our correspondent ed lavandera is on the road in south florida. ed, update us on where you are, and what the conditions are like. >> reporter: hi, wolf. we wanted to check out the evacuation routes through various parts of southern florida. just to kind of see and get a better sense how many people were hitting the road and listening to these warnings, and quite frankly, what we've seen at least down here from dade county where we are now on the southern edge of dade county, looking out on to the roads here this afternoon, from here through broward county and into palm beach county, the areas we've focused on, and the roads, at least the major thoroughfares looked like this. these are the evac routes essentially. the highways you take to go from the very southern points of south florida all the way north to get away from the impact zone and the worst of hurricane irma. that is the area that we've seen traffic running rather smoothly. we are approaching those final hours where people are urged if you're going to move, now is the time to move. i don'

ed lavandera, thank you so much for showing us that picture.thing to see right now. poppy? >> we have some breaking news out of washington. lest you forget hurricane harvey reeked havoc on the state of texas a week or so ago. right now, on the house floor, lawmakers are voting on an initial relief package of under $8 billion for the victims of hurricane harvey. this, of course, is tied to continuing resolution on raising the debt ceiling for three months. this is the grand agreement that the president came to amid the republicans. this is what the president agreed to with chuck schumer and nancy pelosi. they are voting on it right now. we'll keep a close eye on it for you. it means a lot to the folks in texas there. >>> meantime, red cross says irma affected 1 million people and poses a threat to millions more in the path. let's bring in robert from the american red cross. robert, so nice to have you. thank you for all you and your team are doing across the state of florida right now as we await irma. the florida governor, rick scott, we just h

and ed lavandera, my partner, surveilling the area. once it started to deteriorate we had to fall back to the hotel. waiting for ed to get a shot up. ready to go? tell us what's going on from the ground level. >> reporter: chris, you know, talking throughout the morning. we had a chance to venture out and kind of at least survey a little bit of the initial bands of the storm, as it was approaching here in the naples area, and -- within minutes of the worst bands starting to hit, just a couple hours ago, we'd already seeing trees falling down, and -- that is only going to continue to get worse. also, an area of concern is about -- 20 miles south of us. that's marco island. a popular tourist destination full of high-rise condos and that sort of thing. i've been speaking with the police chief down on marco island. he messaged me saying they lost power, on backup radios. there are about 80 first responders hunkering down there on the island, bracing for the worst of the storm. the police chief says they're on the edge of the eyewall there.

ed lavandera just spoke with the mayor. they got lucky here and here's why. people got out early, even before the storm track shifted, ed lavandera reports. so they made the move. they got out of here. the mayor believes there's only several thousand people still here. that's still a lot, that's still a lot that decided to stay behind with just one place to eat, ed lavandera said he saw in the whole area driving around for hours. the gulf on one side and more water on the other. we were watching the storm track move above our heads but just like that, it's totally closed out. the rain coming horizontal and vertical if you can tell and another unique part of naples. when the dollar amount goes up of what this costs, the houses here, the waterfront houses, there are many that are $10 million and above. that's the least of our concerns. we're worried about people, not property, but the dollar amount is going to be high. this is one of the reasons why is a place like this. so from the pelting rain here, still over half a day away from when it's supposed to hit. i

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and rescue workers vow to continue to search as long as it takes. >> ed lavandera joining me. simon, you've been here most of the day. obviously the focus now is on not just rescuing this little girl and trying to get out of the school, but in the meantime, just trying to keep her alive. they've made incredible efforts. >> absolutely. it has been grueling. they've been working on this since at least 7 in the morning and thousands of people have been involved. we've seen them passing oxygen takes into the trouble, trying to give it through holes they've created. the main effort is focused on widening that hole, so it's big enough to pull people out. but at the same time the structure doesn't collapse and hurt anyone. >> the fact that they found her alive with this thermal imaging equipment and reports that there were text messages being exchanged between kids trapped under the rubble. >> the thermal images did seem to show that there may be at least three people alive. they're focusing primarily on the 9-year-old girl up until now, because the education minister has come out an

