>> reporter: so, thomas, the whole idea here in cape coral is that cape coral essentially is at sea levelghout this -- almost the entire community. this is brandon morris, a lieutenant with the cape coral fire department and we're riding along in a fire engine right now where they are making -- you can hear the sirens going off. listen to this real quick. they are making announcements to tell people this is a mandatory evacuation zone, advising people to take shelter elsewhere. so lieutenant morris, if you can describe to us a little bit about what you guys are doing, where we're at right now and why you are doing this now. >> well, like you said, we're letting everybody know this is a mandatory evacuation zone. not everyone's aware of that. many people shuttered up their houses and they think they're safe. last night, zone a was declared a mandatory evacuation zone. so, not everyone knows that. all south of pine island road is a mai a mandatory evacuation zone. >> so what you're telling me, even though we could see a storm surge that is 5 to 10 feet and we're probably at about 5 feet --

and it has to be good quality coral for people to see.t and policy makers need to make sure that everything that is possible is done to protect the coral as much as possible, and to preserve it. a taiwanese man who lost part of his arm in a factory accident has taught himself how to make prosthetic limbs using inexpensive 3d printing technology. chang hsien—liang now makes hands and arms for other disabled people for free. he's been telling us his story. such an inspiring and uplifting story, that one. a cricket match has been abandoned after a project i was fired into the 0val here in london. the item — believed to be a crossbow bolt — landed very close to the umpires. the players very quickly left the field and supporters were all asked to move indoors. police said the incident was not being treated as terrorism—related. let's return to one of our top stories — the ongoing disruption caused by tropical storm harvey. as we saw injames cook's report — many people are returning to their homes to see the scale of the damage and begin the hu

coral fire department. this young woman is getting advice from the fire department on what do in terms of a mandatory evacuation. they are telling people to get out thousand because cape coral and the 179,000 wrresidents tha live here are subject to a storm surge in this area. because we're about 5 feet above sea level and if the storm surge as predicted, 6 to 10 feet in this area, could be catastrophic. this is lieutenant morris from the cape coral fire department. we have been riding around all day. you're saying essentially you won't be able to get to these people after the storm? >> it all depends on how much water comes in. but we can't drive our fire trucks in some of this stuff. and then with the debris, depending on how much damage there is. so it depends on how bad the storm is. >> and we've heard -- this is my person and he will opinion, knuckleheaded things. one man said he would drop the anchor from his fwhoet front bof his house. when you hear somebody say something like that, here is another g

this is a cape coral, naples, fort myers storm.eporter: the first hurricane-force winds measured here was 12 1/2 hours ago. so it's been nonstop battering. it's a cool phenomenon the way mother nature works. it's blowing counter clockwise, sucks the water out of the bayside of key largo. that what per will eventually come back when the water starts coming from the other direction. we could get a pretty good storm surge on the bayside of key largo. hurricane irvin was a category 4. it hit pensacola as a 3. we were in the eye of that one. this has as much power or more and we are not in the eye. we'll be 25 miles or 30 miles to the east. that's what will hit so much of the west coast of florida. if you are watching on the west coast of florida it temperatures coming slope and it's relentless. shep: adam housley live for us in key largo. we have an opportunity to go to elaine duke. big picture, how are we? >> good morning. we are as expected, a slight move to the west. the storm path has not changed anything we predicted. the storm ha

you know i think the onus is on the president right now to compel the senate to confirm coral's soon as possible. with a sort of a conspiracy theories aside stanley fischer is a man of men's integrity i truly think he's stepping down for perk for the personal reasons as he stated in his letter. but that being said if we end up as of october the thirteenth with only three permanent members on the federal reserve board it will get very complicated to have to make monetary policy in this country especially in times of stress because of the fine print in the federal reserve act . do you think that trump can afford to make this a top issue right now we've seen his surprise alliance with congressional democrats he's got the debt ceiling to deal with how can he push this through. like in theory by the time we had we we saw labor day in the rearview mirror janet yellen would have either been announced to be reappointed or trump would have announce who her successor was going to be and start the process with the senate clearly we've seen labor day come and go and that has not happened because

to confirm coral's writes we've got to be inflation indicators just to move to the september meeting for a moment and then said uses certain benchmarks. it's less than two percent which is what is sort of looks that unemployment rate has fallen to four point four it's heading at less than to september results for this meeting coming up. look i think that you know we don't even have a twenty five percent chance that the fed. hikes rates in december with the uncertainty of rising around hurricane harvey hurricane erma there is going to be a lot of noise in the data that's coming up between now even and the september nineteenth twentieth meeting i don't think that we even see him about a rate hike before the end of the year given how inflation is behaving and how skittish we've seen markets of late so you know fischer has criticized you right have talked about this he's criticized attempts to unwind the banking regulations implemented in the u.s. in the aftermath of the financial crisis janet yellen has. done the same thing i mean how does this bode for the future of the fed how much sw

