Daytona beach where you have seen the drama of the wind and the storm surge affecting the shoreline. 4 Million People without power. 6 million were forced to evacuate. With the light of day, because, again, 4 Million People without power, were among them, here in naples, we will begin to see the devastation. This is not about the past. Its about the present. Sarah . Reporter yeah. Another band of strong winds coming through, though they have died down. We are hearing breaking news that authorities have decided, the Police Department has decided to go out and rescuing about 25 people in an Apartment Building. That has been going on the past half an hour. We just talked to the police chief who told us they decided to go ahead and bear these winds because they felt these lives were in danger. There were so many people in potential danger from the flooding that they went out, even though the winds are gusting above 40 Miles Per Hour, which is usually the amount of speed that will stop First Responders from going out. So police out rescuing folks as we speak. We understand now the folks are okay. We will get more information from police when they are done. They were in the middle of it when we called is and said they would call us back. That gives you some indication, yeah, some people did stay. But most of the folks on Daytona Beach, including officials, had no idea hold on. Another gust coming through. Had no idea the storm would come through like this, the actual eye of the storm would come and pass over Daytona Beach. They thought this would stay on the west coast after it hit in the areas of sanibel island, for example. Naples, where you are, chris. They just didnt realize that it would make a turn. Irma has been very tricky. It made a turn unbeknownst to the folks here and the county adjacent to us. It has cape canaveral, Brevard County. Emergency management was there. They told us two tornados have touched down in Brevard County this evening, overnight and into the morning. And there were 40 tornado warnings during all of this. All theyre getting, this major wind. In these cells there are tornados. So a lot of fear whipped up to try and make sure that people are okay. Luckily so far when it comes to Brevard County and those tornados, it is is still dark and they have to assess. They dont have any injuries. We are going to get an update from police about the rescue they just did here on Daytona Beach even in these dangerous conditions. Chris . Reporter imagine to have to go through a hurricane especially in the dark. Theyre not going to know what theyre dealing with for hours still yet to come. Hurricane irma isnt going anywhere. You are expected to get hours more of this. Let us know when to come to you, sara, when you have perspective from your vantage point. Lets go to chad myers. You have been telling the story from duration. They have been getting a hit for a while in daytona. It is not completely over even in miami. How does this storm generate so much suck over such a broad range . Because it had such a low pressure to start with. We were down in the 930s. Look at your barometer hanging on the wall that you never look at. 2770. It is is over as far as it will go. We are seeing the most dangerous part of the storm right now is about savannah, charleston, down to daytona where our sara is. There is surge coming here. There is still surge on the backside because of the way the storm is spinning in the middle. Thats not what they are worried about. This is a slight surge. Two to three feet into tampa because it didnt moved over tampa. It moved east of there. Because it moved east, the surge is on the east now. Jacksonville, st. Johns winter. Main street bridge set the all time record set by Hurricane Dora in 1964. And the water is still pouring into this area. Theres daytona. One band after another. Sara will not get it of these bands for hours. This is the area seeing significant flooding. Fernandina beach, youre 17 feet above where you should be and youre at low tide. Another six feet at high tide at noon today. Jacksonville, st. Augustine, if you are along the intercoastal, st. Simons island, your water goes up at noon today. Some spots will be 13 feet above the mean sea level. We are seeing high tides today. Six feet normal high tide. Then add seven or eight feet on top of that. This will be truly a problem today. If youre near the water anywhere in this area, let me just circle this. If you are here, i want you to welsh maybe not here but you get the idea. If you are on the water there, i want you to go outside and see where the water is. It is coming up so fast. It will come up even faster as high tide comes through. After 7 00, the water will go up. Were at low tide now. Its going to go up. You could be in trouble. If you can see the water and you think about it, its going to go up six feet more were than that. I want you out of there. You dont want First Responders having to come and get you. We are already seeing that because people didnt expect this water to be this high and it already is. Reporter that is lucky enough to have power, cell power still in this storm. People dealing with it right now. Kaley hartem is up in gainesville up on the northern part of on florida. Whats going on there . Reporter well, chris, as i went on the air with you about an hour ago a siren went off at the university of florida football stadium. It was just a fire alarm. Nothing to actually be alarmed back. It was such an eery feeling. Within the next hour were expecting the heaviest rains, the strongest winds, perhaps even Hurricane Force winds. Until this point we have not felt anything that can compare to what we saw at Daytona Beach. Nothing has made it difficult for me to stand up and talk to you. We have seen tree debris. This city prides themselves on their trees like the oak behind me or the palm trees that line the streets. There have been reports of downed trees all over the place. 