south of where we are is ed lavandera in the city of naples in southwest florida. a city that has seen hurricanes before and has suffered through them before, but not seen anything quite this big. ed? >> hi, michael. after hurricane irma churns its way through key west and that area you just heard the reporter from "the miami herald" talking about, the next significant land point it will come across is this area here, naples and collier county, which is on the southwest corner of this part of the state. here everyone measures hurricanes by what happened in 2005, hurricane wilma. speaking with the mayor, he says he's not quite sure that experience will measure up to what hurricane irma will deliver here. a 10 to 15-foot storm surge expected and feared. the rain and winds beginning to pick up. we managed to make our way down south to a little island called marco island, about 24 square miles. 16,000 people live on the island. we caught up with the police chief, who was making his final round through the neighborhood. they had been warning people throughout the day to

. >>> i want to bring in cnn's ed lavandera who is in naples, florida, tonight. my goodness. what an awful story. ed, this goes to speak to what people are dealing with right now. this is an extreme circumstance, but still among the circumstances that people have been dealing with. >> reporter: it doesn't appear that the rehab center was considered a top tier facility. however, the facility across the street was a top teier facility. back in march with broward county officials, ahead of storm season, to lay out the top tier facilities. essentially, that is what determines what power gets turned on first, what is on the high-priority list after the storm and the repair process begins but it doesn't appear that that rehab center was on that top tier list. >> so statewide, how much power has been restored tonight in florida? >> reporter: well, you know, it's slowly trickling down. 3.1 million customers still without power. that was at the peak of all of this, there was 15 million people across the state who had lost power, according to the department of homeland security. but jus

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ed lavandera joins me with the latest on that. ed? >> reporter: hi, john. the army corps of engineers says it will take several months for the reservoir levels to balance out. we will continue to see the floodwaters here in these neighborhoods in west houston for some time. this is one of two main areas of concern in houston. the other being in northeast houston, the kingwood area. we have seen floodwaters receding in a great number of neighborhoods. that's giving search and rescue teams the opportunity to go in and search for possible victims. that is a great task that has to be done and we are clearly seeing the effects of that as well as the death toll has jumped to 47 because of hurricane harvey and these teams being able to go in there, finding people who weren't able to get out of the rising floodwaters and escape in time. that is part of the dreadful work that has to be done. the clean up process is going to continue here. county officials say 136,000 homes across harris county have been or structures have been damaged by the floodwaters. a staggerin

ed lavandera is on the scene. he joins us by phone. what are you seeing, ed? >> hi, anderson.se rescue workers are working under horrible conditions tonight. downpours and lightning strikes in the area as they continue to search through that rubble of that elementary school where much of the city is pinning their hopes on good news emerging from this rubble. as you mentioned, we heard from a government official saying there has been contact made with a young girl inside that rubble. we have been watching throughout the evening and throughout the day. rescue teams working inside this build. a number of times throughout the day we heard the rescue workers and everyone around the building erupt into a round of applause. it's never been exactly clear why that's happening or any real explanation what they were cheering. you suspect d the to be some sort of good news. but as far as we know, no one has emerged alive from this rubble today. i was inside the school grounds a few hours ago, anderson, where there were hundreds of people trying to clear out debris. you could also hear, th