what you will see in fort myers and cape coral is nothing. will be like what charlie did as it turned to the right and made that right-hand turn upped west coast. this is the european model completely destroying key west proper with winds of 130 to 140. now, we move it on up. and this is where i'm very concerned. if you look at google maps, cape coral and florida there are so many people that live on canals connected to oceans. all of those homes are going to be in struble because of storm surge. and the water will kill you. it will. the wind, you can get away from. but you can't get away from the water as it begins to wash away your home. tampa, you're also in it to win it, 115 miles per hour. still possible because it's not over the spine of florida, it's not in the middle of florida, farther to the west, we're talking about sarasota getting a direct hit in some of these winds. here's the american model not much different a agreeing pretty much today, maybe 20 or 30 miles. but eventually all the way up into atlanta, georgia. this will be th

>> it's a more concerning track for cape coral. because of the location of the latest models that we're seeing. we're expecting the track to be more to the west coast of florida. that would affect the community more. currently the storm is away from florida. you mention the bands. some of the energy getting so close to the florida keys already. so yes, we'll see more storm surge in southwest florida than originally expected. things can change and shift. it's always better to be prepared for the worst. >> we'll talk to you later. let's get to the mayor of cape coral. thank you for being with us. you heard the forecast coming from bonny. she has concern as you do, so what have you learned in the last hour that you can tell us about? >> we're really just trying to make sure we're evacuating. we have about 35,000 people right now. that are under mandatory evacuation. that was taken effect about 2:00 today. so bussing them in, bussing them out i should say. trying to open up shelters. pretty much i know cape coral is the best kept secre

riding out the storm and coral springs, florida. good luck to you in the family and pets in everybody. >> thank you. appreciated. shepard: we just got a director for monroe county, which is the florida keys. i am sad to read this. i'm quoting now. monroe county news. monroe county is closed until further notice. evacuated residents, do not return until further notice. more information to come. you have to figure something like this was coming. the florida keys one way in, one layout. the overseas highway coming u.s. one. if you've never driven it in you ever get a shot, you definitely should. it's one of the most accuweather looking things in all of america and it's a wonderful drive into key west. the whole area is close now. i don't know. i don't have a way to know what is happening to the bridges and the overseas highway is and the iconic businesses they are in marine fisheries and all the wildlife that goes along with that part of south florida from the bayside to the oceanside. we don't have a way to know yet. but we know coup

they approved and fletcher departed the coral see the next morning. that was one of the most controversial decisions in the war. i will talk a little bit about that at the end. turner --this is turner's disposition on the night of d+ one. the marines had a hard fight it to lobby -- to lobby. there were forces off of guadalcanal. that is turner's flagship. he is there. northern force, three cruisers, and a couple of destroyers guarding the northern approach, north of the island and south of sample island is seven. 2 cruisers and a couple of destroyers. a couple of picket destroyers in front. life cruisers with a couple of destroyers guarding the rear, if you will. messageets fletcher's that he is going to depart the next morning. he calls a conference between himself and vandergrift and rear admiral victor crossley, who is the royal navy admiral who had been flown temporarily to the australian navy because they were short of admirals. this is an australian heavy cruiser, that is what he was doing. he, being the senior man had the force. turner calls a

if we're here in cape coral, we'll be stuck here in cape coral, we can't get it back over. won't have shelter. now, i do need to mention, though, there is no blockade, just a reference, just don't want people to be on the roads on the bridge because of that sustained wind. as we look down the road here, you can see i want to look up, here is why it is so troubling where this branch went down. those are power lines, no more than 15, 20 feet away. and as i take you over here, if you look at the trees here behind those trees, that's a power grid. certainly a cause for concern in this area right now. i can tell you in the last 15 minutes or so, the wind speeds can -- as clearly picked up, so has the rain. we're seeing more of it. we drove around the cape coral area for the last half hour, 45 minutes or so. we have seen anything from fruit, branches, couple of mailboxes as well. the wind speed playing a factor right now. no one is on the road. people are hunkering down, getting ready for the storm or we are in the evacuation area, hopefully a lot of those people who are supposed