30 of people in the gainesville area are without power. Chris, the question here, what will the next hour bring . Well be standing by. Reporter the storm comes and she does not want to leave. It is enough to knock out power. Its going to change peoples lives there. Lets hope thats the worst part there. Kaylee, keep us in the loop. Art, can you hear us . Yes, sir. What do you know about whats on the ground . How bad are you dealing with power outage . What are you hearing from people where you are. County wide we have 50,000 without power. We are expecting the worst to come through within the next 20 minutes. Were braced. Were ready. Were ready to get out of it, get over it, and get to recovery. In terms of what you have had to do so far, are you getting emergency calls . Are you able to get out . Yeah. We have been shuterred for two hours. We have widespread tree damage and wires down. We will tackle that with the road crews. We have chainsaw crews out with heavy equipment that we use with your s. W. A. T. Teams that we will clear roads with to get them back open quickly. Reporter god willing, youre going to be wrong in terms of your worst concerns. But what are they right now . In terms of before she rolls through in ernest, what are you worried about . Like your reporter touched on earlier, we are a tree city here. We pride ourselves on the big trees that we have. At day break, the worst fear is trees on houses and things we will discover when we get some light. Do you have what you need to deal with that kind of situation . Are you going to have a need for volunteers . If so, please let us know so we can help you with that. Are you expecting that . Do you have the manpower . Yeah. We have plenty of manpower and we have the National Guard imbedded here with us. So we anticipate that we will quickly be able to handle those situations as we locate them. Reporter all right. Sheriff, thank you very much. Let us know how we can help and what the needs are and the need for 346rgz. And please be safe. Thank you. We appreciate it. Reporter all right. Alison, you heard the sheriff say the National Guard is sheltering in place right now. A lot of National Guardsmen are already in place, prepositioned. Thats going to make a critical difference. They dont have to work their way into areas. Theyll start there. The general was very impressed. Noaa Tropical Weather meteorologist bill south stayed some key west through the weekend and hunkered down in the noaa bunker. Bill, great to have you with us. Tell us what it was like in the bunker this weekend. It was busy, believe it or not. I had a lot of interest in the media with interviews. I felt safe, theres no doubt about it. It was really raucous outside. You could hear the wind blowing and the trees shaking, all that stuff. Tell you what, i did feel safe. I felt secure. Just tried to do my best to get information to the people if they stayed behind to shelter in their interior rooms even in bathrooms and the bathtub covered in a mattress. Of course thats why you stayed, to try to continue to get information out. I understand that your storm bunker was built to withstand 220mileperhour winds, which is why obviously you were much safer than anybody who just stayed in their house. So whats it like in the keys this morning . I know the sun isnt up yet. Do you have any sense of what the conditions are in terms of the storm surge, in terms of hrbg terroristhe bridges being washed out. We were on the phone with the county that the keys are in. There is no or low water pressure. The aqueduct authorities believe theres a few leaks in the main water pipe that brings the water down from the mainland. Theyre going to have to get on that this morning to get us water. Theres no electricity throughout the keys. No cell service at least in the lower and middle keys. There might be cell service in the upper keys. U. S. 1, the only road that comes in and out of the florida keys, theres three choke points that are completely ininaccessible. Mile masher 75 is washed out. There is a large pole blocking the road at mile marker 35. And mile marker 29 is washed out. The main impact is the island of big pine key lies between mile marker 35 and mile marker 29. So we dont have any idea what the damage is like there until we can get the road open and get there. Today were going to have some aerial flights over to assess the damage. So well have a better idea once we get these flights in here and be able to assess the damage. Oh, my gosh, phil, bill, it does not sound good. It sounds like theyre marooned. No cell service. No electricity. No water. And really no way to now get out if there are all of these blockages on the roads. So how does this because youre an expert, give us a perspective how irma compares to others . For me, its the worst storm i have ever seen. Historically, its probably in the top three or four for the keys since 1851. Oh, my gosh. That gives us helpful perspective. Thank you very much. Well check back with you as it gets lighter to see just what the keys look like. Thank you for being with us on new day. Thank you. Chris, that just gives us a great sense if people stayed behind just how cut off really from all civilization they are at this hour. Reporter listen, i spent a lot of time talking to bill south. His perspective from down in the keys was invaluable. And knowing what was coming was helpful. Dealing with it is a different task. Look at miami. When we come back after the break, they thought they were going to be spared. 