Downgrading Storm News Today

Numbers should not allude to a weakening or a downgrading storm. this thing you could fit two hurricane andrews inside it? >> absolutely. i will tell you. i was here in 04 when we had storms in succession and we had terrible damage. i hope that we have learned a lot from that. where i live projected to be on the northeast side as it comes through tomorrow night, we are preparing, everyone is preparing as native of florida, i can tell you this is a devastating storm and its coming our way. julie:...

See, look at the well-defined eye, this storm is strengthening. the water in the florida straits are about 90-degrees and the fuel with these storms need is the warm water of the gulf of mexico, the florida straits and nothing in upper level of the atmosphere to tear the storm apart. ithas still maintained structure and i think that thats what we are going to see in next advisory with new track coming out. sea service temperatures, some of the warmest water ahead of it with nothing in its way, t...

13-foot storm surge here and tampas fire chief telling irma is the worst hurricane to hit the city in a generation. here is more of what he had to say. >> in my 35 years of preparedness i have never seen a storm or system thats of this magnitude out and operating under this velocity. all special needs folks and vulnerability population, they need to have evacuated already because they are looking at a very horrific conditions. >> we are at water hole where lots of people who are sticking it out ...

>> back to miami hopefully. >> you will stick it out? >> actually we were in clearwater, evacuated and now luckily we found a hotel here and from here i guess we are going back to miami. >> christian, we wish you well. you wanted to get out of town and had flat tire and couple of things that went wrong and you will stick it out to help friends and loved ones after the storm. >> exactly. i tried three times to get out of town. i got a flat tire, i tried to pick up my youngers son up and his baby ...

Of advice told by the national hurricane center at the 2:00 p.m. choppers. take a listen. >> very concerned about storm surge, theres a potential for catastrophic life-threatening storm surge on the southwest coast of florida from cape stabel, flooding aboveground level certainly enough to ground somebody, water in the first floor of your home. if you live in the area shown in pink and asked to evacuate, please do so. >> that remains a very critical issue here for miami beach which is expecting ...

Threat will be on going. future radar, lets break it down for you. tomorrow morning 8:00 a.m., 7:00 a.m., a landfall across the keys as category 4 and then later on in the afternoon, in the evening, another landfall is projected around the fort myers, we are hoping that thats not the outcome but we look to history to see the type of damage that we could see. theres monday, some of the storm projections saying a category 3 for the florida panhandle, northern florida into georgia, the arrival of h...

You could probably sigh getty people who realize they are on fox news after a couple of drinks. julie, we will set it back to you in new york. julie: thank you very much, mike. mike: the federal government is ready as millions brace for hurricane when i rememberas landfall. the president getting briefed on hurricane irma and josé as he hosts entire cabinet for the weekend. any statements from the president after latest briefing at camp david? >> not yet, mike, he was very vocal before he left t...

Outages. >> 5,000 households, at least a minimum of 50,000 people without electricity all day and thats for miami-dade, broward and palm beach counties. duke energy provides central and north panhandle of the state, they released statement about an hour ago forewarning floridans that up to a million people, maybe even more may eventually at some point lose power and electricity during the storm before its all said and done with because theyre expecting significant damage and this could be days, ...

Category 4 storm came in, it absolutely devastated parts of florida and the building code had to be changed specifically for the rooftop of a lot of the build that is are used, a lot have shingles and tiles that werent properly nailed down and blue -- blew peoples homes. lets hope peopling are heeding the warning, so far they have. >> not all buildings are up to code. julie: of course, not all. if you are in a building before 2001, be sure to not be inside the building when this thing hits. >> y...

Miami, was going to be bearing much of the brunt of the storm, those evacuation orderers, evacuation zones, have they changed at all? >> no, they are still in effect because obviously the -- its a volatile storm. we are not going to take this lightly. things can change in the drop of a dime. one of the things that we have to remember is not just winds and rain, the storm surge, the areas can be affected by the storm surge, that remains in effect right now. julie: we hate to talk about storm surg...