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boston station wbz, he's in our new york studio. eric, where is irma right now and where is she helded? >> john, we've been tracking it throughout this morning crossing the lower keys, made that landfall at the category 4 near cudjoe key right about here, between key west and big pine key, that's some of the strongest winds. first time on record we've had two category 4 hurricanes make landfall in the united states in the same season, harvey just a couple of weeks ago. you see the bands moving in across south florida, weaver seen gusts up to 100 miles an hour in miami even well away from the center. we're seeing the destructive wind. now the eye of the storm or strongest wind north away from big pine key heading towards -- as well as fort myers area and naples from the first spots. conditions really go downhill. here are latest stats, 130 miles an hour, moving 8 miles an hour working just off to the east-northeast of key west, we see on

hurricane. here is the latest track, will be straddling the coast of florida arrives around naples mid day to early afternoon then ride up stewards san 'bell, fort myers then up towards tampa then big bend of florida as we head into the day tomorrow. there's a ways to go, the strong wind will last well inland. our tropical storm warn knowledge like atlanta, georgia, tropical storm warnings, that started in 2000 first time atlanta has been under one. then look at the peak winds. some of those gusts over 120 miles per hour, especially right along that southwest coast of florida. storm that's typical -- i should say similar to donna. a hurricane that came across as cat 4, last cat 4 on the keys on that date, the peak of hurricane season in 1960. you can see the strong wind gusts well inland to orlando, look at gust over 80 miles an hour, extending to the east coast of florida, impacts well away from the center. some of the peain

120 miles per hour around big pine key, also seen many gusts over 80 in south florida and also talking about the rain. rain up to a foot in spots across florida but that heavy rain will extend into georgia, alabama, south carolina when you bring in the strong winds combined with the rain, we're talking numerous power outages over a million so far. >> dickerson: thanks for that update now to go miami and cbs news correspondent mark strassmann, what's the latest there? >> good morning, john. the tropical force winds that have lashed miami for hours will go on at least until mid afternoon and could get worse. it is a tribute to the size as well as power of this hurricane that it is now crossing the lower keys and conditions are this bad, more than 100 miles away. behind me is a wind tunnel if you try to cross it you have to look both ways not for traffic because there is none, but for flying objects, projectiles,

more than 700,000 people in southern florida three major counties have lost power at last count. storm surge continuing along the coast, right around -- averages at sea level. first responders are no longer taking calls or at least responding to them because it is now too dangerous for them as well. it's a frightening day in miami it could get worse. >> dickerson: thanks so much. standing by unflorida city the region known as the gateway to the florida keys south of where mark was is cbs news correspondent elaine quijano. >> john, right now we're experiencing the strongest wind gusts yet. as the eye of hurricane irma makes its way to the florida keys, we notice a significant change in increase in the wind speed as the eye was making landfall. it was at that time we saw this kind of damage, you see this metal sign behind me, the wind

as anyone has been through a hurricane knows, those are the very kind of things that cannot just be dangerous, but are also deadly potentially. what we are feeling now are the most intense affects of irma, the rain is coming downside ways essentially, pelting us and the winds as you can tell making it very difficult to stand at some points. folks here in florida city and homestead have taken warnings from officials very seriously as i watch here there's a bit of debris coming our way. the folks here have memories of andrew and so what they have done is watched very carefully and heeded the officials' warning, there is no one out on the road right now. no one on overseas highway which is route 1 which leads to the florida keys and key west at the very end. no one at all on the road traveling under these very dangerous conditions right now. >> dickerson: elaine, thanks so much. now we go to fort

florida, where cbs news correspondent chris van sleeve standing by, what's going on? >> john, we've seen the winds pick up here in the last little bit, enough of those wind gusts, tropical storm winds both police and firefighters off the street. you can see debris is starting to come into the streets because of the wind. it is the first case of what is in store for fort myers and this is just the beginning, going to get worse, we're in a lull right now. once these hurricane force winds start a little bit later today we're going to be in that condition, hundred mile maybe more winds for ten, 11, maybe 12 hours. >> dickerson: the west coast was not supposed to get the big brunt of the storm at first but yesterday we saw some long lines of people trying to get into shelters, has everyone found a place to ride out the storm? >> well, we know that roughly 30,000 people in

