Cover your house, adding that irma is now on track to be the most catastrophic storm the state has ever seen. What can we expect senior meteorologist janice dean in the fox newswetter center with the latest. Janice, tampa, tampa bay u right to the west side of the state is where the target path is. Janice unfortunately worst case sen or for the keys and southwest florida on the west side. The worst side of the storm is northeast quad during quadrant. This is newest advisory. I was thinking they might bump up the winds a little bit. Its been flying in and dropping drops on in here and getting all the information, we have seen the Pressure Drop and that means the storm is strengthening, we did have a landfall in cuba and disrupted the storm a little bit but now its getting over 90degree waters of the florida straits for the next 6 to 12 hours before it makes landfall. Thats welldefined eye there. I expect within the next advisory at 8 00 p. M. Tonight and we are going to start to see them every two hours as we get close to landfall that will bring us probably up a few wind speeds and we are just 5 miles shy of being category storm and we do predict that from the latest track. So this is brand new. Hasnt changed much except that it shifted a little bit more towards the east. Parallelling the coast. The worst side of the storm is right here, so theyre going to get the worst to have storm surge, the worst of the core of the strongest winds, 140milesperhour sustained winds and hurricane warnings up for 17 Million People across the state of florida, so and then we parallel the coast here for the tampa bay area which again is the worst Case Scenario for them as well unfortunately with all of that water. Lowlying areas, we keep talking about this at sea level with 15foot storm surges inundate some of the areas, the little bays and put your house under water unfortunately and then we are going to see this move up georgia category 1 storm, hurricane, by tuesday or wednesday its out. For the next 48 to 72 hours, this is going to put much of florida on edge. Hurricane warnings in effect for 17 million folks in the sunshine state, hurricane watches in effect for parts to have panhandle up towards georgia and coastal georgia up towards south carolina, here is the future radar, this is what we are expecting, a landfall sometime tomorrow around key west area, 7 00 a. M. Eastern time, a potential landfall around naples or fort myers in the dinner time hour. Around 10 00 p. M. And then again, the worst, the core of those winds scraping along the coast, along with the storm surge we could see upwards a foot of rain and the tornado threats, so tornado watch in effect until midnight tonight, weve had a couple of tornado warned storms right now, no warnings just yet but we could see weak tornadoes with structural damage with this hurricane making landfall, forecast wind gusts, lets look at it. Key west, 81 Miles Per Hour, 6 00 a. M. On sunday u marathon close to 100 Miles Per Hour. 80, 100 Miles Per Hour marathon, up to fort myers, cedar key, this is 5 00 a. M. On monday, so monday tuesday, dealing with at least Tropical Storm forced winds. This is really potentially catastrophic for the state of florida specially since the west coast is the most vulnerable side of this state. Back to you. Eric janice you mentioned tornadoes because of the strength of the storm, you think theyll be more than houston . You know what harvey brought close to 70 reports of tornadoes, it doesnt really matter the strength or size of storm, it has to do with the counterclockwise as i understand and as it moves over land we get the possibility of weak spinoffs of tornadoes, the problem is a lot of are rain rafts, we cant see them coming you have weather radios, you want to make sure they are on. The problem, eric, we tell people to go to the lowest portion of the home with tornado and with storm surge the highest level of the home, so its just there are no words except prayers right now and hopefully people are listening to their local officials. Eric prayers and thoughts of nation for the people of florida. Arthel. Arthel florida keys are now seeing the first effects of Hurricane Irma as the eye of the storm moves closer to the coastline, adam housely live in key largo florida with the latest, hey, adam. Hey, arthel. The conditions are continue to go deteriorate over the last five hours, six hours, the winds now are consistently 30 to 50 miles an hour, we are here in the ocean side of key largo, you see to my right, the two boat that is we showed you earlier, they are down one line left, the others are broken. They are against a cement dock. Probably 12foot skit. You can feel and theres been lowlevel flooding already and we are still long ways away from storm moving to the shore. The eye according to what janice talked about is going to be probably about 60 miles south and west of us, cross line 40 miles. Doesnt matter, we are in the middle of red area. Many people are bracing for what may have happened here. Its done. We also know that authority [inaudible] they said once the winds got sustained about 40 miles an hour, they were no longer going to go out. We are right at that point. We dont know when they are closing bridges. The roads are still open, guys, a few cars people trying to get out. The few that remain are hunk ed down and trying to