but cape corals hits. so it looks like most people are out of there. but cape corals hits. so it looks like most people are out of there. but cape coral hits. so it looks like most people are out of there. but cape coralhits. so it looks like most people are out of there. but cape coral have lad to open additional vakization centevacu. and i know you have been seeing that, as well. so we'll grab our vehicle and get out of this area because of how low lying it actually is and make our way like everybody else to higher ground. >> and i'm glad you're doing that. and you're with two very experienced talented people. so i'm glad for that. jacob soboroff, thank you and thanks to everybody who is out there reporting on this storm for us. kerry sanders joining me now from naples on florida's west coast. and not much change in that 5:00 update. it does not look good for the west coast. >> reporter: it does not. and there is a little bit of a cry six that isis that is still. the governor is pleading people to please evacuate because of the storm surge that will come. a storm surge th

and so did the track, somewhere in the lower keys and then on up toward cape coral. but there is cuba and there is our patrick. i want you to notice the eyewall. i'm going to get rid of this for a minute and bring up my google earth. now i'm going to zoom out and you can see exactly where he is. right there. where is the eye? right there. i'll show you patrick. he is doing a job today. so back to this. zoom in and show you what's going on. the storm as lost strength overnight because it did hit cuba. terrible for cuba and the cokey. but the pressure is still lower than harvey, so even though it doesn't look as impressive, it is an impressive storm and still a major hurricane, not to go back to your house with just yet. it is about 8 miles offshore, maybe less. you are right there. here comes the rain. rain for you and every time a rain band comes in, that mixes down the wind with it and every time it starts to rain, the rain will blow at 50 today. every time the rain blows this afternoon, it's going to blow at 60. tonight, 70. tomorrow it keeps going and the max wind

the river is up that way, fort myers, cape coral are on both sides of the river. there are evacuations happening on both sides. if the water does get up to about 15 feet, so basically here we are down at sea level. i'm under six feet tall so this has got to be about eight or nine feet tall. if water gets up to 15 feet, it might be up to the fence that's at the top of this little pev here below the hotel that we're standing under right now. if the water got up to that level, i have a feeling that people are safe and sound in this area. this hotel has been evacuated. but in a place like cape coral, it could be potentially catastrophic for the people who have not yet slaektd. and there are a good number. we just saw a good number of people when we road around the cape coral fire department who have not left their homes yet. again, if you are firing this right now in this area, anywhere in lee county, in this area of the gulf coast region of florida, you've got to get out now and get to an evacuation center. there are centers all throughout the area. you can go on the

cape coral, florida. we have a few of cape coral from the air on a good day.s you'll see, it is a series of canals and lagoons. it's a community that is cut into a million different slices. and for waterfront living for boat owners, as i said, there are few prettier places on the water in this country. however, they're having a rough go of it tonight because of this hurricane. joining us by telephone for the second time this evening is the mayor of cape coral, florida. i heard your first responders may be busy with some structure fires there tonight. tell us about the situation. >> yes, we do. we have several structure fires actually they're trying to get access to. and so right now we -- no more information other than we know that they are happening. we can't get to them, and they're doing what they can to get throughout. but the winds are too high to get the trucks and vehicles out. and we don't know what downed power lines and as far as water and anything else. so it's, yeah, it's the challenging part. >> back up to when you were getting the eye wall earlie

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on the line now is sasha duffy, who lives in cape coral, florida.for talking to us, tell us what response you have made to this oncoming threat. yes, cape coral is a town with lots of canals, and we are expecting a lot of flooding there. my home is in a mandatory evacuation area, so we have moved slightly inland and slightly north to my in—laws house. they are in an area not in a flood is owned but we're still going to be hit by the hurricane, but we won't experience any flooding, hopefully. how is this comparing with other hurricanes you have been through? i've been here 15 yea rs, have been through? i've been here 15 years, so i've been through quite a few. this is about my fifth hurricane that has threatened the area, and it is much, much worse. the last big one that i remember was in 2004, which was hurricane charlie. that was scary but it was very, very small and fast moving. this is just very, very small and fast moving. this isjust on very, very small and fast moving. this is just on a totally different scale. everyone is just this is just on

, de 7 a 12 pies es sumamente peligroso, y coral gables y miami de 2 a 10 pies josÉ regresamos contigoaquete de mÁs de 15 mil millones de dÓlares aprobado hoy por el senado por abrumadora mayorÍa para ayudar a las vÍctimas de harvey que permitirÍa que el gobierno tenga fondos hasta el 8 de diciembre. hay republicanos que se opusieron porque no querÍan la ayuda de emergencia al mismo tiempo la extensiÓn de 3 meses en el techo de la deuda federal. . >> los 5 ex-presidentes en vida se unieron en un anuncio de servicio pÚblico para recaudar fondos para vÍctimas de harvey en texas, jorge bush, obama, bill clinton y cartero aparecieron en el juego de la temporada de la nfl. tambiÉn en mexico, se habla hoy lamentablemente de tÉrminos superlativos en el centro del paÍs se sintiÓ en horas de la noche el terremoto mÁs fuerte del Último siglo, la sufra de muerte, sigue aumentando, isa estÁ con los detalles, adelante buenas tardes. >> oaxaca y chiapas son los estados mÁs afectados por el terrible terremoto de ayer en la noche, aquÍ los pobladores han comenzado las labores de remociÓn de escombros