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And the numbers just keep popping. Now the number of people without power in florida is 5. 7 million. Imagine what a big percentage of this state that is and how long it may last. Were also getting reports from jacksonville. The storm surge there, which is a big concern with this storm, especially in this state, now at an alltime record. Theyre not done with irma. They are just in the middle of the exposure to the front part of that storm. They broke their record from 1964 set by Hurricane Dora. These are the wrong kinds of records. This is not the kind of history we want to make ever let alone with the storm Hurricane Irma. Lets get to rosa flores in miami. Another shock effect. That city was supposed to be spared. And not only did it get hit, but it seemed like it would never end, and the damage reflects that duration. Rosa . Reporter kraouyou know, chr miami was pummeled for hours. At this hour, 800,000 people are without power in miamidade. The tree damage you see behind me and debris are a common sight all over the city. Two cranes snapped. As you mentioned, the eye did not barrel down miami. But its safe to say that irma barreled through florida without mercy. Hurricane irma walling the Sunshine State coast to coast making landfalls as a category 4. Leaving the lowlying florida keys under water. Powerful 130mileperhour winds whipping through southwest florida sunday, downing power lines and leaving a trail of debris behind. More than 4 million customers without power across the state. Pummeling marco island as a category 3 registering some of the strongest winds in the state. These two photos from marco island taken just 15 minutes apart showing docks completely submerged by the storm surge. In naples, 140mileperhour wind gusts tossing aluminum siding from mobile homes throughout the neighborhood. Peeling the roof clean off of this Apartment Building in miami. The dramatic moment caught on camera. Roaring winds and water turning streets into rivers. Construction cranes weighing several tons threatening everything below. At least two cranes in downtown miami snapping under the pressure of irmas howling winds. Police rescuing this 4monthold baby and its mother from a flooded home. A backyard tree is uprooted right before a familys eyes in fort lauderdale. Several tornados reported as Hurricane Irma began its assault on florida. Water spouts just like this one, popping up, threatening to wreak havoc. Floridas governor saying to heed evacuation orders. Over six million ordered to evacuate, becoming one of the largest in u. S. History. If you have been ordered to evacuate, you need to leave now. Reporter more than 160,000 hunkering down in shelters across the state. And 35 people were forced to evacuate Riviera Beach after the roof collapsed on this apartment complex. Amid the chaos, a miracle in coral springs. This baby girl delivered at home. First responders carrying the little one you to safety. Miamidade is under a curfew until 7 00 a. M. Eastern. 28 people were arrested overnight for looting. And schools are closed until further notice. But, chris, in the middle of all of this, a little glimmer of normalcy. We have learned while the airport is closed today, limited operations resume tomorrow. Chris . Reporter all right, rosa. We are hoping to be equally shocked by the recovery. Right now we have the city manager of naples, bill moss. We spoke to you before. You said you had a plan. We didnt expect what happened yesterday. Making history in the wrong kind of way with the gusts. The surge. We still dont know whats out there in terms of flooded homes. What are you worried about . Well, the storm was as fierce as i had ever expected. The miracle is the backside of the storm just seemed to peter out for us. That was very, very helpful. We could have had much more damage as a result of that. The streets are blocked because of fallen trees. Some of the streets are flooded because of the tied tidal surge. , storm surge. We have had very little damage that we have been able to see in the dark. Very little damage to businesses. All in all i think we will be back to business very quickly. We will mobilize this morning, start clearing the streets. It may take all day and maybe into tomorrow before we can get people safe and back to their homes. The power will be the big issue. Electricity might be out for a day. It might be out for weeks. It went out fairly early on. Thats why it is so dark. The only lights we have are batterypowered lights here. The only time you see lights here is headlights. What they reveal is not good. People shouldnt be out driving. Hopefully they are mostly media. And the flooded homes. I saw drone footage that did not look good. Again, we will not be able to know until we get started. Most of our homes are elevated because of the fema Flood Elevation codes. Most will be protected, but there will be some damage. We will have to assess as we go along today. You will turn a negative into a positive and take a gust that set a record and use it as an emblem of what the city can endure. By the end of the day, we will have our main thoroughfares open. If not, we will have them ready for tomorrow. If people want to come babbling, they will have to be very safety it wont be convenient. The weather will be hot. There will be no airconditioning. But at least they have a chance to come back to their homes. We will get information out. You let us know what we need toe tell the people here, especially until the power gets back on. We are going person to person telling them whats going on. Im glad to see youre safe and hope its a quick recovery. Thank you. Absolutely. Bill moss is the city manager. I know you have a lot to do. You have to get to work. Walk this way. Thats a wall. You cant go that way, bill. We kno