ride this thing out and right now its ugly. The big concern really is not just the power of the storm but the fact that this started like four or five hours ago. It gradually gotten worst and we probably are going to to have 30, 40 hours straight and significant damage on some of the expect you would back to you, guys. Arthel more to come and its already ugly. Adam housely, thank you very much for the reporting and be safe. Eric Hurricane Irmas outer bands switching to metro area, home to 6 Million People, phil keaton reporting live in miami beach, the winds and waves are picking up not as dramatic as south. We are getting one of the outer bands sweeping through miami beach as we speak, Miamidade County has been reporting from the Emergency Operation center throughout the day, 50milesperhour wind, 49 an hour ago. At 4 00 oclock we were certainly experiencing the most thriving wind and rain. It comes in events. Here is an empty street. All miami beach has looked like this all day long. No businesses open. Everything shuttered up. Sandbags on the floor hoping to protect the exterior. You can see the palm trees trying to fly. There are 350 approaching, shelters opened in the state, the governor said that more are even opening on the west coast, on the gulf of mexico side of the state as well as janice was mentioning, the hurricanes eye wall seems to be forecast all the way up in key west, fort myers, sarasota and tampa bay area. Winds this strong, i have to tell you in miami beach, miamidade, the winds we have been seeing, theyre too dangerous, too strong to then try to push shutters up or plywood on windows and doors if you havent done already. So thats good advice for the tampa bay area right now. If you dont have shutters, plywood up yet because you thought the worst of it was going to be up the east coast as was projected all week, you really have limited time to get that done. The reason these curfews are in effect at 8 00 p. M. Tonight at miami beach, 7 00 p. M. Tonight for all of miami, broward countys curfew is going in effect at 4 00 oclock, an emergency operators and officials, they want everybody who did not evacuate as urged who stayed behind to stay indoors. Nobody on the streets, no vehicles, no people from here on out simply because it is dangerous and they dont want anybody getting hurt. They dont want to occupy First Responders and once the winds get above 40 miles an hour, they seemingly are just about at the threshold, no more cops, no more paramedic and no more firefighters making rescues after the storm goes through. You see the storm has been churning. Right now we are at low tide, the waves are a little bit more at bay right now but, again, we are in a bit of a lull here. As the dirty side of the storm project today rake much of the mainland, up in orlando, they are certainly getting very concerned, many of the storms and buildings and offices, construction sites have picked up their equipment, boarded up windows and doors and from the mayor on down to west coast residents, they are worried. Last night to the west coast, so its coming straight up. Im not going to wait around like katrina. Got you. Have you dealt with very powerful hurricanes in the past . No, we are from california. It was earthquakes. Something new for you, i guess. Yeah, disaster waiting to happen and im not going to sit around for it. Miamidade county, broward county, Fort Lauderdale and palm beach county, already 25,000 households without electricity. Duke energy which Services Much of central and northern florida also this afternoon projecting that a million floridans should expect to lose electricity and power at their homes at some point over the next two days and at that point it could be days, weeks or even longer for everybody to get their power back restored. Back to you. Eric thats what people are talking about, lack of power, this will devastate a lot of the infrastructure. Phil keaton, thank you. In a few minutes we will be talking to mayor levine. Arthel irma is expected to make its second landfall as category 4 hurricane near the city tomorrow evening. Steve is live in naples and its the calm before the Hurricane Irma storm. Arthel, youre right. It is peaceful right now. Naples, the city of 20,000, its getting a light breeze on saturday afternoon. Just a few drops of rain. At 5 00 p. M. Here ordinarily on fifth avenue you see hustle and bust until the restaurants. Instead every store is shut down, a lot of them too have been boarded up over the course of the day with plywood. The only people you really see out at this point are news crews waiting for what maybe an impending disaster and even when you talk to thirdgeneration floridan who is are still here in naples, theres a real sense of worry. Been here since 1958. Its going to be pretty bad. The area of mandatory evacuation continues to expand here in colyer county and lee as well. There are 20 shelters across z the country. 