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The hour. we continue with a fox news alert. all eyes on hurricane irma. right there on the side of your screen. current track of the storm. right-hand side tampa, florida, one of the areas that with the new projections that we heard over the course of the last 48 hours is projected to get hit hard. you can see right there it did. heather: wind damage and storm surge, two of the things that everyone continues to watch. we heard our own janice dean mention the number of people who are now without...

Get there and make sure that all the trees are not blocking the roadways anymore, make sure that the fuel, gasoline spills, and hazards are cleaned up. make sure that there are no power lines blocking the road. speaking of power, still a major issue. always a top priority after a hurricane. about 1.5 million households and businesses in miami county without power. you take two people living in each place, thats 3 million people in south florida without power. but 17,000 crews all out and about, ...

Looks like some trees hanging pretty low at this point. thats why you have to really watch out for w. those power lines. then look, this is what have you come up upon. you have a palm tree just completely blocking the roadway. this is the situation right now. not a ton of flooding which, by the way, people are thrilled about. at this point its just the the debris, its the trees you have to worry about. back the to you. heather: one of the many reasons people are being told do not come out of you...

Window where me and my dad were just standing there. the only reason we stopped is because it got to the point we felt it beating so hard okay we are going to leave the room, close the door and hope nothing happens. >> they said it was going to be a worse case se scenario the officials and they were correct. as can you hear behind me its still a wind event. its still blowing. the flooding, waters are rising. we drove through areas that have flood. we are trying to get to others to see just how d...

>> abby: you have so much family to there, melissa. you say they are out of power. >> melissa: it is about the restoration without power. you have 6 million people in florida right now who do not have powered. they woke up as you said, hit overnight. we were on the air overnight as the tampa area was getting hit. her family as they woke up this morning, looks very much like a war zone. do you walk outside and there is stuff everywhere. you do not have the power to get things up and running. so i...

With this. still dealing with the potential for at least tropical storm force winds for much of the state of florida. hurricane force winds in the orange there and in the red. those are hurricane sustained winds. so, those will diminish but for the foreseeable future throughout the day today, hurricane force gusts are going to be possible. there is the models in pretty good agreement as we go through the next 24 to 48 hours. this potentially could stall. but the good news is it is going to weake...

That is the keys. adam housley in key largo, looks better as far as the weather, but the damage is punishing. >> yes, the weather, the winds finally stopped early this morning. still battered after it hit mainly in a second time. still pretty brutal winds this morning. but as you can see behind me, the keys got absolutely hammered, especially on the ocean side. local officials are saying that it is a humanitarian crisis in some places. no water or little water depending on where you are in the k...

Utility workers that are trying to restore power to 43% of floridas customers who are now without power. a staggering number. on top of all of that we saw all the damage, panels flying off the buildings, flooding on brickle avenue and miami beach. people are just trying to come home and those homes are vacant. so now police are dealing with, yeah, you guessed it, looters. and so now they are sending out video of looters going after a foot locker in miami-dade county here. there is also a tweet t...

Barrier island west of st. petersburg. what are you seeing? >> well, we were hunkered down on same peach beach saint pete beach. coincidentally tampa bay some 300,000 people without power this morning. it goes to show that the storm had a mind of its own. i want to show you some of the unfortunate damage from irma, the yacht crushed up against the vote, the starlight sapphire dining yacht. the owner tells me as you can see it is up against that bridge there. they say that the bridge did not suff...

Tall pine trees causing some of the loss of power right downtow downtown. you can see the storefronts are all dark, power has been knocked out to this part of tipton. this morning we woke up to know power, but then came back a few hours later, very spotty, this is affecting the entire state. governor declaring a state of emergency in all 159 georgia counties. on the coast, the issue is storm surge. they had to close down the highway 80 causeway, tying the land with the mainland. and also crosswi...