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With us last night and said you guys should show the situation in coconut grove, so were glad youre there to report on it. tell us whats going on. >> reporter: well, for one thing miami dade as a whole is in the dark. about 960,000 homes lost power. many, many thousands of people are in the dark tonight. now, right now were at the coconut grove marina here. and when you think about marineas you gem think about people who can afford boats. this particular pier belongs to shake aleg, and that is a...

Blocking roads, sidewalks, driveways. a lot of trees down. some structural damage, most significant one was a roof over on the beach that looks like it had gotten peeled off, and also we had a crane go down like miami dade did. we had a crane collapse. i was very surprised at the amount of damage from a storm we all thought had sort of moved west of us. >>reporter: yeah. that westerly move really didnt leave miami or the east coast out. let me ask about reports of looting. we had reports of arre...

Look how it up rooted this massive tree. whats more astounding than this if my camera man backs up, youve got to check this out. it pulled up this six-inch slab of concrete as well. water main break here. just a multitude of issues associated with the cleanup efforts going forward with hurricane irmas aftermath. talk about electricity, 75 percent of miami dade without power. 850,000 people. its all because of trees that have done damage to electricity wires like this. you can above me, this tree...

Thick of it this morning. it was brutal. and the damage that we are seeing is consistent with that of a category 1 muhurricane. tree that the have toppled into telephone wire, electrical pole the and of course we continue to show transformers lighting up the horizontal. it was quite incredible to see that sight. once they get taken down they quickly start to burst. without electricity, about three quarters of mooichl date without power. everything is dark. theyre susceptible to looting to the mi...

Have fallen down. weve seen in the short time here street lamps, awnings, street signage, that are flying around everywhere. like you were saying, a little while ago, when those things come at you, at 75 miles per hour, they could potentially be deadly. >> anything coming at ow at 75 miles per hour. that is wa whats important. its not a matter of a tree falling on you. at no miles an hour is a problem. but any of these little things so often in hurricanes, thats what we worry about. a shingle of...

>> daphne a reporter with the palm beach post. thank you for that. >> we want to go south to phillip mena remains in ft. lauderdale with us. how is it shifting now with all the rain and wind? >> reporter: its still pretty intense. its coming in waves but they are re frequent and they are more intense. one thing i noticed, some of these palm trees behind me as the morning as gone on theyre getting thinner and thinner. theyre losing branchs left and right here. we know were seeing a lot of tree de...

We have lots of lightening behind us, there are outer feeder bands that will make their way into the coast line of the miami-dade county. you talk about the track of the storm and we hinge on that westerly shift. this has has some ramifications for places like naples into tampa. it looks like that would have a direct hit with the eye wall which is where you would see the strongest winds from a storm. the other thing about this storm, as well, is with this westerly shift it has a little more time...

Running up the spine of florida, but more so to the western edge, in the vicinity of tampa and headed up toward halla hassy, then jacksonville and south georgia where we could see flooding rainfall. this has been fascinating to watch the arcs, in dade county already reports that the first round which we saw isa in, where she said she saw lots of lightening, about 10,000 people without power. well watch it as it exits cuba and goes into the very warm waters of the florida strait and moves to the ...

Category 5 hurricane. with the winds at hurricane strength through key west florida, up through dade, braer county, sunday afternoon, but even before then, those bands and those heavy rain bands expected to move on shore, and then we go into sunday about 8:00 p.m., travels a little further to the north. expect there to be weakening but dont be fooled by that. if it slows down youll get pump ld with more rainfall f-columbia georgia,a vana, make um, augusta georgia, atlanta, so many people with so...

Since andrew. were seeing the evacuation orders being obeyed by the residents. we saw the keys move about 31,000 people out. thats the good news. the bad news is theres about 80,000 that live in the keys. so theres still lot of people down there. but hoping that miami dade, at least from what weve seen today are certainly obeying those evacuation orders and the other counties will hopefully follow suit. >> i appreciate you joining us here and giving good advice to all our viewers in florida and ...