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And you never really want to be heading in the stam direction that a storm chaser is heading, nevertheless here we are. but for the people in ft. myers, as weve been talking throughout the day, chris, the alarm bells are ringing. people know the clock is ticking. theres only about another half an hour that the shovel service is going to be in operation to even get people to shelter. so after that is done at 3:00 p.m. then its really up to people to get themselves to shelters. and then of course ...

These sandbags are hopefully going to be keeping some people dry. we have seen the pictures and videos coming from the caribbean so far up the last few days, and that storm looks extremely powerful. if youre not here at a cat five location, category five certified building, you should get out. coming down with the wind, look at the cars coming. an increase of line of cars. the most cards we have seen in two days, really, heading north. we have been for a couple of days, and has been pretty quiet...

Enormous surges, up to ten feet here in miami. that and the sheer size of this monster has hurricane warnings, evacuation warnings and traffic jams extending further north. the governor saying everyone should be ready to evacuate. leave now, he said, not tonight, not in an hour. now. weve got a lot of coverage tonight across the state in cuba, the caribbean. we begin with alison in the weather center. so a new forecast just came in with irma. explain where it is and where its heading. >> it is i...

Quick landfall in the florida keys. and then another landfall somewhere up along mainland, florida late in the night. this brings us to 4:00 p.m. monday. we still probably have a hurricane on our hands in south georgia at this point. if it spends its time over water, it would be stronger once it gets into georgia. yesterday we were thinking we would have hurricane force winds in georgia. that would be if the storm trekked all the way through the pence laugh florida. now if it doesnt make its way...

Now. we are expecting 5-10 feet of storm surge. not just that. on top of that, you are going to have very tall and destructive waves. its not clear its a survival situation for anyone still there in the keys. >> thank you very much, acting director and rappaport. we are going to have a lot more on this. where its heading, impacts when we get back. >> shepard: thats our south florida new station, wvsn 7. theyve never seen a hurricane like this. hurricane andrew was scheduled at one point, the may...

Wall area, and thats what you start to get josteled around, you are obscure with cloud cover and rain, what is unique about the major hurricanes is, as soon as you hit the eye wall, and punch through it and it opens up in to the clear blue sky and calm winds. so, its incredible. >> you talked about you could feel the power of the storm as you were flying through it. how do you feel that in an aircraft? >> well, one example is theres something that we call slip. and so, when you are flying throug...

Audio now. >> yeah. >> tell me, is this a direct hit for miami? >> don. the last couple days we did have a window, it was shutting on us that maybe the system would miss and move away from the outer anks into the atlantic. the window shut completely. somebodys going to get socked and it does look like its going to be southern miami and may make its way south and north across the entire state. now, we had a pressure drop at 8:00 p.m. the winds take a while to catch up, don, to that pressure drop....

Heading and when its going to come? >> i think we need, don, maybe one or two more days to really definitively nail this. but really, im pretty much amazed at how the models have been handling this. from last friday we had an idea where the system is going and the models have been in extraordinary agreement you. uhave to recall that the u.s. went through 12 years of a drought without a major hurricane making landfall. 12 years. and a major hurricane is 3, 4, and 5. and then we had harvey. that w...

Hurricane irma is ripping through the caribbean heading to florida. coastal evacuations are already under way in some places, many people still scrambling for water, food and fuel. lets talk about this with senator bill nelson of florida. >> good morning. >> i know that yesterday you were down in the miami area. you met at west palm, with emergency officials. what did they tell you are their biggest kerp concerns? >> i . >> right now the roads are clogged, people are trying to flee. theyre takin...

Party. president trump sided with congressional democrats in a combination maneuver on extending the debt ceiling and funding hurricane harvey relief. in a deal that house speaker paul ryan criticized just hours before the president accepted it, make a look. >> i think its a ridiculous and disgraceful that want to play politics with the debt ceiling at this moment, when we have fellow citizens in need to respond to these hurricanes so that we do not strand them. >> the presidents move surprised ...