area have gone to shelters, most are full, many filled up right away. there are three that are still open but the conditions on the road have really deteriorated so at this point if people aren't in those evacuation shelters, they need to stay where they are, police are saying. we've hard about at least one double fatal accident between here and tampa, inland, police are saying that's an example why they want folks off the road. now have debris flying off of trees, this was a close call for us right here. watched a transformer blow just a few minutes ago. wherever people are they need to stay where they are at this point. mayor is coming, it's going to get worse. >> dickerson: in fort myers, thanks, chris. for full picture of what is going on with hurricane irma, in florida, we now go to governor rick scott who is in tallahassee. governor, as you get the first reports of the storm as it hits florida what are you learning and what does that tell you about the rest of the state can expect

>> i pray for every person that didn't evacuate down there. i talked to a friend earlier. then see all along the west coast, my hometown to nap else. they will see 10-15 foot above ground level of storm surge. i know lot of people are praying for us around the world. lot of people want to help us. we need more volunteers, we have over 400 shelters open now, we'll need volunteers after the fact. i know people want to donate you can go to text disaster at 202 20222. and donate $10. pray for us, we're going to do everything we can to keep every person in our state alive and protected. >> dickerson: governor, when you get these initial reports, is there something you're looking for that let's you know whether the storm is more severe or less severe than you

makes landfall? >> i constantly get updates with regarding where the storm is and updates. at this point, we've gotten -- following traffic cameras around the state, no one son the roads right now which is good. we have the shelters open, but it's really late, we worked to try to get everybody to prepare and to evacuate. i've talked to the president, i've talked to fema administrator, i've talked to homeland security secretary. they have committed all the federal resource, they know it's going to be a big clean up effort. so we're ready. i worked hard, i know lot of people worked hard to get people to evacuate. i pray for everyone of them. >> dickerson: you have a sense you talked to somebody in the keys who did not evacuate about five million were asked to, how many took that advice then how many stayed behind?

>> we don't know the exact number but you can look at our road. our roads are completely clear. people got pout but i'm sure there's people that didn't, decided to stick it out. i pray for them. i just hope they don't go through the storm surge which i. this is like andrew but this is andrew for a whole state. get all those wind then on top of that going to get this storm surge. that's what i'm more worried about right now. the wind are going to be very devastating and life threatening. i'm also very concerned. people don't realize come into your house, going to fill up maybe your entire first floor then flow out. i don't know how you're going to survive that. just have to think about you've got to get to high ground as you can and just pray. >> dickerson: you said you spoke to the president, can you tell us a little bit about your conversation with him and anything that can be done now

how things go? >> i talked to the president, i've talked to him almost every day, almost every cabinet member called me once a day from the administration just making sure we have all the resource. he said -- wanted to make sure we had all the resource, he would send prayers for us. that's what right now what we can do. we can continue to plan for after the storm of how we rescue everyone. i know the moment our first responders can get out to save you, if you're stuck, they will. called up 7,000 members of the national guard, go to make sure we fully staff our shelters. we're going to get you through the water as fast as we can. this is a little harder because it didn't just impact one coast where we can position assets on the other coast. it's going to take us a little bit longer to do everything we can after

because we have to bring the assets down. because we couldn't preposition them here. >> dickerson: governor scott, we appreciate it. good luck. thanks so much. we want to go further up the coast to cbs national correspondent jeff glor who is standing by in st. pete beach. >> john, worst has not arrived here in st. pete beach yet. that is the largest metropolitan area on florida's west coast in the tampa bay area has not seen a major hurricane since 1921. last major hurricane before that was 1848. the buildings here are not up to code as much as some of the buildings in miami-dade county and broward county in southeast florida. which course experience hurricane andrew in 1992, that is one of the concerns here. we have seen some shelters that are opened, people are going in to those shelters are accommodating many of the most

vulnerable citizens here in the sam tampa bay area. people rushed in last night, more coming in this morning. but when we looked around last night when we got into this area, also this morning, there are far less homes and business boarded up than what we saw in miami. that's a concern here. the track of this storm has shifted and folks in miami have had a lot of time to prepare. everybody had time to prepare, some people here didn't anticipate it coming this way. >> dickerson: jeff glor, thanks so much. florida senator marco rubio joins us by phone from miami. senator, right now, what's the most important thing that people in your state need to know? >> well, couple of things, obviously, there's virtually no part of florida that is not going to be impacted. i'm currently in my home in west miami it is an absolute brutal storm, we're not even in the eye of the storm. we're going to get the sustained tropical storm winds, getting

