it is sunday, september 10, 2017. welcome back to a special edition of "cbs this morning". we're all here at the table this morning because of hurricane irma. she's slamming florida with 130 mile-per-hour winds. ahead the newest forecast for irma that came in just moments ago. we'll have reports from some of the worst affected areas. but first here's today's "eye opener" at 8:00. getting really real. one hell of a storm. the wind is amazing. >> much of south florida saw heavy rain and powerful winds throughout the night and it continues this morning. >> irma has strengthened to a category 4 with top within of

130 miles per hour. >> this is the worst that the storm has to offer as far as its winds. storm surge is a whole other story. you don't have to be around the eye for that. >> the story continues to be the within and rain. it's difficult at times to stan because these are hurricane force gusts. >> tropical storm conditions -- they will go on all day long. >> that water five, ten, possibly 15 feet, a wall of water more than twice my height coming from here. >> knowing what's coming it is spooky how quiet it is. >> tampa hasn't been hit by a major hurricane in nearly 100 years. >> let me show you what the roads look lying. for the most part it's empty and that's what police want. >> at this point again this is the final minute. we want people to stay put, stay sheltered and stay safe. i'm charlie rose with

nishon'te king and norah o'donnell. hurricane irma is hammering the keys and south florida. the eye of the storm is hitting the southern keys. thousands of people fled the chain of islands but others stayed behind. >> the storm put more than 1 million people under mandatory evacuation orders. that's the largest in u.s. history. irma has already knocked out power to more than a half a million people. tornadoes have been reported in southeast florida. and hurricane irma is expected to continue up the gulf coast. the storm is once again a category 4 hurricane. you see we've got a team of correspondents covering irma throughout the state. we're all over the state of florida. but we begin with chief meteorologist lonnie quinn. he's got the newest information for you from the national hurricane center. lonnie, good morning. last hour you told us it's moving slower than expected. >> yeah. that's a problem. you gate storms this size and this kind of a punch to it you

want to get in and get out. inevitable now. this is florida's storm and has slowed up. moving now currently at 8 miles per hour. take a look. here's your eye. now it's the eyewall that you fear the most and sure enough the worst of the storm has to offer for the florida keys is being felt right now. anywhere from big pine key over towards key west this is the worst of it. right there. this is your eyewall. very shortly big pine key give yourself literally, within half an hour you'll be in the eyewall. i know how hurricane satisfy via you are in florida keys. you'll be in the eye and you catch a break. 20 mile break with this eye and then you get hit with the back side. you've been through the drill before. 130 mile-per-hour maximum winds right now moving northwest. too slow in my book. we want it to go faster. 20 miles east-southeast from key west that's the eye.

the eyewall currently on shore. let me show you the track from the national hurricane center. we'll find out if we have anything changed. no. still moves over the florida keys as a cat 4 and then it's either going to be on land or offshore. anywhere in the yellow cone there's a possibility the skinny white line. don't pay sole attention to that. it's hugging the coastline. it stays offshore can maintain its strength longer and push water onshore. the west coast of florida we're very fearful about that storm surge. norah, over to you. as you heard the florida keys are taking a direct hit from irma's eyewall. the severe damage started last night with strong winds knocking out power lines elaine is in south florida. >> reporter: good morning. this is about as close as we can get to the key. we're just outside the florida

keys in southern miami-dade county. i want to give you a sense of what things look like where we are. you have palm fronds every where. i want to show you this happened in the last 30 minutes or so. some of these hurricane force gusts that have come through have been strong enough to topple palm trees. that's what we saw here, our photographer was able to get a shot of it. this is just the beginning, really, as we are continuing to take a lashing here in florida city. now further down at the end of the highway behind me overseas highway route 1 lies key west. we got some video from social media to show you the punishing conditions that have been happening there. the dire warnings from the national weather service there basically have been for folks who decided to go against the official recommendation and evacuate, the mandatory evacuation i should say. they have said for hours now it is too late to do anything but shelter in place, stay where you

are, and i should tell you that we actually spoke to a person who is hunkered down there by phone. he owns a law firm down there. he brought all of the members of his law firm to local hotel there in marriott and said this storm feels different. this is not like any of the other storm that he has been through. he wasn't planning on leaving his home but felt at the last minute that was the responsible thing or proper thing to do. back here in florida city i want to give you and overview from our second camera so you can get a sense of perspective. again we told you this is the gateway to the florida keys. you see here in the distance there's no one out. the conditions have been just dangerous that we ourselves are not venturing too far away from this area. you don't see any vehicles or people out in the streets here. this is where hurricane andrew struck 25 years ago and residents here know not to take any of these kind of warnings lightly.

