but this is what i was talking about here with south tampa, alex, the fact that this is the area that is prone to flooding. you can see it's a peninsula within the peninsula itself, all sitting inside tampa bay. that's all the water and the water that left earlier, when everyone was talking about how they were walking around. this is the area they were walking around in the bay shore area. excuse me, right over here. in this area. can you tell this isn't my iphone so i'm having trouble with elise's iphone. i need my own iphone back. we'll work on the actual details of that. it could have been a false alarm. the important thing is for the people staying there, these are first responders and they were not going to be able to go out. they were in hillsborough county. they weren't going to send people out until the storm subsided. as we can see right now, this is pretty clear, pretty quiet. i know you've been with me throughout the early morning hours here and you've seen what it looks like inside the river. and the water amounts inside the river. jimmy is taking a good shot of what the w

but this is what i was talking about here with south tampa, alex, the fact that this is the area that is prone to flooding. you can see it's a peninsula within the peninsula itself, all sitting inside tampa bay. that's all the water and the water that left earlier, when everyone was talking about how they were walking around. this is the area they were walking around in the bay shore area. excuse me, right over here. in this area. can you tell this isn't my iphone so i'm having trouble with elise's iphone. i need my own iphone back. we'll work on the actual details of that. it could have been a false alarm. the important thing is for the people staying there, these are first responders and they were not going to be able to go out. they were in hillsborough county. they weren't going to send people out until the storm subsided. as we can see right now, this is pretty clear, pretty quiet. i know you've been with me throughout the early morning hours here and you've seen what it looks like inside the river. and the water amounts inside the river. jimmy is taking a good shot of what the w

with that type of storm surge that would always go all the way over to our beta bear area and the south tampa area. it would deftly be in paired in a specific way. when is a lesson they faced it. we had have some very decent rain amounts but nothing of this significance that i can remember. you are just pointing out this area behind us. it faces a severe threat. that is the concern that we have. with the storm traversing up this way on the west coast. not only again the pushing all of the high wind volumes but actually drafting and pulling all of this water in and were talking were talking up to 13 feet of water. to really come over the tampa bay area. what are your message to people that are here right now. words can stick it out. >> if you are going to stick it out make certain that your area that you're sticking it out and is totally secure and you have provisions for at least three days for everyone in your home. also once the wind conditions and the situation gets so adverse that emergency responders cannot come out and that's anything in excess of 39 miles per hour will not be able to c

and basketball and ran around in south tampa it was just common knowledge 45, 50 years ago, but it'syou heard you were gonna get $140 million. - hulk:yes, but-- - harvey:what went through your head? hulk: i just broke down. ey said $143 million, i was like, "what?" it just blew me away. i just didn't expect it. it just was overwhelming. harvey: you eventually settled for $31 million. are you set for life? i was set for life before i had that money. i'm happy, brother. things are good. one of the things that did happen was that the wwe broke ties with you. - yes. - did you expect that was gonna happen? ( clears throat ) no, i didn't. i-- when i heard this was going to happen, i called them on a thursday or friday, and i said, "there's a chance that this verbiage may come out." as i hung up the phone that night, they fired me at 5:00 in the morning. and it really caught me off guard. i didn't expect it. because the wwe knows who i am. i'm not that person. that's not who i am and not what i do. so why do you think they did it? i think they did what was best for business. they were worr

as i talked about earlier, because of the fact that it interacted with land farther south, tampa missedn a more direct hit, good news for the highly popular area. the heavy rain is extending up daytona beach to jacksonville. it's going to continue moving into georgia, you see, by this afternoon, as well as parts of south carolina. alabama looking at the heavy rain band activity moving through. it may stay a category 1, although it's more likely it will downgrade to a tropical storm by late today and into this evening, especially. heavy rain by 8:00 p.m. impacting atlanta. spreading out and starting to weaken by your tuesday morning. then the moisture moves our way. tuesday night approaching our area. and by tuesday into monday morning. we see showers. this is not going to be a washout forecast, flooding is not going to be a concern. on and off showers fire off on wednesday through the afternoon. still some rain in our forecast. there's the look at irma. still a very large system. now it's lopsided. it's all to the north. the south has started to dry out fortunately for parts of florida

