that's rid over bonita springs and north napels is now seeing the center of the eye heading your way. so we're about to see the back eye of the storm and it won't look as dramatic as the northern eye. fort myers, 30 minutes, and everyone in the fort myers area will experience almost category 3-type hurricane. >> these categories are getting stripped over the course of the day, being blown and look at that rain effect, being blown from right to left are now going to get blown from left to right. the skies have brightened briefly. that will go away as the back side of the storm starts up expect a lot of our correspondents will have the rain at their backs and they'll have the precipitation coming in around from the other angle. kerry sanders, as you heard, his crew is changing out a battery and a lens as a lot of this is kind of battlefield surgery on our equipment which is recovering from coming in contact with a lot of water both audio and video. mike bettis' location will look for that precipitation to change and then begins this kind of nauseating wait. >> it's coming, brian. >> for

live in napeles florida. what's the situation where you are, jacob. >> honestly, ali there isn't much rain or wind at this point. it was actually far more severe earlier today in cape coral which i could not remember where i was earlier today when i was talking to you. the reason being of course is the storm surge. and in that area. and cape coral interestingly enough about 20 miles away from here could see some catastrophic flooding in addition to fort myers beach. that community was designed to have accessibility by boat to almost every one of the homes there. there is about 179,000 people living there today. when you talk about policy and planning, the convenience of having a boat near home and being able to hop in and go out for recreation has terrible potential consequences in event of a hurricane like irma when you're talking about storm surge 5, 10, 15 feet when you have entire community with canals running throughout it at sea level it's terrifying. the local firefighters have a big task on their hand

the water is an enormous concern here in napeles. three feet above sea level.xpecting a surge up to 15 feet. we do have with us this morning naples mayor bill barnett. who has lived here in florida since 1973. mayor barnett, it's david muir. this westward shift of the track we learned about 24 hours ago. are you confident people had enough time to get out of harm's way? >> yes, i am. thank you, david. i feel that -- i feel that our people have been -- our citizens have been evacuating isince eary in the week. they really took the storm seriously. compared to wilma, where there was a lackadaisical, complacent, no, we're not going to have a hurricane. this time, everybody has heeded. our town is like a ghost town. >> you bring up wilma, mayor. i remember being in key west for wilma. we were preparing for significant damage there. it was better than expected there. but much worse here in naples. if i remember correctly, there was about 125-mile-an-hour winds you saw in wilma. that's what they're forecasting for later. what kind of damage are you expecting this aft

the water is an enormous concern here in napeles. three feet above sea level.xpecting a surge up to 15 feet. we do have with us this morning naples mayor bill barnett. who has lived here in florida since 1973. mayor barnett, it's david muir. this westward shift of the track we learned about 24 hours ago. are you confident people had enough time to get out of harm's way? >> yes, i am. thank you, david. i feel that -- i feel that our people have been -- our citizens have been evacuating isince eary in the week. they really took the storm seriously. compared to wilma, where there was a lackadaisical, complacent, no, we're not going to have a hurricane. this time, everybody has heeded. our town is like a ghost town. >> you bring up wilma, mayor. i remember being in key west for wilma. we were preparing for significant damage there. it was better than expected there. but much worse here in naples. if i remember correctly, there was about 125-mile-an-hour winds you saw in wilma. that's what they're forecasting for later. what kind of damage are you expecting this aft

in orlando three died from carbon monoxide poisoning from a generator and 20 injured in napeles, knocked out power to 15 million in florida, at least part of the rehab center in hollywood hills did have power and the govern's office said the facility told state officials it had power and access to fans. >> we are concerned. we need to find out what happened to her. >> many are questioning with they weren't evacuated sooner at 3:00 a.m. the heat index was 87 degrees. >> why didn't they transfer people yesterday. >> the victims range from 71 to 99, the oldest albertina vega. she considered her her second mother wants to know how the nursing home allowed this to happen. >> i love her like my mom. >> dozens in north miami beach have been evacuated as a precushion. >> here in hollywood the administration of this nursing home is cooperating with authorities and blames hurricane irma for knocking out a transformer that affected ac system but why did they wait so long to evacuate these residents with another hospital literally just down the street. >> dave gutierrez thank you for that report. >>