charlie? >> thank you, elaine. irma's westward push should keep the worst of the storms away from the cities on the atlantic coast but miami is under siege right now. the city's fire department said it could only respond to three out of 41 rescue calls overnight. mark straussman is in downtown miami next to biscayne bay where the wind is gusting at more than 60 miles per hour. mark, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, charlie. the winds you're talking about that are gusting, much more sustained as we've been standing out here in the last half hour. you can feel it. first of all stinging rain in my face. it's very difficult to standstill in spots. you may see me go flying around. you can see it in the amount of debris every where. i can see three traffic signs one there, one there and one over there that are on their sides. they are still anchored but toppled. you also see downed power line over there which i've been

keeping an eye on. it was spark and stopped sparking. another indication of sustained wind miami beach no longer responding to emergency calls. once the winds get sustained at 40 miles per hour or higher, they made a decision they were going to stop. we have reached that point. anyone who has decided to ride out the storm on miami beach decided to hunker down there. essentially they are on their own. there could be some serious cases of remorse because of this wind both so strong and so loud. even when you're inside you can hear the howling and in some cases the whistle that can be very eerie and spooky particularly if you're one of those people not used to hurricanes. there is something. there's something ominous to that sound. when you look outside and see this, you can see why a lot of people, most people made a decision to get out of here.

again, the largest mass evacuation in the history of miami-dade county. let's face it, this is a community, charlie, that has seen hurricanes come and go over the years. >> mark, thanks. mayor could become the first hurricane in almost 60 years to travel the entire length of florida. it could potentially impact all of the state's more than 20 million people. florida governor rick scott joins from us the florida emergency center in tallahassee. he just spoke to president trump a few minutes ago. good morning, governor. governor i want to -- >> good morning. charlie a lot of people want to help us. say your prayers. >> i think the world and the nation certainly is. >> we have to pray for everybody in our state. >> we want to talk about the status of florida and floridians. first tell me what the president said to you and what he is offering florida? >> i talked to the president pretty much every day. from the first call last weekend he said i'll provide whatever

resources you need. they have done everything i've asked for. they've waived regulations to help us get fuel. they brought in emergency medical teams. he's got thousands of people ready to help us respond. help us recover. and so he said something i said. the biggest thing you can do right now is pray for us. we always try to do everything we can to get prepared. there's always more you can do. a lot of people around the world you can help. text disaster at 20222 to make a $10 donation. we need more volunteers. we had a lot of volunteers to help our shelters. we have over 400 shelters open. we need nurses for our special needs patients. we need help distributing food and water. so you can go to voluntaryflood.org. biggest thing you can do is pray for us. i talked to a friend in key west a little bit ago. it will hit my home town.

it will devastate my home town, ten to 15 feet storm surge above ground. that's going to be hard -- i don't know how anybody will survive. it will go up to ft. myers, sarasota, tampa, st. pete and then storm surge. so i know my job and every first responders job is to protect every person that's in this state and we'll do everything we can to keep everybody safe and alive. >> govgs we have some questions for you. >> governor you just mentioned that 150-foot storm surge in the naples-ft. myers area. you said it's hard to imagine how anybody could survive. tell me what your fear is. >> well, my fear is that, you know, people are complacent. they waited. didn't get out. and now it's tough to get out. the winds have already started. last year we had a hurricane in the panhandle. and had the same issue. you work and work to get people out. i had a lady i talked to

afterward, she stayed in her house because of her pets which we understand. the water started coming in. got to three feet. she had a small one story house. she walked out of the house knowing she would die. thank god for her a high water vehicle picked her up and took her to safety. i hope everybody got to safety. it's hard to respond right now because of the wind and the rain. but i know first responders will get back out there as soon as they can. we're already losing power. we're losing cell service. people are worried about their loved ones. our first responders, our emergency management people will get out to help rescue people as soon as they possibly can. >> governor, you certainly have been very vigilant and very present during this process a very calming force. i wonder if you feel the state has enough resources to help the people that will need it. >> you know, everybody is doing whatever we can.

