. >> according to the

predictions that would leave by a 2:00 in the wording so there was a lot of intensity earlier between midnight and now that we saw a lot of trade, down the sheet after sheet it has slowed down for the moment and the wind is mild. now talking about the storm surge is another story. that is bay's number two the wind is the show and the water is the punch we have to see what materializes from the storm surge resawed that remarkable phenomenon today were the water retreated it has to go somewhere eventually it will come rushing back to push into those low-lying areas. that is why they had admitted to area evacuation in what authorities have

been saying is they don't want people to think it is over so we can go back home there's still another even went out there -- even doubt there people are injured or killed his is after the storm trying to return to the area. so what they hear from the authority is give them time to check for the standing water or power lines give them a chance to make things -- make sure things are safe to return to your homes. because obviously if you have left your house wondering what is happening but the authorities are asking to give them some time that everybody remain safe but most people say the

worst has passed in my observation in the intensity is backing off. >> we saw you at the top of the east coast being pummeled by wind and rain now looking at you with is called considering what could have happened now add a category 1 be prepared for the worst but hope for the vast. >> there was a lot of predictions as a direct hit the first time since 1921 and that would be devastating to the area. that would increase dramatically so there was more potential to take place

with a great deal of concern. but look around so the newspaper box but the big thing to look at down the street all the lights are on and traffic lights are working people are walking around the streets thinking the storm has passed that people want to explore the with this particular snapshot it was not as bad as people feared is that all shapes up in the morning with that extensive survey. >> things seem to be a lot less hectic and now we will see when daylight comes meanwhile the of hospitals

in the area have to be prepared for anything some are even forced to move patients to safer locations. joining us on the phone is a specialist in an orlando. doctor, thanks for joining us at this hour in orlando. first of all, how are things in orlando? you chose to stay. >> thanks for having me on. it does seem like we have gone through the worst but this is the worst right now. i think we're getting the worst of the storm as we speak in this area. it is quite interesting originally from new jersey this is my first hurricane in florida is a real to be a part of this right now.

kelly: from a medical perspective as a doctor who passed to provide care for patients, are you last to stand by for emergency situations?. >> unfortunately i was not on call they have a special hurricane team as all hospitals have that but i did sign up on the floor then disaster web site if i was needed. the governor did a great job to prepare the community for this hurricane so we had weak supporting to make sure patients were taken care of and to conquer any major disaster to take care of them for several days. kelly: that is a good point

several days beyond the storm because negative you know likely you are getting those winds from this hurricane which is now downgraded add a category one but still has a punch. in the aftermath as it passes through you are left with people being without power and that could affect your patient. >> absolutely there is 7 million people without power right now and obviously you will get the best health care bill look for these things that hold as well. you have to eat major it isn't perishable because that could lead to infectious diseases or that you have a clean water supply. at least have boiled water

that it was spoiled at least one minute and take care of your children at the same time. the clean air you are with your high e.g. though less you are to infection prone from the flood water or everything else that is not an ideal conditions right now. kelly: right now how is the mentality affect people with the psychology? is that something mental health haths to be concerned about with just helping people model they are physically hurt the triage has to have a mental impact. >> i do think there is a lot of anxiety especially those who are not here and had to be evacuated so that is what we screen for is mental

illness that can happen because of depression or anxiety and it is something we have to look out for. it is unfortunate. kelly: perhaps the best advice is one day at a time. >> state, and trust the system. kelly: good to have you on. >> in miami one of cities under curfew after a turbulent day in the hands of hurricane irma. the population of more than 6 million is facing a number of threats from toppling cranes to looters and now we have the of very latest. hurricane irma this note -- weld number did you but what has she left in her wake?

reporter: one thing that is working well is the drainage system i was waist deep in water now retreating to the sidewalk as transformers are blowing now the water has become electrified looking back that may not have been the case. receding water they are finding this a shard of glass coming of a window near by from these high-rises as the windows started to blow out so you can imagine if you were on the streets if a piece of glass is flying at 130 miles per hour is a projectile why a officials tell people to stay inside and continue to do so. at 7:00 p.m. eastern going intel's 7:00 in the morning the authorities just don't want people on the streets

and there are reports all across the country asking when can the residents of miami go back to their home? the short answer is nobody knows. we don't know the extent of the damages likely we will not know until the sun rises tomorrow. >> be careful with all that glass on the ground. you are right that is a very dangerous situation. listen to your local and state officials. kelly: now we will update we were talking about a few moments ago that orlando is getting hit with some extreme weather but all eyes are on florida q. but and other islands are starting the daunting task of

recovery in that process is huge particularly after hurricane irma ripped through the area causing mass destruction a storm responsible for 26 deaths st. martin, the british virgin islands, u.s. virgin islands and puerto rico the most devastated area was barbuda describing total devastation of that island and the residents are left homeless. that is striking also on the other islands as well living in one story homes with no power and victims are in need of food and water to make sure they're eating the right things and drinking water that is safe. there's so much needed that area president trump made the major disaster