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ed lavandera went through brutal conditions in naples, north of marco island. ill try to get back to ed in a few minutes. i want to go to callie hartongue, she is in jacksonville. this is where the -- where it's supposed to be getting hit the hardest right now and what are you seeing? >> well, kate, right now i'm in downtown jacksonville outside the omni hotel in the middle of town. this parking lot to my left, still dry but you wonder how long that will last because all you have to do is take a couple of steps and this is downtown jacksonville, flooded. we're about two blocks from the banks of the st. john's river. behind me you can see a marina just over my shoulder, and a bridge that would take you to jacksonville beach. these are already historic flood levels in downtown jacksonville, unlike anything that they've seen before and authorities caution, kate, it will get worse. the rain has stopped. i don't need a rain jacket to stand out here and talked to you. the rain has stopped. high tide not until 2:00 p.m. they are thinking levels could rise 4 to 6 feet a

in english we say, we made it. >> we made it. >> reporter: ed lavandera, cnn, mexico city. >> he madeg about so many tragic stories from this earthquake. at least 12 people were killed when this church collapsed in puebla state. >> they were attending a baptism of a baby girl right when the quake hit. some survivors spoke with cnn's ivan watson. >> reporter: a community in mourning. crosses on the street to honor victims of the deadly earthquake that shook the village of atsala on tuesday. it was not supposed to be this way. that morning, locals gathered at this church in the center of the village to attend the baptism of a 3-month-old girl named elida torres de lion. this is a video of the 277-year-old church, filmed in happier times. it was the beating heart of this community. but that all changed in an instant when the earth began to shake on tuesday. tiejo, a church employee, was assisting with the baptismal ceremony when the quake struck. >> translator: it was almost instantaneous. when it started shaking, pieces of the ceiling started to fall. everything went dark. i shut my eye

let's go to ed lavandera for more on what he's seeing. ed? >> hi, poppy. the real question here in the one thing that people are going to be dealing with the most for the longest period of time as well is that the power outages throughout the state. across the region, the southeast region, you take into effect as the storm has moved north, north carolina, south carolina, georgia, alabama, and florida, nearly 7 million people without power right now and, of course, the most of that, the brunt of that, is here in the state of florida wheres there's more than 5.5 million people without power. so we have seen here, we're in naples, florida, the southwest corner, the eye of hurricane irma came through here. we have seen crews going around beginning that process of re-establishing power in neighborhoods. in fact, in one neighborhood, late last night, as we were driving back from another location, we saw one small little pocket of businesses around a marina where the power had come back on. but this is a task that is going to take some time. in fact, we were also

our ed lavandera right now on marco island and the last time i saw you i think was here miami.ve gone since then and now to where the storm made its first impact on the west coast of florida. >> reporter: yeah. it's been a wild 48 hours since we last saw each other, john. we are actually in a little fishing village called goodland just east of marco island. we were able to get on to marco island. that island has been reopened and residents that were there, 17,000 or so able to get back on. that island withstood the power and the fury of hurricane irma rather well, but it is a different story in goodland, florida, which is a small little fishing village at the very bottom of florida and the edge of the everglades and the gulf of mexico, and this is a small little village that just took a clobbering from hurricane irma. this is very typical of the scene that we have seen here on the island as we've driven around is surprisingly, we've also spoken with a number of people who have -- who rode out the storm here on marco island. we just interviewed a man by the name of dustin shepar

let's get the latest from ed louisia lavandera. >> reporter: continuing, you can see the legion of volunteers shown up on the streets surrounding this school bringing all the supplies that the rescue workers just a block away might need to get through the evening. and also hear moments like this when they urge everybody to be quiet to rescue workers can hear what's going on. i was up close to that building several hours ago early why he in the day. and it was amazing just to be that close really gives you the sense of just what a profound impact and what a horrific scene it must be for those rescue workers crawling and channeling their way trying to make some sort of path to get to those people they believe are still trapped alive inside of that building. if they can pull somebody out alive, it will be one of the few bright spots in this horrific tragedy that has hit this country of mexico so strongly. a blglimmer of hope to pull out young child from here. this is definitely one the stories iacting the city and around the world. that search continues. >>> they're just -- in anguish. anguish n