we don't see it in napeles and marco island. is there damage, yes, but it's not destroyed. storm lost power here. that's one thing that helped us a lot. didn't help cuba. it missed key west, so to speak. it moved to the east where a lot of money is. there is a lot more money in key west than in these areas. nothing taking away from big pine key. they were slammed. it moved here and missed miami completely. miami is over here. there was onshore flow and john berman got battered for hours and hours. not like if it was a category 5 here. like they saw in the british virgin islands. again, a sparing. then next it went between tampa and orlando. it gave orlando the bad side of the storm, but by then only a cat 2 to about a cat 1. if they this thing got in between any one of the population centers and missed key west and missed miami, kind of up here through here. any other track, almost any other track as a cat 5 through the eastern cities on the right side. just offshore here worse for cape coral and napeles and tamp it for sure and a surge for tampa. did we miss it? no, it was

i think chris comeau back in nape napeles has things sorted out. let's go back to him. >> that's the job. that's why we're here, is to get out the information. the job of the government is three-fold. it is informed, inspire and then influence, especially before the storm to get people out. here in naples the governor was discussing a specific concern here. it can't take a lot of water and it expects a lot of storm surge. we have had a couple of storms come through here, nothing the likes of which would come here some time tomorrow afternoon and the streets flood very easily. it pools quickly. and that lets you know that it just doesn't have a lot of threshold for water and that means things are going to flood easily. the number one killer in a hurricane is not the wind. i know you intuitively you think it is, but it's drowning and that storm surge is the number one component of that. that's why the governor peoples telling the story of an elderly woman who only survived because she got lucky. that's an important story because is it worth taking a

the president and first lady landed in napeles to survey destruction from hurricane irma. but the president had to do some damage control of his own reassuring conservatives he is not going soft on immigration. this after democratic leaders proudly announced last night's dinner meeting with the president ended with a deal on daca. >> we agreed on a framework, pass daca protestings and additional border security measures. >> ultimately we have to have the wall if we don't have the wal we are doing nothing. >> house speaker paul ryan echoed the message that there is no agreement with democrats and he emphasized there will be no legislation unless he works with the gop. >>> dozens of south bay high school students protesting the president for uncertainty among d.r.e.a.m.ers. it comes as the city moves heyde with the first lawsuit against in the country against the trump administration. the south bay's new legal fight for us from rick. >> reporter: this was a bold move by san jose mayor and he said the lawsuit is only just the beginning. >> reporter: the city of san jose must

in napeles we have high tide at 4:00, irma will be around 2:00 meaning we have a high tide with the back winds bringing in the storm surge. so the timing here is perhaps the worst it could be. ideally and we believe, based on what the police are telling us, everybody has evacuated block after block after block inland to the shelters. so it will be a matter of waiting to see, and right now i think there's a lot of anxiety because the predictions are bad, it's dire. >> understandably so. kerry sanders, thank you for that. the mayor is bill barnett, and i wonder, what's your major concern mr. mayor? >> everything. i'm watching it pretty carefully and, of course, as was just said. the time of high tide for us and when irma is going to hit us does not make for a good storm surge. but we'll have to wait and see. it's pretty nasty here. >> tell us about how you're positioned to handle whatever might come your way. >> well, we have -- you know, as far as -- as far as people on the road, there are zero. our emergency responders are here and checking in and out, they have been out on the road just