declaration to of the u.s. territories or waiting for federal aid to reach them but also cruz ships are headed for the island's to help with the rescue efforts >> what i have been seeing on twitter so please don't forget us people say we know that it is moving on but don't forget us. kelly: also dispatching two ships the cruise line fish sending cruise ships to pick up people who could not get off the island before the storm hit there is a lot going on but human life his paramount the tragedies of this magnitude strike. >> we cannot ignore the

wildlife these heroic efforts to protect a whole -- a helpless victim

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magnitude everything is at risk but wildlife and the attractions that housed them also concerned about the wrath of hurricane irma joining us on the phone is president and ceo of florida aquariums riding out the storm with his family and thanks for joining us here in the middle of the night. >> good morning it is great to talk to you everything is good here. >> first what did you have to do to secure the aquarium and the animals inside? it still is bad we won't know the extent and tell the sun comes up you have a lot to prepare for. >> that is a great question how we handle our priority we started back thursday to

batten down the hatches looking at all of the emergency supply generators said it took about 72 hours to get ready for hurricane irma that we did everything we needed to do we turn off the water main to be sure we don't have any issues when we get back tomorrow she is locked up and fingers crossed that now we're watching the surge over the next few hours. >> so tell us about the location you are right on the baby area that could likely get a storm surge we don't know how big but you feel the aquarium can handle that?. >> yes. it depends on the surge. we are prepared to handle a decent size because we move the animals up with backup

generators and they will help us get online very quickly but it is such a powerful storm nobody can figure out what that would truly look like so we are anticipating when daylight daylight, said if we can get over their. >>, the animals are we talking about?. >> about 20,000 at the florida aquarium from the giant loggerhead sea turtles, penguins', sharks but the aquarium the majority of the exhibit or on second and third floors of their not affected by the surge it was just animals on the first floor. so power is the important factor we have to make sure we have power and those

backup generators kicked go in and we are good. >> did you say 20,000? [laughter] so now we know about the animals what about the humans?. >> we are hunkered down with the of family and we're in a unique position on the icebreaker in the family is all sleeping. that was a nice welcome for the families here at the aquarium. >> welcome to florida. [laughter] it seems that they are finding out how things will go so we encourage you tuesday's safe than follow the advice of your local officials how soon do dq could be open?.

>> as? as we can we want to bring normalcy back to the city to get in there when the sunlight comes to assess the situation and then to see what people can come visit. >> president and ceo of the florida aquarium stay safe. >> our thoughts are with everybody in florida. kelly: this hurricane has quite a punch and the mayor of tampa said we will get punched in the face but fortunately not as powerful as it was anticipated but as hurricane irma continues to live up the coast as a category one. >> we have the latest coming up straight ahead depend silhouette briefs feature a comfortable, sleek fit. as a dancer, i've learned you can't have any doubts. because looking good on stage is one thing.

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laura: for some floridians the worst of irma is thankfully behind them. steve harrigan is with us. tell us about the mess that irma left behind in naples. reporter: the heavy wind and rain is gone from names, but the electric power is gone. 2 million people are in the dark tonight. the mayor of naples says his city of 20,000 was mostly spared by the storm despite the fact it was hit by 130-mile-per-hour winds. the back ends of the storm was

not strong enough to support that. so we had wind damage. to knock roof off house and destroy mobile home parks. that will make getting around extremely difficult. despite that and despite the lack of electric power. fire rescue teams are out to clear those roads, and tomorrow morning bright and early try to get a start on assessing the damage. for the rest of the people, a cure few went into effect at 9:00 p.m. schools are closed indefinitely and people are being warned to stay in their shelters. the water level is rising and it's still crutch russ on the road. laura: 20,000 people still in

shelters. kelly and i were just talking about people feeling like it's over, maybe it's time to go out. people need to heed the warnings. we'll look forward to seeing your reports in the morning when the sun comes up and we see what more you have guys are dealing with in naples. kelly: parts of miami are under several feet of water and high winds have led to widespread power outages and damage throughout the city. bryan, a difference between last night canada in terms of that storm surge that flooded the area? reporter: we have video on brickell avenue in downtown miami of that storm surge.

some six feast water was coming in. it wasn't that much, but it was a lot of water on brickell avenue. if it wasn't the storm surge in some areas, it was flooding in others. i'm in the middle of miami. this is what much of miami looks like. it's i am dark. you can see downtown in the backdrop. most of. miami's neighborhoods look like this. the police are out in full force right now. they sent out a tweet saying with a photo of looters saying they arrested 28 looters and if you are thinking about it, well, just don't because they are coming after you. we have seen patrols throughout there is neighborhood south and west of the city of miami. if you take a look over here. this is why people are being urged to stay indoors.

