It just went over the island of barbuda. You have the storm surge, the winds and flash flooding. At this point puerto rico, the dominican republic, haiti, cuba, all in the direct line of fire as you see on your screen. The big question mark, florida. So florida is under a state of emergency even now as irma approaches. People are emptying out store shelves, dealing with long lines at gas stations. Were also this morning following two other big stories for you. Thats the fallout from President Trumps decision to end the program that protects dreamers from deportations. In a few hours, President Trump has a critical phone call with chinas president over the north korea threat. Cnn has Global Coverage of this like none other. We begin with Hurricane Irma and cnns leyla santiago live in puerto rico. Whats the situation there, leyla . Reporter were certainly feeling the winds pick up, the water, the waves come in a little more aggressively here in puerto rico. Irma right now at this hour, 225 miles southeast of where we are. And yet, as we drove around this morning, i could also tell that people are getting ready. People went to sleep last night not knowing what we would wake up to today, i have been in touch with the governors office, they tell me theyre wrapping up a meeting right now to get the latest with all the Emergency Management officials who have been working overnight. There are shelters in place, 460 of them. Many of them already opening up ready to take people, especially from the eastern part of the island where these are really floodprone areas. You can see the water coming up behind me. Puerto rico is a caribbean island. We are used to seeing tropical storms and hurricanes this time of year. Its hurricane season. This is something the governor has said that is expected to be catastrophic, expected to be of a magnitude they have never experienced here on this island. But the mood right now is a lets wait and see, hope for the best. But we really dont think things are going to end up well here. Thank you, be safe. Joining us by phone is governor ricardo rosello. Governor, can you hear me . Yes. We know you got just got out of a meeting for emergency planning. Do you believe you are where you need to be in terms of preparation . Yes, weve been preparing for this for about a week already, on top of having initial preparations for the last five months. Puerto rico always seems to be in the line of fire with hurricanes flowing through. We always want to make sure were prepared. We looked at the areas of flooding so we could mobilize people. We also are focused on the last 24 hours, mobilization efforts. So we are hoping for the best, but, of course, preparing for the worst. Its a category 5 hurricane unlike has ever been seen before. Although we hope the trajectory continues up northward, we are preparing for the worst and keeping people safe is our Main Objective. Most people are sheltering in place of course. But do you have people in the shelters already . Yes, we do have people. We have a realtime Feedback Mechanism so we can see how many people are safe. We are working with the most vulnerable populations. Our team worked the past week to identify those potentially critical flooding areas so we can start moving people and get them on the mindset that this could be a very tough storm. So things are moving. Of course, once again, i reiterate, we will feel strong, very strong winds, and we expect we hope it sort of skips northwards, but we are preparing for the worst. Its a category 5 hurricane. Our Main Objective right now is not infrastructure, but its the safety of the people of puerto rico. Whats your biggest concern in terms of the possibilities . We know theres a little bit of changes in the path of the storm in which part of the storm actually hits the island. Theres two main areas of concern. Obviously under any hurricane, any category, flooding is a main concern. We just saw in harvey how the main cause of death was essentially flooding. So we really tackled that early on with preventive measures. The second area of concern, of course, category 5 winds are really aggressive. Just to give our viewers perspective, its essentially the speed of a boeing 340 airplane taking off. These are very strong winds that were talking about, something that we have never experienced here in puerto rico and, quite frankly, not a lot of jurisdictions have. So, again, we ask the people to keep us in their thoughts and prayers, hoping for the worst part of the hurricane to get us by. We know well feel strong hurricane winds anyway. What we want to make sure is that we have our people safe and we can rebuild immediately afterwards. All right. Please know you can reach out to us with any information that people need to hear, and i hope that everybody is wrong and somehow this storm does less than expected. Governor, be safe and be well. Thank you so much for the opportunity. Chris, there are also mandatory evacuations and School Closings in the florida keys today in advance of irma. People from miami beach to jacksonville are loading up on food and supplies, leaving store shelves empty. Cnns rosa flores is live in miami with more. Whats the situation there . Reporter alisyn, good morning. This storm is moving in with a fury, but florida is preparing with a flory as well. Mandatory evacuations have already been issued for monroe county. That includes key west. Here in miamidade people with disabilities will be evacuated starting today with possible evacuation orders in this county, for portions of this county, possible today or tomorrow. People are responding to the call to heed the warning for this monster