threat, it is going to be exponentially worse everywhere from up the west coast of florida. if you live in naples, fort myers, sarasota in the tampa bay region, this storm has the potential to be the worst case scenario that emergency planners dread. and obviously you got to listen to local officials at this point. but if you are in one of those storm surge areas, it is important for you, if there is still a chance to get out. this is not going anywhere else, it's coming in the next few hours, probably feeling the effects of it already. and many ways as i said this is hitting the west coast of florida is the worst possible route this thing could have taken. >> dickerson: in your neighborhood, senator, there's been a lot of worry about senior centers, about hospitals, areas where people can't get out of the way of this. what can you tell us about how those are holding up and are they ready for a storm of this size? >> the good

been able to, for days now, work on this in the southeast coast. some people didn't stay behind and we're worried about them f. you're in key west or anywhere in the florida keys, we're going to find out hopefully not too many people stayed. because it doesn't look very good for them no matter, probably no safe place to be. i am concerned about southwest florida. people are concerned about the cam a bay region they have not got warnings only amplified friday night for them. even as late as last night we were talking to people we know personally and others. it's been so long that tampa bay region has a storm, perhaps don't have memory of what it's like. you can't hide from the water, that's our biggest fear. by the way storm surge doesn't come until the storm passes, it's a long time event and we are concerned about it. i know our local officials of course. the problem is we have there's

state is being impacted by this. >> dickerson: senator, we've talked over the years about trust in government and people losing faith in their government do you see any that have? are people not taking things seriously because sort of either because of crying wolf or lost faith invoices of authority? >> i can't say that in this cases. people have responded you see enormous number of people have acted, most massive evacuation in the state. millions of people have moved. in the aftermath of harvey people have jumped on it. i think the bigger concern that we have is who -- very unique situation, whole state ask impacted, lot of the relief efforts are being directed from place that now themselves are in the path of the storm. and we had a lot of people, for example, that left south florida that door to orlando, tampa or figuring out maybe i need to go back to miami or something or fort lauderdale or palm beach. this is no time to be on the road. this is very unique storm

usually able to say there are some safe place that you can go to. this particular case virtually the entire state is being impacted by the storm. >> dickerson: senator, we've leave it there. thank you so much. stay safe. we'll be back in a moment. it's never been easier. except when it comes to your retirement plan. but at fidelity, we're making retirement planning clearer. and it all starts with getting your fidelity retirement score. in 60 seconds, you'll know where you stand. and together, we'll help you make decisions for your plan... to keep you on track. ♪ time to think of your future it's your retirement. know where you stand.

>> dickerson: we're back with florida senator bill nelson who is in orlando this morning, senator, welcome. first just your reaction now that the storm has made landfall. what's your assessment and what are you worried about?rmfm3m

which is huge. there is going to be a wall of water going up into them. it doesn't have any place to escape and so it's going to wall up. that's going to be a very significant part of this storm. >> dickerson: when the water walls up like that are you worried, damage to property but is that something in terms of those who are in the cities now affecting them, storm surge into their house, how does that play out? >> give a shout out to the national hurricane center, the national weather service. all the noaa satellites. they have been right on this track. people are well aware. what they have said is, hurricanes like this, lot of deaths can occur from the water instead of the wind. it's hitting the keys, for

hour. difference between that and 155 miles an hou category 5, is an enormous magnitude of difference. water coming up the west coast. >> give us your sense you just mentioned those federal assets that have been tracking the storm, what is your view more broadly of the federal response or i should say in preparing for this storm. >> there is the cooperation between federal level, state and locals. when you did not have that cooperation. unlike even katrina, when you didn't have the cooperation and communication between louisiana national guard and u.s.

