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Next to wilmington where i will be seeing you later on this evening, and the mayor of washington, d.c., has declared a state of emergency, and why washington? because of the u.s. model that you talked about or either way washington is going to be drenched? >> think about it like this. the landfall, and that is who is going to be hit, but we will have inland flooding even as far north as the mid-atlantic at some point. think about how much rain we have had already. we have had so much rain and sa...

People saying im going to ride the storm out here. water coming into their homes. youre seeing the smaller signs topple over. they cant compete with this wind. power lines that are down. we have a camera in the back of our suv. you can just see how fragile everything becomes with the kind of windgusts that were seeing. ly step away from this sign here. trees falling. i see a tree that is fallen to my right. ly ask peter to drive faster so i can show that to you. i have never seen anything like t...

News. hurricane irma is now striking puerto rico, about 50 miles off the coast of the u.s. territory. about 3.5 million people right now facing dangerous rain and storms. the governor of puerto rico telling me that, in his words, this is like nothing we have experienced before. 400 shelters have been activated in puerto rico. rich howell is in san juan. the governor said theres significant damage. what are you seeing there? >> reporter: right now, what we have seen is power outages. we know that...

Rico. dennis, let me just start by asking where are you, how are you doing? >> well, were doing okay. were starting to get a lot of wind, rain bands moving in every so auvenl. but we ended up moving out of our home and moving down to where our business is. we have some cabins, and were in a more secure area here out of the wind. >> obviously, that is so crucial that youre safe. theyre talking about a storm surge that could be two or three stories and so dangerous. are you prepared for that, denn...

Caribbean, setting its sights directly on florida. one of the strongest forms ever to form in the atlantic. there is a dangerous storm surge, trees falling. power cut to thousands. also just coming into cnn we have brand-new video. this is just in from the caribbean island which has been completely without communications all day. take a look. devastation as far as the eye can see. the prime minister says upwards of 90% of the island that has within destroyed. nasa releasing brand-new images. it ...

The big concern with irma, the storm surge. >> so these are pretty much state-of-the-art flood panels. >> you are expecting a five foot storm surge. >> potentially, yeah. >> what is already bad, trying to get the basics. some gas stations already out of fuel. this one told us they dont know when they will be able to get more. trying to get bottled water. this sight greeting shoppering. >> no water up there at all. no home depot. cvs had no water. walgreens had none at all. >> catherine finally g...

General 20, 30, occasionally gusting to 40 to 50 and as we go throughout the afternoon, still in the 30 to 40-mile-per-hour range and we dont have leaves on the trees so we wont see a lot of trees coming down but because the soil is pretty muddy right now with all the rain and pretty loose, we will get some trees falling, so scattered to minor power outages are a po possibilities. the only area still holding on to winter is the northern portion of the country. get ready for a very cold friday, s...

Killed after the storm barrelled through the caribbean before closing in on the u.s. coast. msnbc meteorologist bill karins has the latest. this was downgraded to a category 1. what do we anticipate in the coming hours? >> more significant damage. i just heard from one insurance adjuster that says this is a $6 billion weather disaster. when you talk about the past hurricanes weve had in our country and talk about the inflation rates, this hurricane will now be a top 20. if it had made that tur...

First responders trying to make sure they can batten down as much as they can before the storm makes it up into georgia. im here in jacksonville where were still about three to four hours out according to chad myers until we feel the worst of hurricane matthew but we are seeing conditions here continuing to deteriorate. trees falling. localized flooding. flash flood warning and power outages, according to jea, now above 70,000 customers without power here. up next after the break, the politics...

This is the northern eye wall, the strongest portion of the storm, and it is going to head in this general direction tonight. now 94 miles away. thats going to be about 7 to 8 hours from now. well watch the landfalling of the northern eye of this storm. thats when the most significant wind damage will be. 4:00 a.m., i have that northern eye located over the top of charleston, south carolina. itll wake a lot of people up, therell be trees falling, thats when the power outages will occur, and up t...