naples florida where chris cuomo and ed lavandera have been covering for the last several hours and the storm hit and the wall hit about two hours ago and hit very hard. we're going to show you some of those images and also images tonight from miami. miami beach, water flowing through the streets like rivers. extraordinary images out of miami and all points in between. first, though, i want to go to miguel marquez who is in punta gorda right now. miguel, how are things there? >> about 60 miles north. we're about 40 miles north of fort meyers. i want to show you that phenomenon you guys are seeing right there in tampa and we're seeing here as well, this is the marina for the city of punta gorda. all of the boats in there are not on water. they're on mud and you can see there's a big one off in the distance there and a sail boat right in front of it and those are sitting in mud. the water that you see in that marina is the runoff and the rain into that marina. we are also seeing the strongest winds that we've seen so far today. i mean, it's painful to the skin and it is also painful to yo

our ed lavandera went to the fishing village and spoke with people who decided to stay. >> where themeets the gulf of mexico is an island good land. gary stringer stared down the sharpest edge of the storm blades. he sat in this room as the 130 mile per hour winds whirled outside. >> did you feel like the house was going to go down? >> i picked up the dogs and said here we go. >> as the winds shook he heard the ripping of a tree. he opened the t door to see the tree had fallen on the neighbor's house, he was spared. emergency officials say some 40 people decided to ride out the storm in goodland, but no injuries reported. boats tossed around, trees toppled, and several homes destroyed. >> it blew out my oil cap. >> the storm surge drew 7 feet of water under his home. >> we have a puffer fish here. >> he works as a charter fisherman and stayed inside his home with his wife and friend. >> my windows broke on the backside and for a couple hours i thought the house might come down. it got scary. it was something i'll never forget. i'll tell you that much. >> reporter: friends showed up t

. >> thank you ed lavandera. more of what goes into what you see. head trainer at search dog foundation. thanks for being with us. some dogs are specifically for finding people who are alive and some for finding people deceased, is that correct? >> that's true. but i'm not sure which dogs are working right now. and whether the big question to ask is have these dogs been certified, the teams, handler and dog, to a national standard or are they just deploying? not sure who is working the site you're looking at. >> and with bomb sniffing dogs, difficulty is overusing they will. get tired out in sense of smell. can be used for short periods of time and need rest. is that the same here? >> i wouldn't say short periods of time. certainly depends on how warm it is outside, how humid. things like that. but in the environment in mexico city right now, i would think they could do some good work. certainly an hour if not more. these dogs are so highly driven. and they're conditioned to believe that the person in that rubble that's trapped his their toy. which

cnn's ed lavandera is live in west houston with more. what's the situation there, ed? >> reporter: according to harris county officials there are still main areas of concern. this neighborhood you see behind me very much under water. this is on the west side of town near those reservoirs we talked so much about over the last few days and also another area on the nooeft sirtheast side of to. as the floodwaters have receded and the cleanup begins, those firefighters and first responders going through the neighborhood and making the grim discoveries of people who weren't able to escape the floodwaters or were trapped on their way out or just couldn't escape it. the death toll has now risen to 47 because of hurricane harvey. those teams will continue to fan out across the city and continue those searches as well. that's the grim work being done as well as the cleanup which will take months. across the city, county officials say 136,000 structures have been damaged because of the floodwaters. that includes neighborhoods, homes and businesses. a lot of work in the cleanup pr

cnn's ed lavandera is live in houston with more. what's the situation? >> reporter: good morning, alisyn. still two main areas of the houston area that remain flooded. neighborhoods like this in west houston and another area on the northeast side of town. as water has receded in many places, it's also come with the grim discovery of bodies and people who died in those floodwaters. as we mentioned at the top, the death stole now stands at 47 because of hurricane harvey and the destruction it's wreaked here in houston. some of these neighborhoods, residents are waiting for these floodwaters to recede. nearly 140,000 homes damaged by the floodwaters across the city. so this is just a staggering number. it really kind of speaks to the daunting task of cleanup that lies in the weeks ahead here. those warnings going out to residents to be very careful about the contamination in these floodwaters, sewage. we've seen the oil slicks and gasoline in those neighborhoods. all this very difficult to contend with and something residence need to be aware of. al zen? >>