military, that has been taken care of. >> dickerson: that cooperation in preparation what should we look forward in the aftermath, the storm will go through some areas, what then are next steps in terms of coordinated response to make sure people who stayed behind are okay? >> that's the hard, hard slog in the after malt of the storm. given the fact that this is now moving so slowly and it's virtually covered up the whole state it's going to be massive effort not only at clean up but assisting people for the long term. >> dickerson: from your position in washington as a senator what is in your mind in terms of the response in terms obviously there's money, but in terms of responding and helping in the aftermath of this storm. >> we

have run out of money last friday. that's why i flew back from miami to washington to vote on that bill just in the nick of time, $15 billion, half of it to fema, half to local governments. that's going to run out in a few weeks. we'll be back in the middle of october for special appropriations. >> dickerson: quickly, senator, you were official in florida, dealt with these before in terms of insurance and that angle, tell us your expectations of how this is going to affect home owners throughout the state in the aftermath of this storm? >> now there is a big hurricane catastrophe fund. a re-insurance fund. billions of dollars of reserves. because insurance companies won't beoi

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>> dickerson: irma is only just now hitting the united states but the damage she's already left behind is massive. the island of barbuda was decimated according to the red cross. considered uninhabitable with 100% of the infrastructure gone. some parts st. martin saw more than 70% of homes damaged or in ruin. and cuba was battered saturday leaving homes destroyed and massive flooding on its northern coast. our bbc partner, will grant, filed this report from havana. >> several days of waiting and watching cubans finally felt the full force of hurricane irma has she hit the island as category 5 storm one of the most powerful hurricanes to hit cuba since the 1930s. of coursehe

rain, storm surges that partially submerged whole villages and the high wind that you can see at the moment that ripped roofs oven tire communities. homes all over these island are currently without electricity, extremely difficult time for cubans but along the northern coast going to take some time for them to recover. this is will grant for the bbc for "face the nation."hi >> dickerson: we'll be back in a moment. . but while some push high commission investment products, fisher investments avoids them. some advisers have hidden and layered fees. fisher investments never does. and while some advisers are happy to earn commissions from you whether you do well or not, fisher investments fees are structured so we do better when you do better. maybe that's why most of our clients come from other money managers. fisher investments. clearly better money management.

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>> dickerson: here's another look at the expected track of hurricane irma which is making its way to mainland, florida. that's it for us today at "face the nation." but please stay tuned for cbs news special report coming up next as our coverage of hurricane irma continues.

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of key west. irma is now moving northward up the gulf coast toward us here in st. pete beach. it's a very side storm, hurricane or tropical storm force winds extend about 220 miles from the center. some places could get as much as a foot of rain. irma is already blamed for three deaths here in florida after killing more than two dozen as it tore across the caribbean last week. well over a million homes and businesses in florida have lost power, more than six million people were ordered to evacuate as this storm approached. many of the shelters in this area have been activated by the governor in all about 7,000 members of the florida national guard are working. we have a team of correspondents producers and photographers deployed throughout the hurricane zone. manny is in naples which could get a big brunt of this storm is

actually we're going to -- manny is in fort lauderdale. >> that's right. we are in fort lauderdale, where winds are expected to reach 75 miles per hour later today and as you can see we are well on our way to that. what we've been seeing here throughout the morning these gusts picking up, the rain increasing, any of these shrubs for tree branches that are not strong are falling into this canal right here. speaking of this call i can tell from you being here last night to what we're seeing now, it is g.finitely rising. the concern here not just the strong winds that we're seeing right now and the rain, but of course the storm surge and flooding that might happen. here in broward county, you have 15,000 people who are riding this storm out in shelters, that's what officials wanted to see. the reason why, is because those buildings are strong enough to withstand some of the impacts of the wind here but also because righ n

because of these weather conditions where you cannot have law enforcement on the roads, they cannot respond to all the calls that they're getting right now. we do know that as the storm continues to pummel this area there are power lines down, there are trees down, you can see exactly why that would be happening, palm fronds that are throwing around the parking lot next us to. we're cognizant of the fact that there is danger of flying debris right now. wanted to let you know what the conditions are to give you perspective. where we are right now is about 100 miles away from irma made land familiar. that should tell you how large this storm is and how widespread the impacts will be. think about that. 100 miles away and the impacts, effects of this hurricane are that strong. jeff? >> thank you very much. you talk about the breadth of this hurricane, mark strassmann is in miami, s

