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I just had a briefing with the national hurrine center in all flida counties. Monroe county has reported that water is going over u. S. 1. Hurricane irma made landfall in the florida keys at 9 10 a. M. As a category 4 storm. The i of thipowerful storm is w 80 miles south of naples and approaching the naplesfour miles area and will in naplesfort myers area. Irma will continue to make its way up floridas west cst, impaing highly populated communities andeaving destruction in its wake. On the east ...

In almost 90 years. President obama a ives in havana tomorrow and plans to use an historic speech on cuban tv to highlight greater economic freedoms for cubans. The president is scheduled to meet raul castro, meet with cuban dissidents and attend a baseball game. But president obama isnt the only one going to cuba for the next few days. Many travelers here in south florida also heading to the island nation around the same time as the commander in chief. Most have one thing in common. They say th...

Gov. Desantis good afternoon, the last time i was here it was better, today we are surveying and incredible amount of flood. And i know the images on Fort Myers Beach are the ones everyone sees on tv, and those are catastrophic, but this is a massive storm that had massive water dumped all over the state, the interior of the state all the way to the east coast of florida, so here, we came in, i saw some via air, and we were able to drive around and see some of the water. It was significant. I wa...

Flooding we are seeing, and i know the images on Fort Myers Beach are the ones everyone sees on tv, and those are catastrophic, but this is a massive storm that had massive water dumps all over the state, the interior of the state all the way to the east coast of florida, so here, we came in, i saw some via air, and we were able to drive around and see some of the water. It was significant. I was able to meet with the resident whose entire home was underwater. We were sensitive about not just th...

Family. [inaudible] abby Hurricane Irma an hour away now from the eye of the storm making landfall on the west coast now bracing. Hundreds of thousands of the entire mayor. Sustained winds of 130 Miles Per Hour and could reach 15 feet in some areas. Others are forced to stay behind. Team coverage this morning. Pete with Griff Jenkins on the ground right now. Reporter in naples the wind is terrible. Its about 25 come in maybe 30 miles, but it coming and key west which is just minutes away from a ...

Tracking more to the west which means an increasing threat to cities along the west coast including naples and that is where we find Kerry Sanders. What can you tell us from there . Reporter well, first of all, let me just give you a picture as were standing in naples on the pier which is closed. And you can see this right here, its really quite an impressive sight. This is known as a rain shaft. It might be also referred to as a shelf cloud. Jim cantore sending me the information as i took a pi...

Here. The area is also expected to get some of that driving rain very soon but as the storm, as the eyewall gets closer, storm surges as high as 12 feet are expected. Now, these pictures of irma were taken by Hurricane Hunters and you can see this is huge. Wider than the state of florida. There have been so many comparisons to hurricane andrew back in august of 1992. You can fit a couple of andrews into irma. More than 5. 5 Million People have been told to get out of those evacuation areas. Hund...

Category four hurricane. Its now moving a little bit slower in a more westerly direction. Should be approaching the area tomorrow, its sunday. Looking at the track, we havent updated the graphic yet, a little bit west of what we showed at 11 00 a. M. This morning. Weve extended the hurricane warning, the wind warning up the coast, now extends as far north out of the tampa area on the west coast. A little further east coast. Again, because its a very large recommend, both sides on florida particu...

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