ed lavandera, thank you very much. >>> the island of barbuda was devastated with trees uprooted, buildingsw of pictures there. this is a view of its immense power. leyla just returned from barbuda where she's seen the devastation firsthand. she just arrived safely in antigua nearby. leyla, we're seeing these images now, but i imagine as you walked around, drove around, just devastation. >> reporter: yeah, what you see from above, right, in those aerials and kind of what you feel when you're down there is very overwhelming feelings. it is pure destruction, it is desolate, people are overwhelmed. you can tell that it's not a what am i going to do tomorrow, it's a what am i going to do next hour? they are overwhelmed trying to get off of the island, those that were still there. the priority now not so much to save what irma did leave behind but to save lives. on wait therthe way there, we a saw five ferries coming from antigua to barbuda. so right now they're bracing for things to come with hurricane jose, and it was just this feeling -- barbuda is such a vibrant island, not just in color but

ed lavandera is there. what has the mayor said? >> reporter: he's getting ready for a long grueling time as is every other mayor in the area. these streets were deserted, ghost town, no one around. power crews are out trying to get the traffic lights back up. these are the kinds of things they're dealing with, the power lines tipped over, many advantaged in half. that's the kind of clean jupp that's going to take several weeks. as you mentioned, the initial damage in the city of naples, a small city compared to the rest of the metropolitan areas in south florida, $100 million. kind of staggering. the mayor expected it to go up. we spoke with him a little while ago. let's listen to our conversation with him. >> the process is going to be a long process, but the initial is right now, getting the initial estimates, what -- and then making priority list. >> reporter: so there are 200,000 customers waiting to get power in collier county. 186,000 are still waiting. it could take ten days to get everyone in the stay back online in the cit

ed lavandera visited the town. >> ever blades meets the gulf of mexico, there's a fishing village. of hurricane irma chain sawed its way here, and gary stringer stared down the sharpest edge of the storm's blade. he sat in this room as the 130-mile-per-hour winds recovered outside. >> did you feel the house was going to get picked up off the ground. >> i thought, >>> almost, yeah. >> as the house shook, he heard the cracking and rumbling of a giant tree ripping out of the ground. he opened the door to see the tree had fallen on to the neighbor's house. he was spared. >> at that point did you start telling yourself maybe i should have left town. >> yeah. i was telling myself that an hour before that. >> emergency officials say some 40 people decided to ride out the storm here in good land, but there were no serious injuries reported. the hurricane ripped apart this town that's home to several hundred people. boats tossed around, trees top peld and several homes destroyed. >> it blew out my oil cap here, the pressure from the water. >> the storm surge pushed about 7 feet of water und

ed lavandera still on clear roads, plenty of time to evacuate. i'm john berman in miami beach. at this hour with kate bolduan starts now. >>> thank you both so much. hello, i am kate bolduan. hurricane irma closes in and millions of floridians brace for impact and race to get out. the chilling warning from the state's governor today. everyone in florida, the entire state, needs to be prepared to evacuate. here is why. that huge swirling cloud of power. that is irma. it is one of the most dangerous storms on record and so big it is going to swallow the state from coast-to-coast. now, consider this, it dwarfs what was previously the state's worst storm. hurricane andrew hit in '92. right now, irma is hitting cuba. this is what happened to the r turks and caicos. we have the direct hit that came to barbuda where every building has been damaged or destroyed. that's what the prime minister said. widespread damage. one woman describes the terrifying experience they lived through. >> the winds, i can't begin to tell you the zinging. that sound. it was just all encompassing. it really