this a your few from 7:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m. the roads are just impassable. this needs to be cleaned. not only that, we have downed power lines, giant trees. so we understand there are tons of people in shelters and hotels throughout the state that just want to get home. it's been a grueling 2 or 3 days. and they want to come home. right now those restoration crews need to get their job done. the weather has finally started to subdue in the last couple hours. when i was first out with you guys around 11:00 or 12:00. the winds were coming in howling. not you winds seem to be slowing down which will allow the restoration crews when it comes to power. that's the big deal. 7 million people in the state of florida without power. and the storm is still in the

state of florida. right now we are asking for patience. miami-dade county has 15 million people without power. the cleanup will begin at sunrise. kelly: miami is one of the largest metropolitan areas throughout the country and probably leads the fact they are in florida. then you have orlando which has been hit, tampa, you have three major metropolitan areas in the state of florida alone. so it will be a herculean as to be restore power to some of those areas where there are power outages. one thing you stressed is people have to be safe and patient and not get frustrated to the point of not paying attention to their

own common sense. reporter: that's exactly right. you are locked in your home with your family or you are in a shelter. you just want to get out. most of of the injuries that happen after a storm happen after a storm. they don't happen during the storm. most of of the injuries happen after. so patience will get through this. we got through the toughest part with the storm. officials have a big project on their hands. they have to clean out the the - the debris so people can get back home. kelly: for the looting situation, for those people who would take advantage of the situation because they think people are vulnerable, don't do it. laura: you will get caught and it won't be worth it. we'll check back in with adam

klotz. he has had a busy day and evening. it's going from a 2 to a 1. where are we now? adam: we saw it fall from a category 2 to a category 1 status. winds gusting up to 120 miles an hour. our center of rotation off to the east now of tampa, it's everything out in front of it, the right side of the storm that's typically where you see the worst weather. this line right here is where we have been seeing moving through the orlando area. that's an area where there is strong wind. we have seen wind getting up to 70-80 miles an hour. back off to the south and west. tampa clearing off a little bit. things are look okay for them at the time being.

up and down the coast it will be the storm surge. that will be the next big story as when watch this thing travel to the north. all the way to early tomorrow morning as you are looking at 8:00 a.m. there, 75-mile-an-hour wind. backing up, this will run through georgia and alabama and running up through the memphis area. there is plenty of places to pay attention to. the wind will be strong throughout the overnight hours. there is a big area we'll be paying attention to with the winds stretching to georgia,al bam pa, tennessee, a lot of folks paying attention to this one. kelly: hurricane irma focusing its wrath on the west coast of florida. but the entire state is feeling the power of this massive storm. laura: we continue our coverage

right after the break.

laura hurricane irma has been downgraded to a category one store. rick leventhal has been in daytona beach all night long, all day long. reporter: it stopped raining for 20-30 minute. i took my hat off. i thought we were out of it. then a monsoon came in. the wind is still blowing pretty hard. but the roof is coming off the dominoes. you can probably hear the metal banging on the side of the building.

it's some kind of sheet metal that started ripping off. that's one thing we are concerned about. there is stuff flying down atlantic avenue right now. mostly signs and pieces of palm trees, objects off buildings. we heard there may be power lines down south of us on daytona beach. we have seen a lot of transformers blowing. earlier tonight we were in front of of a t ship souvenir shop. the windows are out and water is getting in the store. it's just an example of some of the damage they will be dealing with here. extra lucia county is getting smacked right now. they are telling us we'll have

these tropical storm force winds through the night to 10:00 to 11:00 a.m. tomorrow. once the winds die down, they can close the bridges between the beach and the mainland. you are going to have to show an i.d. that you live here if you want to get on to daytona beach. obviously once the winds die down they will send out the power crews to start the difficult job of getting the power back on. the outages are definitely growing by the minute. we'll take a look at the roof of the come knows which is shredding as we speak. laura: you look at it, you can't tell us it's a roof at first. to think that's part of a roof that's about to come out and hit you or your crew, it's important

to remind people to stay off those roads. reporter: there goats a piece of metal flying down the street. that's why the emergency management people told to us tell the public to observe this curfew and stay off the streets and shelters in place for the next 24 hours. and we are seeing that firsthand, laura. again, it's little things, but there are some big things, too. that's why we are trying to stay off the street if we can. laura: i see something else flapping behind you, too. to all watching in the daytona beach area listen to your officials and listen to rick

leventhal. laura: several cities suffering extensive damage. kelly: more than 3 mill homes and businesses are without power and it could be weeks until service is restored. our coverage continues after this.

kelly: millions have been ordered to evacuate. but we have been speaking to some riding out the storm at home by necessity or by choice. one of those people sticking it out is marlin, a delray beach resident. thank you for joining us, it's good to talk to you this morning. my understanding is you just moved to the area, the delray beach area on the east coast of florida from the new york area. is that correct? >> i moved here about a year and a half ago. my wife grew up in boca raton.