among them, cape coral. mayor of cape coral, we looked at cape coral earlier. still aerial photo at all the lagoons and manmade cut waterways through cape coral. mayor, are you as ready as you're going to be? >> yeah, we are. i mean, i guess as much as you can be, we're prepared. but we have 400 miles of canals, and 122 square miles with 185,000 residents and 150,000 of them have been under mandatory evacuation. and, unfortunately, i'm not sure a lot of them, you know -- i'm not sure how many actually heeded that warning. >> what's your average seawall there, the average lagoon? >> oh, it varies, because we use the canal systems to manage our flooding throughout the -- throughout, so we're reduced to the lowest they can, but i can't tell you. i just saw some images from our yacht club area, and it has already taken the water out, and my two-thirds of my city is under storm surge. so it's a pretty scary situation right now for us, the tenth largest city. >> isn't that about the spookiest image to see, your canals empty? >> yeah, well, i think it's more spooky kn

including a former san jose couple after living in the bay area for 40 years they retired to cape coral florida near ft. myers. it is expected to get pummelled tonight. marianne favro talked about why they decided to stay. >> jim miller told me he and his wuf ha wife have ridden out three hurricanes in the same house and they were just fine so he believes they can do it again in irma. >> if you have been ordered to evacuate you need to leave now. >> reporter: despite the warning, jim miller and his wife linda have decided to stay put in their cape coral home even with hurricane irma bearing down on them. >> when we were deciding whether we were going to leave or not, we checked the highways, the highways were jammed. no gas. we had tents. >> reporter: so the couple who lived in san jose for years decided to stay behind with their four cats and wait out hurricane irma in their house. they did their best to prepare, covering all their windows with aluminum siding. >> the wind is blowing fairly hard. >> reporter: jim stepped outside to show us what it looked like as high winds swayed palm

. >> let me ask you about cape coral. i meant what i said. nothing scarier than wind-driven structural fires and structures that are spaced together. you could lose -- you can lose a block of them. there's nothing more frustrating than knowing it is going on and not being able to get to them because routes are blocked. you can't risk your personnel or apparatus. but the mayor of cape coral said they are awaiting a storm surge up until 6:00 a.m. tomorrow. >> yeah, i heard that and i did a double take. maybe -- we tend to -- the way it kind of works is the hurricane center comes out with their storm surge forecast. those forecasts get passed on to the emergency managers for every county in florida and the emergency managers pass that information out to all the mayors and city officials that need that for their own districts. the hurricane center from what i saw, they still haven't lowered the surge values. ed rappaport told us they were likely going to. that won't be until the 11:00 p.m. update. some of that information was likely kind of old i

myers to cape coral. you can see the strong currents, the white caps. every hour that water is getting higher and higher. this is a ghost town where we were. people were driving around earlier. we are not seeing people out anymore. it has gotten very dangerous. they are listening to ft. myers mayor who we heard say stay off the roads. florida highway patrol are tough customers. they are pulling all their troopers off the roads until the winds die down. things are getting very dangerous. they will get much worse. we are only at 65 miles per hour on the wind gusts. and irmaing we know is much more powerful than that. so it is just getting started, george. >> we are seeing the winds more powerful in miami. back to geo benitez. >> reporter: we told you our building's window was cracked. we are on the other side but we are getting an unbelievable picture if here. you see this behind me? look at all that rain and wind being pushed. that is how strong these winds are right now. let's see. look at that -- oh, look at that. we have signs down. look at what's hap

anywhere between miami, fort lauderdale, boca, west palm, cape coral and ft.ee the outer band bring extreme winds like 94 mile per hour far away from where the lightning packed eye wall is going to bring the heftiest. >> that's what's so unique about the storm, it is both big and intense. >> and you don't always get that. andrew was so compact and affected homestead and when you went outside of that wind field it was much weaker. this is not the case with this storm. this wind field is very large, 160 miles across. it is taking over the peninsula of florida. >> there's nothing out there that can significantly break it up. >> the only thing is florida itself and that's what's going to do the damage to it. the friction of the land of florida. as this moves due north, you can see the eye moving,t's where you get naples and the low pressure system. this is what harvey didn't have. somebody to grab it and kick it out. >> this is moving much more quickly than harvey did. let's go to rob marciano in sarasota up the coast. likely to get hit later this afternoon but yo

