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You can. right now we are starting to feel the effects of the storm. weve had a minder tornado, weve had trees down, live wires down. its too late at this point at least down here in miami-dade county, stay where youre at, if you cant find a safe way to get to a shelter. julie: okay, for those that are evacuating tampa oddly enough to go south. should they stay there, should they even bother coming home, a lot of people that evacuated they thought if they hugged the west side of florida, they wo...

Cutting a deal with democrats to raise the debt ceiling and approve a 15 billion-dollar relief package for all of the victims for hurricane harvey. he signed that bill at camp david yesterday. so this is really one of those rare cases where congress and the white house moved much faster than expected. its also the first time that we have seen president trump really come out and side with democrats, reach across the aisle to get something done, perhaps a taste of things to come and thats the tast...

They will try to restore power and curfew at 8:00 oclock and in effect in broward county, no one allowed in the street till tomorrow morning or further notice. >> phil keaton in miami, phil, many thanks. lets bring in senior meteorologist janice dean. >> 32-miles-per-hour gusts where phil is right now. showing the eye of when i irma,e have the tweet, guys, you can see the eye on coast of cuba. it disrupted things a little bit, the eye weakened but its now forecast to become a very strong categor...

This size, lets talk first about power outages because it really does speak volumes, people are already out of power and the hurricane hasnt even landed on shore yet. >> yeah, so you know, obviously the problem with this storm running south and north through the whole state, maximum radius winds are going through large portion of the state, power is going to be out and this is could be largest power outages the united states has seen in a long time particularly those in florida where millions wi...

Strongly encouraged voluntary ones understanding the traffic flow in south florida and mandatory yesterday. so we hope -- there seems to be traffic movement. we are asking everybody to be safe. >> what are the biggest concerns in jacksonville at this stage? >> the big concern is the latest model has it moving to the west so, you know, theres social media buzz that some people may not be taking this as seriously as they were. this is still a major threat to our city, we went through matthew last ...

To see and proud of florida right now. mike: that doesnt mean folks in broward county should let their guard down, right? >> no, not at all. this thing -- first of all, these things can wobble and change at the last second as we all know. secondly the back part of the storm, the dirty part of the storm as they call it, significant winds, high rain, people need to take it seriously. it looks like broward and east coast dodged the bullet for sure in avoiding a direct hit but thats not any reason n...

Storm. thats where the maximum radius winds are, storms, intensity, the majority of the storm surge will occur and if i remember my numbers correctly, 80% of all landfall in hurricane, tornadoes and quadrant. but the safest place to be is outside of that storm surge zone and getting to inland area. you know, into a facility that can handle the forecasted winds not where the storm is currently but what forecasters are projicting for areas like orlando and tampa and the one advantage that florida ...

Category 4 hurricane provides four times. now, if you look at the way that this storm has sort of gone back and forth around the florida panhandle as it moves west, just because this hurricane is moving west does not mean that the east coast is going to be free of massive storm surge, as you loo. i ended up in orlando. what happens to the thousands and thousands of people that headed to tampa where they are now actually bearing down for potentially the worst conditions as a result of hurricane i...

Magnitude of this storm there? >> unfortunately i dont believe all citizens understand the magnitude of whats about to happen. allows in warm water as forecast predicting will gain intensity and continue up to west coast and through the states. this is a different angle of attack. this storm is moving from south to north from the state. charlie came from a different angle, closer to port charlotte. basically monroe keys to tampa bay and around the panhandle in florida. julie: right. lets talk ab...

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