around the naples area or marko island. this area here landfall expected tomorrow morning between 2 and 5:00 a.m. as a category four storm with winds 150 miles per hour as the storm moves over land getting close to tampa, it weakens dramatically as it loses its fuel source which is the warm waters of the atlantic and the gulf. tuesday and wednesday it weakens into a tropical storm or tropical low. we're seeing good concensus between the forecast models. we have a couple of outliers which brings it over the gulf which will be good news for people in southern florida but terrible news for the folks up here. the track is who will get hit hardest. looks like it's naples. rainfall totals range anywhere from 6 to 12 inches when all is said and done. we'll see winds 150 miles per hour for a brief period of time. this wall of water approaches ten feet from the coast fort meyers beach into the everglades national park. these areas are close to sea level ranging 3 to 8 feet above sea level. that wall of water will push i understand l

this especially in 100 years especially in the tampa area. 8 to 10 feet from fort myers down to marko island. this is a very heavily populated area. very vulnerable to storm surge. i'm going to take you in and show you how high the water will be above ground level. so above the ground look for this red. nine feet the water will be above ground. look how far inland that penetrates. that's why we were asking people to evacuate, because that water pours into these inlets and these canals, and then with the wind coming in off the water it can't drain back. this water just pours inland. with this l terrain, even inland areas, 6 to 9 feet. you have to go well away from the water to get away from the storm surge threat. same situation especially on the south side of naples. another very vulnerable area where the water just comes on in here and it comes in like a wall. and unfortunately can infiltrate into buildings. this water picks up sewage and debris. it's very harmful. you can develop rashes if you're in it. this is why we tell people to get out. or if you are riding out a storm, you better be

the wall of water forced inland around marko island and melbourne the same. my him me seeing gusts 60 to 80 miles per hour. monday morning we're teeing tropic storm gusts for southern florida. so here's the official track for the national hurricane center it should make landfall sometime tomorrow morning in the florida keys and another hit around marco island and naples and monday into southern georgia and most of the ohio and tennessee valley as it continues to push i understand land. we'll take a closures look at the -- closer look at the projected storm surge which is impressive and look at the local weather in the delaware and lehigh valleys which looks very, very nice. i will be back in ten minutes. >> better late than never that's a dire message being stressed as hurricane irma approaches florida. these are the final hours to get out. by this time tomorrow the florida keys will be feeling the fury of irma. the storm is so wide all of the sunshine state will get a punch from irma. millions are evacuating. some are hunkering down in shelters or taking the

really concerned about the eye moving off to the north and west and the piling of water up towards marko island, fort myers around 7:00 because 7:00 is high tide for them. so this water is coming on shore and it all depends on the track how much this coastal flooding and storm surge will ride up the coast. if we can get this thing on shore and on land, it will start a weaker storm. if the storm parallels the coast or stays just off shore, this wind fetch is going to continue and the coastal flooding will be severe all the way up to the tampa, st. petersburg area. >> steve, we'll continue to talk to you. as steve said earlier in case you weren't with us, at the top of every hour we're getting updates. he'll have that for us at the top of the hour. the next big update at 11:00 a.m. eastern time. i want to bring you rob gold from florida power and light coming to us from palm beach. what's the story now on power? >> it's really pretty much where we expect it to be. we've got about half a million customers who are now out of power. i would say though we've already restored about a quarter of a mill

this especially in 100 years especially in the tampa area. 8 to 10 feet from fort myers down to marko island. this is a very heavily populated area. very vulnerable to storm surge. i'm going to take you in and show you how high the water will be above ground level. so above the ground look for this red. nine feet the water will be above ground. look how far inland that penetrates. that's why we were asking people to evacuate, because that water pours into these inlets and these canals, and then with the wind coming in off the water it can't drain back. this water just pours inland. with this low terrain, even inland areas, 6 to 9 feet. you have to go well away from the water to get away from the storm surge threat. same situation especially on the south side of >>> that breaking news, hurricane irma bearing down on florida. good morning. this is nbc 10 news today. i'm rosemary connors. you have been watching msnbc's coverage of the storm. this morning, we'll continue to follow irma's path as the hurricane creeps closer to landfall in florida. overnight, it strengthened back to a category 4 s

all areas in red, fort meyers, fort meyers beach, naples marko island.th the number drops down a bit. they are expecting a 3 to 45-foot storm surge in tampa. jacksonville rainfall total, under a foot. miami a foot of rain, melbourne 9.64. there will be a devastating storm for southern florida. upper 40s north and west, low 50s south and east. satellite and radar shows a couple of clouds off to the northwest. that's it. look at the weekend, 73 sunny today, sunny tomorrow, with a high of 74. the exclusive accuweather seven-day forecast, if you're wondering whether or not we'll pick up the remnant rains from irma ma, the answer is yes, but it doesn't occur until the middle of the week. it's in the form of showers, not heavy drenching rains. 78 monday, 75 tuesday increasing rains by wednesday. >> the benjamin franklin parkway turning 100 years old, to celebrate the big anniversary, the mural has been commissioned to commemorate the celebration. parkway day dreams. the abstract depicts views from the residences toward center city and logan square. looks beaut

a lot of these lines across alligator alley in the everglades, south of marko island very difficult infrastructure to get to those bucket trucks that you're going to see later on today hopefully, they don't get out until the winds die down to 30 those workers don't want to be up in that wind and they have to wait for some water to recede. that will take a little bit of time the gusts here, i would say maybe 15, 20 so hopefully once day break comes some of the -- actually, as we were driving on this bridge i was driving the suv and then all of a sudden, boom, i heard this boom on the windshield and it was a downed power line that had sagged right at the height of our windshield. so we've got to be very careful. >> yeah, there will be trucks from everywhere, carl. it is amazing how people do mobilize i saw a tweet, someone took a picture of an l.a. fire department truck making its way into florida it is pretty amazing anyway, thank you. thanks to you. >>> now let's head to the other coast of florida contessa brewer joins usnear ft. lauderdale good morning, contessa. >> reporter: good morning, joe yo

here is mostly everglades national park, so that will take a lot of this and then you get up to marko island fort myers, cape coral, north in port charlotte and punta gorda, up into the hill county area and tampa bay area that whole coast is beaten by the storm all day long. this entire southern tip of florida is under a tornado watch we're now told more than 850,000 people officially in the florida keys plus miami-dade, broward and the palm beaches are without power. three storm-related deaths have been reported all of those on the roadways. the city of naples, florida said to be like a ghost town and a short time ago we got a report out of one of the upper keys, is la marada i believe it was where a local resident talking to a local station said it looked like a tsunami had come in as the water came rushing up boats sitting up on their keel and a scene of widespread destruction in the upper keys. remember it came ashore just to the right of key west and in the lower part of the keys, and now is expected to skirt up this coast and all along the way bringing so much wind and water into the s