coral -- no. it'll come to me. >> it's been a long day, guys. we're doing a ride along with a incredible fire department. these are people that will take save people if something terrible happens. i want to introduce you to the greater naples fire and rescue. let's go in here. it's better than standing out in the rain. these are the guys where the wind starts coming down, these are the men and women of this department that will be saving the day. i want to introduce you to the chief. guys talk to me chief about what we're looking at, all the equipment and hou you'll be putting it to use when it really starts to come down. what we're seeing right now is nothing. >> right. well, we're expecting the bottom to drop out in the next 12 hours or so. it won't be me, it'll be these fellows here. we have 15 fire stations throughout the county. we've got about 28 pieces of apparatus ready to go. we have many different configurations, this is one of our operations that will handle some of the responses. i understand you're part of the emergency services uni

this one hitting coral ridge, florida. irma is turning north and experts expect it to make landfall in the florida keys near dawn. we are in live coverage. governor rick scott announced that 390 shelters have been opened throughout the state of florida. the hurricane is now a category 3. that means sustained winds measured at over 120 miles an hour. we can tell you that 170,000 people are now without power. a number that is expected to grow. it could even surpass the million mark. i want to go to wbbm reporter trent kelly in naples. what are the conditions there now? >> reporter: hey, ari. we're with wbbh tv here. we are coming to you live from the city of cape coral. this is the largest city on the southwestern part of southwest florida and many people are bratsi bra bracing for a direct impact with hurricane irma. this is just to the "washington post" -- west of ft. myers. this area has a series of canals that lead out to the gulf of mexico to give homeowners an easy way to get out to the gulf if they want to. via boat w

so the weather comes through here and it comes up here into cape coral. let's move you ahead. key west, the air force base here. i saw yesterday, a bunch of air force planes evacuating all of these naval air stations. get those those blaens out plan the way. you hit the missouri keys and you get to the 7 mile bridge. there's so many people whoily along canals. you put a little boat on the canal, those canals are going to fill up. they're going to be 12 feet higher than they are right now. your house is going to be underwater. something else i'm very concerned about. if we put 12 feet of water into the everglades where does it go? i'm concerned there's about a 4 foot levee in this area right here keeping the everglades wet and keeping the concrete jungle here dry. if we put 12 feet of water over a 5-foot levee, i think we're going to flood western cities from west kendall, possibly, you know how high your levee is to the west so you just if you need to go or not. this is still 24 hours away, but there's always something, victor. there's always something that we forget about whe

myers market and cape coral, lived on cape coral. i was curious, though, when it comes to -- as you were talking about the evacuees, were most people were a little caught in between about whether or not that wanted to g right, about whether or not they would evacuate? >> right. and we saw -- this was a difficult forecast because, you know, the cone was coming up the entire peninsula but that line was going through miami, through ft. lauderdale for a while. so, it's hard if you pay attention to just where that forecast track is. officials constantly try and tell you, it's a cone of uncertainty. it could go anywhere in this range. but i think a lot of people here where a little focused on where that exact track was. we did get here wednesday, water was sold out. i don't want to imply people weren't doing anything, but it was this question of, do we stay or do we go? a lot of people did get out. we saw the traffic on 75 but then there were some people addition we were talking to yesterday, the day before, trying to make that decision. o

frank from the city of coral gables.ribbean, at least 25 people were killed by hurricane irma, five of them in the british virgin islands, where a relief effort is under way. homes and boats have been destroyed, and a state of emergency declared. britain's foreign secretary, boris johnson, has defended the government's response, saying it would be helping "in the long—term." the largest of the islands is tortola, from where our correspondent, laura bicker, reports. the british virgin islands look like they have been hit by the blast wave of a bomb. 0n the biggest island of tortola, houses have been ripped apart and contents scattered for miles. an over—20—foot wave surge crushed boats, beaching them among the rubble. arron glasgow was at home as irma hit. this section of my mum's room, the roof came off. then my bedroom came off. we ran to the living room. glass everywhere. we had all this boarded up. you've lost everything? everything. people talk about the winds that came through here as if they were alive, as if it ha

and we saw drifts of the most delicate coral, the kind of stuff you only find in deepwater, way out, so the coral reef that sustains this ecosystem and this economy is just completely devastated, as well. we saw signs of that. i don't -- not the length of it, but where we were on cook island, one of the rare small islands, we're going to try to get down to key west today. that's the population center of this place. and as the sun turns from, you know, pastel lovely, it's going to be a blow torch today. the mosquitos are back. so our hearts go out to everybody who's going to be suffering down here for an unforeseeably long time. kate? >> absolutely. bill, thank you so much, bringing us that really amazing perspective from the waters along the keys, as we've been traveling there. joining me now to get some more perspective, monroe county county commissioner, heather caruthers, the county that covers the keys. thank you so much for jumping on. can you hear me? >> i sure can. thanks, kate. >> what's the latest you're hearing today on search and recovery and how it's going in your county?

