Delivering a major blow to florida. The National WeatherService Warns this could be the last chance for people to leave and get rid of this. I want you to look at the destruction left behind in barbuda. This could be what is coming to florida. Imagine this. Heres what we know right now. More than five and a half Million People have been ordered to evacuate. It could become one of the largest Mass Evacuations in u. S. History. There. Reporter more than 10,000 people dealing with power outages. Some shelters in miamidade could have already reached capacity. Beknow some of those pet friendly shelters could have reached capacity. Chad, lets talk about the track, because we talked a lot about this as an east coast storm but increasingly this is a threat to the west coast as well. 120 hours ago, we waited for the urn the. We said look, theres going to be a turn. When will it happen . Well, originally the models said it would turn somewhere in bermuda but that didnt happen. Now we know that turn is going to be later. Now the turn looks like it may turn over key west and cape coral and fort myers as a major hurricane. Now, the storm did torn up overnight. That is terrible news for cuba. That is terrible news for the keys. That area there really got torn up overnight. Now this thing is down significantly. The highest wind gusts i can find is about 135 but the Hurricane Center still hanging with 150. Were down to red, but the water here where its going is again, very warm. I suspect that purple will come back in the forecast for landfall category 4, 150mileperhour storm very close right over key west, get a map if you dont know where the places are. Theyre beautiful and they may not be so beautiful tomorrow afternoon. I will tell you every single florida key, here is the storm on radar right now. We are getting weather into key biscayne all the way into the keys. Almost to about that ocean reef right there. Thats key largo and if youre driving out of the keys, its still time to get out of the keys. The watches have extended all the way into georgia and its shifted to the west. This is the european model running right over to the west of tampa and right up into the fort myers. There are so many elderly people that may not be able to evacuate here. This could be 140 over fort myers into that south western florida. And thats kind of new. Yesterday i thought tampa would be 85. Now i think 115. The american model takes it just to the east and finally up to the north and maybe toward ever glade city. Thats a big shift. That is 30, 40 miles when it comes to east west distance, but that is a big shift and a big help to fort myers if the model does come true. Mooim mooim youre now filling up. I juthe winds are blowing in fr the east and blowing that water in right now. Heres what the forecast winds look like. Miami, the winds were blowing like 40 so every time a band comes by youre going to pick up wind. Thats naples, thatsmyers and then finally dying off as it gets into georgia. So let me im going to roll you through a couple scenarios here. Heres the storm right here. Just off of the cuban coast and its going to come in here. This is the big keys here all the way down to key west. So the weather comes through here and it comes up here into cape coral. Lets move you ahead. Key west, the air force base here. I saw yesterday, a bunch of air force planes evacuating all of these naval air stations. Get those those blaens out plan the way. You hit the missouri keys and you get to the 7 mile bridge. Theres so many people whoily along canals. You put a little boat on the canal, those canals are going to fill up. Theyre going to be 12 feet higher than they are right now. Your house is going to be underwater. Something else im very concerned about. If we put 12 feet of water into the everglades where does it go . Im concerned theres about a 4 foot levee in this area right here keeping the everglades wet and keeping the concrete jungle here dry. If we put 12 feet of water over a 5foot levee, i think were going to flood western cities from west kendall, possibly, you know how high your levee is to the west so you just if you need to go or not. This is still 24 hours away, but theres always something, victor. Theres always something that we forget about when it comes to a major storm like this. When it comes to katrina its oh, it hit gulf port, its gone, new new orleans had a couple of wind gusts and all of a sudden the levee broke from the backside and we lost 1,000 people. So theres always something you have to think about. This is one of them. Yeah. Thanks so much. The comparisons to andrew, may be a problem for a lot of people. Krig, the former fema director, they know his work here, florida has not seen a storm like this since the 20s. So very fuse people alive who have experienced anything like this in this state. As we discuss tds the shift to the west, we do not want people to believe they are out of the worst of this because this city is and should be bracing for lasting damage as Hurricane Irma threatens to slam the city with the winds and the rain that are coming. Rosa flores is standing by. Its important to reset and tell the people how the city is preparing. Reporter well, victor, good morning. This city and city officials have sent a very clear message from the get go. If you are in an evacuation zone you must evacuate. 660 people to evacuate. We saw empty shelves, people packing their cars heading north and we saw people go into shelters. This county has capacity for about 100,000 people to go into shelters. City officials tell us that at least 23 people are in shelters thats in 43 shelters seven at capacity and there are those folks who decide to ride the storm at home. Some of them people are in homes. You see the boats that are flexion to the bridge thats lighting the water leer, i talked to one of those people and the man says that he plans to ride out his this storm in his boat. He says that he has gone through many, many storms before. He says this is my house. I plan to stay. Take a listen. Really tie everything down you can. Nothing that will fly away. Nothing thats going to get damaged and make sure you have lots of water and batteries and provisions and sort of have some knowledge of boating experience. Now he also says he took in a homeless man to make sure he had a place to stay, but as you know, with storms we will have surge, we will see high winds so staying on a boat is definitely what Public Officials are saying you shouldnt do. Yeah, it is certainly a risky choice and its important that you pointed out some of the people who are deciding to stay versus the people who because of an economic reason potentially cannot drive up to atlanta. Listen, there are a lot of people who have this concept of florida thats its all driving around solving crimes and sitting around eating cheesecake. There are some parts of the city that for economic reasons people feel they cannot leave four or five days before a storm. Also the Homeless Population here as well. As i toss it back to you, the discussion of people deciding not to leave we should also examine why they should not leave. The stcity officials try k to me sure they get the support they need. There is still room in shelters there and yes, i know they have been trying to bus people there and it is so important for folks to try to get on those buses if they can and to find out if they can. You dont want anybody staying in their home. Im going to talk a little bit about irma and what shes been doing in the last few hours. Look at some of the images were getting in from this morning. 