fort myers is getting some of the worst of irma tonight. want to head back there right now, kris van cleave is there, chris? >> the the wind gusts are getting strong are and stronger in fort myers as irm' gets closer to the eye. we under-- city, we understand the eye wall should be into fort myers within the hour. you can see what it is doing to the trees here. people are off the roads and that's a good thing because there is debris everywhere. we have watched branches come down. we have seen transfrs explode. emergency crews are to longer responding to 911 calls. it's too dangerous for them to be outside. now we know we're going to get a lot of wind. hundred mile an hour plus, wind gusts much higher than that, potentially well into tonight. then as the wind ramps down, storm surge becomes the real concern it could be ten feet or more in part parts of fort myers, that is what prompted evacuation. 30,000 people or so are in evacuation shelters right now, one woman at one of the shelters went into labor today, fortunately there was an emergen

and fort myers? >> i would be near naples, italy.aples, florida. >> sean: we always love your historic references. you always talk about with the same conditions, there's a history that a lot of times these storms follow. you nailed this from the beginning as he did texas. it helps people out a lot. it saves lives. let me come back, we will talk to the mayor of fort myers. we heard joe bastardi, that city is in a direct path along with naples and bonita springs. when we come back. and dulcoease for comfortable relief of hard stools. dulcolax. designed for dependable relief. ditching the cover-up for good? that's cool. showing off my arms? that's cool. being comfortable without a shirt? that's cool. getting the body you want without surgery, needles, or downtime? that's coolsculpting. coolsculpting is the only fda-cleared non-invasive treatment that targets and freezes away stubborn fat cells. visit coolsculpting.com today and register for a chance to win a free treatment. >> sean: fox news alert. hurricane irma bearing down on the is

>> the gulf coast city of fort myers was flooded by hurricane harvey two weeks ago. it is now dealing with the severe effects of hurricane irma and chris van cleave is in fort myers. >> reporter: irma lumbered into fort myers, lashing the southwest florida community with winds in excess of 100 miles an hour. category donna had landed here in an earlier year. people remained in shelters, including the jermaine arena. >> reporter: what made you come here? do you think your house is going to make it through? >> my house is at the beach. not a safe place. >> at a middle school, people took shelter, including one woman who went into labor just as the storm picked up. fortunately medical staff were on hand. principal is worried about supplies. >> the next step is to get more food. we only have enough food for tonight. >> reporter: but the wind is keeping first responders off the road. >> we shut our operation off at 45 miles per hour, and the gusts that we're receiving now have been up to 68 miles per hour winds and we only expect those to increase over time. >> reporter:

fort myers president trump on the ground in a matter of minutes he lands in fort myers and heads to naplesspect the storm damage there. he is meeting with first responders and a lot of people who live there trying to start putting their lives back together. that process begins now. meanwhile breaking news out of hollywood, florida. you are looking live now where another nursing home is being evacuated as we speak due to power loss. we've been reporting on the story that broke 24 hours ago, another nursing center in hollywood where eight people were found dead. a few died at the nursing home. a few others at a hospital after they were taken there to recover and did not. florida congressman ron desantis with me. good morning to you. what do you want the president to see today specifically in your state? >> i think i would like him to see that certain areas, i think did better than we anticipated. we thought there could be a direct hit on miami, a direct hit on tampa bay. you didn't have that. but i think you'll see major devastation in the florida keys. they have difficulty with water, with

de fort myers.erte, pensaba que, quizás no querÍamos creer que el cambio climÁtico y que el aumento en la altura de los ocÉanos nos iba a afectar y de pronto llega huracÁn tres, ni siquiera directamente a la zona este de la florida y mira cÓmo nos estÁ afectando ya. veo imÁgenes de los cayos, me impresiona key biscayne, kendall. fÉlix: asÍ es. y como sabe bien, jorge. las reales imÁgenes las vamos a conocer maÑana, cuando sepamos exactamente quÉ pasÓ en todo el recorrido. jorge: es muy pronto, albert, pero hay alguna lecciÓn que pudimos encontrar en la florida? ustedes lo vieron despuÉs de harvey en houston. quÉ encuentras ahora como lecciÓn despuÉs del paso de irma por la florida? albert: que la gente tiene que tomar conciencia que cuando avisamos de que va a llover mucho, que se acercÓ sistema de estas caracterÍsticas se tiene que evacuar, que la gente lo haga, que no lo dude, que lo haga para que luego no tenga las consecuencias peores de que, imagÍnense, que la gente de toda la costa oeste no hu