that's why we'll see in the next few hours the potential to make landfall between there and cape corals it goes up the west coast, it will by tomorrow morning at 8:00 a.m. been around cedar key and monday 8:00 p.m. right along the alabama state line into georgia. that's what i'm talking about, the rainfall rates and the rainfall extending as far as north as atlanta. you can see six to even eight inches of rain in those metros. >> we're talking about a tropical storm. >> they'll come along with a significant amount of moisture and gusty winds. >> all across the southeast. thanks very much ginger. the wind already kicking up in ft. myers. tom llamas is there. >> reporter: george, yeah, the wind just really changed in the last 30 minutes. it started to get so strong. the rain is whipping us in the face. you can see behind me that stop sign. i don't know how much longer it's going to last. you can see the wind line perfectly from east to west because of where we are. we're in front of the marina. let's take a look at the palm trees and you can see perfectly hurricane irma's winds are going

it's a chain of little islands built on coral rock formation. it's truly unique. the further west in the keys you get, the more southwest you turn, the more unique it gets. it's where i have spent many days. some of the best memories as a family were made in the florida keys. i spent a number of days there not too long ago before the storm. if you know the florida keys, you know this is not a place with a bunch of johnny rockets and t.g.i. friday's. it has a lot of small businesses, the bait shops, charter captains, everything in between. it has a lot of small businesses. many of them are generational businesses. the family is there and have been doing it 60 years. those businesses are literally going to have no customers now and for the foreseeable future. they still don't have power in many places. they still don't have internet. they still don't have fuel. and they certainly don't have tourists. i want you to imagine for a moment that you are the owner of a small restaurant and you have to go 30, 60 days without any revenue. i can tell you most businesses don't

this will rotate around and you'll get to cape coral, punta gorta.t's just the surge that we're waiting on. and right now the water is up 8.5 feet from where it was when the storm just went by and it's still going up for you, chris. i don't think that will finally end for maybe two more hours. the water will rise slowly, still one wave after another for two more hours for you. we'll see where it ends up. >> all right. good to know. and bagain, it's not easy to stand in it. but our hearts go out to the families and the seniors who stayed behind and are suffering through it indoors right now, many of them without power. over 2 million people, 2.5 mi million people without power. imagine you guys watching this have the benefit of chad myers and the science and understanding the timing. let me tell you, it can seem like an eternity if you don't have a sense of when something is going to end. our hearts go out to those people and we look forward to this being over so we can get out and see what people need and start dealing with the recovery. we're not th

joining us now is the mayor of coral gables. it's been a long night. it's not nearly as long of a night as it has been for you and city officials and emergency management teams on the ground there. can you give us an update on conditions in coral gables evacuation orders obviously yurnds way. >> people are more worried about their cars than themselves sometimes. i think that cars have been evacuated to our garages and inland. whereas, i think that more than 50% of the people are going to stay in their homes, and they forget about andrew. i mean, with andrew, which there was a direct impact, think it was less harsh, less severe than this one. with andrew, we had areas of our house, and we had 48 miles of coastlines, including -- we had areas of our coastline that were totally flattened. you could see for blocks without seeing a house standing up, and some people, you know, my home is my castle kind of attitude, but they're thinking of staying, and i want to remind everybody that when winds go above 45 miles an hour, which is going to be soon here, when

where, naples, cape coral, fort myers -- when? tomorrow afternoon.t could get more intense after it passes key west. here's the storm coming off the cuban coast. patrick oppmann has done yeoman's duty. he has the southeastern eye wall all night long. it's pushing into southern florida. every time a band goes by you will get increased winds homestead down to cutler bay, you're seeing wind come in. anytime later this afternoon, a storm comes in, there's even a potential for a small tornado or two. keep that in mind. the watches have gone all the way up into georgia. hurricane warnings for the southern half of florida. but overnight, michael, what happened is the model, and we're going to talk about these models in a half hour or so. the models shifted 20 miles farther to the west. so, now, not a landfall near marathon, florida. likely a landfall in the lower keys, somewhere cudjoe key, big pine key all the way down maybe to key west. and that's a big difference because now that puts for the myers in play of a landfalling hurricane and also makes tampa