160mileperhour winds is part of what youre watching there. In fact, the winds were so strong they broke the equipment that records wind speeds on the island. The bahamas are really feeling some harsh rain and wind there as well. Storm surges up to 20 feet in the area. And the latest pictures out of ba barbuda are just breathtaking. Irma crashed that island on wednesday and it is astonishing to think that only one person died. Those residents, about 2,000 of them are preparing for a second hurricane in four days. Jose has its sights on barbuda but those people have been moved to antigua i believe. As irma moves toward south florida, the concern on the citys construction sites may really do some damage because how prepared are those sites . The vice chairman is joining us next to discuss. Stay close. Thats mom taking care of business. 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We are on ocean drooiive in sou beach and the beach is 50 feet to my right and we have lightning surrounding us because one of the feeder bands that bring in the heavy downpours are about to move on shower. Weve had a few of these move in overnight and they change the weather conditions dramatically. Temperatures drop 10, 15 degrees in a matter of seconds. It can get dicey pretty quick. We know the storm track has shifted slightly to the west but that doesnt mean you let your guard down because we are still going to feel the full brunt of this storm. Remember, Hurricane Force winds still expected here within the next 24 hours. Storm surge conditions, the official forecast 5 to 10 feet. Were talking about 5 to 10 feet of inundation water levels above my head. Also the tornado threat, victor talked about it just a moment ago. We eve got changing wind directions with height. That shows spin in the atmosphere so it doesnt take much for these small moving feeder bands to rotate and spin up a tornado. Often weaker but can still cause considerable damage. 10 to 15 inches of rain, a foot of rain in 24 hours, this is not the same as harvey. Remember, harvey stalled. It took a long time to move on. This storm is going to move quickly but no one wants to see a foot of rain anywhere that they live. Right . Absolutely and no matter how quickly this storm moving its not going to move quick enough for the People Living here. You know, what you see across the city when you come to miami are so mf otany of the cranes. Joining me now is dan whiteman, vice chairman of Coastal Construction that began preparing for irma a little while ago. Youve got 12 of the cranes across the city. Thats correct. So let me read to you something that came from the Deputy Director of the Building Department. The crane arm has to remain loose. Its not tied down. An example of that swaying. The arms counter balance poses a potential danger. I understand that theyre rated for 145mileperhour winds. The cranes were all inspected by third party inspectors. All of the connections were secured over the last four days. The turntables that we talk about weather vaning, we were there as late as 9 00 last night and they were all doing what exactly theyre intended to. Thewith know that sustained winds at up higher than that. What happens . Were confident that regardless, those cranes are going to operate fine. Many times there are safety factors built into those calculations and those are guidelines that have been established for years to, you know, be considered. Now, also from this official with the Building Department and im paraphrasing here suggesting that it may be risky to be in a high rise near one of these cranes would you be comfortable putting your family next to one of these cranes. I wouldnt be there, the reason being there, theres a greater danger of flying debris damage than one of those tower cranes coming down. Explain to people why these werent taken down. Even though weve got 12 of them up there, 25 of them in downtown miami, there are only a few subcontractors capable f otaking them down. You would not have time to prepare and even though we started four days early, we did lower four of our cranes to the possible height by taking sections of them out over the last few days. Youd have to close roads to do that too . Youre creating more of za danger by trying to take them down and theyre designed to weather vane, thats exactly what theyre going to do. Now, when you see these cranes across the city, they are supposed to weather vane. Theyve done their best to make sure that everyone stays safe. Back to you in tlaents. Listen, floridas governor has been clear about this. If you live in the state youre going to be hit by this storm. Millions of people it seems thankfully have taken that warning seriously. They are getting out and thats what youre looking at there. A mass exodus from this deadly storm. Heres what one evacuee described her decision to leave. Its difficult for me to leave my home. I dont want to displace myself, but this is going to be a big storm and its going to come in right in miami, so we would hope that it how old go out to sea and at one point it became apparent this was our window of opportunity to move north so we drove nortz ah. There is a window of opportunity and shes right. Chad myers reporting roads are clear if people want to still try to get out and gas has been delivered to florida which was one of the big problems. Gas has been delivered to many of those areas now in florida so were going to continue following Hurricane Irmas destruct ifz path and cuba, we have an update from our Weather Center about where its going to go and the po ten si it will pack on its journey. Stay close. 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Victor blackwell is in florida, miami to be specific and i know youre feeling the wind pick up there. Reporter the wind has picked up. Were getting strong gusts. Thats relative to the gusts that are going to be felt by this part of the state. When i drove no this site about two hours ago, there was already standing water in some sections of downtown miami and that was just from a single outer band, a single squall coming through. You can imagine what happens when those inches of rain come to miami and miami beach. Lets continue now with our breaking News Coverage of irma. A category 4 storm, a strong category 4 headed to the u. S. The worst will be coming here making landfall in southern florida tomorrow. And people, many of them are staying where they are to face the fury of the storm and some are rushing to shelters. More than 5. 5 million have tried to get out. Airports are being closed. Highways were jam packed and those who cannot get out are trying to find space in shelters. More than 40 are hope and more than 5. 5 Million People under evacuation orders. This could become one of the largest evacuations in u. S. History. As i send it back to you and chad myers in the Weather Center, where the worst of t