storm. Public officials asking people to have food and supplies for at least three days and indeed were seeing empty shelves in Grocery Stores and Hardware Stores and long lines at gas stations. Our friends to the north in Broward County have 43 shelters that can shelter about 33,000 people. Statewide, the governor of this state has issued disaster declaration for all 67 counties and tapped into all 7,000 National Guard members and all of their assets and resource capabilities. Alisyn . Rosa, thank you very much. You saw the lines of the traffic there. For a lot of people the calculation becomes is it worth the time to evacuate. That is a choice that often comes with big consequences. Later on were going to talk about the situation in florida, what theyre worried about, what theyre ready for with governor rick scott. We want to show you some incredible footage of Hurricane Irma from space, one of the reasons that at least the meteorologists are marveling at what theyre calling almost a perfect storm in terms of its formation, its shape, churning in that eye, captured by the International Space station. Here is the actual eye. Take a look at that. That is your energy source. Obviously all the pain spreads outward from there. As beautiful as it is, who cares . What we want is for it to miss all the vital and populated areas. That all comes down to the path. Lets get to cnn meteorologist chad meyer. We get its a pretty storm, a huge storm. The we is where is it going to go, whats it going to do . Over the next 24 to 48 hours, i think we really know that. After 72, you still have about 150 miles either way that the storm can go. Right now barbuda took a direct hit. At 185 miles per hour, there may not be vegetation left on the island. Really right over just to the north of puerto rico. That will be a battering wind and waves for puerto rico and then eventually on up into the bahamas, really causing significant damage to the bahamas. Some of the islands are more than nine feet tall, storm surge may be 20 feet. You get the idea what will happen to those islands. What has changed overnight . A significant change from here to here. But all the models this morning are here. The National Hurricane center said, wait, lets not go over here yet, lets just average it out. We believed that yesterday this was pretty good. Today well have to see if this new path, this new model run is correct, and well know that later on this morning. Here are the models from overnight. Notice the big righthand turn. Could scour miami beach all the way up into north carolina, could go to the right of there. Were watching the bahamas closely. If miamidade up to homestead pick up the eye of this storm, its a devastating storm for south florida. Thats the center of the eye. Dont for cuss on it. Theyre saying landfall in charleston. Couple days away. Not yet time to evacuate because we dont know where to go just yet. Okay. Keep following those models, chad. Thank you very much. Now to washington, just hours after stopping a plm that shields young undocumented immigrants from deportation, President Trump tweeted out a sliver of hope for them. He says hell revisit the issue in six months if Congress Fails to pass a law that protects them. Lets bring in joe johns live at the white house to help explain whats going on. Hi, joe . Reporter good morning, alisyn. The president and the administration are turning up the heat on the United States congress to come up with a package that will protect those young, undocumented immigrants from deportation. It comes after the attorney general of the United States, Jeff Sessions, announced the administration is rescinding the program started under president obama known as deferred action for childhood arrivals. It affects about 800,000 people. I have a love for these people and hopefully now congress will be able to help them and do it properly. Reporter but the stakes of congressional action or inaction seem a lot higher today. President trump tweeting tuesday night that he plans to revisit his administrations decision to end daca if Congress Fails to pass a law protecting dreamers within six months. We have no choice. We have to be able to do something. I think its going to work out very well and in the long term it will be the right solution. Reporter press secretary Sarah Sanders says the president would support signing legislation as part of a broader immigration overhaul but neglected to say whether trump would support a standalone bill that only addresses dreamers. We have confidence that congress will step up and do their job. We stand ready and willing to work with them in order to accomplish responsible Immigration Reform. Reporter senator marco rubio urging the president to take the lead and coolerly outline what kind of legislation the president is willing to sign. Some lawmakers urging immediate bipartisan action to swiftly pass a new dream act by the end of september. The clock is ticking. Were now in a countdown toward deportation for 780,000 protected by daca today. My challenge for the president is that you talk very glowingly about these kids. Help us in the house, help us in the senate. Reporter others are sceptical about congresss ability to pass come hen situation immigration legislation. Senator john cornyn telling cnn a large scale immigration bill would pretty much guarantee failure. The move to end daca fell well beyond the halls of congress. President obama slamming the decision to rescind his 2012 executive action in a lengthy letter as wrong, selfdefeating and cruel, saying in part, lets be clear, the action taken today isnt required legally. Its a political decision and a moral