tampa and south tampa flood often. and david begnaud is there, david? >> well, about six hours from irma rolling too tampa bringing with it a storm surge that could top eight feet in a city that is one of the most vul-- vulnerable in the world when it comes to flooding, this tha is the hillborough river and we have been watching it drop dramically. >> we noticed the water was receding, some what dramically, it was happening during the low tide cycle but it looked drirch as if somebody put a straw in the hillborough river running through downtown tampa and sucked it out into the gulf. the weather service says the reason it may have looked more dramatic than normal is because hurricane irma was helping pull the water out. now it eventually came back with the high tide cycle but here is what we are told to expect. on or about the time the hurricane rolls into the tampa area, it will coinside with the high tide. and as that water comes back into this area right up this river which is essentially a choke point, it will come with hurricane force winds and a st

if it is around 250 miles south of us, you can imagine it will take all day before tampa bay feels theof this storm. not many people on the roads. we are heading to a safe place and it does look as though many people have heeded the warnings. we have travelled throughout florida reporting on this in the last day and most of the people we have come across have left their properties and headed to shelters and we're hearing stories of so many people moving out of state. thank you. let's head to miami,jane 0'brien is state. thank you. let's head to miami, jane 0'brien is over there for us. we are told miami is now potentially going to be spared a direct hit from irma but clearly, evenif direct hit from irma but clearly, even if you are not in its direct path, the conditions are still awful. this is a really dangerous situation because we are experiencing hurricane force winds and we will probably have to make the short because we now have debris flying around. we also have these potential rains which are causing flood warnings across this region. that's on top of the deadly storm surge tha

the like, the naval air station there, moves just to the west of pontegorda and makes landfall south of tampa, florida. that's the latest track of the european model. i said it before, said it at 8:00 a.m., said it at noon, irma doesn't know that there's an american model or european model. it's going to do what it wants to do. you have to pay attention. if this goes into tampa bay, that's a completely different animal. anderson. >> what time is the next update in terms of the track? is it 5:00 p.m.? because one obviously at 11:00 we got new numbers on storm surge which were frankly alarming for areas along the west all the way up into tampa. >> yeah. at this point the hurricane center can put out a new track any time that it wants to. it's up to them. if they see a wobble or wiggle and it makes a difference, they can change everything in a discussion in an e-mail, honestly. right now the next forecast change will be 5:00 p.m. >> we'll be watching obviously for that. chad, as always, thank you so much. chris and i are continuing our coverage and all our correspondents all throughout the regio

tampa and south tampa flood often. st. pete sits on the gulf coast and across the bay, the hillborough river runs through downtown tampa. david begnaud is there tonight. what is happening right now? >> irma is knocking on the door of tampa, jeff. the lights are on but the people are gone. it is a ghost town right now. i've been watching as bright green flashes have lit up the horrizeon, apparently transformers are blowing. the rain is intense. the wind is really picking up here. we're expecting within the next four, six, maybe eight hours that storm will be over us. here is what is happening that is quite dramatic that we have been watching all day. i am alongside the his br owe river that runs right through downtown. the water from the river is being sucked out into the gulf. it started at around 12 noon today. it should have already come back in with the high tide. but here's what is happening. the hurricane is literally overriding the tide cycle, keeping this water offshore. it has dropped probably six to eight feet wher