the latest track is now in and takes it right over fort myers. i'm going to make a call right after i get done with this hit. the storm itself is lng earlier notice these yellows here, that means the storm is trying to reintensify, trying to get its act together, couldn't really do it. no more of those yellow colors and it is expected, the latest track is now in. it will regain category 5 and it may do so, winds of 155 miles an hour, category 5 is 157, so it's just below that, won't take much to get it back, moving west at 12 miles an hour, so slowing down just a little bit and it's going to slow down, slow down and then make the turn, look what it does, though, they now do bring it to a category 5. winds of 160 miles per hour, 2:00 a.m. on sunday, slamming, absolutely slamming the keys here. we will, easily, see winds upwards of 150 maybe higher in around the florida keys. and then look at this, even farther to the west, away from miami, again, this is good news for miami, horrible news for naples, horrible news for areas around the fort er goin

are you in fort myers now? >> yeah. we're basically around what's called few at that ras sa point from fort myers beach, chris. and earlier today when we were out with the cape coral fire department they were telling us 179,000 people that live in that city are at great risk because of the storm surge there. everything is so low lying around here and to give you an example, chris of how high the water is actually going to get out here, and rest assured, we are going to get out of here as well, here we are at sea level right here. 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 tha

you are watch live special coverage on msnbc. >> that's fort myers right now live pictures. >> fort myers experiencing hurricane irma. >>> welcome back you're watching a special edition of velshi and rue as which cover hurricane irma making it'say up florida. just moments ago when we got the 11:00 update we were looking at the storm making it's way over the florida keys. we have to take a moment ali think about all the weather we've seen. monsoon season last in month. you saw people in southeast asia with more water than they've had before. wildfires on the west coast and two weeks ago hurricane harvey devastatesed texas. >> there are 78 wierlds right now, 8 million acres burned in the united states. 7 firefighters died. 26,000 people are fighting fires in montana, oregon abwashington and california. of course you've seen the la tuna fire outside of los angeles. >> irma isn't starting in fl st. foms, st. martin, barbeda. >> they say it's almost 100% destroyed. >> if you look at the image the st. barts pb the virgin gourda is gone. it's not like irma has been waiting out in the ocean. it's

naples and fort myers are among the cities bracing for the highest storm surge. farther north, the tampa bay area is in the bullseye. but forecasters warn the zigzagging storm could still shift direction. it's also important to note, irma is hundreds of miles wide so it could do serious damage from the gulf coast to the atlantic. the storm has already killed dozens in the caribbean. its destruction has been catastrophic. stay with cbs news throughout the weekend for tank coverage of hurricane irma. tomorrow, we'll have a special edition of "cbs this morning" beginning at 7:00 eastern, followed by storm updates on "sunday morning" and "face the nation," and special reports throughout the day. for now, i'm elaine quijano. for reena ninan, and all of us at cbs news, thank you for joining us, and good night. captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org r the storm. >>> millions of people in florida race to get out of hurricane irma's path. >> tonight, 6 1/2 million people have been ordered to leave. one of the most powerful stor

he is in fort myers in florida.ound the clock in recent days, to try to restore power, to help get people back into their homes. but this is a rebuilding effort that will take weeks, months, possibly years, given the extent of the damage and the devastation down there. to go back to what we were talking about, about the so—called dreamers programme, that is the agreement that president 0bama put into place, basically to allow young immigrants brought to the united states illegally to remain here, well, president trump had disbanded that programme, giving congress six months craft a solution to the situation. now, as i say, he appears to be close to some sort of agreement with top democrats in congress, following that dinner that i was talking about at the white house. they apparently have a agreed to work on a plan to prevent the dreamers from being deported. but disagreement on whether or not such a plan would be linked to the building of the wall along the border with mexico. that is something that was a cornersto

and headed in the general direction of southwest florida, marco island, naples, bonita springs, fort myers up the coast into charlotte county. where it will make the next landfall is really unknown. it's possibility could in the southwest florida area, also possibility could in the tampa/ st. pete area, also possible that it could go north and come in somewhere in the panhandle. so many variables now because as the storm moves, it wobbles left and right and the strongest winds right around that eye wall , those are the ones that are most destructive and where they hit, well it could be most anywhere. this storm is expected to move straight up the peninsula of florida, eventually into alabama and northeast alabama and eventually become a storm for memphis and the mid south but that's days away. what happens over the next 24 hours will tell the tale, and this is a storm that no doubt rick richmuth will go down in the had history books. >> already it's pretty much in every history book, strongest storm over 180 miles an hour anywhere on the globe we've seen since we had satellite recording th

