Floridas gulf coast. Plus, the firing of james comey, called the biggest mistake in modern political history. What you did not see in the interview on last nights 60 minutes. Now, a look at todays eye this is truly an eye wall, full force of force. Tropical storm irma marches through florida. Were still getting heavy conditions here. Even though irmas now downgraded to a Tropical Storm, dont sort of let your guard down. Irma has spared virtually no one. There is flooding and extensive Property Damage but it will take days to understand the full impact. Now is not the time to return just yet. Theyve got a big cleanup effort under way. President trump has approved a major disaster declaration for the entire state of florida. This is a big monster. I think were very well coordinated. September 11th, 16 years later. We remember what happened to the families who continue to grieve to this day. Someone said you described the firing of james comey as the biggest mistake in political history. That would be too bombastic for even me but maybe modern political history. J. J. Watt who has been at the center of the recovery efforts. It is the sports story of 2017. Watts. Listen to the roar. While carrying the texas flag. On cbs this morning. Rafal nadal. A very sweet 16th major title. The hurricane, im sorry for all the victims and just keep going for everybody. Its very sad moment for our world but its a moment to be strong and to fight to be back. This mornings eye opener is presented by toyota. Lets go places. Welcome to cbs this morning. As you wake up in the west, Hurricane Irma has weakened to a drop ka storm. The extreme weather has lashed nearly every part of florida. Irmas center passed overnight between tampa and orlando. It is blamed for the worst storm surge flooding ever recorded in jacksonville and there are more than 6 million homes and businesses across the state without electricity. Irma is now dumping huge amounts of rain in alabama, georgia and South Carolina. Its moving toward the georgia border with top winds of 70 Miles Per Hour. Were hearing some Amazing Stories from people who were caught in the storm. We have about a dozen of our correspondents stationed all over the state. Weve managed to get to hardhit eye lans in the florida keys and a long the gulf coast but well begin our coverage with jeff glor in st. Pete beach near the mouth of tampa bay, jeff, good morning, its still blowing wind there. Yeah, the wind is still pretty fierce even though the rain has tapered off in st. Pete beach. This Barrier Island that weve been on across the states, threats remain as Damage Assessment is under way. Overnight irma continued its march north. A significant rise in water. Bringing torrential rain and Hurricane Force winds further inland. This morning in jacksonville, this region is seeing some of the storms worst. With water inundating parts of the city. We have very serious significant river flooding along the banks of the st. Johns river. Its bad now. Its going to continue to get worse. Reporter further south, parts of Daytona Beach also looked to be under water. This video shot only hours ago showed irmas winds knocking the power in downtown daytona offline. Across the state, Police Rushed to help anyone they could. Overnight in Orange County, the National Guard along with local rescue crews helped evacuate 30 people from their homes after six feet of water rushed into their neighborhood. The storm ripped the southwestern gulf coast. Marco island, naples and ft. Myers for the brunt. In the southeast, miami was drenched with water. Despite avoiding a direct hit from irma. This morn, much of the florida keys remain cut off from the mainland. Police have been unable to assess damage. Irma knocked out power to much of this island chain. But relief is already under way. We dont have a comprehensive insight into what the damage is. I dont have any numbers on potential injuries. We will work on those things tomorrow at first light. Reporter make no mistake, irma still presents dangers this morning. Jacksonville is under a flash flood emergency at this hour. The st. John river which runs through the citys overflowing its banks. City Officials Sayer there handling one 911 call every minute and conditions will only get worse. Theresa is driving along coast in Atlantic Beach just outside jacksonville and shes taking a look at the initial damage. We are in Atlantic Beach. We saw that a lot of the flooding was happening near the beach but wanted to get out near the neighborhoods to show you what it looks like. A lot of downed trees. Electrical crews trying to restore some thatch power. Were here on the corner of seminole and paul avenue. If you look down there, you can see the amount of flooding. This is because were near a creek. You can also see what appears to be a tree leaning. Im not sure if its on a home. Were going to keep riding just so you can get a sense of what its looking like in some of the neighborhoods outside of the beach area where we were. But it is still very windy. A lot of these palm trees have come down. A lot of the homes that are boarded up did so for good reason. Because they knew these winds were going to be as powerful as they are. We see some people outside right now. Maybe we can just get a sense of what theyre dealing with. Really quickly. Good morning. Were from cbs news. Did you guys get a lot of damage . Are you pretty much okay . Pretty much