northern central florida mid 90s to lower 90s as well. when you look at an area, we're talking 4.3 million without power. you say 10 to maybe 16 million people across the state of florida without power right now and then you look at it another way. we know the state of florida well known for its elderly population. over 3 million people estimated to be over age 65. one in 20 are over age 08 and we often say the elderly, the children, the most susceptible to extreme heat because their bodies do not cool off. swe sweating is the most efficient way to cool off. it becomes a very dangerous scenario. >> some important information there. >> all right. the extent of the damage becoming painfully clear in the caribbean. cnn has crews on several of the islands. we have more on the long recovery efforts expected not only there but for all of the u.s. virgin islands. >> reporter: this island, st. thomas was one of the first to get hit business hurricane irma. a category 5 when it hit last wednesday and it has become very clear that it is going to be

that's what is affecting central florida, the east coast of florida.s where our tim furlong is right now. and he was talking about how active and threatening the weather was. we're seeing several tornado warnings and watches that have beenish sh issued through sever parts of florida, orlando already getting several reports of tornadoes, as well. so this is what we're monitoring for. you do have to follow us on social media for more updates on that. in addition, download the free nbc 10 app for more updates. we'll keep you updated for the next several hours as irma continues to work her way from south to north across florida. so right now, irma is currently a category 2 hurricane, and as it continues to work its way towards georgia, it will eventually become a category 1. it does not mean that it will not be just as threatening. we're seeing several reports of power outages. 3.5 million to 4 million people without power right now. so again, download that free app for updates. we'll continue working hurricane irma northward and see how it continues to wo

required above 100-year flood zones. >> reporter: tampa is a 90- minute drive west of orlando, the central florida corridor where so many evacuees from south florida have gone. >> are you worried about the hurricane? >> yeah. >> you feel safe, though? >> reporter: the ryan family from the miami suburb of doral managed to book rooms at an embassy suites in orlando. business executive chris ryan said he wasn't taking any chances with his wife and two kids. >> i was living in miami for over 20 years and never had experience of a cat 4 or 5 direct hit in miami. i've been through a few hurricanes but nothing at this strength and having it hit directly into miami. and i know people that lived there during andrew, and i have family that live in houston. and so, they were insisting that we leave. >> reporter: ross left his home in miami with a few belongings and his dog. >> you've got to err on the side of caution. we got a big storm coming. >> reporter: the closest hotel room he could find is in georgia. it'll cost him more than $300 a night. >> hotels, you can't find anything. i was on expedia trying to

congresswoman stuffany murphy, democrat from central florida, she was there. congressman tom reid, republican from up state new york, he was there. an area we affectionately refer to as the southern tier. congresswoman, beginning with you, why do you think you were invited to the white house today? >> well, i've always said that i am committed to working on behalf of my constituents in central florida to get this done. so that's the way i'm operating in congress. and i'm really looking for ways to advance the agenda on behalf of the american people. so i think that's the reputation that led to my being invited today. >> congressman, reid, if indeed the president has backtracked on daca, which is part of the story a people are fussing and fighting over tonight, isn't there just going to be holeole hell to pay in your party. >> i don't know about holeo hell, but i will tell you from the meeting today and being the chair of the washington caucus, i was so pleased. what we had in that room were pragmatic government members. i applaud stephanie for being there, tak

the widespread outages stretch from the florida keys to central florida. the governor is warning it could be weeks until power is restored. pepco is sending more than 2 employees and contractors to florida, joining about 1,800 utility workers, including more &e contractors and employees, helping florida power and light in what is expected to be one of the largest power restoration efforts in history. >> a lot of downed wire, obstructions of the power lines and poles down. mobile command's vehicle is filled with workspace, satellite dishes, and funds to help dispatch crews. florida officials have supplies ready to help residents when it is safe. a have stored 3.2 million liters of water. there are 67 trailers filled with meals. officials also reached out to the federal government to kick in money for food and water. they have also asked complete abc 7 for coverage of hurricane irma. that is at wjla.com, and you can also download our stormwatch 7 weather app. a tragic house fire in montgomery county. one man died, another rushed to the hospital as flames race

