Takes aim at florida with landfall expected in less than 24 hours. Today, saturday, september 9th, 2017. From nbc news, this is a special edition of today Hurricane Irma. With sheinelle jones, craig melvin, and dylan dreyer. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning. Welcome back to today on this saturday morning. Im craig melvin. A look there at some of the images that are starting to come in. You can feel it already. Im sheinelle jones. All eyes are on Hurricane Irma this morning. Check out the category4 storm. It is massive. Wider than the state of florida, and bringing top winds of 130 Miles Per Hour. Heres the very latest on the storm. Overnight the path shifted slightly, putting floridas west coast in peril. Of course, storm surge from the east to the west coast is a huge concern this morning. Cuba and the bahamas are feeling irmas effects right now. The storm made landfall in cuba overnight as a category5 storm. Already at least 23 people have been killed in the car
Come on, boots. Others hunkering down. Even in Car Dealerships as they try to ride out this storm. This is the first time the sheriff ever came down our street. To order you out . Yeah. Cities in the path boarded up. The governor warning people to be on guard. This is clearly a lifethreatening situation. The storm surge comes after the strongest winds. More than 1,000 americans rescued from st. Martin, now sharinging their stories. Some abandoned by hotel staff, facing armed robbers. Our david muir and amy robach on the ground in florida. Leading our Team Coverage. This is a special edition of Good Morning America. Hurricane irma, monster storm. Good morning, everyone. As we come on the air, Hurricane Irma is bearing down on the state of florida as a massive category 4 storm. Youre looking at live pictures out of miami. The situation is deteriorating. The situation is worse down south. The storm is making a hit on the florida keys. Look at the fresh images. This is the satellite imager
Family. [inaudible] abby Hurricane Irma an hour away now from the eye of the storm making landfall on the west coast now bracing. Hundreds of thousands of the entire mayor. Sustained winds of 130 Miles Per Hour and could reach 15 feet in some areas. Others are forced to stay behind. Team coverage this morning. Pete with Griff Jenkins on the ground right now. Reporter in naples the wind is terrible. Its about 25 come in maybe 30 miles, but it coming and key west which is just minutes away from a direct impact with 130mile per hour winds are near to the west coast. They are hunkered down. Officials here describing it as a worstCase Scenario because you will have high wind combined with storm surge. The mayor telling me the biggest concern is storm surge. The west coast of florida will take the water row. Just behind me to bring it back in. Upwards of 15 feet above ground level search starts hitting here, it is going to absolutely flood everything and you do not want to be there. Thats wh
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