okay from these gentlemen right here. But again if you look down this road, there are tree bushes and limbs down. When we were on the main thoroughfare, the street lights are out. There were police on the streets trying to make sure i believe to keep people off the roads. Again, electrical crews out here because a lot of down trees and a lot of debris. We havent seen any significant damage as of oh, here we go, a tree right here thats down. Im not sure that jake will be able to get that through the window. But we see a lot of these split trees. These smaller trees. Were going to keep riding down. And then just kind of go out to left of the window so you can see some more of the damage. But more debris than anything. Were still waiting to hear back from the mayor to see where the worst of it is. Again, were just getting out here but we can even tell you from our hotel that pieces of the roof were starting to rip off. We saw street signs flying in the air. And it is dangerous. Its not necessarily what you want to be out in at this time. But well of course continue to keep you posted open what the conditions look like. We have a downed tree right here at the window. This is, again, were just getting a look at it for the first time. So this is what its looking like here in Atlantic Beach. Jeff. Thank you very much. The mayors of all these florida counties have a lot of work to do this morning. The mayor of Orange County, florida, tell us the effects of irma are far worse than were anticipated 24 hours ago. Dozens of rescues have taken place this morning in the orlando area. Adrianna diaz is on the worst side of orlando with the latest on whats happening there. This neighborhood is called orlo vista. There have been rescues all day. You can just see this boat that was brought in to rescue people. More than 100 people have been rescued from their homes because of floodwaters that were waist deep at the worst of it. Even a dog was rescued. A little puppy whose name we learned is buishy. The firefighters told us shed been left alone in her cage despite the floodwaters and was at risk of drowning. Her owner said he had left her with his family. Now, there is devastation beyond this location. And now were north from here. There is a giant sinkhole that opened up. That is blocking the entrance to a community. And the winds have died down a bit but every once in a while, we get a really strong gust. It is still dangerous outside. Last night, there was one fatality. A crash, a single vehicle crash, that occurred. Officials say it might be too early to know whether or not that was storm related. But the mayor of Orange County wants people to shelter in place. Its not over for Orange County. She wants people to stay inside, stay safe. And obey the curfew that lifts at 6 00 p. M. , jeff. Adrianna, thanks very much. Irmas core is moving towards tallahassee. It has been raining there in tall hassy all morning long. And don dahler is in downtown tallahassee. Whats latest where you are . Good morning, jeff. Well, were experiencing the Tropical Storm force winds right now but as you said the worst hasnt even gotten here yet. Weve seen some large tree limbs come crashing down. And the concern now is not storm surge. This city is 200 feet above sea level. The concern are these power lines. Weve seen some arcing with the transformers over there. Over 30,000 people in the city has already lost power and it hasnt gotten to be the windyist its going to be. Last year when the hurricane came through, twothirds of the city lost power. But this story is morphing into the story of americans once again stepping up to help each other. Some 22,000 utility workers from other states have massed, theyre going to come in to help establish power as soon as they can. As soon as its safe. There are National Guardsman from 11 states that are also staging to come in to try to help rescue and restore order. Jeff. Don, thanks very much. Were being told in many cases these Power Outages wont be restored for not days but weeks. Nora, back to you in new york. All right, jeff, thank you so much. Chief meteorologist jeff fisher of our cbs station wbz is here tracking the storms direction. The big issue for all those power crews who are going to try to work so hard in the days and weeks to come. Weve got a big wind field. Its not as intense as it was yesterday. The eye has spent some time over land. We saw the broad zone of Tropical Storm force winds. Thats Strong Enough to keep a lot of the crews to get the lights back on. You notice the rain now across the panhandle. The heaviest in georgia and South Carolina. Thats where our highest impact is. Strong winds and surge flooding an issue there. Latest, 70 mile per hour winds. Now a Tropical Storm. Traversing all of the atlantic. Its moving northnorthwest at 18. It will be moving farther inland. Those winds slowly coming down. Here you see the trek. Keep in mind, they get a little bit more lopsided as they move north. Along and north and east of that track is were going to have the strongest winds and the heaviest rain. Over a half foot in spots. As those bands come in, an isolated tornado possible. We are expecting record flooding from surge in savannah, georgia, around tybee island. And close to record levels in Charleston Hilton head area. A lot of those coastal communities still need to be watching this closely throughout the day. More than 6 Million People living