kelly: great area. i love boca. but it can turn ugly when you have deadly storms like hurricane irma lashing its winds on you. what kind of impact have you had by choosing to stay there? >> you know, the power went out at 3:00 a.m. yesterday. so we just rode it out here. very, very heavy rains. you just hear the howling and you look out the big windows and you see the trees shaking, you are seeing debris flying. we had a little tree in the back that went down pretty quick. it was more about seeing the rain and hearing it. something i never experienced before. kelly: that can be harrowing and

frightening. is this the first storm you lived through? your wife being from there, perhaps it's not her first. >> last year the was matthew but this is obviously a much larger magnitude than what we experienced last year. she had experienced some others before. but the crazy thing is, the mandatory lockdown curfew beginning on friday morning, friday night into saturday morning. they told us to be off the roads. so it's a little cabin fever in the house. last night i had been taking our dog out -- kelly: i am sorry, i'm glad you are safe and glad your wife is safe and i'm glad your pet you are taking care of from your inlaws is safe. but i want to ask you, do you have regrets staying there?

>> no, i'm glad we did stay here. i could have gone the out in a quicker fashion. but if i have to be anywhere, i would rather be here. kelly: thanks for talking to us, stay safe. power out, but hang in there, help is on the way. >> thank you very much. laura: we are checking in live with our reporters across the state of florida. kelly: meteorologist adam klotz has more on the storm's path. our coverage of hurricane irma continues after this. delivers. only tempur material precisely conforms to your weight, shape and temperature. it provides up to twice as much pressure relieving power, so you won't toss and turn. and tempur-pedic is the best at minimizing motion transfer from your partner. you'll wake up, feeling like a champion.

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>> this is what hell looks like. sobering words from a florida official as hurricane irma unleashed her fury a the sunshine state. millions are forced to evacuate while others refuse to be intimidated and they stayed. >> city stay around to help people button up. $. he said you'll be there to help them out. i'm kelly wright laura i'm laura

ingle from coast to coast. hurricane irma has been downgraded to a category 1 storm with 85-mile-an-hour winds. but the threat from massive flooding and storm surges is far from over. kelly: officials say it would take weeks or perhaps months to restore power to 3 million homes and businesses. the destruction could be unprecedented. and the images are certainly heartbreak. >> the water will come in quickly. it will cover your first floor or more. and it will eventually come out. i don't know how you are going to survive that. kelly: mike tobin is live in tampa. mike, adam klotz was talking earlier in the past hour that we are awaiting storm surge in the

tampa area. what can you tell us about that? >> that has bent primary area of concern. the storm surge warning is still in effect for the tampa area. it looks like we have been through the worst of the wind event but it doesn't mean it's over. i think the officials as much as they feared the initial events, what they are afraid of now is people will see tampa seemed to get through this better than anticipated in phase one and they don't necessarily want people coming back out. you heard the mayor say the curfew went into effect last night. ask or if there is any consideration about lifting the curfew. as far as the wind event, it looks like the worst of that has gone past us. there was a lot of rain earlier. the wind picked up with some decent intensity throughout the night. the wind is just boiled down to

a breeze. the rain by and large is gone. one of the things you can notice is the lights are on. we did see the lights flicker to a few different locations around tampa, and i have not seen any power out averages. it doesn't mean they didn't happen. we haven't been able to canvas the full sentence of what damage occurred last night. but every indication people were fearing a direct hit, the first direct hit from a hurricane since 1921 with potentially devastating impact, thus far phase one, the big wind event wasn't as bad as feared. you see the degree on the ground behind me. we have seen a little bit of building debris. but you had a bunch of wind and rain. the rain is seeming to find its way through the storm drains and

off the streets. kelly: that's refreshing to hear and a sigh of relief for many people though they are still anticipating what that storm surge might produce. the mayor of tampa said we have to be prepared for getting punched in the face. yet we are seeing this storm lost a lot of its punch before hitting tampa. >> once you started making contact with the land, the fact that the eye passed east of here made a lot of difference. and i can leave a lot of that to the meteorologists to talk about why it didn't make such an impact here. i have certainly seen and lot more intensity than what i saw here on the streets of tampa as the worst of the hurricane -- the worst of the wind events was supposed to materialize.