it shifted, now moving through central florida as it makes landfall. ming across the florida strait and the keys. this could move 175 to 225 miles. don't pay attention to the exact track, the cone, but it is shifting to the east. we have to watch for the next update before 11:00. right now, let's get jack taylor to update you on traffic. >>> hey we have an issue top side of the inner loop toward new hampshire avenue. lanes wer loop. getting by to the left side of the roadway. left side gets by inner loop after new hampshire avenue. northbound george washington parkway, inner loop of the beltway, activity in the trees. ramp is still open. northbound george washington parkway, reported crash headed towards the overlooks. 124, warfield to brink road, 124 is open. utility crews there, no cones left in the roadway thankfully. back to you. >> thank you, jack. >>> 6:33. we are following breaking news. members of virginia taskforce one are preparing to deploy for hurricane irma. >> some members of the team from fairfax county arrived home from saving lives afte

live pictures here from altamont springs in central florida, a suburb of the orlando area, where peopleware store buying plywood, trying to board up their houses. many people in south florida have hurricane shutters that they can put up over their windows. in central florida, some of those still but plywood here the hot commodity at this local hard ware store, preparing just hours before first landfall here in florida. hitting the keys first in the next several hours in the early sunday morning hours. let's go now to some of the evacuation orders. and evacuation zones that we've seen that are really just emptying across the state. florida governor rick scott has told people to leave now. head to those shelters. we are expecting the governor to hold a news conference on hurricane irma at the top of the hour. so about 15 or 20 minutes away. of course, we will bring that to you live. irma is now a category 4 storm headed to florida. the storm surge, one of the greater threats of this storm. heavy rains coming, the winds as you know, a little more than an hour, more shelters open in fort my

operations, in central florida, across the state. >> schools in central florida coordinating closures at how to mobilize shelters. thankfully the governor signed an emergency declaration which allows us to start those conversations and allows us to bring in assets to respond. >> reporter: in south florida they shipped out schools. >> we have school district in south florida that are close to. >> reporter: how does the governor help the state by declaring this emergency? >> a number of national guard assets are available, we looked at an increase in supplies for essentials like food and water, additional emergency response teams could coming. >> reporter: we are used to so many hurricanes in florida but we want to stress to people it is never too early to prepare. >> this is a serious situation, never too early to prepare. we want residents to have an emergency plan, have a kit in place and the way to receive emergency alerts. >> reporter: a lot of supplies, folks leaving town heading up north. a lot of floridians preparing for hurricane irma. rob: the bribery trial of senator robert m

. >> walt disney saw the unlimited potential of central florida. >> the area around orlando was mostlymps and farmland. >> there were only 7,500 total residents in osceola county back in the early '60s. >> there weren't, for miles, any utilities that people could have even connected to. >> nothing but cows and oranges. >> with the florida turnpike and interstate 4 under construction, well, disney made his decision. but he kept it very quiet. >> well, they had to buy up the land very secretly because as soon as you said disney was coming to central florida, the land values would have gone through the -- the roof. >> he actually formed several fictitious companies. >> about 36 different real-estate companies, none of which knew what the others were doing. >> in 1964, he began quietly buying up millions of dollars' worth of land a few thousand acres at a time. >> without anybody really being aware of what was going on. >> in the beginning, there was a couple names that the project went by -- project x, project future and project east. >> these companies started purchasing 47 square miles,

this is a live look at interstate 75 near central florida. as people try to escape the dangerous storm. that's because authorities in florida have told more than 5 million people to evacuate. it's one of the largest in the country history. >> the national hurricane center is forecasting life threatening storm surges up to 12 feet in some areas in power companies say the strong wind could cause outages for about 9 million people. the first alert weather team is monitoring every update on this dangerous storm. >> we got new information minutes ago. let's go to tammie souza with the latest. >> the storm has intensified back up to category five. the last 12 hours it looked like it was wobbling and going west. it just dove south. it's making a very early land fall. right along the northern coast of cuba. it is a very dangerous category five. again it has been upgraded because of the winds and the strength of storm. so right now moving west to 13 miles per hour. has wind of 160 miles per hour. so it's just up to the threshold of being a category fiv

and there are evacuation shelters all across central florida as we speak right now. >> you mentioned the shelters all across florida. we mentioned that effort. but also at times on reports of shortages in the shelters. what can you tell us about the total volume and the efforts to have enough shelter to meet the human volume. >> we keep continuing to work with the state and local partners and identify additional facilities we can open. we want to make sure the facilities are safe places for people to weather the storm as they come through. as the shelters fill up, we continue to be in close con b contact. we were putting red crossers who had flown into orlando into cars, sending them down to west palm beach and further areas south so we could open additional helters as the need continues to grow. >> red crosser, what does that mean? volunteers or other experts you work with? >> they are. they're volunteers who are willing to raise their hand, get on a plane and spen two weeks away from their family in a disaster-impacted community just to help the local residents here in florida. so f

