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some dying in snow buried cars, others in homes with no power. conditions so bad rescuers needed rescuing. and the travel nightmare continues for thousands of americans, so far more than 3,000 flights have been canceled today, the majority are southwest flights. plus, how a toy and a car led police to find a kidnapped baby. ♪ welcome to "the lead" im phil mattingly in today for jake tapper. we begin with the rising death toll from the vicious winter weather across the country. at...

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And we are providing public transportation for them. our citizens should dial 211 to take advantage of that. but were fully engaged. >> so, we know that the west coast like the rest of florida, because of the size of the storm has been preparing for several days. we just had mayor barnett of naples on a few moments ago saying theyve been preparing as well. as the shift overnight to put fort myers more in the center, are the people of fort myers taking it as seriously as you and your employees ar...

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...

Closer and closer to us here. there was a significant weather advisory for central miami-dade county. the winds picking up tropical force winds officially. that means any trees with coconuts, flying debris, life-threatening conditions as some of that debris makes its way down to ocean drive, for instance. fortunately, everyones heeded the warning to evacuate. really, there is just no one out right now with the exception of my team and i. victor. >> all right, derek van dam for us in south beach ...

Evacuation orders. and evacuation zones that weve seen that are really just emptying across the state. florida governor rick scott has told people to leave now. head to those shelters. we are expecting the governor to hold a news conference on hurricane irma at the top of the hour. so about 15 or 20 minutes away. of course, we will bring that to you live. irma is now a category 4 storm headed to florida. the storm surge, one of the greater threats of this storm. heavy rains coming, the winds as ...

Naples, fort myers, sarasota, same story. even into key west. all the way from key west to tampa, could be still a hurricane cat 1 or cat 2. all the way up into northern or central florida. winds in atlanta probably 60 or 70. crazy storm. back to you, guys. >> all right, chad myers for us in the cnn severe weather center. we just got an update. governor rick scott will be holding an update, a press conference at the top of the hour, on the latest on preparations for this monster storm, hurricane...

I got the pick of the litter here. no one to talk to. everyone has heeded the warnings to evacuate. the national weather service just tweeted from the miami bureau the international airport had an official wind gust of 58 miles per hour. where im standing were averaging 35 to 45 miles per hour. its picking up sand and pelting us in the face. its also getting a bit tricky to stand because the wind can be so gusty at times. and really take your body along with it. i want to show you just quickly, ...

West in the overnight hours, we did see a slight shift to about key west to naples. now, naples youre really in the middle of what should be the eye wall in 24 to 36 hours. the eye wall is still over cuba. it lost a lot of intensity overnight. the wind is now 130, but dont take your eye off the ball here. this is still a very big storm. its forecast to get back into warm water. and likely to get back up to a category 5, pushing water over cudjoe, key west, big pine, key west itself. everglades c...