Have taken a direct hit since over 90 years. We train hard. We practice hard. We practice during the week as if it were game day. I think were ready but obviously until you get into this situation youre never going to know. Im sure well find glitches, im sure therell be things we can do better but right now i got hundreds of people ready to go help their fellow citizens. Were tampa strong george. Tampa strong after it passes through but you have a warning out there right now, once the winds top 40 miles an hour your police, First Responders will not go in those streets . We will not. I will not put those men and women at risk. Folks, if theyre in a situation they need to find shelter because we cannot come and get you if the winds are sustained at 40 Miles Per Hour. Its just not going to happen. Well come and get you as soon as the winds die down but in that period of time ive got to keep my officers and firefighters safe. So you have got the concern of wind. You have got the concern o
Hurricane irma is now pushing up floridas west coast, bringing with it intense rainfall, severe flooding, violent winds and tornadoes. Three people have died since the storm made landfall in the florida keys on sunday. Power supplies have been cut to more than three million homes and businesses. Six Million People have been ordered to leave their homes in the state, while those remaining in several cities are under night time curfew to prevent looting. Irma has been downgraded to a category two hurricane, but officials are warning residents not to under estimate the dangers of storm surges. Miami may have dodged the eye of burma, but the city was still inundated. Irma. Storm surges swamped the financial district. All day sunday, people were told to seek shelter from the Hurricane Force winds. Wind speeds here are still in excess winds. Wind speeds here are still in excess of 90 mph, and up here on the fourth floor while kenny, they are more like 100 mph. Balcony. To give you an idea of
Nothing but debris on the side of the road. You know, skip, were we went to the bridge and went over the bridge and went over the bridge again. Found nothing to be wrong, thank goodness because thats our life blood coming in and out of the florida keys. The bridge is fine. I dont know if theres a problem with it technically that we cant see. They had put the stay arms from going over, they were gone but work to be done on the bridge. For sure. Engineers will were going to be all right. Were keeping our fingers crossed. Theyre clearing the roads. Maybe by tuesday theyll allow people to come back down to monroe county. Im not sure its passable from key largo to key west. I dont know how the status is at this point. The good thing is, theyll have engineers checking out the snake creek bridge. I know that bridge, it would have been horribly destructive had that gone down. Im glad that rumor you can dispel. You talk about the debris. I also want to talk about the gulf water. I saw pictures
Millions . But pewdiepie has been forced to apologise again after being caught using a racist slur in one of his videos. Hello. Welcome to the programme, were live until 11. Throughout the morning, the latest breaking news and developing stories. And as always, really keen to hear from you on all the stories were talking about this morning. A little later, well be talking about the Prescription Drug pregabalin and the huge rise in sales on the black market and the devastating impact it has on addicts. Also ,well speak to the christian parents whore threatening to sue their Childrens School because one of the pupils there goes to school some days as a boy and others as a girl use the hashtag victorialive and if you text, you will be charged at the Standard Network rate. Our top story today. Hurricane irma has slammed into the west coast of florida, bringing with it intense rainfall, severe flooding, violent winds and tornadoes. At least three people have died since the storm made landfa
Coverage of this storm we are in Bonita Springs and Jackie Deangelis out there and diana olick north in atlanta we want to start right now with carl good morning to you. Reporter good morning to you. As becky said, the storm is very much a force in northern florida, will be in georgia later. Were in southwest florida landfall was southwest of naples were on a bridge overlooking one of the waterways the good news if you can call it that, the estimates of storm surge, 10 to 15 feet, didnt really happen. You have all of these condos, hotels, gated communities that dont look that much different from the pictures that we shot here yesterday of course, im going to give that a big calf fee at given we dont know the fate of tampa and tampa bay. When this was considered to be a doomsday scenario in miami beach, the impact there was very real, when it was considered to be a direct hit, that was a high end real estate story. That picture remains true. A lot of these homes out here, mental heal mu