you can see in the bright red we're still under hurricane warning for much of florida, central and northernda. then tropical storm warnings through georgia and south carolina. current wind gusts up to 60 miles an hour in melbourne and orlando, and they have picked up three to five inches in orlando and daytona beach in the last hour. so some wild weather in florida. our weather is getting cooler, but we also have a chance of some showers. we'll talk about that in a few minutes. eric? >> lisa, thank you very much. in florida, the decision to leave or stay was a difficult one for many in the hurricane zone. abc7 news reporter lilian kim joins us now with that part of this developing story. lilian? >> eric, florida residents were warned, and despite those warnings, some people chose to stay. whether it was a good idea depends on who you talk to. tampa has been hard by irma. this woman knows first hand. she and her family decided to ride out the storm largely because of their four pets. with irma pounding florida's west coast, she has big regrets. >> i almost feel like crying. i'm very stresses

it's still a dangerous situation for those on the west coast and central florida, of course, but heremiami we saw the powerful winds and rain here for hours. streets flooded, trees down, and some major power outages across south florida. about 4 million. that's the number right now. about 4 million customers out of power right now across the state. miami escaping irma's center but still hammered by wind gusts approaching 100 miles per hour. the storm even producing some tornadoes. the wind so strong at least three construction cranes crashed into two buildings, two here in miami, one in ft. lauderdale. a storm surge taking over roads now looking more like rivers. so there's a big cleanup effort under way. we're seeing that here in south florida. the cleanup crews arriving here and picking up the trees and the branches that were blown away by that strong wind. and also other debris that's lying around. street signs that came down, lampposts as well. this morning while we've been here we heard a lot of drivers driving over the debris. so cleanup crews trying to do their best to clean up

the widespread outages stretch from the florida keys up into central florida. and the governor warns.. it could be weeks - not days - until power is restored. but help is one the way. pepco is sending more than 250 employees and contractors to florida.. they'll join about 18-hundred other exelon utility workers... including more than 200 b-g-e contractors and employees. they'll work around the clock... to help florida power and light' - in what's expected to be one of the nation's largest power restoration efforts, ever. pepco's mobile command vehicle will be the base of operations. it's filled with workspaces, satellite dishes and phones to help dispatch crews. as irma bears down - two in florida closed indefinitely right now. orlando international and tampa international are both saying they won't reopen until crews can assess damage. fort lauderdale and miami international are both closed today. and miami could possibly resume service as early as tomorrow. stay with abc-7 for complete coverage of hurricane irma. coming up at 4:45 - a live report from miami. a

florida. we have the current track of irma right now. continues to weaken as we move over land but it is huge and a formidable force. central northern florida under the gun. it's a category 2 with winds at 100 miles per hour, tracking to the north at 14 miles per hour. it stays at 2:00 unt until it g jacksonville. it takes another turn to the west, but look at all the heavy rain from georgia, south carolina, into alabama and tennessee. this will continue to be bringing in storm surges and of course a lot of hazards around the state. we have flooding, seen over 11 inches in some areas and there have been reports still of tornado out there. we're looking at not only more rain but possibility of the most dangerous part of the storm which is storm surge coming in right on through tomorrow. the winds currently at about 67 miles per hour around mal bourn. 50-mile-an-hour tampa wind gust. look at jacksonville, the wind, rain and energy from this storm move to the north and spread out to north alabama, georgia and arizona. >> first responders from the bay area are in florida tonight ready to help with rescues and relieves from hurr

across central florida and south florida, we are getting an idea of the damage irma left behind.than 60% of the state has no power. many still have no idea what happened to their homes. we are tracking the destruction and still waiting to hea