i have lived in the fort myers for 10 years. i relocated with my family from new york after the financial crisis. i have a few comments i want to make. first, the government at all levels has done an outstanding job. i am extremely happy that all the money fema has used, my use., has been put to good they have been trained. an ounce of prevention saves us 10 pounds of fix. i have evacuated. i am in a red zone. my son is in the red zone. my son is in a red zone, my brothers and sisters have houses in red zones. the next thing after the storm hits his shelter and food, and that's basic human needs. host: what does that mean? caller: that means we are going , 16 feet.in the surge i'm within a half-mile from the water. i'm expecting 10 feet. i didn't get my car out of the garage. i don't know why didn't think of that. i have flinch insurance cash flood insurance. i ha

we actually only five miles inland from fort myers beach.acuation. and is susceptible to probably 10— 12 feet of storm surge. what is the consequence of ignoring a mandatory evacuation order?“ what is the consequence of ignoring a mandatory evacuation order? if we have an emergency and we need to call the emergency services, then we would not be given priority. they may not even come out to help us, because we ignored the mandatory evacuation. what experience have you had in the past of hurricanes? absolutely none. i've lived in fort myers ten years, and this is the first one we've experienced. we've had some tropical storms, but never anything like this. what preparations have you made, then? you obviously talk about the sort of strength of the architecture of your home, but what other preparations have you made? we've got plenty of supplies in, obviously. we have flashlights, tortures, we have food —— torches. we've located all of our personal belongings to the second level of our house. if we get storm stirred and it floods the bottom flo

both arriving in fort myers. they will receive a briefing on hurricane irma relief efforts later on before the 11:00 hour. marty, i want to ask you about north korea because this is percolating in the background. markets seem to be discounting this absolutely horrendous rhetoric from north korea wanting to do away with the entire country of japan. marty: yewaah. i think the markets have determined until there is actual bite to this bark, they will not react. obviously, there are some signs north korea is getting ready to launch a missile. there were those signs two weeks ago, and it never happened. maybe this will be another opportunity for things to deescalate if there is no launch, but the rhetoric, clearly the markets have determined until there is actually something done, they are not going to react to this. obviously, you also have donald trump monitoring this situation very closely. he certainly does not want north korea to take any aggressive stance that he is going to have to react to. as we have alluded

naples, fort myers.t the senator is talking about that if indeed it were to stay off this coast, this is within the kind of possibility. that puts the worst of the wind and the storm surge inundating all west florida and tampa bay area and beyond. the truth is we do not know where it's going to to go. everyone in the peninsula has to be ready. the news continues in just a moment. stay with us. to business. ♪ to business. i enjoy the fresher things in life.o. fresh towels. fresh soaps. and of course, tripadvisor's freshest, lowest... ...prices. so if you're anything like me... ...you'll want to check tripadvisor. we now instantly compare prices... ...from over 200 booking sites... ...to find you the lowest price... ...on the hotel you want. go on, try something fresh. tripadvisor. the latest reviews. the lowest prices. >> shepard: the national weather service in key west has put out an urgent request and sent out a tweet. we are going to rebroadcast it. "this is as real as it gets. nowhere in the florida

rain but a light rain here falling in fort myers. the storm about a hundred miles from key west, anticipated to make landfall in the morning hours. we're going to get more in just a moment. we have correspondents standing by all throughout the region as they have been all day and will be all throughout the night and tomorrow as well. let's quickly go, though, to more of an update on the storm. i know an hour from now at is 1 you're likely to get a new update tracking the storm but what do we know at this hour. >> it's interesting to note the national hurricane center is now updating us every hour. something unprecedented, i believe, happened today. because we had jose, cata and irma, typically the national hurricane center handles all of these advisories, but they're getting overloaded. noaa took over command for cata and jose so the national hurricane center can solely focus on irma. that's unprecedented. a little fluctuation in speed. that's not a big concern because we've got plenty of time, unfortunately, that this thing will dev

this could be 140 over fort myers into that south western florida. and that's kind of new. yesterday i thought tampa would be 85. now i think 115. the american model takes it just to the east and finally up to the north and maybe toward ever glade city. that's a big shift. that is 30, 40 miles when it comes to east west distance, but that is a big shift and a big help to fort myers if the model does come true. mooim mooim you're now filling up. i juthe winds are blowing in fr the east and blowing that water in right now. here's what the forecast winds look like. miami, the winds were blowing like 40 so every time a band comes by you're going to pick up wind. that's naples, that's'myers and then finally dying off as it gets into georgia. so let me -- i'm going to roll you through a couple scenarios here. here's the storm right here. just off of the cuban coast and it's going to come in here. this is the big keys here all the way down to key west. 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