laura: the eye of the storm passing by to the west of the city. the high winds and flooding still took a toll. much of the city is without power and the damage is widespread. we have bryan llenas. since the storm passed you have been there all morning and evening. >> the winds fluctuating with the conditions. but it's been the same way for all night, black. complete darkness. we have a light on top of our vehicle. it's pitch black in miami-dade. 41% of florida is without power. what we saw with all this damage. we saw up to 100-mile-an-hour

winds in miami. the eye may have been 130 miles west of us. but sustained hurricane-force winds and tropical storm winds that caused a lot of damage. this tree is 10 yards away from where it should be. there are downed power lines. that's a dangerous situation. which is why there still remains a curfew from 7:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m. this is why they don't want people on the streets. another reason they don't want people on the street is because of looters. unfortunately there are people who want to take advantage of this situation. mills of people have evacuated their homes. so police officers have been on patrol all morning and we saw them here all night. and you can see them right there, there is the patrol, that's what we have been seeing

in this neighborhood south and west of downtown miami. they are going around consistently making sure the looters know. there is video of a foot locker where video captured looters at a foot locker. miami-dade police tweeting a photo of looters. they say they arrested 28 looters thus far and they warn looters, if you are going to do it, we are going to come after you and we are going to get you. these police officers, it's comforting. it's a eerily just dark. just dark. with my flashlight how much you can go down the street. and that's what you see not on south florida but it's amazing to think much of the state is

complete darkness. there is no telling how long this is going to last because the restoration crews have to wait until the storm passes. once this start. we'll see, me up beach is closed until tuesday at noon. which means evacuees and those in shelters will have to wait another 36 hour before they can see their home. we have felt the fury of hurricane irma in doubt about it in south florida. laura: we saw your live shot earlier. some the glass falling down. there are so many hazard on the road. you think about the chance of electrified water with power lines hitting the water. i'm so glad you showed the video of the looters. in this day and age it's surprising to see people would try it because everyone is

filming you. thank you so much for that report. kelly: for the latest on the storm let's check in with adam klotz from the fox extreme weather center. the storm went from category 5 now to category 1. adam: we are running over land. that slowed this down. you lose the heating that comes off the gulf of mexico this is your core. it's becoming a little bit more misshapen. but this leading evening is where we have seen all the big rain and the powerful wind in the last self hours. that continuing to lift into the northern orlando suburbs. this is still an area where i'm sure there are wind gusting up to 75 to 80 miles an hour.

but now back over toward the tampa area, clearing off a little bit. where is this thing still headed? still a category 1 storm. it look as though you are running up into the gainesville area by tomorrow morning. lifting you through georgia and alabama. that taking you in toward the middle or end of the week. so this one going to at least bring those tropical force wind with it all the way far north. the wind we are expecting to see tonight gusting still up to 80 miles per hour in the tampa area. 60 miles per hour in the orlando area. as that system pushes up the coast it will take all that wind with it. we see central florida in a hurricane warning. in a tropical storm warning for all of georgia taking you up to the state line with tennessee.

stretching over to alabama and the carolinas. savannah, charleston. where you can see tropical force wind. 55-60 miles per hour. a huge area. i want to leave you with this. we are talking so much about everything happening with irma. we had people on social media ask you what about jose. it shows all of our route. in general we are looking at a circle here before turning back toward the u.s. all the models turn us away from the states. maybe over bermuda, any time this made back our direction, a lot of people take notice of it. kelly: the waters over there in the crib are so warm and that can fuel that storm even more. glad you are watching that. back to irma. adam, we should stress, i would think to let the people know that while it's a category 1,

it's still a dangerous store, especially moving to areas like georgia, alabama and tennessee. adam: those are areas where they don't typically deal with this kind of weather. but everything, everything here in the portions of the florida gulf coast, all the way up into the georgia mountains. you are getting way up there. this is talking about tropical storm force wind. 40, 50, 0 miles per hour. i -- 60 miles per hour. i worked in atlanta before coming here. they don't see something like this. they see thunderstorms. but they don't have it for such a prolonged period. it's still an important system. kelly: atlanta can even deal with snowstorms. you have to be prepared.

laura: we do have some good news to share. kelly: i'm always for good news. laura: some special deliveries happened during the hurricane. we are talking about babies. so we have amir just before 3:00 just as hurricane irma was closing in on the coast of florida this child came into the world. a second irma baby was born a half-hour later. the hospital says the mothers and new babies are happy and healthy. they also issued a special thanks to the employees and doctors caring for patients during the storm. the hospital emergency department continues to accept patients during the storm. kelly: we can say congratulations.

there was a third baby born, too. there is a report the mother delivered her own child in little hate he. perhaps storm damage was too tricky for her to maneuver through to get to the hospital. what a great story, three babies born in the miem area. laura: hurricane irma does continue it's a category 1 storm with sustained winds of 85 miles per hour. kelly: power is out in many parts of the state, and it may be days if not weeks before it's back on. our extended coverage of hurricane irma continues after this. my name is jeff sheldon, and i'm the founder of ugmonk. before shipstation it was crazy. it's great when you see a hundred orders come in, a hundred orders come in, but then you realize i've got a hundred orders