there's always something more you can do. here's the problem. the problem is this is covering our entire state. typically if it was going to come in on one coast you can position people, food, water. coming straight up our state it makes it more difficult. we pre-positioned food and water, rescue people and things like that but not as much as could you have in the past. might take longer to get to people after the storm passes. but i know president trump is committed all the federal resources. i committed all the state resources. we won't spare any expense or resource to protect our citizens. my primary goal is to do everything i can to keep everybody alive and safe. >> i know prayers work. you issued the call for prayers. you got a lot of people prieng for you now. you said you'll get through this neighbor helping neighbor. >> that's right. we're going take care of each other. this is a great state. we have wonderful people. we've been through storms.

nothing like this in our lifetime but i know everybody is going to do everything they can to protect everybody else. >> governor scott, as always thank you for joining us and keeping everyone informed. thank you. >> thank you. >> we're following some new tornado warnings at this hour. we'll have the latest on that next. but first time to check your local weather. >> we have correspondents all over florida tracking powerful hurricane irma. ahead what to expect after the storm moves north from the keys. you're watching "cbs this

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there are new tornado warnings up in south florida right now. a series of tornadoes and water spouts were reported overnight along the atlantic coast. manuel bojorquez manuel bojorquez is in broward county. one tornado was reported in that

county. manuel, good morning. my sister lives in ft. lauderdale. she said she's more afraid of the tornado than the hurricanes. >> reporter: yeah, that's right. really two, even more of the threats we're talking about here in the ft. lauderdale area. as you can see we're starting to really take a beating from hurricane irma. you got these strong tropical storm force winds that are expected to go up to 75 miles per hour later today. you can see what it's doing to the trees. we actually saw just minutes ago branch from this tree right here were falling into this canal. what i want to show you not only you can see the force of the wind over the water and into those trees over there we're starting to see the water rise. so there's the flood threat as we start to get these strong winds coming ashore. as for that tornado threat you were talking about, yes. we started to see that threat develop in the afternoon when water spouts started making their way on to ft. lauderdale beach and on to land. the national weather service

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as hurricane irma makes landfall in the keys, naples is its next major target. ahead we're in the gulf coast city where the worst conditions

are just hours away. coverage continues right here on a special edition of "cbs this mornin morning". right now hurricane irma is slamming the florida keys and south florida. the eye of the storm is making landfall in southern keys. powerful category 4 storm has top within of nearly 130 miles per hour. it will turn and barrel up the state's west coast. tornado warnings have been issued for a large swath of south florida. jeff glor is just outside of the mouth of tampa bay. expected to take a direct hit from the storm overnight. jeff, good morning, again. >> reporter: charlie, good morning to you. actually we just got a tornado warning just to the east of tampa. we expect to see more of those as the morning goes on and as this storm goes on. we're in tampa-st.pete.

we're at tampa-st.pete beach along the gulf of mexico. city of tampa is to our northeast. clear water to the north. sarasota to our south. when we pulled in here last night not a lot of buildings were boarded up and that's because this shifted, this storm has shifted to the west now and as you said is expected to potentially hit us head on here in the tampa bay area, an area that has not seen a major hurricane since 1921. the last one before that of 1848. so only two major hurricanes in the tampa bay area in the last 170 years. charlie? >> jeff, thank. the nation's newspapers are covering all angles of hurricane irma. the "wall street journal" says airlines marked down ticket prices in irma affected areas after they were barraged with complaints. it was a tweet storm as angry

flyers lashed out over what the airlines were charging. customers said the prices were a lot more expensive than usual. two united states senators asked the transportation secretary to monitor airlines after the storm passes to make sure they don't try to profit from disaster. >> i'll say. wrong to profit during this time. the "wall street journal" says gasbuddy app has been a big success during the florida fuel shortage. it's become used to inform drivers of where gas is available. on friday it was the second most downloaded iphone app in the u.s. on thursday it was downloaded 350,000 times. that's 12 times the typical day. gasbuddy as you may know collects gas price and supply data from 70 million drivers. >> "usa today" reports on amazon's two day shipping being anything but two days because of. amazon customers can may a $99 yearly subscription to guarantee two day delivery. that's not the case with mayor. florida residents have been receiving cancellation notices

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hurricane irma is back to a category 4 hitting miami with gusts up to 60 miles per hour in miami. more than 450,000 utility customers are without power in miami-dade. irma's eyewall is just outside of key west right now and heading up the gulf coast through the day and tomorrow. this is the thing i keep thinking about, people that are waiting. we've been talking about this storm for the last "48 hours". you're just waiting for it to hit. i think that has got be very unsettling. >> especially if you hunk engineered down and unable to evacuate. even people who evacuated thinking about their homes. >> how they can return. >> there's no power in all of the keys. >> parts of the keys completely wiped