get the worse but still very bad, mark? >> it is really bad, jeff. punishing winds here, you can sort of see, just all around me here when you cross street like this, you have to look both ways not for traffic because there is no traffic but for flying debr debris, traffic signs. flash flooding another issue, flash flooding up and down here. it's not coming from storm surge just flash flooding. most people have evacuated here and with good reason, this is the largest evacuation in miami-dade history, an area that has seen lots of hurricanes come and go over the years. but for people who decided to stay put and hunker down they are really on their own at this point just as manny was talking about with emergency responders up in broward. miami-dade by and large they're not responding to calls. if nobody needs help they have to figure it out on thei

there are number of people probably who are having serious second thoughts about their decision to stay put. more than 700,000 people have lost power in south florida's three major counties that could be lingering issue that goes on for days even weeks depending on how widespread it is. the conditions are not getting better in fact in the last hour or so i would say they have picked up and gone up to the next level. we have wind gust of 98 miles an hour about half hour ago in general i would say these are 60-plus mile an hour winds here in downtown miami. and this is really no place for anyone to be. the advice to people, wherever they are at this point, no matter how scared you get you have to hunker down. you cannot leave. the worst place to be during these conditions is out in a car exposed on a highway, exposed to the full conditions and wrath o

that is the worst. jeff, bad here. again, it's not going to improve any time soon. >> mark, i was going to ask you about this. i was just in miami with you that was one of the big concerns from police. we've lost jeff glor for the moment, it's anthony mason in new york. mark, you guys are no longer expected to feel the worst of it down there but as we can see it's already very bad. >> it is bad. this morning when i got up, 4:30 this morning or so i could hear the howling, the whistling of the storm raging outside. there were people who were getting up, they couldn't sleep, combination i think of the noise and the anxiety factor. over the last five, six hours as we stood out here it is

that is -- you can see the sheets of rain or sheets of water at least just rushing up the street about five or six minutes ago, the second traffic sign in the last hour that has sheered off of its stand, came flying down the street. those things are extremely dangerous. that is the kind of thing that can take your head off if you're not careful. the whole sense that some people have, i'm going to ride this one out f. they're going to ride this one out they really better have a safe place and be hunkered down, battonned down and good to go. this is really not a place to take any risks that are unnecessary and just being here for people who -- especially people unprepared is a huge risk in itself. >> mason: which is your sense of people who left, you get a sense lot of people decided to get out of the city before this?

>> the speculation is about 700,000, have dealt with a lot of evacuations, be interesting thing to me was that even people who in the past, who lived here in the past who have had a bit of brass say about category 1 or 2, they took this one seriously. there were lots of people here who said, i'm evacuating for the first time. the very first time just because this one, something about it, just seems different to me. it scares me. and they went by and large inland as far as they could. now, a lot of them frankly, especially if they left 72 hours ago were heading up towards naples, tampa, would turn out to be the wrong direction. there are a number of evacuees from miami who instead of leaving the hurricane will now drive right into the heart of mayor's path. that is going to be another issue that not only

tampa bay who by and large were not nearly as prepared for this because they did not have the kind of storm warning, that south florida had. now you also have some folks from south florida who have the storm warning what went up i-7 5 all the way to tampa bay and they now are in the path of this storm, too. it really is an awful combination of circumstances all the way around. >> mason: mark strassmann in miami they are now feeling gusts up to 90 miles an hour, be careful. we want to bring in eric fisher now, chief meteorologist at cbs station wbz, thanks for being with us, there is a brand new update on this storm. >> we just got the 11:00 advisory fin the hurricane center, no major change, that is not good news for florida. saying that that samish intensity, 130 an hour, picks up steam going north. you see the eye of the storm, now starting to leave the keys but those outer bands they expand over a large area. that is part of the message wh

this storm. fact that it's not all in the center, strongest wind are around the eye but the impacts cover a much larger footprint. latest stats at 11:00, 130 mile per hour winds, category 4 hurricane that is how it made landfall. first time on record we've had two category 4 hurricanes in one season in the united states. see that motion, north at nine. picking up speed as it made that turn, like moving an 18 wheeler it takes a little while, heading west now north moving a little bit faster that trend will continue. here is latest track, no major changes, that center of the storm i didn't skirt all the coast on naples area where thing are starting to go downhill up toward fort myers and saneibel. tomorrow up big bend of florida still at hurricane strength, even as it heads towards georgia and alabama because that have increasing wind field we'll see at least tropical storm form winds heading inland. with that you're talking about major power outages. over a million now, expect that