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how you doing? >> well, it's been an interesting 24 hours. we have seen real loud stormy winds and rains, and trees down in our backyard, we have a big ficus tree that got split in half and down. a magnolia tree is down. we do have damage to our roof. got a rip over the garage and my husband had to during one of the storms -- it would come in real big bands. so as soon as he had a chances was able to bravely go up there and repair it enough to get by until we get through this. everything is calming down now. laura: talk me through where you

are for people who don't know where ever oh beach is. where -- where vero beach is. >> there is an intercoastal and an island where it was recommended evacuation for sure. we are above that, six miles inland. so our little city is an hour north of west palm beach. >> how is the power situation going? we have been reporting 3.6 million without power and that number will rise. >> we have been out for 11, 10 hours. and it's actually really no guess as to when it's going to come back on. we don't have a generator so we'll be finding one the next

day or so as soon as they start bringing more into the stores around here. everything was completed by the time we decided to ride it out. we decided when it moves west, and there was no generator. it's florida, it's fine, we have to pull out our backyard. laura: are you glad you have stayed. you just said i want to go back to that. you said by the time we decided we were going to stay. were you on the fence? >> we were. we were going to evacuate to atlanta. then we decided to go to d.c. where we had families. here is the thing. we thought it would be really bad. serious. but you know what? evacuation is really hard. we did it in 2004 twice. our families, with three kids.

now they are all grown up. and it's like to they have been here with us coming to our house. they are here riding the storm with us. my daughter, her fiance and our other granddaughter. see we have been having fun. we are hunkered down together. they left their condo so they could be with us. my daughter's condo. we just made the decision to stay here because of the westward movement. and we decided it was better than joining the millions that were evacuating because it's very hard thing to do. laura: let's talk about the next 24-48 hours. do you have enough food, water? i know from living on long island in new york, people who

weren't prepared said it's spooky overnight. are you guys prepared for when things go real irdark? >> we have plenty of food and water. our patio doors are clear at this point. we have an enclosed pool area. as i look out the window to the back i see the moon. so it's not such a scary thingen we have phones and device and flashlights and plenty of coolers. we are supplied in that way. and we are going to get a generator. laura: good luck to you. we have seen stories of people not being able to find them. we wish you have the best to you and your family who hunkered down together. we appreciate mediator you sharing your story. best of luck to you and we hope

you guys come out on the other side okay. it will be days before irma has really passed. kelly: we'll continue to track this historic storm straight ahead. people would ask me in different countries that we traveled, what is your nationality and

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>> hurricane irma not quite the monster that it was in the beginning days but continues to move up through to florida. it's been downgraded to cat 1 storm, for the latest on the storm let's check in with meteorologist adam. he's here with more, adam, what's the latest? >> hey, kelly, we will continue to track this one that's been

spinning over land for so long now that it's weakening a little bit. the category 1 storm, this is where the center of the row -- rotation is. you can see the spin but it's the leading edge that you are seeing by far the most severe, the deep color pushing north of orlando, wind gusts to 70 miles an hour, that's going to continue, there's heavy rain. daytona beach, that will soon see this, it's going to continue to run up. you are jacksonville, tallahassee, gainesville, all areas where you will see lifting to the north, eventually seeing powerful winds early tomorrow, well, early this morning, here is the motion of that, we are looking at the gainesville area by right around 8:00 a.m. so playing it out in the next four hours or so. staying a category 1 storm. so we are not expecting it to

weaken a whole lot more, by the time you run into georgia you fall into tropical storm, eventually post tropical storm, at that point into memphis area and you make move and southeast, this stays powerful and the winds not what they are now, they're still going to be very high wind totals. here is what you have with your wind gust still expecting august perhaps -- gust of 60 miles an hour. as that runs to the north, every place that gets in front of it, 50 to 60-miles-per-hour winds. as a result of this motion that we have dropped off the southern edge of florida, now back down to a tropical storm warning, no longer under a hurricane conditions, we will continue to follow this. you are looking at hurricanes

warnings all the way to south georgia to the knot of that you have tropical storm warning ughs because the winds weaken a little bit but still severe, it's including alabama, north georgia, all the way to north georgia mountains, piedmont, huge, huge area where we are paying attention to that possibility. it's a very big storm we are watching track up that direction before eventually looks like it would head further west, memphis, st. louis, all will see storm system as it makes its way to heartland. kelly: you know what, adam, already i'm feeling fatigue because there's another storm yet and we are not done with it and now there's josé in the caribbean. >> yeah, this might make a loop. i have it right here. there's a whole lots of different plots. this is the motion and then

