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Dorian still too close for comfort just off the coast. were right by the halifax river and you heard bill talking bout the concern for storm surge and thats part of the reason for the mandatory evacuation orders for communities along the beach side in daytona beach. the bridges are still oopen. i just checked unwi in with eme managers. also all across the country there are 15 shelters with plenty of room. so still time for people to move inland if they need to. alex. >> okay. thank you for the h...

Members of the florida national guard are at the ready, but as we just heard bill karins say, this is expected to go just a little bit -- you know, just off the coast, but we could get tropical storm force winds here, so officials are urging people not to let their guard down, but at this point, yes, it appears that it will stay offshore. many businesses are boarded up, many people evacuated. >> just after 5:00 a.m. in jensen beach, florida, gabe gutierr gutierrez, threw. lets go to julia bag ...

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Miami t. area that connects the beach to brickle, to the until part of miami. i already had water up to my ankle. it was rising quickly. that was around 1:00 p.m. today. ki imagine those areas are probably flooding this morning. as i said, we will try to make our way around miami beach, the downtown area, to show you what the scope of the damage is and what residents will be waking up to this morning. >> all right. live in miami franchise miami, we want to if to what is sometimes called the gate...

Lets get a quick update on the path of the storm of hurricane irma. to that we turn to the weather channel, stephanie abrams in delray beach. different conditions where you are right now, stephanie, than where julia was at the very tip of florida where we expect the hurricane potentially to make two landfalls. one on the key west isles, and then further north on floridas west coast. >> if this does make landfall as a category four, this would be the first time in recorded history that the yaegts...

Us in palm beach florida. thank you, dylan. also, a big concern for the florida keys as they face the brunt of hurricane irma. its the rain and the wind and the surge that dylan was talking about. we have julia bag for us from florida city, florida. the weather is changing. talk to us about it. >> indeed things have really kicked up here. im taking some shelter right at the gas station. essential the rain starting to get very heavy now. the winds kicking up as well. weve also seen some big lig...

Here back 25 years ago when that storm hit, so what does that mean. people take this storm threat seriously with irma. many of them have either evacuated, gone to shelters, a lot of hotels have actually had their guests evacuate even just yesterday here in florida city to get out of the way of the storm. right now the good news is it looks like the worst of irma may actually skirt this area, but thats not something to -- thats not something to take lightly. were still expecting some heavy winds ...

Texas, where the plant is. ing we were able to see a dark plume of smoke. its definitely there. this is something that emergency crews have been planning for because we know that this plant was expected to potentially explode because these chemicals could no longer be refrigerated. now, the people who live within a mile and a half radius of the plant have been evacuated for days. its been a wait and see scenario. there is a chance that perhaps the chemicals may not explode with six feet of water...

I guess theres some hope that fema can do something. i feel like weve had this wonderful mained. how are we all going to rebuild? i keep thinking about, like, what i could have saved. i could have taken more stuff up. i dont know. well be okay. >> obviously so many people in shock there. now to another crisis in the houston area. arkema, which has a major chemical plant just outside of houston in the nearby town of crosby says that it has been informed by authorities that multiple explosions hav...

Can change in a minute. >> reporter: flooding has completely cut off the roads to beaumont. the city of 120,000 is now an island. >> its being essentially into a military base. these helicopters have been landing and taking off all day long. >> because this is the only way out. within hours hundreds of people poured into this setter just outside beaumont. the frightfrightened, the shake elderly being taken in. newborns in the arms of rescuers. >> i got my life and my baby, my family. >> i lived ...