her mom in law lives in sarasota, which is on the gulf coast, just south of tampa. even though we don't know where irma is going, the family didn't want to risk leaving her in harm's way. >> i just have images of harvey, and my mom trying to get out of her house. i just can't imagine it. we knew she had to leave. >> there were no flights available. not today, tomorrow, later in the week. and so, i texted all my brothers and sisters and we said, let's get in touch with mom. >> they were able to book a flight, leaving tomorrow night. miami looks like it might be in the path. >> i have a nephew in miami, everybody. if you know someone is leaving, turn your water main off, and turn your power off. >> i'll tell my friend stephanie that let's look at the satellite picture. again, the eye is about the size of montgomery county. we already have hurricane forced winds buffeting antigua. it will really hammer antigua overnight tonight. tropical computer models, each line is a model. pretty good for a while. then some are taking it very close to havana. most are convinced it's

south tampa is an area that typically deals with flooding. they are anticipating that.bor don't typically get flooding also along bay shore drive because of people out posting pictures of what it was like to walk on the receded waters of tampa bay on just beach. they are now fearful of how bay shore is going to fill back in and homes that will be exposed to water damage there. a lot of people have heeded evacuation orders. here the curfew started at 6:00 p.m. and the wind gusts we have experienced some to our south in sarasota about 105 miles per hour. here in the city itself they have gotten as high as 71. this is just the beginning of what they expect to be a really long night here for the tampa st. petersburg area. >> i noticed the lights behind you, the municipal lights seem to be on. the power has not been lost at least where you are. >> there haven't been much power outages that we know of. also over in pi nellas we have people that are heeding the current. we know the bridges were closed for people after they got out. there have been people evacuated on that side

the bands of the storm as this storm begins to make landfall here on the west coast in points south. tamparobably, according to chad myers, won't see the worst of it until 11:00 p.m. tonight. 12:00, 1:00, 2:00 a.m., with some of that storm surge coming in and coming in very fast. south of me in punta gorda, me quell marquez is standing by. miguel, obviously you'll experience, the people in punta gorda will be experiencing the hurricane sooner than the people in tampa. how are things there now? >> reporter: well, let me put it to you this way. i am standing on the bottom of the marina. not on a dock. not on a boat. literally on the muddy bottom of the marina here. you can mussels down to the bottom. i shouldn't be able to do this. about 30 or 40 feet of the whaert go water has gone out of the bay. sitting not in water but in mud. that water keeps getting forced out. one could completely nerd out on mother nature here it is just, the wind is blowing so hard towards the west, blowing all the water out of the river. check this out. this is, these are the pilings for the old bridge, highway 41

tampa. its position puts it about 35 miles to the south southeast of tampa. this is a water vapor image and what i noticed most strikingly is that this southwestern edge has got a little bit more dry air into it. that's because it is not sitting out over the open waters any more. it doesn't have anything that will fuel this system any more. once it has made land fall now. but here eat worst part is as irma continues to trek towards the north, we are going to start it see tampa on the back side of this so that water starts coming in. what do we estimate? well original estimates were maybe 5 to 10 feet. that's about 24 hours ago. now we are looking at a different animal. as wind comes back around, that's going to draw that with thor into that tampa bay. maybe between 1 and 3 feet. still substantial. may not be what we are looking at 24 hours ago. but still kind of a superlative amount, if you consider that most of these homes, beautiful lovely homes, that have been built on these canals and through the bays are going to be very vulnerable. then what will happen

wa t coming south of tampa, category 3 hurricane with 120-mile-an-hour winds making its way right upight along the coast. this may not make the landfall on the west coast of florida. hate been trending west. may not make landfall. it doesn't matter. you're in the northeast quadrant of the storm in tampa, ft. myers, down around naples area. storm surge could be worse with this track. much more tomorrow. we'll take an in-depth look in a few minutes. >> let's get you caught up on the ground in florida. irma is expected to wallop the florida keys in just a few hours as you heard doug mention. some areas already under water. they could get between 10 and 20 inches of rain. nearly 200,000 people across the state could be spending the night in the dark. strong winds have knocked out power to several thousand si to evacuate. tens of thousands more riding out the storm in shelters. ier earlier today governor scott pleaded. >> i'm a dad and grandfather. i love my family more than anything. i can't imagine life without them. do not put your life or your family's life at risk. >> the governor ac