it could intensify more right into mar koe island and napeles. it could be from melbourne into tampa. into the gulf. any where the in cone is fair game. midnight into monday morning it's passing tampa. headed towards gainesville. into georgia. and it kind of fizzles out in the tennessee valley. let's look at the models they all pretty much have it shifting to the west. west side of the florida peninsula. or the gulf. here's of the european model. same thing. brings it in to the tip of florida. right up the middle of florida and into jacksonville and into parts of georgia. and this is the global forecast. so all the models in agreement the big models the ones we look at. these are the watches and warnings. these are the hurricane warnings. these are the hurricane watches and we have a lot of the flood watches out there. and the surge watches because they are expecting especially around the tip of florida they could see a storm surge in excess of six to 12 feet. it will cover much of the ever grades and anywhere the murk goes inland. we will be loo

food and fuel are tough to find in the hardest hit areas like napeles. fema says 90% of the homes in the keys were damaged or destroyed. not just food and water we mentioned though gas is also at a shortage getting back to a normal life will take a lot of time. nbc bay area vianey arana rode out the hurricane for us and joins us from miami beach. vianey you've been there nearly a week what's the biggest challenge there tonight? >> reporter: the biggest challenge this morning was residents had to face what could have been a lot of destruction in their homes but as you know miami beach got lucky and you can see slowly but surely the am beeens is making a return. at least now folks can come outside and get a good bite to eat. we're seeing plenty of people out here out and about. i talked to a couple of residents and crews that were very busy this morning as they made the first return after hurricane irma. once the sunshine brought a sense of calm, the miami-dade curfew was lifted, as thousands of residents sat in bumper to bumper traffic along the venetian

napeles with a foot of rain. look at georgia and it recently started to rain. kingsland over 10 inches of rain already. homeland about eight inches of rain. keep in mind for georgia, the rain is still coming and likely will for the next several hours. the numbers are going to go up in terms of wind speed. we will not see numbers like this going forward, but they are impressive and naples with a wind gust of over 140 miles per hour. largo island at 130 miles per hour. storage surge is still a concern for portions of florida. mostly on the western coast. the highest north of tampa as you push in towards the panhandle. even around tampa and ft. myers. we are talking about the region on the east. charleston down to jacksonville could be looking at storm surge of to six feet. in addition that, we have a concern of heavy rain. that's where the heaviest rain bands are in portions of south carolina and southeastern georg georgia. these are the flood emergencies we v. the flash flood threat as well as pink indicating a tornado warning. we are stretching from wilmington

close to marco island and napeles and just to the east of tampa and orlando. right about here right now. the onshore flow pouring into savannah and jacksonville with record flooding going on. roars set back in 1860s when they started putting sticks in the bank to see how high the water was. this was higher. what you are seeing there, higher than hurricane dora in 1964. certainly for savannah, higher than matthew that we saw just last year. here is the rain shield in atlanta and anywhere up there, you will see wind gusts today at 45 to about 60. that's the story, but the onshore flow and even one tornado there to the north of savannah and charleston. they are the two resort areas and any time you see one big cell, you can see in the neighborhood of an ef1. the jacksonville flooding up the st. johns because the water is trying to get out of the st. johns river and funneled through jacksonville and out to the ocean. it can't get through this choke point. that's why it is flooding so badly right now. if i get rid of this, one more thing we are watching is pool vid

it will go through one of the least populated parts of florida in between napele and broward county. it will be far away from broward and miami-dade counties that what it will do maybe let them feel hurricane winds of 100 miles per hour and maybe 90 or 75 miles per hour. and certainly not 150 miles per hour that we are talking about this week. >> tucker: those are survivable and we are trying for that. rick, in miami. >> reporter: always a please, tuck. >> tucker: we'll get you the latest on the massive storm. and jennifer lawrence said hurricanes harvey and irma are supernatural punishment for this country for electing donald trump. to improve short-term. prevagen. the name to remember. for tech advice. dell small business advisor with one phone call, i get products that suit my needs and i get back to business. ♪ itwhat's possible.nk rethink the experience. rethink your allergy pills. flonase sensimist allergy relief uses unique mistpro technology and helps block 6 key inflammatory substances with a gentle mist. most allergy pills only block one. and 6 is greater than one. rethink

