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Theyve got 32 pumps and things are running smoothly. in fact, im looking. theres no real line right now, jeff. and the plaza tells us they will stay open as late as they can, maybe until midnight, up until the florida patrol says its time to shut it down. >> glor: david begnaud, thank you. lets go back to anthony mason in new york. >> mason: thanks, jeff. predicting damage from a hurricane is a guessing game, of course. a lot depends on which part of the storm hits land. lonnie quinn, chief weat...

Joining me is dylan dryer, nbcs dylan dryer driving across west palm beach to the west gulf coast. dylan, whats the situation? >> well, hey, ali. you know, we are leaving west palm beach, which is where we were kind of hunkered down when the storm track was a little farther to the east, but were not leaving because nothings going to happen here. were just heading to the west side of the state because we certainly do think theres going to be a major story in the tampa area if this storm maintains...

Cy appreciate everything youve been saying. the fact is that weve known for days that this was an enormous storm that was going to affect all of florida. and to our friends on the west coast, from naples and ft. myers up to the tampa/st. pete area had are fleeing to shelters, they should continue to follow all of the directions that theyre given. in south florida where you are, chris, and where i am, we cant watch the cone as weve done for a week now. and think that because its shifted, suddenly...

Turn on the saturday. current models are projecting warm water. and that will pick up a bit of fuel. it could jump up to a category 5 storm before it makes its way to southern florida. we are looking at 8:00 a.m. on subpoena morning and it slows up to because it is running on the coast of cuba. you are looking at 8:00 a.m. for now portion says of western florida but the cone of uncertainty is there. you are running through florida all the way from sunday to monday and becoming a tropical storm i...

As of 11:00 p.m. the storm has strengthened to a category 5, you can see the eye of irma interacting with the northern part of cuba there, some barrier islands. it is over the ocean. its a massive storm. that size and strength is what were watching. we want to get a better idea where its loek, where its headed. as long as it keeps moving to the west, that turn to the north to delayed. that ridge of high pressure moving it to the west continues to grow. unfortunately or fortunately depending wher...

The hurricane business for our entire lives never take one point in the cone of uncertainty too seriously. this storm will spend the next day dragging its eye wall akros the coast of cuba. it was not forecasted to do that. so were not sure what shape it will come out. we know the waters between cuba and the florida straits between cuba and the keys are warm. they are feeding grounds for a powerful hurricane to regain strength no matter what happens there. we know the storm will make a right hand...

Which covers most of the keys there says that they cannot stay there on the southern end of the keys. the southwest portion of that county. theyll be heading north to key largo, so that theyll be able to keep a better eye on the storm. now, lets talk about the path and some really bad news for one city on the west coast of florida. we have on the phone with us, mayor of fort myers, randall henderson jr. mr. mayor, good morning to you. when we went to bed, all of us last night, this was a categor...

The forecast update at 5:00 takes it from a 4, strengthens it over the warm waet r es. this is key west, key largo. this would be over the top of marath marathon. the worst to be to the right. you wonder if the highway here would be still usable by the time its done with a cat 5. this would be through sunday at 6:00 a.m. in the morning. and then we take the storm northwards, still in the cone, miami and areas here, around homestead, but were barely in cone. really starting to focus more now acro...

Theyve got the supplies, strong homes. theyve boarded up their homes, they have hurricane shutters. but as we mention hadded no one from the governor on down would like to see any of these residents stick around, don. >> joining me on the phone is the mayor of south miami. so glad that you could join us this evening. whats the latest on the evacuations. whats rur the latest? >> a lot of people have gotten out of town. i would guess we have less than half the usual pop ylshz. my concern is a lot ...

If you look overnight, the storm has gone right along the coast here of cuba, the center of it has been wrecking cuba with cat 5 hurricane for about the last six hours here, just in the last minute back down to cat 4 storm, doesnt matter, 155, 160 is the same thing but we will go back to water and get reorganized. it weakened because it had interaction with the coast. theres the latest in the track, shifted towards the west. a couple of things to know in the cone, miami, youre out of it. you cer...