tampa. just a little south of tampa.ill northbound trying to get out of the state of florida. some people in florida say they're still thinking about stating put for hurricane irma. we're getting a look at damage caused in the caribbean. we'll show you a little bit of it in the slide show. this is the airport in st. maarten. if you've been to st. maarten, you've probably been there because the runway is here and people sit along the beach. there's a restaurant and watch big planes land. they have sunset beach bar it's called. dutch officials tweeted this picture out. they say they're getting the airport back up and running. it's a high priority for delivery of supplies to get the economy back moving. so far it's not yet. this is a house in puerto rico. didn't get a direct hit there. the owner says starting a generator. a million people lost power there. this is st. thomas and the u.s. virgin islands, this is system to the mass. flooding there from hurricane irma. the damage there is nothing short of catastrophic. more th

tampa. the core of the storm has made landfalljust a way to the south of us at the moment near marco island,ght hours before the eye of the storm reaches tampa. but with every minute, the winds are certainly building here. and the rain is also getting quite happy. but we're certainly not in the worst of it. this isjust but we're certainly not in the worst of it. this is just the very beginning —— rain is getting heavy stock white how bad is it likely to get? the biggest concern with these storm has always been the storm surge, which is battering both sides of florida. the highest storm surge is expected around the naples area, and also around fort myers. it could be as high as ten or 15 feet. the storm surge is also expected to an extent here in tampa. at the storm surge won't reach us until a lot later on, probably when it is dark. it won't be until the early hours, early on monday, when it starts getting lighter before we start to see the effect of this storm. we are just hearing that the mayor of the city of tampa, tomasz, has said there is a curfew starting at 6pm this evening. no doubt

forecast model takes it on the atlantic side of florida, the two other favor more cuba and also gulf south for tampa. there's our fog starting to come back, and it is returning now. the tropical clouds are leaving but there's a lot of humidity. it is pretty mild temperatures, and low 60s. 60s and 70s and tropical clouds with thunderstorm activity to north and sierra. and it is lifting out, but which will cool us down, and it will still 60s, 70s, 80s. here is 4:01. the forecast let's hope today is a little better. >> you know what? i hope so. we're starting off, and i do want to let's go and look at the bay bridge toll plaza. you can see traffic here is light, with no major issues. it is not going be a bad commute at all, and if you are driving on interstate 880, traffic is also light this morning as you drive past oracle arena. at 4:02 let's go back to desk. >> thank you, sal. topping our news this morning for second time in two weeks a major hurricane is on track, head today the united states. right now, hurricane irma is in the eastern caribbean, with maximum sustained winds as strong as 185 miles

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

had quite the caravan to orlando, trying to get to a comfortable place in case it would be bad in south tampa very difficult right now, knowing that there is your home, presumably others in the area also evacuated, you are just desperate to get back and see it for yourself? absolutely. and we don't have much access to news, only because our phones are all dying and we have not had a chance to check in. people are co nsta ntly chance to check in. people are constantly beeping and checking in. ijust want constantly beeping and checking in. i just want to be home. constantly beeping and checking in. ijust want to be home. i know we are going to have a traffic nightmare on interstate four which is the one road to get back from orlando to tampa. i am sure everyone is in the same situation. the authorities are saying don't leave yet. they have to clear the roads. i don't know what the road conditions are that i am hearing it is pretty good. we really dodged a bullet here. the eye of the storm came up between tampa and orlando. so nobody was greatly hurt which is wonderful. iam not was greatly hurt

effects would start to be felt in the keys or south florida, and that cone now includes everyone south of tampa. this is a huge storm that we need to pay attention to, but has two very different scenarios setting up. that powerful high in the atlantic, driving it west and keeping it south. that disturbance we highlighted with the red "l" up there, that will either push it on the west side, which would be horrific, because you have the northeast quadrant, the dirty side like marco island or naples, and then the other side, still not good. we put a stationary front on here because that develops and we will be talking about inland flooding, eventually possibly making landfall along the coast up to georgia or south carolina. >> all those spaghetti models converging over florida. >> reporter: certainly. >> but as you point out, either scenario on either side of florida, very serious, particularly the west side because of that upper quadrant, that northeastern quadrant of the storm is so dangerous? >> reporter: right. the whole state on alert. >> thanks for leading us off again tonight. >>> as you me

