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Conditions by first light tomorrow morning. 6:00 a.m. roughly 150,000 people without electricity in miami-dade alone. in the state, 160,000 people without electricity. there have been rescue attempts from an individual who was stuck in an elevator. fire and police personnel have still be responding to phone calls and service requests. lots of them being tripped fire alarms across some. buildings here. but as soon as the winds become sustained at 40 miles or higher issa they will pluck the person...

Florida keys with hurricane force wind and pound iing track. officials warning that irma is likely to bring potentially lethal flooding along the coast and widespread power outages. issa? >> thanks very much michael. its not just shifting west. as we heard in the last 20 minutes from tom saida its shifting northwest. for many people the shift we have seen in the last six hours or so has caught many people by surprise. the city of naples is in the eye of the storm. thats where we find our ed lave...

At times. occasionally the rain picks up a lib. we are still not really feeling the effects of what we know is on its way to this part of southwest florida. so all eyes on that. but the emergency officials we have spoken with say they are ready for this landfall and ready to answer any calls for help and distress after the storm passes. but they feel like they have done everything they could have done to get people into safe places before this storm makes landfall. issa? >> ed, i know you said y...

Of course the storm being so big. its as big as the state of florida. wherever you are in the state you are going to be impacted. issa thanks so much. well check in with you a little bit later. and we saw as tom was indicating there, that track headed towards the north of the state, heading up towards tampa, florida. and we have the mayor of tampa, bob buck horn on the line joining us. you are pretty much in the line of sight of irma. what preparations have been taken to make people as ready as ...

Necessarily to a shelter or georgia. all you have to do is get out of flood zone a. b, c, d, and e, it could be a few blocks away, could be a few miles away. all you need to do is get to higher grourch, get to a safe place, stay with a friend. its not necessary that you completely pack up and move somewhere else. >> our thoughts and prayers are with you there in tampa. as you say, wasnt expected to be this much of a threat to your city. hopefully it wont be as bad as it could be. mayor, thanks s...

Are going to be of great concern here as that storm surge pushes inland. the exact extent of that damage and how much of that flooding will reach, we dont exactly know but everyone here preparing for anywhere between ten and 15 foot of storm surge. in talking to the mayor, who was here during hurricane wilma back in 2005, when i asked him, i was like what are the areas of town that concern you the most? he said its hard for us to pinpoint exactly what is the concern, we have never dealt with thi...

The line of. and one of the things that is worrying meteorologists is if the eye of the storm stays off the coast on the west side of the peninsula there, the storm surge is going to be that much worse. and tampa is a city that is very susceptible to a storm surge. so we will try to get the mayor back in a little while. issa? oh, i think we have the mayor now. bob buck horn weve got you back on the line now, im told. got the communication set. you are in the line of this storm. what is your big ...

Along the new path the hurricane has taken. it seems from what officials have been telling us that many of the people along that route michael that have alreadyic tawin precautions before we saw hurricane irma shift slightly west. that is at least one sign that people are heeding that warning. lets get the latest from derek van dam. the winds have started to pick up here in miami. nothing like we have seen in the last 48 hours or so. the rain comes and and goes. it changes so quickly. it is real...

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