. >> reporter: yet some migrants and recent immigrants in central florida's growing latino community are avoiding city and county shelters. >> the biggest thing has been language barrier. >> reporter: father jose rodriguez runs an episcopal church in downtown orlando. he's received calls from concerned parishioners who don't speak english and couldn't find information about where to go for shelter during mandatory evacuations. he helped set up this unofficial shelter inside an episcopal retreat and conference center in the town of oviedo. >> for a lot of people coming in from the outside, they don't really know the landscape of orlando. and so many people did what they normally do-- they picked up their phone, they dialed up their local priest, and the priest told them, ¡you have a place to come, we have a refuge for you.' >> reporter: rebecca perez is an undocumented immigrant from mexico and came here with her three children instead of the local government shelter in kissimmee, where they live. >> ( translated ): i never expected that the church would support me in this way. all of

some systems will need to be entirely rebuilt. >> in the southern tier of what we call our central florida territory, a maelstrom of things happened there that basically destroyed their infrastructure. we have to go in there with new poles, new lines, and completely rebuild that part. it's going to take us a little bit longer to attack that. >> reporter: residents have been patient. but it's hard to get back to normal when you can't turn on the lights. >> i've lost power for five days. i'm glad i'm getting it back today. i'm not impatient. i'm happy that everyone's out here now, as you can see, getting it together. >> reporter: local crews in florida also got help from thousands of teams in other states. it was a massive storm and it's an equally massive undertaking to get flo for "nightly business report," i'm jackie deangelis in florida. >>> final tonight, dozens of celebrities came together last night to raise money for hurricane relief. the hand in hand benefit raised more than $44 million. some of the donations include 5 million from apple and 1 million each from albertson's and merck

it's a scary night in central florida. you have an hour or so more of the winds before that begins to relax. this is the koeshcore, the eye of tampa. winds are lighter. to the south you're not seeing as gusty winds that are up to the north there, that are up at 60 to 70 miles per hour. even in and around the tampa/st. petersburg area, winds are variable. some areas light, others gusting up to 63 miles an hour. that's the kind of night you have in store here, are the bumps and gusts of wind and then it quiets down. where is the heavy rain right now? it's still along the i-4 corridor. so, this is a real rough night where the wind is just howling. you can hear it banging up against the glass here. we have that heavy rain extending into the beach communities of daytona beach, flagler beach, up towards jacksonville. as i talked to cynthia, the storm is moving, thankfully. it's moving up to the north. we won't have to worry about this storm stalling. i do think we'll have to worry about another round of storm surge here tonight,

so, the latest from the national hurricane center does bring it into the florida keys, central florida keys around marathon as a category five hurricane, very early sunday morning, maximum sustained winds 160 miles per hour, gusts more than 200 miles per hour. and continuing to make that turn near naples florida, by sunday morning as a category four hurricane and then pushing it just west of the spine of the florida peninsula by jacksonville a tropical storm and then pushing all that heavy rain into georgia as a tropical storm. so, we have hurricane warnings in effect for all of south florida, really every place south of fort pierce also hurricane watches in effect for tampa and melbourne. looks like the eye of that storm will be between tampa and orlando as it moves inland, moves up the peninsula. now, this is one of the threats. we're looking at widespread wind damage. by sunday morning, key largo wind gusts up to 122 miles per hour. those winds will extend up through the north, extensive wind damage storm surge and very heavy rain. more details in the full accuweather forecast. moni

then moving into central florida sometime on sunday night. winds of 115 miles per hour passing through orlando and eventually into jacksonville. first on the list again is south florida. here is what we know right now about that as it moves in. likely a landfall sometime early sunday morning. winds at an astonishingly high 150 miles per hour. somewhere between key west and miami. storm surge of ten feet, at least that. rain, 10 to 20 inches. the thing that's going to make this possibly so damaging for a lot of florida, hurricane-force windfield stretches out 75 miles from the center of that storm. >> like it's swallowing the state of florida. thank you, jeff. as millions of people are fleeing the state, our crew has just arrived. our weather reporter landed in miami. this is her twitter she posted. her first assignment, get prepared with food and water. >> hey, guys, how is it going? as you can tell, the shelves are almost pretty much bare, and this is actually two days ahead of the storment. i was talking to a family earlier and she sid they'

deliveries are beginning to reach central florida, but there are serious challenges getting gas whereost. ryan has more from tampa. >> as it heats up here in florida people are looking for a few things,ot only gas but they'reoo lines as businesses s to reopen but that critical need of gas are something that people are still looking for. they opened the shipping channels here in tampa bay and that is so important because of all the gas thatthisport provides to the entire central florida area. if you look behind me you can see some of the large tankers back there. those are the first three of seven coming in. when you think about this not only does it provide gas for central florida but for both airports. the tampa bay airport and the orlando international airport. but there's kind of a combination that's going on here. there was an unprecedented run on gas and that happened as people tried to flee in preparation of the hurricane and the idea that electricity was lost in so many places. those combinations sort of ended up creating an effect here that had a lot of places without gas and

