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Northern eyewall that is now beginning to push north of the area. its still rainy and gusty, not half as bad as ten minutes ago, then its going to go calm, well be able to talk to our reporters, they are through the worst of it, then theyll be out there to take a look around a little bit, then we will see the winds completely change directions, so in the big screen on the left, winds going right to left, when we check back in 15 minutes the winds will be going from left to right and that is when...

Those are unleashed when mother nature barrels forward. abby: absolutely. time has run out for anyone looking to fly out of florida. airports now completely shut down. nearly 10,000 flights from around the country also canceled or delayed until after the storm moves through. that is exactly what needs to happen. you dont want any flights in and out of florida in the next couple days. the mayor of st. petersburg, florida, rick price. thank you for being with us. st. petersburg ratepayer near tamp...

As the sheriff was telling you, water kills in what officials say here is the worst-case scenario is coming. wind, water, flooding, as we saw in harvey, at least half were more does occur when people drove into water. in this case in naples, we are hours away from what is pounding the keys right now coming here perhaps more likely in the afternoon. high tide was about 3:00 a.m. here. coming back at 3:00 p.m. about the time the brunt of mobile start approaching and the storm surge is a grave thre...

Direction, speaking of storm surge, take a look at this video in the bahamas. amazing thing ive never seen anything like this when i saw the video, ill. i think we have this coming. im not sure. do you know what im talking about? here you go. that was the opening. this looks like saddam is. all the water pulls away from the coast before it comes back in. these guys are walking upon the ocean floor because the wind is so strong that it pulls all of the water out of the ocean. abby: what is the wi...

You can no longer see because of the rain. the wind is coming from outside from the miami beach side and also miami just pushing this way. theyve been really trusting those wins exactly that area. keeping an eye on the storm surge. up and down u.s. one, which is a state highway. theyve evacuated so many people. so many homes talking about a storm surge that could come in miles. once the storm comes then, another one we are not just talking about three or four feet from sea level. it is for your ...

Five to ten feet. on the southwest side, naples down to key west, 8 to 12 feet. and a little north of that around the ft. myers area, 5 to 8 feet. but places north as tampa would be experiencing 3 to 5 feet of storm surge. and rainfall. while it will be nowhere near what we had in harvey, its still going to be plenty high enough to trigger flash flooding. widespread. 4 to 6 inches of rain. there will be several pockets that pick up in excess of 10 inches of rain with this storm. and winds, lets ...

135 in key west. even orlando which is pretty far inland looking at nearly 75 miles an hour for those peak wind gusts and rainfall. this is going to be the key thing to note. storm surge is huge but you have to keep in mind as that water comes inland you have the water coming down as well. we could be looking at widespread six to ten inches of rain and then some heavier pockets that could be 15 plus inches on top of the storm surge that comes in. so again, the main thing folks, when it starts to...

Caribbean islands overnight. the storm sustaining winds over 185 miles per hour for days. >> the roof is about to come. >> reporter: gusting up to 220 miles per hour. leaving widespread damage throughout the region. in puerto rico more than 1 million people are without power. the eye of the hurricane nearly knocked out all buildings in barbuda. roughly 90% of buildings damaged. >> i have never seen any such destruction. >>. >> reporter: late today irmas core moved over the dominican republic and...

Show you doumenlly. lets check in with chad myers. i know these islands matter, but people here in the united states are so worried about florida. >> absolutely, of course. the models weve been looking at this morning still have pretty much a direct hit on some part of florida. the lady we had online, little tv right there, shes there. the eye is well north of her and moving away, no threat to that island at all. the threat to the dominican republic is along the spine of the mountains here. as t...

Than 500,000 without power there already? >> reporter: yes, david. the head of the power company says it could be between four and six months before power is restored so some of those areas. were being told to expect sustained hurricane force winds for at least a couple of hours tonight. theres also major concern about storm surge and flash flooding. it will be a long night, david. >> long night indeed. linzie janis and our team in san juan. stay safe tonight. as we told you here last night in...