turning right back and looking at us. currently the models aren't bringing to the coast but close enough we have to pay attention to. i don't have it here. off the coast of africa too, there's another storm that has potential into turning into something named here. it's been so busy and we still have a little bit of time yet. kelly: very active season. the cape verde storms with the most powerful punches. we will be on alert on what could possibly happen, thanks, adam. >> yeah. >> now, we want to check in with rick which joins us from daytona beach, he's been there all morning long where the wind picked up, now raining again, rick, what can you tell us? >> yeah, it's pretty wicked still, laura, it's been bad for hours now and remain that is way, the wind is gusting and the rain is stinging and the roof of

the dominoes across the street is still ripping. pieces of it have been coming off. there's a lot of debris on the street. other signs that have broken out here and we can see traffic lights swinging and other stuff swaying out here. it's pretty nasty and we've heard from the county that there are power lines down here in daytona beach just south of us, another piece of something goes flying by. the fp&l, volusia county the size of rhode island, half a million residents. you have 94,000 without power and every customer basically the equivalent of two people, that

means 40% of this county is in the dark, we have seen transformers blow so we know there's areas on the beach that are on the dark tonight. also, of course, the bridges between daytona beach and mainland have been shut down because of the curfew and the high winds, they will reopen if they are safe to do so as soon as the winds die down. one other bit to tell you about, laura, we were down the street when we watched windows blow out of shop and we got video of it. i think you might have it just to show the windows knocked out in front of the store and everything inside getting wet now. obviously not to the level of what's happening in the west coast, to put in perspective, they are getting high winds and

. >> we did see the video showing us the storm, any looters, we heard that in miami. >> yeah, i saw the video from miami of people looting. it's a little different, i think, in part because of the curfew that's in place and being pretty strictly enforced and also because the weather is and nobody out in the streets to speak of. i mean, it's the middle of the night. >> right. >> it's just nasty. >> yeah. >> really nobody around. the police do know about it, so i would imagine they'll be securing the store any time now. >> all right, well, stay safe out. >> maybe to put in perspective, not any time now, sometime in the morning perhaps when the wind isn't this nasty. [laughter] >> yeah. >> i don't think that's their priority right now. >> probably not. my goodness, stay safe and to our camera crew there, watch

your back, i'm glad you're facing the wind, i'm seeing all things past you. >> all right, we will. kelly: to this point it's been a nasty storm. the other thing we talked about, rick was showing stories about people who were helping each other there no volusia county helping each other with sandbags, helping prepare for the storm. he's right, this is a nasty storm, many people throughout the caribbean saw it and while all eyes on florida, cuba and other islands throughout the caribbean, while they are starting the daunting task of recovering and after irma rift through there causing massive destruction in rural islands, responsible for 26 deaths, the u.s. virgin islands, puerto

rico. >> arguably the most devastated area you mentioned, barbuda, total devastation of small island. nearly all residents left homeless, most people live in one-story homes. imagine that as you look at pictures. right now no power and vims are in need of food and water among other necessary items. president trump has issued a major disst err declaration for st. thomas and@john's for u.s. territories and that opens up the door for federal aid. kelly: here is something else that's important to know, crew ships are now heading for storm-ravaged islands in the caribbean to help with rescue efforts there. that's really a good thing to do, royal caribbean, announced, for example, that it will dispatch two ships to st. marteen.

norwegian sending and that's something i always thought about. do you leave them stranded or get them out of harm's way? >> now the ships will be used in another good capacity. kelly: indeed. >> possible silver lining in the horizon as hurricane irma begins to lose strength. kelly: florida's rescue crews aren't breathing a sigh of relief just yet. when we return we have a conversation with one of the heros who put their lives on the line to pull storm victims from danger

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>> as we have been mentioning, there's a lot of work to be done here with irma, crews in the florida keys already starting house to house searches. it's a process that will continue across the state as the

storm moves through and for more on that process, how it all works and the challenges, we are speaking with when you shall and search and rescue manager, ken-craft, thanks for being with us this morning, this early hour, thank you, ken. >> you're welcome. >> i wantedi wanted to ask you,r team is highly equipped to perform rescue missions. where will you start? >> once we can get the crews out because they've had to be housed because of the hurricane was threat to them, we will be starting in the florida keys, we will be concentrating on collier county, florida which took a tremendous hit. we have area in la belle and arcadia, florida. >> we saw rescue boats,

cap-sizing relief in rescue missions in texas, how dangerous the work really is. >> well, what we have to do first and foremost we have to keep our crews bunkered down during the storm and then we have to wait for the hurricane force winds and tropical force winds to decimate before we can move all of our equipment out and go to affected areas that have been hit. >> tell us a little bit of who make it is task force as you guys are -- daylight will happen here soon, you guys will be going out there. who can we imagine out there helping the folks, are all the members from the same field? >> all the task force, both state and federally are traditionally made up of firefighters, emergency room physicians, all who have specialties in search and rescue

and have materials and emergency medical care specifically to the victims. >> you've got a lot of this covered, you can rescue people and can find spaces with water, structural collapses, sounds like you can do it all but i'd imagine there's times that you don't exactly know what you're dealing with until you come up on it, so is there one thing that worries you the most looking ahead to what you'll be doing in the coming days? >> the biggest concern that we will have is safety of crew members, getting into the areas with all of the destruction that's there, keeping them safe as we try to get in to recon the areas and perform rescues of people trapped either because of water or buildings that have collapsed. >> ken, with your expertise, i'm wondering, you've watched the forecast like the rest of us, you watched the storm rift through florida, are you surprised at what we are dealing with now.