at this hour, the eye of the storm is approaching tampa, central florida, and orlando. we begin with breaking news tonight. another massive construction crane has fallen. that makes two in miami and now one in ft. lauderdale. coast to coast, florida cities are experiencing hurricane-force winds and flooded streets. more than 3 million customers in florida have no electricity at this hour. >> reporter: we're in an area today where basically a tornado touched down. 19 homes had their roofs torn off. this is going to be a significant and ongoing threat. >> reporter: we're getting the gusts, you know. i'm at the naples pier. the gusts are starting. i'm going to actually keep my hand on the railing as i come down here because it's just -- you don't know when the gust is coming. >> and a sight in tampa that even long-term residents had never seen. hurricane irma pulled a huge amount of water out of hillsboro bay. meteorologists call this a reverse storm surge. thomas roberts has been reporting on this monster storm all day long, and he joins us now from tampa. thomas, what can

keys, lake okeechobee, and florida bay, while hurricane watches have been issued northward into central floridam california are now heading to florida to help deal with hurricane irma including a team from menlo park. the teams got the call an hour after another team from menlo park returned home from hurricane harvey. officials say it will be a different group of people heading to florida. the new team includes search and rescue personnel, hazardous materials and communications specialists, doctors and rescue dogs. ( mark ) team members will be heading to florida as soon as their equipment is loaded up and ready to go. (mark) dozens of adoptable pets are now in the bay area after they were evacuated from florida animal shelters ahead of hurricane irma. 92 cats and 62 dogs landed at the hayward airport yesterday afternoon. they will be put into three she

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we are really getting the brunt of this storm here in central florida. i think the big concern now is about tornadoes because of the winds being so strong there is a huge threat. there has been throughout the day. and most of central florida is under a tornado warning if not a serious threat at this point. >> we are going to stay close to you in orlando. in the middle of the state where people have been trying to figure out where in florida to go because when we thought this storm was hitting the east coast a lot of people from the atlantic coast went to the gulf coast and then people in the gulf coast realized it was hitting them and orlando is right in the middle of this thing. this is an interesting place for things to happen. of course, the attention remains on tampa. as much as those storm squalls, those storm urge surges are not as serious as we thought, tampa has a lot of low lying area around it. i want to go to thomas roberts in tampa. he has been there since it first started to rain and get windy. what are the conditions in tampa right now? >>

this will be a devastating storm for central florida, tampa, ft. myers, naples, all the way down to key west. here is the latest european model. now, the new one is out 24 hours, so we're still waiting for the rest of the run to happen. what i just watched at the 24-hour model run, the center of the eye is west of key west just by a little bit, by three miles. just under sunset key. that will put big pine key, schar key in the eyed wall. likely 140-mile-per-hour winds. and of course key west because i just said that. ft. myers, naples, 125 possible. people evacuating to, atlanta, may c ma con, winds there 70 miles per hour. for you, anderson, i'm afraid almost 10 to 15 feet above normal dry ground. don't worry about the tides back and forth, above normal dry ground. if your house is less than that above sea level, you need to go. because not only will it be or could it be 15 feet, there could be 20-foot waves on top of that. time to go. anderson, you too. >> all right. chad, thank you very much. and i want to explain what you've been telling me wha

you have millions without power, up to 800,000 just in central florida alone and many, many more furtherida keys and jacksonville two far reaching corners of this state separated by some 500 miles are the chief concern on this tuesday morning. jacksonville with the flooding and again the governor will address that in a matter of moments and you'll see it live in the keys. that's a different situation down there. residents trying to get back home. the road or at least part of it has been open today. it won't be easy as we see continued devastation from the aerial images and from our reporting on the ground there. adam housley, bill keating and so many others working that story in the southern florida keys. shannon, that's where we are now as we still work to recover from irma at this hour. 10:00 east coast time, shannon. >> shannon: we hear the sounds of work and recovery, the chain saws. the cleanup continues. hillary clinton is finished as a presidential candidate but not done talking about what she thinks went wrong. one of the main people she is blaming the russia president vladimir p

florida. right now we have a 2:00 a.m. landfall in the central keys of a category 4 hurricane. 150-mile-per-hour winds. then the storm drives into south florida putting the eye some 70 miles across barreling up the middle of the state. that's the most destructive wind field of this storm, 70 miles wide through the middle of the state. >> explain the technological advances. when you talk about the rescission in the weather forecasting and i'm talking about my mom, who is watching at home, weather people always make us scared. in terms of technology, the information that you have now to predict this storm versus what you had even a year or five years ago and how important it is for us to listen to these warnings today. >> okay, satellites were the big advancement in the '60s in weather forecasting and that was awesome. we had an eye in the sky and no longer standing there in the dark waiting for something to show up that we didn't know what it was or how big it is. since then people will satisfy what have you done since then? we have finally tooled