gridlock on i-75 south from tampa. >> this is what interstate 75 looks like right now. >> reporter: to sarasota -- all cars heading in one direction. and these cars stopped one woman trying to get to orlando. >> orlando is the only airport with flights available. >> reporter: at the ft. lauderdale airport, the mad crush to get out. so far, more than 1,000 flights canceled. american airlines canceling all flights to and from miami this weekend. here in miami, if you don't have a plane ticket, don't plan on getting one now. you drove here hoping you could get a ticket? what did they tell you? >> they told me all the flights are full. >> reporter: all major u.s. carriers now offering travel waivers for passengers in the region. airports taking precautions, too, after these images taken after irma hit saint maarten. the airport sustaining devastating damage. at least eight cruise lines cancelling upcoming trips. another 13 cruise ships changing course to avoid irma. >> amy robach with us live, and they are working on getting jets out of the hurricane's path, amy? >> reporter: it's true, da

want to go now south of tampa to ft. myers where nbc's kristen dahlgren is standing by there. you were saying when we last checked in with you, kristen, people are already up, didn't sleep at all, getting those chain saws powered up. >> reporter: right, those were county work crews. we went back and checked with them. they said the going to be out cutting this morning. another guy that i talked to before the storm who was riding it out said he wanted to stay close. he didn't evacuate because he has a tree business and he knows just what the clean up is going to be like. so, we imagine he's going to be getting out. he had planned on heading to the beaches later on this morning. so, as we get first light here, then the damage assessment begins. even as the winds are still blowing here, people really anxious to get out and see just what the storm did to their properties, if they evacuated. and also to get power restored. florida power and light has millions of customers without power and so they staged to the north where the storm was and coming, those trucks are going to be cara

the like, the naval air station there, moves just to the west of pontegorda and makes landfall south of tampaorida. that's the latest track of the european model. i said it before, said it at 8:00 a.m., said it at noon, irma doesn't know that there's an american model or european model. it's going to do what it wants to do. you have to pay attention. if this goes into tampa bay, that's a completely different

tampa. this is as the eye is still almost 100 miles south of tampa.ching those extreme lands and tornado threat goes. if you're in jacksonville and orlando and saying not quite yet, it's here. this storm has taken over the southern half of florida and moving north. >> how do you get tornados? >> when the circulation comes on to land it kicks up spin and can help the thunderstorms do that easily. a lot of times it will be far away from the center because all you need is the two things interacting. >> ginger zee thanks. we want to go to tampa, t.j. holmes has be there all morning long. we heard senator marco rubio say this is the worst case scenario for tamp po. >> reporter: it's that scenario but what do you do? everybody wants to come live, right? and you continue to build and develop. we wouldn't have a disaster here if so many people didn't live here and didn't build here. but that's not the case. yes, you can't do anything about the topography. all you can do is protect life and property. again, they have had population spikes over the past several

south florida potentially as a major hurricane. moving inland. still potentially as a major hurricane and then possibly still a category 2 as it nears tampa. big enough to impact both coastlines. storm surge could be 7 to 10 feet. we'll talk more about this and what south florida can expect. let's check the local weather. good morning, we're off to a cool start. unseasonably cool in fact. we should be in the mid-60s. upper 50s. some spots, down to 46 degrees in manassas. let's get a live look outside now, though. here comes the sun. hopefully it's rescuing us from the unseasonably cool temperatures. let's see what we're dealing with today. i think it's going to be an awesome day, folks. lots of sunshine. highs into the mid-70s. absolutely gorgeous. your weekend is shaping up nicely. too, if you want a breakdown of that, stick around. let's get a check on the roads with jack. >> leaving 95, headed over towards college park in maryland, accident activity blocks a couple of left lanes. maryland state police on the scene. coming up 95 south, you can see our gigantic delay on the outer loop of the beltway. headed over to old georgetown road. th