in the miami metro area were spared from the storms full force. The city still suffered serious flooding and Hurricane Force winds caused at least two massive construction claims to collapse. Mark straussman is in downtown, miami. I know officials were very concerned about those cranes. Some of them as high as 900 feet tall. Good morning, concerned about a lot of things, including those cranes. And this street which you wouldnt recognize. Brickell avenue, major downtown miami street, unrecognizable. Some of the most major damage here is right in the heart of downtown miami. This symbol of miamis Economic Growth became one of the citys most highprofile storm victims sunday morning. A construction claim on top of a new 30story building snapped under winds nearing 100 Miles Per Hour. A little over an hour later, a second crane collapsed. A few miles north in the edgewater neighborhood where lincoln lives. These cranes that are 45, 50 stories up if they fall, they have the potential to go three or four blocks and everyone in that area should have been evacuated. A third crane up the coast in ft. Lauderdale crumpled in i irmas winds. They wont start a full assessment of the damage until later today. Elsewhere in miami, gusts ripped the roof off this building. Fire Officials Say no one was injured here either. The water from the bay has started to go inside the building. Miamis high end brickell neighborhood took the brunt of the hurricanes estimated 4 to 6 foot storm surge downtown. Ritzy brickell avenue bake bricereeeling these effects and the eye is, what, 200 mile also away. That is blowing my mind. On sunday, miami authorities had to contend with more than 800,000 households losing power in addition to flooded streets and toppleled trees. And Police Arrested at least 28 people for burglary and looting with numerous incidents caught on camera. And now that its day break, people are getting a sense of just how much damage irma left behind. In so many cases, of course, it is significant. I want to give you a shot of one of those construction cranes we have talked about. This is a daylight view of it. As you can see, it definitely needs some work. There were 25 cranes in miami. 2 of them collapsed. Maybe its surprising more of them didnt collapse. Clearly these two need some work. Also an update about another major part of miami, which is Miami International airport. That is closed today. And will reopen tomorrow, charlie, bub wit with a limited flying schedule. Naples and nearby marco island registered the strongest wind during the storm. They topped out at 142 miles an hour. In Downtown Naples with a look at the damage. Jonathan, good morning. Good morning, charlie. Weve been traveling all morning long. We wanted to stop along fifth avenue to show you the cleanup effort. Just moments ago, we saw plows come through to carry off all of the palm trees that were downed during those high winds. Its trees like this. That are really hampering this recovery effort. Irma made its second florida landfall in marco island as a category 3 hurricane. But it reached naples with a terrifying force. The Naples Municipal Airport recorded a wind gust of 142 Miles Per Hour. The highest reported in the state. This drone footage shows the extensive damage. Streets submerged. Buildings torn apart. Neighborhoods littered with debris. A roof completely ripped off. Its already pretty full. She rode out the hurricane cuddled in her closet. This type arouime around, she t shelter at a Naples Country Club as the dangerous eye wall passed. Trees were torn in half. Power lines ripped down. The naples storm surge feared to be one of most dangerous peaked at just over 7 feet, just half what was forecast for this area. It still caused devastating flooding for the lowlying homes and businesses along the coast. And many of them on marco island where we were earlier this morning. Police say the surge was so strong it actually lifted up some of their cars. As you can imagine at this point, that island cleaning up. Right now, it is still closed off to the public. Gayle. Thank you very much, we are hearing from south florida that some people who stayed behind in coral gable, thats a miami suburb, are now unable to get out of town. Reporter this is a r residential street in coral gables. You can see all the trees and the tree branchs that are down. In fact, as far as the eye can see here. Its hard to tell this is even a street. If it werent for the homes that are right here. Miamidade county telling us that they are getting reports of debris on the roads throughout the county. They have crews right now trying to clear some of this debris. But theyre going to have to hit the main highways first and get those cleared. The reason is they want to get power crews and First Responders into some of the affected areas. So some of these areas may have debris for 2 to 3 days while they try to get all the streets cleared. This is indicative of what people are dealing with this morning all up and down florida and into other states as irma moves in. Nora. All right, manuel, thank you. This morning, emergency teams are checking on people in the florida keys who didnt evacuate when the hurricane hit. Irma has tossed boats on to the roads and covered streets with hi hi clouds out there this morning. It looks like our high clouds will stick around through most of the day. 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