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stores in central florida already stocking up on plywood, propane and batteries. maria's long-term track is still unclear. some customers are just getting a headstart just in case. >>> at 4:02. a team of first responders from fairfax county still in the u.s. virgin islands, they're helping with the recovery from hurricane irma. they'll have to stay there to ride out maria now. news 4's shomari stone caught up with them last night and a local church working to help with them on the island. >> this is definitely a feeling of sadness. >> pastor jones has a heavy heart. >> just knowing that my home is in destruction and disarray. just really being away. away from my father. >> his dad and stepmother live in st. thomas. businesses. >> there are buildings where the only thing standing is a frame. >> electricity is scarce. storm debris covers many roads. if that wasn't bad enough, hurricane maria is taking aim at the island. >> tell us about st. thomas. >> we called fairfax county battalion chief in the u.s. virgin islands in charge of virginia task force one, a search a

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first in south florida, in the keys during the day on saturday, progressing northward through central florida sunday morning into north florida by late sunday and potentially into georgia and south carolina by sunday night into monday. we could see widespread hurricane impacts through much of the florida peninsula with irma as it moves northward. please stay tuned for further updates on irma. this is mike brennan at the national hurricane center. >> thanks very much. we are picking it up here at the fox news channel in new york. we knew we were expecting a change of some sort in that last bit of curve. remember the earlier, 3:00 this afternoon, the earlier prediction from the national hurricane center, the cone is anywhere in this area. it goes anywhere west or i should say east of tallahassee, the entire cone of uncertainty for florida, it includes the entire peninsula. here is what's changed. earlier, and the most likely landfall, not necessarily but most likely, had been right here. coming in key largo, miami-dade, fort lauderdale and palm beach. and then east of lake okeechobee. that has

the moment i'm told that people in southern florida are being told to move, not the people in central floridave a stake in this one in my parents live in orlando, and they are staying put, despite my efforts to tell them to go. they have put duct tape on the windows, it is all fine! they do know that this is an airborne phenomena? you might have thought that, but you never know, but apparently everyone else is staying, so apparently everyone else is staying, so it is ok, apparently. but i think the hope is that the more permanent structures they believe will be safer than the caravan parks which are obviously open to all sorts of elements. and the roads are clogged, because everyone is heading north, so they can't get up people are spending hours and hours not moving, and do you really want to be on a motorway in a car of this thing happens? and then of course we have jose out in the atlantic, not likely to hit florida, but the other islands that have already suffered. it does seem to be a constant barrage of natural disasters at the moment. we have not seen much of it coming through in the p

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but the track takes it right into south central florida and right up central florida.re at 125, now only at 150. some outer bands may have weakened because of the interaction with cuba. i have seen some 87, heard about some 87-degree water but for the most part, all that area is in 26. plenty of energy, plenty of fuel for it to maintain its intensity and maybe maintain its strength. it is about to take turn a, heading west-northwest at about 16 miles per hour. it will start to take that turn. all models indicate more of a shift towards the middle keys, towards marathon. i'm not sure which model that is but the european and gfs keep it between miami and marathon. it will continue to track right through the middle. the storm surge could be just huge. i remember they measured this in the open water, international waters for water. mainly for harbors. in the u.s. and florida here, they measure in land. when you put 12 feet of water, that's going to be huge. along with winds, 120 miles per hour almost the entire state which is going to cause major differences and damages, d

a storm surge warning has been issued for much of the south florida and central florida lines. medical bowrn on the east. coastal waters could rise ten to 125 feet above normal dry land completely inundating homes, businesses and roads. the size of this hurricane is incredible. a lot of anxiety because we don't really know was goin to be happening. president trump monitoring the impact of hurricane irma during a retreat at camp david tweeting out a video hess age of support. i ask everyone in the storm path to heed all instructions. get out of it's he ' way. again, we've never seen like this, together we will restore, recover and rebuild. hurricane irma is expected to role up the west coast of florida from the keys all the way to tampa, but nobody in it's ' be safe. reporting from my aim, joel waldman, fox news. irma's deadly path through the carribeans is to blame for 70 percent of the homes in saint martin were badly damaged or destroyed. about 40,000 people are now living in shelters as they brace for the next big storm bearing down on the islands. that's hurricane jose mean