tampa. we have alex marquardt, he's in port charlotte, north of ft. myers where we were withdrew griffin, south of tampa. alex, are people heeding the new warnings and concerns? and what are the preparations like that are in place there right now? >> well largely, they are, let me give you a sense, we in port charlotte as you mentioned on the west coast, we just came from the east coast. we started to see last night in ft. lauderdale, the beginning of the effects of hurricane irma, the winds picking up. as the storm tracked to the west, we're heading north towards sarasota as we speak. we're in one of our roving vehicles. i want to take advantage of the cameras around to show you what exactly we're seeing. this is the road heading west out towards the coast. we're going to turn right towards sarasota and if you look out the side, these are the homes that we're going past. now to a large extent this is what the officials want to see, there are very few people around. very few cars on the road. you can see a lot of these cars are boarded up. they have hurricane shutters. their cars are between wa

myers a little south of tampa, st.etersburg, they may get a surge as high as 15 feet of water over and above the high tide mark. nineat tampa, eight or foot storm surge, naples which you may have seen and has a lot of high-value residential property. new yorkers in chicago have vacations here. vacationscago have here. you can imagine the property damage. i'm not even talking about the wind and flooding. i'm just talking about the storm surge. difficult to estimate what the .osses might be that gives you an idea how much inundation there will be. we have not even begun to talk about what irma will do in the panhandle and if it situates itself over southern or central georgia, the kind of flooding that could occur as it stations itself, raining inches upon inches like we saw in houston. you stay safe as well. we'll be back with you to get a further update as she makes her way up the coast. erik schatzker in orlando. hurricane irma leaving a trail of destruction, could be worse then harvey in texas. the combined impact ta

that water is going to wall up in tampa bay, because it has no outlet. the same thing southu at charlotte harbor, just north of punta gorda. chad myers was just explaining why the water is receding, because it's counter clockwise wednesday at the north of the hurricane are moving it westward, but when it gets further north, then the winds reverse and the waters cup back. that will a be part of this storm. >> some people saying tampa bea essentially habits like a funnel, funneling water into these inlets, these rivers, and flooding as you know, in a place like tampa, clearwater, st. petering burg, even in heavy rains sometimes they have issues with flooding, increasingly, and problems with getting that water out. >> i just talked to congresswoman caster, to go get her mother and stepfather and get them out of bayshore drive in tampa, because all that water is going to come north in tampa bay, and then it's not going to have any place to go. he said look if a cat 3 storm hits, that area will be under 15 feet of water. we don't exactly what left of water the storm surge will be

we're broadcasting tonight from braid enton, florida which is south of tampa just north of sarasota.ed a but. you can see not everybody was quite so lucky in this area. we're on the west coast, but it's hard to find a part of this state that wasn't affected one way or another by hurricane irma and over the next two hours we're going to take you all over the state, from the florida keys where we're really just getting a first look at the extent of the destruction there to up in jacksonville which saw historic storm sur a

south of that. i can zoom out further, going to go into areas around the tampa region. we were talking about wind. i only have the radar set here in south, i want to explain what we were seeing with the bay. this is where we showed you pictures with cal. winds right now, on the north side of the storm winds are doing -- >> no rain in tampa yet. >> actually i only have -- we have single sight radar around the state. this is focused just on south florida. but the wind is doing this through the region, coming across like this. that is blowing water. we saw pictures from right here. that's blowing out to sea. it will be the opposite later, brian. that's why we are seeing the low tide, which it is now, just coming out of low tide, plus wind. and that's why you see eery pictures on the coast. >> thanks. stay there. sam champion is getting buffetted in miami. sam. >> reporter: we have seen some of the worst wind gusts in the last 30 minutes. the kind of wind just to show you, i've got this regular cement block barrier on both sides. it is the kind of win coming d, protected from the north and east. you ha