that is so significant, huge parts of florida outside of the keys, one of the hardest hit parts was napeles on the west coast from where irma made the second landfall. damage can be seen all over town and they are telling residents to boil water until they can determine it is indeed safe. ed has been throughout the storm area for us. ed, you heard from the mayor of naples. you have breaking news on the cost of the recovery. >> reporter: we spoke with the mayor, bill barnett and the city completed the initial damage assessment. this is only for the city of naples. they estimate so far some $100 million in damage. the mayor execs that total to continue to go up. that includes the clean up and wind damage repair and those sorts of things. they have started tabulating that. $100 million price tag in one city alone. that doesn't take into account the rest of the areas in the much larger metropolitan areas. of course the clean up is a big issue and getting the power restoration is really one of the things that is starting to wear on people that cuts through naples. you can see the crews that have

the surge to hit downtown napele, too dangerous to go. water upward of 10, 15 feet high.ow, there is a curfew in place. lifted at 6:00 a.m. tomorrow morning when waters are expected to recede. back to you. much. the florida keys were the first to bear the full force, first full force of irma. elaine quijano has made her way back to key largo to see what it is like now. elaine. >> here in key largo still feeling effects of hurricane irma. very powerful gusts continuing at this hour. here you can see some boats remain tethered. others like this blue boat over here have become loose. and eventually started to, to free fleet side to side here, little hard to tell at this moment. but, all up and down the keys we know that thousands of people remain without power, and, and, key west was a -- a place of concern. folks, chose to stay here, on the keys and ignore the mandatory evacuation orders. we're told, that if they decided to stay, they would be on their own. because the officials would not come and rescue them. right now, we are still, experiencing tremendously powerful forc

here in this county in collier county, i'm in napeles, they are telling people if you have a home that has believe a strong stukt, you ha structure, you have shutters up, you believe that it will be fine and you're going to stay in your house, could you please open your home to friends, family or strarng strangers because we can't house them all in the shelters here. and this is a very difficult situation for people who quite frankly earlier in the week dchbts think that they were going to be facing this because the initial forecast was that the eye might move up on the east coast. so the anxiety is just about as high as it can get especially for those who are wondering where aim going to ride tam i going to ride the storm out sglch what do the houses look like, are they one story, two story, high rises? >> reporter: these are the mansions. i'm not sure whether i can turn the camera to reveal much to you, but we have a nice young girl watching uses abo us. but you can see the sea grapes all along the water and then behind here are just really some mansions. to give you an idea of the h

i'm at the napele as pier, the gusts are starting. it's just you don't mow when the gust is coming. i think the best way to look at it is now i'm down at the beach is to look up at the trees. when you're looking at the trees, understand this wind right now from irma is coming from the east to the west. i'm on the west coast, so it's coming across the state which is another explanation as to why when i take you over here, and you look at the gulf of mekts co, it looks relatively fat because that is the wind pushing out. the real problem here, beyond the fact those winds are certainly going to pick up is when the eye passes us here and then we get -- the counterclockwise, the winds coming from the west towards the east. when those winds come from the west towards the east, it's not only going to be a stronger wind, but we're also going to that wind wushing the water, creating that surge of water that is expected to go and predicted to go anywhere from 10 to 15 feet. it's that water, as it comes in h, the surge of water that is the greatest danger. i was doing a historical look back in

people are still without power, food and fuel are tough to find in some of the hardest hit areas like napeles, florida. fema says 90% of the homes in the keys, florida keys were damaged or destroyed. coming nup 20 minutes at 6:30 our weather reporter vianey arana joins us from miami. >> the families in san francisco killed in june are suing the company. the families suing ups allied security and the building owner. they say the june 14th shooting could have been prevented. attorneys say metal detecters and security guards failed to stop the driver who was armed with a submachine gun and pistol when he entered the building and went through the metal detecter. he killed three other drivers before committing suicide. >> we have a follow-up to a story we brought you earlier this month. the bay area air quality management district is issues a violation to the now defunct russian consulate in san francisco. officials say the violation is for the consulate staff burning garbage. you might recall black smoke fá building chimney. . firefighters responded to the consulate smoke alarm only to term it wa