maybe four million as we look toward the next couple of days. that is a dangerous one for south florida. donna, made landfall on this exact day in 1960 is also last time keys had category 4 hurricane and is on the peak of hurricane season today, september 10th. lot of things culminating here. the big change is that 1960, we didn't have nearly the population and buildings and development. place like marco island is very different. >> mason: take me through the day as it's going to look. it's a two-day event along the coast of florida. first major target near the eye is what? nape else? >> around marco island into that naples area. we're looking at two timelines for the storm, timeline for the strongest winds which are out ahead and heaviest rain that is in that northeast quad rent up on this side. but many are noticing around bonita beach and fort myers, almost like tsunami, very

>> mason: being pulled out but it comes back. >> and sucked out by the hurricane, we saw some of these images in the bahamas, that water will rush back in very quickly, that happens as the center of the storm passes. the wiped is clockwise, bring in the watt are that was sucked out and then some. talk about evacuations it's because of the surge, nine out of ten people killed in a hurricane are water. it's not wind. wind causes damage, but water is the real danger to life. >> mason: the next major target will be what? >> parallel to that coastline looking sanders sanibel, captiva, fort myers, then tampa tonight, head big bend into tomorrow. >> mason: a long day on the florida coast. our coverage will continue we'll go to fort myers, we'll be back with our coverage, update ace said from fort myers after this break. we come into this world needing others. then we are told it's braver to go it alone.

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rain. we were watching as the lee county sheriff officers were coming off the street, they knew when the wind hit 40 miles an hour all the first responders came off. they came in a line. as they were driving by we watched a transformer explode, we got a gust of wind that brought down part of a tree right in our path. we've changed locations to get out of that. but we are now at the point in lee county where you have about 30,000 people who have gone into evacuation shelters, the folks who didn't get out of town or go to the shelters have to hunker in place. it is no longer safe to be out in the road. we're approaching, getting closer to those hurricane force winds. we know of at least one fatal accident two, people died in a collision in hardy county, between here and where you are in tampa. police are telling us that is an example of why they don't want peel driving in this weather, it is simply too dangerous. as you've heard mark strassmann talk about, watching street signs in this parking plot back here just move like that. at some point

will give way. they become projectiles so do the tree branches, it's going to be a very, very dangerous storm. we're already seeing some of those things happen here. we're taking about wind in the 60 mile an hour range. we know they could go up 100 to 120 miles an hour depending how strong irma is when the storm gets here. but these outer bands are packing quite a punch, really been sobering wake up call for people here in fort myers. they didn't have the benefit of the forecast giving them days and days of notice, this was 48 hours out it became clear that this was going to be in the bull's eye, so to speak, that's why we've seen people rushing to shelters. we were at the largest shelter here in the area yesterday, a line out the door before they opened it up, that shelter is now full. there are only three in the county here, lee county, that are still accepting people. first responders saying they rather you hunker in place u unless an absolute merge see. it's not safe to be

more. keep in mind a lot worse for us, lot worse for you where you are as this storm comes in. looks like now maybe 5:00 today is where we'll see some of the peak winds get started. we'll see hurricane winds here in the next couple of hours. >> where you are folks have medical emergency, people will not be able to go out because they don't want to put other folks in danger have to wait for the wind to go down below 45 miles an hour as irma takes her way toward us here in the tampa st. pete area. we're -- we have water on both side of us right now. behind us is the gulf, you see 100 yards of beach here. that water is going to get pushed out first and then it's going to get sucked back in. h e questions how much that surge comes up on both sides as irma moves through. that is the number one concern here. yes, there's going to be a lot of rain, yes, the wind will be very high.