and this afternoon, through tonight, just south of tampa. early tomorrow morning, still a category 3. up to tallahassee by the time we get through monday into tuesday. >> many of these cities, especially tampa, these are really vulnerable, low-lying places. they're very vulnerable to flooding. >> storm surge. the right side. it will be the worst. cape sable to captiva. 10 to 15-foot storm surge. >> let's go to wplg reporter, a reporter from our affiliate in miami who is in hollywood, i understand you're seeing quite severe wind there is. tell us about it. >> what would 99 look like when you see those high level storm surnlgs approaching an area like that? >> i think we'll have breaking waves. >> definitely feeling the impact. >> miami, where amy robach is standing by. the winds are picking up. >> they certainly are, dan. we have seen the winds increase significantly. i don't know if you can hear the howling, haunting wind. we're on a balcony six floors up in a fortifiy eied building by biscayne bay. i'm getting pushed now. the winds are fier

it's about 100 miles south of tampa. the hurricane has passed through already. you're no stranger to monster storms. in 2004, hurricane charlie devastated punta gorda. 13 years later, irma is closing in. tell me what you can. how do the two compare? >> hello, cynthia. yes. so these two storms were totally different. charlie was much smaller and tighter and came up through the gulf and into the harbor. so with irma, we've had days and days and days where we were in the cone of uncertainty. so we were preparing and doing as much as we could in all of that time to get ourselves prepared for whatever path she may take. >> so how much damage is there? how many have you been able to assess at this point about what happened in your community? >> with charlie, i can tell you total houses were lost. roofs were blown off. pool cages were gone. boats were thrown off of their lifts. and from my vantage point at my house, i don't see any of that. there are downed trees. i do know that. and the power has been out at my house for about five hours. so i know some of charlotte c

caller: i am enrolled at the university of south florida in tampa. host: what is your question or comment? caller: my concern is he is establishing this equivalence between richard spencer and cornell west. look at two figures on the far right and far left. richard spencer has been advocating or a white ethnic , and wer a long time will weight that with cornell west who has been speaking about race relations in the u.s. for years. when he talks about the issues with black lives matter's ors, equivalent in that protestersttesville carrying torches, i think that is intellectually dishonest. mr. myers is trying to come across as an intellectual. guest: i never compared cornell west to richard spencer. to be richard spencer atrocious. i find cornell west to be an intellectual of the west. you have to be careful about putting words in people's mouths. when it comes to white nationalism, there is no doubt if you want to rank a spectrum of awful ideologies. if you want me to say it is worse than black lives matter's or antifa, find. -- fine. antifa is still

westerly truck getting shifted a little to the west, that means maybe a landfall and hurricane south of tampa news for tampa or the naples' region. that will bring winds there in excess of 120 miles per hour or 150 miles per hour i should say. the other thing about this is the enormity size of the storm and hurricane winds will extend to the other side of the peninsula. with this landfall moving further and further west we'll feel the effects on the east coast as well. if you have evacuated good for you, if you've stuck around you got a long two days ahead of you. isa. >> reporter: like authorities v have been saying derrick there is not time to be diterring. if you haven't decided perhaps you should hunker down and seek shelter. derrick van dam for us. >>> after a short break, we'll get an update on the hurricane irma. also the rainfall that derrick was talking about, what should florida expect. much more after this short break. ♪ endless shrimp is back at red lobster and we went all out to bring you even more incredible shrimp and new flavors like new nashville hot shrimp drizzled with swee

south of tampa. tampa, braydenton. sarasota most of the storm has passed sarasota at this point. i want to go to stephanie standing by in sarasota. what is the situation there right now? it should be relatively calm compared to what you had earlier. >> thanks for having me. surprisingly it hasn't been as bad as we expected. we were thinking this would be awful. we get the dirty side of it and we have been so fortunate that we have had strong winds and getting strong winds. our bays have receded. manatees have been beached. trees are coming down. pool cages are starting to collapse but nothing so catastrophic that we were prepared for. i was so thrilled and pleased with our town. we are known for the barrier islands. this is the first time. i am 41. i was born here. i grew up here. none of my contemporaries and my mom grew up here, none of us have boarded up. none of us have ever had to truly evacuate. we have never gone to these extremes to get batteries and ply wood and sand bags and rush for anything to cover your windows. >> let me just ask you -- i have video that you shot th