there's a small catholic university, ava maria, east of napeles out near [ inaudible ] [ no audio ] those poor people had no place to go. they had no shelter. the university took them in to their fieldhouse and the hurricane with spinoff tornadoes, completely tearing up the stands and their football stadium, lo and behold the police show up, with ten elderly patients in a nursing home that had been abandoned and the students of that university, since they had generators, they had power, they took those elderly senior citizens in and took care of them. that's one of the great stories that i've heard. the university president, jim tuey, my friend, years and years, told me this story and when he called, panicked, needed diesel to keep those generators going so they could keep those senior citizens cool. >> it is -- i have gotten wind of that same story, senator, this morning. it is a wonderful story of people helping people, florida,ens helping floridians in a desperate moment of need. you can only imagine it's one of so many stories that maybe haven't even been heard yet, but there's still

thrive on, what gives them their energy and with that track keeping it off the florida cost from napeleso fort myers and up towards tampa, they could be experiencing very violent weather up until tomorrow. >> ben for us again. the storm surge there could be 10 to 15 feet. thank you so much. cnn special live coverage continues right now. >> this is cnn breaking news. >> where i'm going first. >> before coming in to

they a off the coast of napeles. they may be thinking it's not going to have enough time to get back up to category 4. we're talking the difference of 5 and 0-mile-per-hour. we'll soo what the specific numbers are. to get up to category 3 you get to 130 backup 135 you're category 4. it could be a 5-mile-per-hour difference. as i was telling stephanie earlier. don't pay attention to what category it is because the storm surge is going to be epic, catastrophic all through the region. this is where the worst of the wind damage will be. then to the right of the line is where the wor storm surge will be. and this i don't like. this line is now over pinales county. we did have it over tampa. >> bill hang on a second that piece of information you gave us is relevant. if that's over pinales county where we have tweets we don't have gas. bob buck horn, the mayor of tampa, mayor we were talking to you yesterday when you made a decision that you were going to order evacuations for the area a in tampa, the low lying area. you ha

not just submerge the dots and it's over to the sea wall and now we have in fort myers and this is napel, excuse me, naples, we're seeing a 4.9 increase. that's above normal tide. 4.9, that's above the ground. the forecast is five to say the so after the water receded and pushed out and away toward the west and the last three hours, the water height has increased by nine feet. so it continues to go up at 4.9. that's above normal height and we'll continue to see more. that is on those westerlies that are coming in and that will be the problem for the entire west coast as the storm moves northward. again, we're not going to see the eye move over fort meyers, but you don't have to be and you're still seeing the wind gusts worth mentioning that are 88 to 101 miles per hour. we're hoping the system will start to choke itself down now that it's over land and it's still a massive storm that's going to take a while. the heavy bands of rain will be blinding areas of central florida and toward the east. they will try to wrap around this eye somewhat, but it's going to be in the darkness of night a

napele, 63. take us into the afternoon here, max, as you advance this and you can see 125, miami beach. miami could see 15 hours of hurricane-force winds. naples goes to 110. okeechobee, 121. west palm, 112. these are alarming and not the only impact. storm surge and heavy rain, 10 to 20 inches. category 5 hurricane - florida landfall likely sunday morning today: mostly sunny to partly cloudy. nice. highs: 73-76 winds: nw 5-10 mph tonight: mainly clear and cool. lows: 49-58 winds: nw 5 mph saturday: mostly sunny. another spectacular day. highs: 70-74 winds: n 5 mph >>> coming up we'll take you right into hurricane irma with the brave hurricane hunters flying through and what they're discovering about this catastrophic storm. >>> and the massive security breach that could be putting 143 million americans at risk. we'll have more on that coming up. ♪ come on mom! ♪ let's go! ♪ mom! slow down! for the ones who keep pushing. always unstoppable. ♪ ♪ it can seem like triggers po