question. Across the country nationwide protests were on display as President Trump seemed to reverse his own promises to protect young immigrants from deportation. And another busy day on tap for President Trump today. He first speaks on the phone with chinese president xi, later meets with the congressional leadership and then flies off to north dakota for a speech on tax reform. Joe, appreciate it. The president has ended protections for dreamers, punted the issue to congress. Yes, they make law, but they have failed to do it. These people have been seeking protection since the early 2000s. What does he expect lawmakers to do . What priority will these people have . We discuss next. Office depot officemax takes care of mom now, all this just 25 cents each taking care of business con artists. theyll try anything to get your Medicare Card number. So they can steal your identity, commit medicare fraud. What can you do . Guard your card . 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Now to the fallout from President Trumps mixed messages ability the daca program. Hours after attorney general Jeff Sessions called it unconstitutional President Trump sweeted congress has six months to legalize daca. If they cant, i will revisit this issue, explanation point. Lets bring in cnn political analyst Maggie Haberman. Great to have you. Tell us about the president s mindset from your reporting. Why does the white house appear to be so conflicted about this issue . Why should this issue be different than any other issue, number one . Number two, two things going on. The president does not actually want to do this. By all my reporting, hes extremely torn about it. He meant what he said earlier when he said this year this was not an enforcement priority, that he did worry about criminals and not people brought here on their own. The problem is the president campaigned on ending daca. So if you dont want to end daca, you probably should not promise people youre going to during an election season. Thats where they find themselves. Its iebs true there was no easy fix here. Its absolutely true there was a deadline, though many argue it was an artificial deadline made by the states, threatening to sue. Theyre saying theyre ening it so it didnt end essentially if there was a legal challenge and did not get upheld. However, the way they rolled this out was so chaotic, i dont think it was a rollout. It was a leakout where they completely lost control, from the very first story broken by illiana johnson at politico which made clear how uncertain all the details were, that it allowed people to fill the void with fear, concern, rhetoric, all kinds of things. These are peoples lives. So while its certainly true by all my reporting that the president is having a hard time with this, i think the kids were facing deportation or adults facing deportation brought here as kids, but are now active members of their communities are facing a harder time. The president is on record saying i dont know how you send people back after being here 20 years. Hes also on record for decades never yielding to pressure of a lawsuit. He usually applies the pressure. He didnt want this to come to a league conclusion here wii would have probably glif en him very clear space. It goes to your point about why does he do it now and what does the word revisit mean . Thats what he said at his tweet, if you want to put it up there for people, that he might revisit this if congress doesnt get it done which is, just to remind people, exactly how he got daca. Theyve been asking for it since the early 2000s. Congress failed, several different iterations of it and then obama said revisit it. This was not done around congress to be flighty and deciding what parts of the law you want to enforce. There was a very real situation that congress was not dealing with. To your point, over, i think it was, 16 years. Thats why obama did what he did. There was a clear option and he took it. The president the current president has taken what could have been a clear option and has appeared to take everything. So, look, we have seen him do this for years. He likes to act like a dealmaker. He treats everything as if its an ongoing sliding scale where you can negotiate up until the last minute. You dont have that option here. This is something entirely different. You have seen the administration send such unbelievably conflicting signals. Look, what i was hearing on saturday and sunday before it became clear they were still negotiating up until the last second on monday about what this was going to look like and how many people would be impacted in that sixmonth window and how they would implement this winddown, the president was telling people, he knew he had gotten himself into a politically untenable situation let me rephrase that. He knew he was in a politically untenable situation. He didnt want to be in that position and did want to revisit this in six months if congress doesnt act. The problem is people in his own white house are saying to him, there is no really way to do this because the a. G. Has said this is unconstitutional. You can never say never, but lets be clear, it doesnt seem like the likeliest bet, if youre a betting person, and after that its not really clear what your options are. Now theres all sorts of backlash from even republicans, even right leaning media. Here is the wall street journal yesterday. As american problems go, these young adults shouldnt even be on the list. It shows the Republican Party is at its worst. Is deporting these people really how republicans want to define themselves . Is this catching the white house and the president off