we have ed lavandera near goodland where communication is spotty at best, and talk about thele challengeswe are on the eastern edge of marco island. most of the island handled the storm relatively well, but this is an area that took the category 3 and the area where the second landfall hit on the southwest part of florida with wind gusts around 130 and as high as 140 miles per hour. there is a man named gary stringer who waited out this storm here in this house right here, and look it what he barely missed here, the giant tree collapsed here. and the wind blew it that i way way. and if he had gone that way, he is not sure that he would be alive to talk to us, and tell us about this story. crazily enough, jake, a number of people decided to ride out the storm. this is on the edge of where where the evergrades meet the gulf of mexico and the fact that some people stayed behind and withstood this storm is simply amazing. >> dianne gallagher is in bradenton, florida, south of tampa, tampa, and you are looking at where a lot of the seniors live, and many of the seniors do live in florida, but

i want to go to ed lavandera. i was told you're heading to san marco island. where is it exactly? >> right now we have just left the city of of naples which is further south of where you are. on our way down to marco island, popular vacation spot for many people in this part of the country. it is a barrier island. could be one of the most significant spots off the florida keys that will take a direct hit from this hurricane. we have been driving around the naples area in collier county which is home to about 300,000 people. and this town is absolutely desolate. spoke with the mayor just a little while ago, and he told us that many people here in this area had started heeding the evacuation warnings early in the week. many people were extremely worried about the path of this hurricane and they left early, and the signs of that very clear throughout the city. every business closed down except for one or two restaurants that are still open. we are on our way to check out the scene in marco island where they have been asked people to evacuate that area. that is definitely not an islan

it's coming from, at times horizontal, not as much in naples, florida, earlier when chris and ed lavanderajust the sheets of water. bring gingrass is in orlando. tom sater says the storm confusing as it is moving a little more to the east, perhaps more in the direction of orlando. certainly what might be good news for people in tampa, is bad news potentially for people in orlando. bri brynn what are conditions there like and for anybody here in orlando about the movement of the storm there's the go to be more concern. >> reporter: absolutely anderson. we're in the middle of the state, not by a coast but that doesn't make us immune. we are getting smacked with wind gusts right now and tons of rain. officials tell me they don't expect the worst of this storm a or the worst to begin until midnight. we're several hours away but already seeing a lot happening in orlando. we have been hearing what ryan was saying as far as the transformers blowing, that blue light lighting up the sky further behind us, an emergency vehicle rushing that direction and sometimes we're actually hearing this sound li

let's bring in ed lavandera. you are in naples. know you have been traveling around and went to marcos island to get a sense of the harder hit areas. what did you find out, my friend? >> the second time that hurricane irma hit the united states is south of where we are, marco island. it was a small town of goodland, florida. it was some of the main destruction here in florida that we have seen everywhere. where the everglades meets the gulf of mexico, there's a goodland. the eye of irma chainsawed its way through here. and this man sat in this room as the 130-mile-per-hour winds roared outside. >> did you feel like the house was going to get picked up off the ground? >> yeah. yeah, i picked up the dogs and i thought, here we go. it's going to go. >> like dorothy and the "wizard of oz." >> yeah. >> he opened the door to see the tree had fallen on to the neighbor's house. he was spared. >> you start telling yourself, maybe i should have left? >> yeah, i was telling myself hours before that. >> emergency officials say some 40 people d

naples as we saw over the weekend with ed lavandera and chris cuomo, suffered a huge -- it was absolutelyalloped by hurricane irma, so it is an extremely relevant place for the president to go visit. what he's actually going to do there, we don't really know. the white house hasn't been very transparent in terms of the plans. we really know the destinations. we're told he will meet with first responders. we have to imagine he's going to meet with some of the victims of hurricane irma, especially after the criticism from houston, you have to imagine he is going to be getting out there and touring some of the devastation, but as you noted, this white house, every white house, very concerned about tying up local resources so they will be trying to do it in the most sensitive way, but also in a way to show people that they do care. john, what has really been remarkable in the wake of hurricane irma is that people have been incredibly understanding. first of all what we saw was there was so much warning, there was so much preparation for this storm, everyone is ready for it to be so bad and th