. >> the storm is going through central florida possibly a category 2. there won't be a part of the state that is untouched. i want to start off with we have quite a few changes as we head into the next six days. this area of low pressure. it is going to hang out for the next six days. we will have full details coming up in my seven-day forecast. as far as your saturday morning goes, looking forward to that weekend. mix here with the sun and clouds to start. south bay with 63. coastal fog for the peninsula and 62. in terms of temperatures tomorrow, beautiful day down towards the south bay. it does warm up but looking at 84 in downtown san jose. you really start to see things crank up is over towards antioch. palo alto 85 degrees. warmer 80 in san mateo. right up towards the north bay, 90 in novato. and 89 in napa. let's bring it to hurricane irma. what i want to bring you right now is it is till between the bahamas and cuba. winds of 155 miles per hour. by early tomorrow morning they will start to see heavy rain and some of the winds beginning to pick up

orlando should be very proud. >> shepard: bill hemmer in central florida. thanks very much. tures from downtown jacksonville. there's a great deal of flooding there earlier today but that has improved. looking down in south florida, the same mobile home park i was talking about a minute ago in hallandale beach. just west of there. and a lot of stuff lying around at the time, you can see a sign down in what appears to be a corrugated metal roof or something like that. in the chopper, you'll be able to see minor damage to some roof. the kind of thing you would expect to see after a bad windstorm, which is what they received in south florida. they are walking along and jacksonville showing the flooding in downtown. a live look, let's listen in. >> i'm going to try to step out of the way. you may be able to see -- not terrible, good news. as for the rest of the street, there's a lot of debris. after the floodwaters receded, makes people realize this place is a mess. downtown right now. i want you to come over here. first of all, there's boards, debris everywhere up and down the s

. >> a formed on a central florida street where another destroyed a earlier this week. 8 sinkholes opened up across the state in the of hurricane irma. it is 30 feet wide and 30 feet deep. buildings inspectors have told n watchful eye on the sinkhole. >>> kim jong-un called president donald trump deranged and that he would play dearly for his threats. north korea's from him said they -- foreign minister said they may test a hydrogen bomb in the pacific o sources will cut off the source of revenue in their drive for nuclear weapons. china's bank has ordered its network to cut off ties with the north >>> first lady will dig in the garden. mrs. obama established the garden in 2009 before announcing her flat form for child obesity. >>> brigham young university has lifted the ban on caffeinated soda. byu decided in the 1950s decided not to sell caffeinated beverages. >>> it's 4:47 a.m. get ready for halloween, a popular haunted house in philadelphia opens up today. >>> gatorade settles a lawsuit about what it said about water in a video game. that's next in business. sweet 4k tv, mr. peterson.

central florida is now under the gun as irma inches up the state even though it is weakening. people here are told the storm still packs a powerful punch. winds over 100 miles per hour are ripping through florida. hurricane irma is also bringing sheets of rain, tornadoes and a dangerous storm surge. >> the storm surge will rush in and it could kill you. >> reporter: irma was a category 4 to remember when it reached the florida keys on -- storm when it reached the florida keys sunday morning. it weakened as it made a second landfall at many are co island in the -- at marco island in the afternoon, but it remains an extremely powerful and life threatening storm. >> we are not going around arresting him or going door to door. if you want to make a at risk and potentially puts you at peril, then you're going to make that choice. >> reporter: the center of the storm is creeping north along florida's west coast. miami was spared a distribution hit, but the city was still -- direct hit, but the city was still pounded by rain and damage widespread, including a pair of construction cra

keys, lake okeechobee, and florida bay, while hurricane watches have been issued northward into central florida. ( darya ) and this morning... national guard crews from the bay area will be heading to florida to help with rescue operations once the storm hits.( mark ) will tran is live at moffett field where those crews are set to take off this morning. will. ( will ) and happening in less than an hour... the california national guard will be sending crews to florida. the silicon valley based air national guardsmen will be leaving from moffett field at 6:00 this morning. they are heading to florida to provide search and rescue support for those who will be affected by hurricane irma. ( darya ) we will check back with you through out the morning. ( mark ) and two bay area airports are sending tsa workers to assist in reopening florida airports after hurricane irma hits the area. roughly 250 t-s-a workers from oakland international airport and mineta san jose international airport... will be positioned at airports throughout florida. the t-s-a is expecting hundreds of employees in florida to be b