. >> believe it or not it's 15 miles east-northeast of fort myers. so it doesn't look like they'll get in the eye and we'll break it down. at the top of the hour we've seen a rise in the pressure which means we're trying to weaken and it takes a while for the wind speed to catch up with its strengthening when the pressure rises, it takes a while for the wind speed to react to weakening. what this means is a category 2, pay no attention to that. we are still one miles per hour away from a category 3 which is considered major. we still have red on the infrared ima knowledgegery and h cold or cloud tops and we're seeing that. now the tornado watch to the north and we cannot forget about these tornado warnings and they're near the orlando area and they're out to the east on the coastline, but when you get in closer and look to the center here and a couple of things we'll be talking about and that's the surge and notice the heavy activity of the convective activity to the east of fort myers. we are looking at fort myers and look looking at the eye east-no

the wind speeds will go all the way to 120 in fort myers.he force of that wind, with the water involved, it's like being in a car wash with a pressure washer that's not only the wind but the water has mass, too. that's blowing up against your home. if you are in this track, as we go like this, i want you to pay attention to the wind an you're hunkering down. i want you to pay attention to the wind. the wind there be from this direction. you need to be on the north side of your home, or northwest side of your home. as the storm goes by, the wind will come in from the east and then maybe even from the north. so that's the whole story. i want you to kind of keep yourself mobile in your home, if you don't have your windows boarded up. because windows will be breaking as shingles fly off your neighbors' homes, and you may need to get into a place that's more secure than where you were 30 minutes ago. clearly, if you have a closet, or if you have a laundry room that does not have any windows, that's the place to be now. marco, naples, fort myers,

they went from fort myers down to naples with governor rick scott among others.aples as they move farther south where we see the real serious damage on the west coast of florida. you can see the president loading up in the motorcade. we are told he's going to head out from here after his briefing about relief efforts and then go meet with some victims, if you will, people who wrote out hurricane irma and as you pointed out, melissa, 2.5 million people without power still. we saw mike tobin's live shot with hundreds of power poles loaded up on 218 wheel trucks, so there's still a lot of work to do down in florida. the president is going to be briefed on and report back on. >> melissa: we talked to ari fleischer because sometimes the resources that it takes to support the president on the ground in terms of security and all of that when they go to an area where there is a disaster, but ari fleischer telling us that it is well worth the visit for a number of reasons. one of them being that for the people who have now been working around-the-clock and sacrificing all

michelle churchill lives in fort myers, not far away from these pictures.ided to stay put with her family and we can speak to her now. thank you for talking to us. why have you decided not to leave home? we were given mandatory evacuation yesterday by florida state. we decided to stay, because we believe we have one of the strongest concrete structures. as i see that there's a massive search going through the window. hurricane impact windows, which are structured to hold 150 mph winds. we have double concrete blocks and we are two stories. moving up to the second story we're unable to hunker down and maybe avoid some of the strong storm surges which are predicted for when the storm turns. the ones are going to turn and that will bring all the water back from the gulf of mexico and basically flood the whole area. how close mexico and basically flood the whole area. how close are mexico and basically flood the whole area. how close are used to the water? we have a lake close to the front of house which will not be a problem in terms of the storm surge because

. >> take a quick turn here quick, the president getting a briefing on hurricane irma in fort myers. so the vice president, the first lady, mrs. pence, has been getting a briefing, as you see here, about the impact of the hurricane and the recovery in the meantime, guys, he's been making comments about the dinner last night with schumer and pelosi, saying that before he agrees to any fix in daca, there has to be an understanding that the wall will be funded. he says if i don't get the wall, then we will become the obstructionists. so, trying to get more clarity on what they agreed to last night. >> again, just how the tone was at that dinner got a headline pelosi said the atmosphere at dinner with trump were very friendly this is a whole new dynamic. >> it is, and i think it is great for america. and a lot of people hoped when trump was elected that he would be a pragmatic, bipartisan deal maker. we interviewed him a year and a half ago before the campaign started. he said, look, henry, i've been getting politicians to do what i want them to do my entire life when there's pragmatism,

big concern for tampa at this hour, big concern for orlando, for fort myers as that storm comes onshore and moves further north. a tornado warning issued in the past 30 minutes for the orlando area. we were warned about it. they have come and gone throughout the afternoon, a couple times, in fact, here in orlando, as we continue to track all of that as irma marches further north. adam klotz, now, our meteorologist back in the fox extreme weather center, starts us off this hour with the latest on what irma is doing now. adam, good evening to you. >> reporter: here's what we're looking at as we continue to watch irma slowly work up the state, getting closer and closer to that fort myers area. these bands of very heavy rain, very strong winds are continuing to lift, and we're going to start to see more severe weather towards the tampa area, towards orlando. it's only going to intensify. you just mentioned the tornado threat, it's across the entire state. but where you're going to see the most to activity and where we've seen the most so far is this front-right quadrant. so you're getting t