we really don't know until the sun comes up, right, you know, so i guess a good question for you, any advise of anybody who might be out there listening and anybody being rescued, anybody who you can say to people who may be stranded waiting for help? >> the best thing we could tell them is to be patient. it could take us hours, it could take us days to reach these people only because of their location being so buried in and hazards that we may be confronted with from water, et cetera. >> right. the electrical lines, all the power that's out. there's just so many hazards, the broken glass, we have been seeing all morning long with reporters on the field. our hats are off to you and your team, we wish you safety and success as you go out when the daylight appears and you guys get out there and get to it.

kencraft thanks for your time. >> you're welcome. >> thank you. as we mentioned daylight is just hours away when authorities can really begin assessing the damage caused by hurricane irma overnight. kelly: as the water recedes and the winds die down, floridans, well, they begin the long road to recovery, rebuilding their sunshine state think your heartburn pill works fast? take the zantac it challenge! zantac works in as little as 30 minutes. nexium can take 24 hours. when heartburn strikes, take zantac for faster relief than nexium or your money back. take the zantac it challenge.

kelly: lots of organizations already mobilizing as irma sets sights on sunshine state, one of the organizations is the salvation army. right now we are joined by major erikson, based out of tampa. sir, thanks for joining us this morning and this is quite a task that you have ahead of you and that is providing some of the help for so many people that would need your help throughout the recovery process? >> yes, it is. we had an opportunity with the weather forecast to get ahead of

it, supplies throughout the state, as you know with the uncertainty of where it was going strategic, cross the state on coastlines. we can see what is happening and where the need is most, we can move in and we are ready to roll. kelly: major erikson, you're a faith-based organization, you're an organization that helps people of all faiths and you actually reached out to the poorest of the poor and in cases like this where there's a natural disaster and dire circumstances, it's not just the poor being helped, even though who are sheltered in place who might be well off, tell us about your mission. >> well, the physical need right after the bat after hurricane to come in and just help feed, help comfort with spiritual and

emotional care and just to be there for them as they come out of this. surviving a hurricane, we are riding it out whether it'd be in a shelter or in a home can be a tram -- traumatic experience. we help them to recover emotionally and physically and mentally as well as we help them recover and rebuild where they are. kelly: that's so important, you are actually trying to meet people at their needs, touch them at their needs and many people are going to be needing you just for some uplift, some inspiration, just a little helping hand to say, it's going to be all right. >> and that's exactly what we are here for. you mentioned it earlier when a hurricane comes in, it doesn't matter how fluent -- affluent you are or how poor you are. we are there for everybody and we are going to reach out for everybody as we see where the

greatest need is. we will ready -- redistribute our resources and as we get through need, we begin to rebuild each community that's been impacted. >> major, i wanted to go in and ask you a question, so many people have the desire to donate, they want to help and reach out to organization and, of course, they do. what is the turnaround in terms of when people can donate to you, how soon can they know they are getting what they need. it goes into a big pot. >> right, it does. one of the things that we have probably begun obtaining the resources we need so the donations are really being spent in faith. we begin spending those, the moneys even before they are actually there in order to get the resources ahead of time to be prepared so that we know they are there. it's almost instantaneous.

we are rerouteing that into more supplies to make sure that individuals get what they need as they recover. >> that's terrific. >> major eric davidson, good bless you for what you do, keep the faith alive. we thank you, sir. >> thank you. kelly: all right, we talk about how one floridan official said this is what hell looks like, well, salvage army gives us dose of what heaven looks like. it's good that we end on that note, something very positive and uplifting and, you know, it's been tough duty for those who have been following the story. i want to thank and commend all of the crews, those behind the scenes and those on camera because they have done yomen's

work out there. everyone putting themselves in harm's way and so that people who are watching the developments of the story cannot only be helped but also find ways to help others. >> that's right and to keep people safe, the people that you don't see that have backs to the wind that are doing all the filming. kelly: thank you very much for extended coverage of hurricane irma. >> and i'm laura ingel. "fox & friends" starts at the top of the hour. ♪ ♪ everything's pretty much done.

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lath hurricane irma battling florida bringing more wind, rain and damage. >> the storm downgraded to category 1 storm but the danger is not over yet. heather: you're watching early edition of "fox & friends first", i'm heather childers. >> and i'm todd, has left half of the state without power. heather: griff