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16 minutes past the hour. we have breaking coverage of hurricane irma as it pears across florida. packing violent winds, torrential rains and breaking records along the way. irma leaving a trail of destruction in south florida. a hundred mile-an-hour wind gusts. major water damage at miami international airport. airport will be closed today. officials hope to resume a limited flight schedule on tuesday. >> schools in miami-dade closed until further notice. and this dramatic video shows just how ...

Jacksonville expected to get worse as we continue to get pounded by the wind here, but thankfully the rain subsiding for now. >> thankfully the rain subsiding. of course we heard from the national weather service theyre expecting the highest storm surge in the st. johns river which is right there next to jacksonville the highest since october of 1846. everyone was wondering if that was a typo when they saw it the first time. what kuz it like getting into the city for you? you were traveling with...

Carolina, and points north. theyre just now starting to feel the first effects of irma. my next guest is an expert on one of the big problems in with this storm, storm surge. jamie, is a storm surge specialist with the national hurricane center and joining me right now. i really appreciate there are flash flood emergencies in jacksonville with the st. johns river. we were talking to kaylie about this. what does it mean for storm surge in. >> a quick and immediate rise in water levels that can be...

They can handle that. >> thats almost best case scenario for them. we just talked to the governor, the mayor of clearwater. >> that was lowered. and then here is -- you know, weve flipped. with the storm being closer to the middle of the state and the winds still being strong on the east coast, now were going from fernanda beach 4 to 6 foot storm surge. >> on the east coast? >> yeah. >> oh, day is night and night is day. >> and fernanda beach to jupiter inlet 3 to 5 feet. clearwater beach, now j...

>> weve done some updated forecast. i dont have particulars about how high its gotten but the updated forecast from that initial area we were looking at 10 - 15 feet and some of the areas are closer to 9 feet. thats 9 feet above sea level. thats enough to do a lot of damage. >> when all is said and done, who got hit the hardest. where will we see the most damage and who needs the most help. >> its likely going to be where landfall was made. marco island across the keys where we got the initial l...

Been consistent pulling all of the water onto land at the same time that it is raining and that water that is filling up into the streams and the the dash te picture youre seeing in jacksonville can siding with what it does with high tide, going to be very dangerous. going up toward savannah. we will see measurements that are higher than what we saw yesterday and hurricane matthew, and in some cases the highest that we have seen for measurements here for water rights. his team towards charleston...

Dangerous elements that are a possible risk, the loss of life and property. this is a big one. anderson? >> without power for weeks, a lot of elder people in that area in florida. this is going to be a huge challenge in the weeks ahead if that number of people are without power for that a. time. tom, well continue to check in with you. i want to go to juan perez. working the hours you have been working, as we see the wind already in miami picking up, those tropic force winds. what are the challe...

It has diminished, it has lessened in strength to some degree as it made its way to florida straits. it has made turn to the doubt but hit down in the lower keys, cudjo key -- cudjoe key, cudjoe key had category 4 storm. it has officially made landfall in marco island florida, 3:35 p.m. eastern daylight time. look at the radar coming to us from tampa, leading edge to have storm, highest of the winds, there it is. it is clearly moving fastly

Know he has a question for you. chad. >> mr. mayor, you are watching zone a, zone b, hillsborough. now that the storm should travel right over tampa bay, are there any changes in the evacuation zones from what we knew 24 hours ago? >> no, theres not, chad. it is still a zone a ezackuation. the issue in zone a will be the amount of the surge and the height of the surge. unfortunately, this will take place at a time when the high tide is at its highest, which will be tomorrow morning. so all those...

Shaken. you could see it. and they said this is a whole different deal. at that moment they decided to evacuate the monroe county jail on stock island that they thought could survive a category 5. its one of the strongest structures in all of the keys. they said they felt pretty good about it. in fact, thats where their families are going to stay. instead, they had to frantically move bus with sheriffs deputy escorts 500 prisoners up u.s. 1 to find other places to put them until irma blows over ...