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

south of fort myers. mayor marny zawicky is with us. give us an idea? >> basically, the winds are starting to pick up. from this point on, even though the shelters are accepting evacuees. at about 2:00 today, when we expect hurricane force winds. and our biggest thing is what you just said, storm sturge. making sure how do we get to our residents and information out so they know who to contact. >> and is there information in terms of shelters, you just mentioned they're still open. but you're not supposed to be out on the roads at this point. so, are you at the point where you're telling residents just hunker down and don't go anywhere? >> yeah, actually, we've been saying for the last few days, a storm this magnitude, stay in, please. we have 150,000 people under the evacuation order because two-thirds of our city is under the surge zone. so, we know we're going to be impacted 400 miles around. so trying to evacuate 122 square miles is very difficult. there's a lot of them that thought they were here for charlie and thought they would ride it out. >> w

fort myers almost suffering a direct hit from the storm yesterday.comes up, a little later than around here down that florida. they will see the extent of the damage from that hurricane passing through. >>> police are looking for the gunman who killed a woman in west philadelphia, authorities responded to reports of gunfire on the 3900 block of aspen street early yesterday morning, the victim, a 62-year-old woman shot four times in the chest. later died at penn presbyterian hospital. witnesses say they saw a man fleeing the scene. >>> a house fire in south philadelphia injured at least one person, it broke out just after 4:00 yesterday afternoon along the 2200 block of christian, fires got to find flames from each story of the throw-story. one person treated for minor injury >>> a east mt. airy couple reunited with a firefighter who saved them from a burning home, after a fire broke out inside their home along the 800 block of up sal street in march. swagen roved an award during the annual firefighter and medic recognition day >> he was calm, i was t

here is fort myers. up the river, you have got red, which is over nine feet.g everything and every canal up in every little coastline as we head up here. again, you are going to see up toward cleveland north ward of southport all of this. you know, four years ago, chris, with super typhoon hayon. days and days and weeks later when you interview some of them that survived they were asked why didn't you leave? you knew a storm surge was coming and they said we didn't know what a storm surge was. if you would have used the word sue s tsunami, we would have left. everything you see in these amounts, that does not include the waves. do not worry about low and high tide. that's minimal right now. >> tom, thank you very much for increasing the information and the urgency. you have been explaining it throughout the day. we'll keep prompting you and having the rest of us tell us storm surge is no job. it is not just about the coastline losing some beach. it is about a wall of water come into places where it should not be and it will overwhelm you. let's take a quick br

i'll show you what it means to miami, fort myers, tampa. i'll see you in 15. >> irma has killed at least 22 people in caribbean. some of the tourist hot spots decimated by the storm are reporting looting and incurring occur fuse. 5.6 million people are under evacuation orders. >> reporter: sunset on the edge of irma, a quiet evening ahead of what forecasters say would be a catastrophic weekend. >> hurricane irma continues to be a threat that will decimate the united states. >> reporter: florida is the primary target that stretches across a area bigger than the state. home improvement stores are running out grocery store shelves are empty, too, as preparations continue. >> you got to be ready. the price you pay for living in florida. >> reporter: there are concerns the cost of this storm could be overwhelming. >> we are running out of time, if you are in a evacuation zone, you need to go now. this is a catastrophic storm that the state has never seen. >> officials have launched what could be the largest mass evacuation in u.s. history, 5.6 m

stuart: he arrived in fort myers, on his way to naples, florida.ders. what did you think of it? >> he's excellent. first of all, if you're one of the victims of harvey or irma, and you look at the government's response in connection with the private sector, they've done a really brilliant job in their response. donald trump is making our government work to its best ability. and making sure that men and women will not be forgotten and get the help necessary from the u.s. government. i think that reassures them and lets them see hope in the future for rebuilding. stuart: okay. congressman, i'm sorry we got to you so late. but we appreciate you being with us. thank you very much indeed, sir. now, what do we have for you? momentarily, we will be joined by that lady. the chainsaw-wielding nun helping after hurricane irma. you know, she's been doing more television than i have. which is going to get more exposure shortly because she's back on the show. let's see what have we got the latest on president trump? we're waiting for him to arrive in naples, an

at fort myers, thousands of people crowded into a sports stadium ina people crowded into a sports stadiumn a last—minute dash to find somewhere safe. i think we're going to be staying here for two nights, maybe three. they really don't know where the storm is going to go exactly, so we have no way of knowing.