. >> coral gables, population 50,000, some chose to ride out the storm aboard boats in canals. we checked in with them through the police chief ed hudak. >> i don't know if anything in the water will be safe. this is four times larger than something that came through here 25 years ago. >> all the boats that are here are not normally here. people tucked them in and tied them up along the mangroves to protect them. the mangroves should provide a natural barrier and they think the boats will be okay. unfortunately many people made the decision to stay on the boats. >> why are you staying? i think we'll be all right. you think you will be all right? >> yeah. we have 1,000 gallons of water in the boat to keep it down. we'll sit here happy as a fish. >> not recommended. yeah, i know. if they choose to stay, and this is a tough decision they will have to make, there is going to be a time in this area that we're in that it could be up to 72 hours before we can even come down here, and if they yell for help, we can't provide it, which is partly why we give the evacuation orders. >> it i

as hurricane irma arrived in coral springs, baby april arrived at home.with a 911 dispatcher on the line. police and fire escorting the new family safely to the hospital. in st. petersburg, these firefighters carrying 83-year-old dolores to shelter before the storm. it wasn't the wedding they planned. >> in sickness and her khans. >> reporter: but lauren and michael, members of the air national guard, called up to help in the rescue efforts here, exchanges their vows in uniform in orange county. and back in coral springs, on this september 11th, a police officer taking a moment to recover an american flag swept away in irma's fury. saving the american flag. thank you for watching. i'm david muir. i hope to see you tomorrow. good night. ♪ this is "jeopardy!" please welcome today's contestants -- a lawyer and legal recruiter from hoboken, new jersey... a hotel desk reception clerk from grand island, nebraska... and our returning champion, a high school history teacher from st. louis, missouri... ...whose 2-day cash winnings total... and now here is the host

as hurricane irma arrived in coral springs, baby april arrived at home.with a 911 dispatcher on the line. police and fire escorting the new family safely to the hospital. in st. petersburg, these firefighters carrying 83-year-old dolores to shelter before the storm. it wasn't the wedding they planned. >> in sickness and hurricanes. >> reporter: but lauren and michael, members of the air national guard, called up to help in the rescue efforts here, exchanging their vows in uniform in orange county. and back in coral springs, on this september 11th, a police officer taking a moment to recover an american flag swept away in irma's fury. saving the american flag. and we thank you for watching here tonight. i'm david muir. i hope to see you right back here tomorrow. good night. obviously by live doppler 7 is tracking thunderstorms. >>> new video just in shows lightning in san jose. this appeared just an hour ago. this came from a viewer in south center san jose. >>> we slow down this footage of lightning appearing a a a a a fete. i'm dan ashton. >> and i'm chr

now do you. >> we prchb prp we're actually coming to you from cape coral area. all night long we started to about frrn in fact, this tree mind he was swaying -- or the brchb es we'll have about 30 minutes of bad weather and then it starts to clear up. obviously all wm a a unique city. it has lefrl hundred canals that run throughout the city. it's supposed to give boaters easy access to the gulf. so no matter where you live in the city, it allows you to get out there pretty quickly. the on problem is it going to contribute significantly to the storm surge threat. that's something people out here are watching very closely tonight. ari. >> all right, trent kelly, stay safe. that does it for my coverage but our live coverage continues after a quick break, continuing ahead with alex witt. >>> hey there, everyone. i'm alex here at msnbc headquarters. it is 2:00 a.m. in the east. 11:00 out west. you're watching special coverage of hurricane irma. irma is making her way towards the florida keys. winds up to 120 miles an hour and it very well could become stronger before

not been to the florida keys it is uniquely one way yen and one way out to a chain of violence from coral rock formations and the further south a place i have spent many days. and if you know, anything about the florida keys with a lot of small businesses in the hotels, the charter captains and everything inin between many are generational. those businesses will literally have no customers with a foreseeable future. and they certainly don't have a tourist. so imagine you're the owner of a small restaurant i can tell you most businesses don't have that kind of reserve. if you think of the florida keys it is an expensive place to live it is viable land on the water which is a challenge to the work force. get you don't want to drive through a half-hour's a day for perot that housing was a trailer parks or small apartments or mobile homes and those are gone.l and think of florida agriculture and has an extraordinary presence and a great variety of crops.ture this is an enormous burden of agriculture.egetable the sugar cane growers and then the dairy.e o every single one has suffered significa

i speak as god forbid i just want to say on behalf of all of us coral that you are a unique resource to the city. you are bipartisan. you are fair. you are tough. you are one hard journalist to spin and i sure did try. i want to thank you for all that you've done for everyone in the city and especially people who appreciate great journalist so thank you. [applause] >> host: you are watching booktv on c-span2, television for serious readers. we are in new york city at the publisher's annual. match on what we'd like to do during this summer's preview some of the fall books that are coming out. next up we want to introduce you to zoe quinn. she is the author of this book, "crash override" how gamergate nearly destroyed my life and how we can win the fight against online hate. zoe quinn what do you do for a living? >> ultimately my day job is an independent game developer. >> host: we will get to that but let's go to the game are part of that. what exactly do you do? >> a lot of stuff. i'm an independent game developer which means i do much if the stuff on my own. i'm a programmer a writ

