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It just swallows up most of cuba in the last five or six hours. torrential rains in cuba and the eye is very close to the north shore now. thats going to be one of the keys to this forecast. how close does the storm get to cuba? does it make landfall in cuba and also, does it weaken over cuba? thats the sliver of hope i can give everyone in south florida. 155 mile p per hour winds. still moves to the west at 12 miles per hour, so if it continues west, makes landfall in cuba frk we get a norther ...

Towards the florida keys and its relentless for cuba, though. 245 miles south-southeast of miami, florida. winds 155 miles per hour. this is a category 4 hurricane. possibly become ago category 5. the movement to the west-northwest at 12 and look at the winds. they picked up since my last broadcast. we want to talk about the track. if youre just joining us, things have changed. now it likes like a double landfall potentially in the keys sunday morning and second afternoon a second windfall in so...

Little less storm surge in tampa than say the 15 feet that will devastate ft. myers and the naples area. those are the big things that were watching here with the track. also for our friends in georgia, the hurricane center thinks this will hold together enough for a cat one even into southern georgia now. so obviously focusing on who will get the worst, but there will be people in georgia without power, also. >> so are we at the point where the chance of it moving in any significant way is like...

Category 5. maybe a category 3 would be 100 times better damage-wise. it depends on how much it interacts down here with cuba overnight tonight. this is 2:00 p.m. saturday afternoon along the cuban coastline. if thats onshore, notice the cone of uncertainty for cuba possibility over land. that would be a weaker storm. that would help us in south florida. as of now, the core stays off the coast. it actually gets stronger over the warm waters in the florida strait. 145-mile-per-hour winds, maybe c...

Could go to a warning and those numbers could go up. >> our next guest is the mayor of key biscayne in florida. is there any reluctance to use terms like the city of miami is outside of the cone. >> i still think -- miami could still get 100-mile-per-hour wind gusts. if we didnt have a category 5 and we said it looks like a category 1 or 2 storm is heading towards miami, thats a big story. but the fact that we could have 150-mile-an-hour winds on the west coast. im sure some people will be compl...

Volunteerflorida.org to sign up. or 800-flhelp1. we need volunteers. you make a big difference. can you help with shelters, food distribution, and response efforts. every florida family must prepare to evacuate regardless of the coast you live on. we are 100% focused on making sure every floridian and all have our visitors have timely information on this storm. and we will continue to closely monitor hurricane irma and issue updates throughout the next few days. i cannot stress this enough, get ...

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That wanted to g right, about whether or not they would evacuate? >> right. and we saw -- this was a difficult forecast because, you know, the cone was coming up the entire peninsula but that line was going through miami, through ft. lauderdale for a while. so, its hard if you pay attention to just where that forecast track is. officials constantly try and tell you, its a cone of uncertainty. it could go anywhere in this range. but i think a lot of people here where a little focused on where tha...

Will go tonight. southern bahamas as we go through friday. then its friday into saturday where its just south of florida and it goes into the keys early sunday morning. 5:00 a.m. sunday, places like key largo, homestead and miami, feeling the surge, feeling the ridiculously strong winds. and up west of savannah, between orlando and melbourne. through the day on sunday into monday, it will keep going north as a strong category 1, and then tropical storms and this cone now involves indiana and ohi...

Going to take over some warm water running to a category four storm continue enough. this is the cone of uncertainty. they begin to run over the bahamas, taking you into friday night. we are still a ways away until this gets to the united states. early next week, still a lot to be decided next couple days. back to you. train to adam, thank you very much. as the focus turns to rebuilding, the next challenge is paying for it. steve mnuchin colin to raise the debt ceiling for the first wave of reco...