18 of those are already filled up. You have a situation where at this last minute you have people, families going from shelter to shelter looking for a place to ride out the storm safely and sometimes just not finding it. Naples could get hit really by a two fist by first the strong wind of a major hurricane but also perhaps more damaging could be the storm surge in some places here 16 feet, that would basically change the geography here. We could see entire first floors of structures, businesses and homes under water by monday morning. Arthel, back to you. Arthel Steve Harrigan in naples, florida. Thanks, steve. Eric federal agencies gearing up for back to back major hurricanes, in texas, well, now they are add it again, how are they preparing, coming up, we will talk to dhs acting secretary elaine duke. Arthel mayor of miami beach why hes calling irma a Nuclear Hurricane. Everyone needs to evacuate whether visitor or resident, this storm is powerful, its strong and aggressive and coming our way. Yeah, Liberty Mutual 24hour roadside assistance helped him to fix his flat so he could get home safely. My dad says our insurance doesnt have that. Dont worry i know what a lug wrench is, dad. Is this a lug wrench . Maybe . You can leave worry behind when liberty stands with you™. Liberty stands with you™. Liberty mutual insurance. Whats going on . Oh hey thats it . Yeah. 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We are prepare as possibly can be of something thats catastrophic and powerful as Hurricane Irma. I said it before, we have been watching this thing from the caribbean, a Nuclear Hurricane and the damage done is unprecedented. We are looking at the track, we may not get direct hit but doesnt make difference. The hurricane is massive. The outer shell, the hurricane winds, the Tropical Storm winds its something we have to deal with and thats why we put together a curfew on miami beach telling everyone they must be inside by 8 00 p. M. Tonight and we are going to enforce that with the miami beach department. Eric that curfew starts 3 hours from now and making sure people are not out during storm surge . A combination, the safety of our residents and any visitors who happen to be here. Number two, of course, we want safety for First Responders, they dont have to go outside to rescue anyone and, of course, number three, we would not want to see any type of looting or any Disorderly Conduct on miami beach whatsoever. Eric do you think most people have heeded the warnings and some are in the hotel and some are having a party tonight, what do you say to them . My feeling to them if youre not in shelter, hunger down and be prepared. If youre going to have a party, you may want to have party at stairwell in your building or someone incredibly safe, yaw better not be outside becausing this something we are going to enforce to the best of our ability. Eric do you think itll wash the water right over, the whole city from the Atlantic Ocean side right over to the mcarthur and biscayne, basically flow over the complete island . Well, its hard for us to predict at this point because this hurricane as you know is moving a different direction, the course is off to the west. That too can change. Storm surge is a very serious issue, clearly in miami beach, we know something about flooding and water on land where we are planning for the worst, hoping for the best and we wouldnt like to see it but, of course, when you have seen hurricanes in the past in miami beach, the water, the surge can do significant damage and come right across. Eric i covered andrew. It was like a jet engine and i looked out the door and at one point and the car moved, like someone just pushed a car. You dont really understand unless you live through one of these, the enormous strength and danger that they they pose. No question about it. Look at andrew, they had a path but the path was not the path it wanted to go, it ended going around southwest. Thats why i say to people, dont necessarily predict and risk your life. It too can change. Its happened before. Eric talk about, when people think youre out there in the beach, you think of great city, night life on ocean drive, you have a lot of retirees as in the past, one and five or so over 65 years old. What special accommodations for the older homes . Mandatory evacuation was ordered, a couple of days before, i went on and went on tv, did a press conference and told residents an visitors, get out of miami beach, we went way ahead of mandatory evacuation order, we felt it was the right thing to do. We identified seniors and homeless population, our special needs people and we begin offering them transportation to specialize facilities. I personally went to receiving centers, literally met with seniors that didnt want to be. An old woman 92 years old her name was ana, she said to me, alcalde, im not leaving, i couldnt convince her, if you have a problem, giver me a call, you know what she said, mr. Mayor, here is my cell phone, you call me if you have a problem, thats an example of some of our seniors and how challenging it is. Eric government in action. Ana, we will be thinking about you and mr. Mayor thinking about you and your family. Good luck and prayers and our thoughts as you know are with you. Thank you. Eric of course, mayor Philip Levine of miami beach. Arthel preparing for worst as the outer bands of Hurricane Irma prepare to hit florida. President trump getting briefed on the latest preparations on the storm. How hes preparing for irmas landfall, all of that just ahead. dog mmm. This new beneful grain free is so healthy. Oh farmraised chicken thats good chicken. Hm . Here come the accents. Blueberries and pumpkin. Wow. And spinach that was my favorite bite so far. avo new beneful grain free. Ou