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Consistently. this is so different from what kerry sanders was seeing on the west coast. here we are seeing the effects of irma. we can actually see one of these squalls kind of making their way over here. that is miami beach fisher eye lafrnd, t islands, port of miami. when it comes through, its basically whiteout conditions. from what we gather from people here, there are miami reads, they decided not to leave and just decided to see what the situation was. a lot of these people went through h...

Storms fierce winds grip on to the northern coast of cuba tonight. we have a reporter there for us now. describe what is happening where you are now, patrick. >> reporter: you know, don, just a few minutes ago, a dead calm that you get as you know from covering storms, between the squalls and now were feeling the wind pick up again. where we are, the power was knocked out three or four hours ago. i dont think well get it back for days. we have a small generator. so we are going to continue worki...

It created a little bit of a panic. what happened was at the same time they were opening up a second door on this center, the germain center and trying to get the people inside now with a little more importance because the squalls are now really beginning to come through. there was a bad tweet that went out not too long ago, anderson, that said somehow or another this place was going to reach capacity. that is not true. i want to knock that down for anybody who might be in the viewing area. its ...

Miami to see the situation. the good news? the mandatory evacuation heeded and heeded early. the mayor told our ed lavandera he believes most of the people are out, probably several thousand remain. this is a mandatory evacuation place and it is a ghost town. that is good news. the bad news is the bands are already coming. the rain is heavier than expected. thats where miguel marquez is. do you have any of these squalls coming through? >> reporter: winds new york city ra , no rain yet. the storm...

Again, a 4:00 p.m. curfew is being issued for broward county. jo ling kent, do stay safe. lets go to miami. maya rodriguez is on the ground there for us. whats happening where you are? >> reporter: alex, right now were on ricken backer island. this links mainland miami to key biscayne over here. as you can see, key biscayne starting to get those white caps that you associate when a storm comes in here. take a look, just like jo showed you, a whole bunch of people here taking selfies, taking pict...

Hit this morning. puerto rico bracing for the same. >> millions of americans within hours. mandatory evacuations in the bahamas and florida keys. irma could arrive there sunday. president trump has declared states of emergency in florida, puerto rico and the u.s. virgin islands. cnn tracking the storm. chad, what are you seeing? >> the map you had on there with the storm making a big right-hand turn somewhere either close to havana or east of ha a havana. here is where the storm is, now on puert...

Right here and texas just cant take it anymore. its just becoming miserable. the rescues theyre doing have been limited to life threatening because of the wind and thunderstorms, weve got lightning and heavy, heavy winds coming through in squalls and theyre expecting, later tonight, these winds to get up to 30, 40, maybe gusts up to 50 miles per hour. thats not a lot when you think about 100 mile-per-hour wind in a hurricane. but after the ground has been so saturated, that can easily start brin...

Houston and houstons toughest days in terms of flooding, 15, 20, 25, maybe 30 feet of accumulation will be wednesday evening. were sitting here friday night. were talking about the big storm still coming to houston wednesday and all the areas it will drench in between. >> jon: well be talking about this one for a long time to come. lieutenant governor dan patrick. >> everybody pray for us texans and well pull through but we can use the prayers of everyone in the country. >> jon: joining us is th...

Live in port lavaca north of corpus christi which is expected to be the bullseye. >> youre looking at the outer bands there. the top of the image close to hitting the coastline which is why thats where were going to reid at the moment. reid, tell us what youre seeing? >> im in port lavaca, texas. you can see one of the many refineries behind me. i havent seen any power flashes yesterday. the wind is light but it will be coming up the length of this bay. we do expect, especially if the landfall i...

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