the bottom of the ferry grated on the white coral sand... i went to bali in 1956. i only saw one other european all the time i was in bali, which was several weeks, a couple of weeks. and we filmed dancing, and it was just marvellous. whoops, look at that! i mean that, that was great fun. it was the first time that that had ever been seen on television. yes. and it took us weeks to get there and get that filmed. and of course the world was new. that's an example of it. i mean people... it wasn't the greatest film ever made, but nobody had ever seen a fat thing before. when i filmed that, there were only a third of the people on the planet. what is the effect, in your eyes, of having three times as many people on the planet? well everything is overcrowded. everything is overcrowded. and it's very difficult. the wilderness is under threat. looking at the oceans, and seeing the mother albatross come back after having scoured the antarctic ocean to feed this chick which she had been away from for weeks, and to bring back food. and she opens her beak and the chick begs

coral springs fire dept>"when we got there, she was pretty much, almost all the way out. the mother of the person is labor was actually pretty much delivering the baby in the bathroom on the floor. " (steve) more than (steve) (steve) more than two dozen people have been arrested for looting stores and homes. you can see thieves here looting a foot locker in liberty city... running out with boxes of shoes. on sunday - two men were arrested after they say they were ransacking six houses. as of today - police in fort lauderdale have arrested a total of 19 people for burglarizing businesses and residences during the storm. several arrests were also made in miami. (pam) while a disaster can bring out the worst in some.. it brings out the best in many more... tonight, first responders from the bay area.... are in florida ready to help. members of oakland- based california 'urban search and rescue task force- 4' ... made it to florida just in time. the team arrived sunda, y and spent the night at the orlando convention center.. on monday, they made the m

you can see out the warning goes to fort myers in cape coral. peak surge. in the tampa bay we can look at five to eight feet and there's millions of people that live in the tampa bay area along the oceanfront. everyone here a little further north has time to prepare and get out before the tropical storm winds earlier today. trade for national hurricane weather center. busy day. thank you. we will bring in phil keating in miami beach is the winds pick up they are. still. reporter: john, these are really moving if you are standing around and you shouldn't even be outside today at all. it's very dangerous. the wind is very strong. by jimmy dade county bordering on the 60s and 70s. so far reported in the storm in miami-dade county 70 miles an hour. also fort lauderdale yesterday. seven minutes ago. a tornado warning has been issued in miami-dade county for a patch of land in neighborhoods they go from miami beach to miami guard in pembroke pines. right now there have been numerous counties put on warnings and watches as this all began in earnest lat

let's go toward naples and cape coral, you can see the different inlets across this region as well. and still we go to our graphic here and give us an indication that sanibel island, captiva, many visitors there, can be expected to be under water. with 15-foot storm surge. they'll be repeatedly battered, in the worst possible zone of this hurricane. other the next 24 hours. where do we expect landfall? let's go up a little bit further. we zoom in across cape coral, here we go, we're looking at the regi region right around punta gorda. if that storm surge is in your home, that's major devastation. let's zoom out a little bit more, go up the coast. here's tampa and here's st. pete, here's that waterway, an additional 15 feet of water possible across he region. this jutes out a little bit. this has already moved toward the northwest just slightly. we're looking at being battered by that upper right quadrant that's where we see the potential for very high winds, the potential for tornadoes. already i saw fisher island, 57 mile an hour wind gust. key biscayne, 65 mile per hour wind gust.

i got very lucky here in cape coral that we did not get the brunt of it. is alive and i'm thankful. >> so tell the viewers where you and your husband were. you were on st. jean. >> i left the restaurant i work with closes for the offseason, so i left for a preplanned trip and i actually was in new york when this was happening and we decided i should stay safe. so i stayed and went on my vacation. obviously a little bit hindered by these things. and when irma was coming here, i just -- i couldn't make myself go farther away from trying to get home. >> i know you haven't been able to talk to your husband in saint j john. how have you been able to communicate? >> there's one cell tower on top of a pizza plus. i get a couple minutes in the morning and if i'm lucky once in the evening or afternoon. so just basically it's a check in, are you okay, what do you need, that kind of a thing. >> and i mean, right now you can't get anything to him, right? >> no. i am working my way back there, hopefully within the week with some of the construction supplies he's reques

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