dangerous and having seen some of these hurricanes and tropical storms in the past it can happen very quickly. police are very worried about that. sarasota is about 30-40 miles away from here, carter evans is there they also under a big threat today, carter? >> jeff, let me show you right here, this is a common site all around sarasota the road blocks right now. this is the bridge over to bay isle and siesta key, these places were evacuated as of 8:00 p.m. yesterday. nobody is supposed to be there for good reason. you look out to the right this is sarasota bay you can see the white caps on the water, quite rough right now. we're going to walk down here a little bit, in between squalls it's not too windy right now we can show you around just a bit. you were talking, jeff, about the tide rushing out. it was low tide earlier this morning, the tide should be coming in right now but it is

all that have water has gotten sucked out of the bay. you can see the high tide mark on the pilings. look at that home over, there you can imagine what it's going to be like when we get back up to high tide then we get eight feet of water on top of that. island behind me, only about three feet above sea level. this could be a big problem. again, this area, these low lying areas all evacuated by 8:00 p.m. last night. they're asking people to stay off the roads now, especially because even when it seems calm, another squall is right around the corner. >> carter, that's one of the big concerns you mentioned high tide coming in later this afternoon also coincides with the storm getting even worse, that is a big concern. still ahead we'll check in with another major city in florida, naples. we have correspondents all over this state right now. we're back right after this.

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hour and miami is not getting the worst. the worst may happen today in the gulf coast city of naples, just south of us, jonathan vigliotti is there. >> gusts here about 56 miles per hour, that's only expected to grow as the hours go on. we're expecting 135 miles per hour. you can see what this is doing right now to the trees here, really whipping them around. if you can look over here i just want to point your direction and attention to this roof. that is a hurricane-proofed building here in naples, you can see this gust of wind already starting to rip this off. the wind obviously a concern and hazard but the main concern, biggest safety risk is the storm surge. we have been talking about this all morning long, nape sells ground zero for that surge. anywhere from 10-15 feet high. that is high enough to cover many buildings and one of the

miles inland to the shelter where we are right now. there are 30 shelters that the county opened up and which are at mass capacity with about 15,000 people. as that evacuation zone started to grow even last night people who said they were going to hunker down and right it out started to panic. that's when private shelters really came into play. this location is actually a country club. it is opened for the members and also for the public, about 500 people are now inside riding out this storm as it continues to pick up in intensity. right now as they are watching, we are watching this storm really picking up in its brutality. high heart goes out to the people on the barrier island that's where this story is going to unfold in the next few hours we're talking about marco island, captiva, those are places, slivers of sand with highrises on them and low rises, i smoke to one person yesterday who was riding o

with his family there even though that was under a mandatory evacuation. we also have to keep in mind the community that we're in. this is a retirement community, i've heard number of stories of senior citizens home alone riding out the storm in their homes because they just did not want to leave, had no where else to go, no support system. as this storm comes through, that's population that we have to be worried about and focus on especially in the aftermath of this storm. >> those are some of the folks have to wait longest for help before police can safely get back out. some rooftops there are already beginning to come off considering that wind are going to get twice as bad as they are right now. we are going to be right back with more special coverage of hurricane irma. but as we go to break here want to look at some pictures from broward county, look at those wind and look at those palm trees. not even the worst of it, more

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discovery inside and out. >> some of our cbs station will leave us now for local programming but we'll be tracking the storm throughout the day. we'll have updates during cbs sports coverage of the nfl. we'll break in immediately with any major developments we'll have extensive hurricane coverage on special expanded edition. of the cbs weekend news. first here is eric fisher. eric if you will one more time take me through the track of this storm through today. >> we're watching that eye, center where the strongest winds, the eyewall lifting away from the keys, moving up to towards marco island and naples. and that is an area of great concern for us because it's low elevation, there's a lot of elements on that island, expecting the storm surge 10-15 feet that wil

majority of that island. then parallel the coast right by naples, up towards sanibl, fort myers then continuing up the coastline towards tampa. retains category 3 strength first major, which is category 3 or higher hurricane there in almost a hundred years. it's a very vulnerable spot and lot of people have been sending in pictures, videos, of water getting sucked around, that is the wind blowing off shore that water will come in very quickly as we head into this evening. >> thanks very much. as i said some of you will be leaving us but our coverage of hurricane irma will continue in a moment.

>> good morning, once again, special report on hurricane irma here at cbs news, and these extraordinary winds we are seeing in broward county as hurricane irma moves up, that is the east coast, we are on the west coast here, st. pete beach, florida, i am jeff glor, along with anthony nature at cbs news headquarters in new york as we track irma, the storm is moving northward up the gulf coast of florida. we are in st. pete beach, st. petersburg and tampa are just to our east, after making initial landfall earlier this morning in the lower keys that is what irma did about 20 miles east of key west, irma is now trac m