rainfall exceeding a foot in many communities in northeast central and southwe florida. fortunately the heaviest rains have cleared the state. however, this rain caused flash flooding in nortast florida, rivers across the state contin to rise a standing water remains an issue over the entire peninsula. the bgest threat for this week airma leaveflorida will be river flooding and most of it will be ithnohern part of the state. stay tuned to local advisory for rir flood watches and warnings. families in southeast and northwest florida as well as the tampa bay area need to be especially vigant while riversill remain at flood levels. anwe will see that in the i-5 corridor. the heaviest winds have left florida but the entire peninsula experienced tropical form winds and hurricane gusts beingelt as far northeast as jacksonville. thankfully the threat of tornadoes have diminished. we received seven reports o tornadoes, including two in brevard county. the national weather service i working to look into this. it's important you check with local officials before returning home to

speak up my district goes from the coast, it does stretch out into central florida, northwest of orlandoemergency center there come a are working hard. they got everything on all cylinders. this is a county that is more in the center part of the state. if the storm is taking that i-75 track north, guess what? they will be east of it and that northeast quadrant, which is the most dangerous part of the storm. they are preparing. for matthew, they did not have to prepare much. now it is a different ball game. there will be a lot of counties and areas in florida, especially in the midsection of the state, that will be on their game. they will be tested. i think they are ready, do not get me wrong. expect to cover a lot more. then matthew or her >> jon: a lot of seniors have moved there. what do you tell your constituents and people across the state about taking care of the older folks? >> it has been an issue today. i met with some emergency officers i think john's county and they had an issue with one of the local nursing homes. they were going to have to evacuate their senior citizens and

of interest, orlando in central florida is actually a younger demographic than the rest of the -- they our target market and the people that we serve are the medicare patient, so it's really what we do every day. it's not vig specific recording what we'd have to do for the elderly population there. >> curious what you and your family are doing to prepare? >>ia same thing that everyone else is doing which is trying to make sure the house is prepared take things in from outside and take care of the windows and make sure the neighbors are taken care of, the pets are red and get the products that you need. >> so what does it look like when you guys are going to the stores and trying to get gas loin are you potentially stocking up when you have to stay there when you look at comps between the size of irma and andrew. there's no comparison, this is much bigger. what happens if you're all of a sudden out of power and need place for more than a week. >> one of the things we've seen lines at the thunderstorms however, most of the stores, at least the ones that i've heard our team members and m

caught on camera in central florida, sinkhole opening up beneath a home and suddenly gives way, breakingopen. thankfully nobody was hurt. the family salvaged some belongings before the collapse. >>> major safety recall, medium and heavy duty ram trucks may have problem that could spark a fire. we've posted a complete list on the facebook page. >>> amazon customers got a surprise when they received an e-mail saying someone had recently purchased a gift from their baby registry. here's the problem, not expecting baby gifts, not expecting a baby. shock went over social media, many joking, does amazon know something we don't? we reached out to amazon for comment. some interesting conversations about that today. >>> up next, sights for kids out their windows every night. >> announcer: "nbc nightly news" is brought to you by -- ===raj vo=== our investigative unit looks into how bay area bridges would hold up if a 7.1 hit here. ===jess/take vo=== plus, next gen robots unleashed in silicon valley. what these machines can do that others can )t ===next close=== next. sot >>> finally tonight, a hea

all eyes on central florida. what many a i telling my family? my brother will be on a flight friday, he was able to get tickets. thank goodness. i said get your house prepared now. you you have a little bit of time. tomorrow they'll ton to evacuate dade count, follow evacuation orders. have to get away from the coast. have to get as far inland as possible. but even orlando, depending on the exact track of this storm, may not be safe. the storm itself continues to move up. here's the latest advisory moving it to the east of jacksonville on on shore around charleston south carolina as a strong category 2 storm at 110 miles an hour. what about our region? by the time it gets up here, conditions. that is it. we're not going to see anything like hurricane force winds. right now i don't think we send tropical storm force winds. not bad. today not the best day. we saw rain, cooler temperatures, that rain moving out, we'll see much better day tomorrow after some locations picked up and a half a inch to a inch of rain. tomorrow sunshine, temperature into