Tracking Irma News Today

And donate some money and get involved, whatever you want to do. We want to thank everybody so much for having us here tonight. Tomorrow night paul ryan in washington, tonight, say goodbye, everybody goodbye tucker good evening and welcome to Tucker Carlson tonight. Hurricane armand is one of the strongest terms ever measured in the Atlantic Ocean and now its making its way through the caribbean. South florida residents have already been ordered to evacuate, governor rick scott a ford it is warm...

Harmlessly after it gets by turks and caicos, its harmlessly off the coast of the united states and weakening down to a category 1. i want to show you that yes, it has been unusually active right through areas from puerto rico. there was the track of harvey. harvey was weak through the caribbean. then there was irma and jose. these were three monster storms. harvey didnt get strong until it was off the coast of texas. this is the path of maria. its about to cross where maria went as a strong cat...

Break that bill karins was going to update his maps. i would love to just take that first map tracking irma. can we just dwell on this? this is clouds associated with one storm. it is conceivable that from the tip cape may, new jersey, the chesapeake bay, very shortly you will be in clouds associated from this storm. thats unbelievable. >> i did a distance tracker on here. it didnt work. the elevations are a little messed up. if i go from west virginia and extend cloud shield to the north coast ...

Out west. president trump signed the disaster declaration last week, but its almost certain more funds will be needed after irma. joining me now is jeh johnson, former secretary of homeland security for president obama. secretary, thanks so much for joining us. >> thanks for having me on . good to have you. looking from the destruction from hurricane harvey and irma and wildfires from a homeland security perspective what should you happening now? >> important to remember response to natural disa...

We still have a lot to do. >> so the water could rise four to six feet according to our estimates. if it does rise at that level, are you concerned that theres going to be a number of people who are on the first floors of buildings who will be in desperate need of evacuation? >> we actually, katy, have a couple of neighborhoods on the low end -- did i lose you? >> no, youre still there. we got you. >> okay. we have two neighborhoods where theyre pretty low areas near our waterway. and during hur...

See if it continues. dont use the word pivot. >> no. >> stay with us. dont pivot from your seats. pivot a second, but then come back. still ahead, as irma continues to bring wind and rain, the cleanup effort in southern florida just beginning. jeh johnson weighs in how the department should respond. >> about 5 million outages is what weve had, and weve restored about a million outages but i will tell you this, its not over. we still have customers in north florida that are losing power because...

Is under a tornado watch. we have had tornadoes in fort lauderdale 30 miles from here. thats the danger with these squalls. thats what causes that rotation. and that rotation can cause tornadoes. and we have seen some of that. so its a situation that by all means you do not let your guard down despited the fact the eye is going stover key west. this storm is so massive. you will be seeing these conditions until tomorrow night from what we understand. reporter: well be checking in with you in the...

Ti typically. wind as a killer, as you can see, just 8%, according to the national hurricane center. problem is irma moved directions on saturday within the last 24 hours. now headed for floridas storm surge jugular. we have a snap that does show you how the area that is in the western side of florida is where most of the natural, if you will, or inherent storm surge danger areas are, thats the southwest and west coast areas. as we go to the next visual that we have for you. well scroll up a lit...

The weather conditions we are seeing on this side of the state. we have noticed the conditions deteriorate significantly in the past hour or so. you are look at this tree here. you can see it is pretty gusty out here right now. the rain was falling at a pretty good clip. primarily, it is the wind gusts we are starting to experience letting us know that irma is on its way. if we can here, i want to show you this home behind me. we were talking to the people living here a couple hours ago. their w...

Evacuation orders. and evacuation zones that weve seen that are really just emptying across the state. florida governor rick scott has told people to leave now. head to those shelters. we are expecting the governor to hold a news conference on hurricane irma at the top of the hour. so about 15 or 20 minutes away. of course, we will bring that to you live. irma is now a category 4 storm headed to florida. the storm surge, one of the greater threats of this storm. heavy rains coming, the winds as ...