. >> i'm on the west coast south of tampa. my family lives in bradenton on a bayou. >> how does this compare? >> we've been evacuated before but we've never seen anything like this. this was insane. there's a balcony that flew off above us, where other groups were staying before they caught the flight out before the storm. it's hanging on by a thread. we tied it to our balcony so that it doesn't move but it's just -- it's really scary because it came down at one point when the rain was blowing so hard and we were pretty nervous it was going to blow right through the doors into our unit. i'm not sure what we would have done had that happened. >> loren, you be safe. i appreciate it. thank you for joining us here on cnn. >> you're welcome. thank you. >> unbelievable. miguel marquez is in miami tonight for us and we joins us life. you heard she's from florida, never seen anything like it. dade county has issued a mandatory evacuation area for coastal cities. set the scene for us there. gas, water shortages? what's happening? >> re

. >>> good evening we're broadcasting tonight from braiding ton, florida which is south of tampa north of sarasota. the community dodged a bullet. you can see not everybody was quite so lucky in this area. we're on the west coast but it's hard to find a area that wasn't affected by hurricane irma. over the next two hours we're going to take you all over the state to florida keys. up in jacksonville we saw storm surge and flooding and they're still dealing with her dangerous flooding. irma's strong winds are hitting atlantic. so far there's one death confirmed in florida, a single car accident. the death toll will likely rise. there's the immediate issues that floridians are dealing with, lack of electricity, millions are without power. as we've seen all over the state people may be without electricity but they are certainly not without their strength. >> irma's fiery, the path of destruction not seen in florida in decades. the storm knocking out power to millions. >> i've been here for 22 years, i never seen nothing like it. the southern mo the. >> the southern most keys bore the brunt

i want to go to bradenton south of tampa right now, diane gallagher on the move literally in a vehicle trying to figure out how things stand right now. diane. >> that's right, john. we're in sort of what we call roaming coverage vehicle and cameras all over and switch to some. we're in bradenton, that's in manatee county driving around watching people come out after the storm. really receiving far less damage than they were expecting but we still see quite a few as you can -- downed trees and people with their children out here. directing traffic. we're going to switch over. you can see they have the chain saws out. one-rain road. pardon? >> that way is blocked further up. >> it's blocked? thank you very much. yeah, people kind of trying to figure out the traffic pattern here in bradenton right now. they experienced the side camera. we got the people with the chain saws attempting really here at this point what they're dealing with besides just trees down is a lot of power outages. more than half of manatee county lost power, part of that 5 million without it at this point in florida g

current position is 50 miles south of tampa. once again it is a category two hurricane with 100 miles an hour. landfall this morning to length also talk about in the florida keys at about 9:10 pm and marco island at 345 eastern. here is the track moving towards the north as you head into monday. my monday morning this will be a category one hurricane at 75 miles an hour. it will weaken into a tropical storm towards portions of georgia and alabama. by monday night we could be talking about winds at around 50 miles an hour. >>> we will have more at 10:00 news in the hour. >>> now a special rate work on homelessness in the bay area. >> it can happen to anybody. it is hard. >> reporter: homeless in the bay area.>> it was just one incident, one accident, one job away from homelessness.>> reporter: tens of thousands of people living on the streets. >> reporter: family staying in cars, shelters, struggling to get their children to school. >> a lot of it is just people just looked disgusted. >> reporter: people living in tents on concre