grappling with their own hurricane. hurricane katia made landfall in mexico has a category 1 storm a few hours ago. heavy rains and rains, a threat of a storm threat there. rescue crews trying to reach survivals trapped under rubble after magnitude left 16 people dead. that quake was the most powerful to hit the country in the city causing damage to mexico s poorest area. mexico city about a thousand kilometers away, suffered some damages as well. we ll continue to follow that story for you as well. do stay with cnn as we continue to cover irma for you. issa suarez is with us. and that rain seems to be really battling you now. reporter: very much so
we have this low pressure in the southeast. it s going to give it a tug north. it feels that. it likes it. they want to get together, if you will, so it is going to be pulling it northbound. it s going to help with the direction of it. i want to ask you about the point that you made, which was the historical significance of this. on one hand, the largest evacuation in u.s. history. 5.6 million people. at the same time when it does and if it does make landfall as a category four, it will be a historic situation that we ve had two hurricanes at category four and above strengths making landfall. is there any concern i know we re not even looking at this, but some of the other conditions that have formed in the atlantic, you had hurricane jose and the gulf of mexico. you have hurricane katia, i believe. are those concerns at this point as well? so they aren t, thankfully. i m glad you asked that. days ago jose was going to, like, loop around and come back to florida. right now we are
thanks. leland: thanks. godspeed. liz? elizabeth: in other headlines this saturday, twin emergencies in mexico. hurricane katia is now a tropical storm as it moves over the central part of the nation killing at least two people. forecasters expect it to dissipate over the weekend but not before dumping 10-15 inches of rain in some areas. this as rescue efforts continue from a powerful earthquake that has killed at least 64 people with massive damage reported. the 8.1 earthquake off the southern pacific coast has left thousands of people homeless. and in more international news, north korea celebrates its 69th anniversary of the communist country s founding. leaders there have recently used such holidays to conduct high-profile testing of their nuclear and ballistic missile program, but no such show of the north s military capability has been reported thus far. leland: keep an eye there where it s already sunday in north
albreakthrough withyou back. non-drowsy allegra® for fast 5-in-1 multi-symptom relief. breakthrough allergies with allegra®. welcome back everyone while florida braces for irma, authorities in mexico are grappling with their own rain. hurricane katia made landfall as a category 1. meanwhile, rescue crews are trying to reach survivors trapped under rubble after a magnitude 8.1 earthquake left at least 61 people dead. it caused extensive damage to some of mexico s poorest areas.
from that, but reason we don t anticipate anything from jose or katia. a lot of people making a comparison to hurricane andrew here. i think we have a graphic to sort of compare the size of hurricane andrew versus the hurricane irma. if we don t bring it up, just explain to everybody hurricane andrew, a heck of a lot smaller than hurricane irma. hurricane andrew was also very strong as well. also, there it is, we have the graphics up right now. you can sort of see hurricane andrew back in 1992. so much smaller. you could fit a couple of hurricane andrews inside of hurricane irma now. the path of hurricane andrew, if you could speak to that, stephanie, how different that was. the path of hurricane andrew over florida versus the path of hurricane irma. just to start off here for some facts for everybody, there s been three known category fives to make landfall in the u.s. florida keys 1935, camille in 1960. and andrew in 1992.