Florida, ripped through marco island, sana bell, naples and heading north towards cape coral the target later tonight, the city of tampa and st. Pete. Ordering mandatory curfews for residents at this hour as the storm spawned several possible tornadoes throughout the state and many waiting for the dreaded storm surge, the killer water slamming in from the backside in the gulf. Janice dean has been following this all day. Whats the latest status that the hour . I will get you the latest but want to show you five days ago how well the National Hurricane center predicted this storm. This was their kohn five days ago. Look at the center of where the storm went, over cuba and into southwest florida. Now there was a shift in the cone days out, but this is remarkably amazing forecasting. So, of course, hats off to the National Hurricane center who do an amazing job tirelessly day in and day out to try to save folks, thats exactly what theyre doing. Good work for them. Looking at the radar, so we had two landfalls around the keys area, and marco island, were expecting the potential for another landfall depending where the center of the storm moves. If it moves offshore, were going to get another landfall. Well have to see if it follows the trajectory, if its more inland, it wont go over water, we wont have another landfall. Have to see where it goes. Right now, were seeing the worst of the storm right here. See the oranges and the reds here, thats the eye wall where we have the strongest core of winds, 110 Miles Per Hour at least. Were seeing wind gusts in excess of 140 Miles Per Hour. Thats impressive. Tornadoes, you mentioned that, thats going to be a threat especially for the east coast. Weve got the outer bands scraping. This storm is massive. Tropical stormforce winds. 220 miles from the center of this storm. So its covering the whole state of florida and the Tornado Warnings. Weve had at least a dozen tornado warned storms, since this morning, and can you see right now a lot of them lined up all along the coast here. Daytona beach, merritt island, down towards, all along the coast here is where were seeing the potential for tornadowarned storms along the east coast. 24 hours, over six or seven confirmed reports, hoyer totals of actual reports throughout the day today and the tornado threat will remain high as we go through the overnight hours into tomorrow. So the latest forecast as of 5 00 p. M. , category 2 storm, 110mileperhour sustained winds moving north at 14 Miles Per Hour. As youve heard me throughout the day today, the storm surge is the main story here because weve got very vulnerable areas. Lowlying homes along the coast. The west coast of florida, and were seeing the storm surge rise in and around the naples area. Five feet within minutes and thats the big concern. In some cases 10 to 15foot storm surge is going to put water into homes, above homes, thats why this is the dangerous story that it is. Hurricane warnings for 18 Million People extending into northern georgia. For the First Time Ever, Tropical Storm warning for the atlanta, georgia area as were expecting this area of low pressure to move into georgia and eventually the Tennessee River valley as we get into tuesday. But heres the future radar again, this is the tampa area, and again, the worst of the storm, north of that region around 1 00 a. M. Overnight tonight, and tampa very vulnerable to storm surge. So eric, arthel, were going to be tracking this into overnight hours, the big story will remain the storm surge, when have you predictions of 10 to 15 feet, thats when things get dangerous, perhaps deadly and the focus is so much on the storm surge. Eric one government report said hundreds of thousands buildings could be damaged in tampa. That will be a rough night in tampa tonight. Janice, thank you so much. Of course. Arthel Hurricane Irma has her eye set on tampa after making a second landfall, and the citys mayor is declaring an indefinite curfew which took effect minutes ago. The greatest affect expected overnight as tampa bay is especially vulnerable to this type of storm. Mike tobin live in tampa now. Hows it looking there. Reporter well, the wind, arthel still isnt that bad. But weve got this remarkable effect as we look into hillsborough bay, you can see the exposed bottom of the hillsborough bay. It was much drier earlier. Word went out of the harbinger of the storm surge and people walked into the center of the bay. Police came out with loud speakers, told them they were doing the wrong thing. I spoke to people out, there they wanted to satisfy their curiosity. All had a plan to retreat as the storm gets worse. I talked about this and janice talked about how much of the problems, the water is expected to come rolling back into tampa bay and the connected bodies of water and doesnt have anywhere to go but to push into the lowlying areas, push into the tributaries. That is why the local authorities have been concerned. Thats why theyve been bang the drum about the mandatory evacuations here in tampa for zone a, across the bay in pinellas county, zones a and b and essentially amounts to 15 feet above sea level and everything below. Now given the fact they have been banging the drum, telling people to get out. That was then, this is now. The storm is on its way. The window to make a break for it is now closed. If youre one of the people who made the decision you wanted to ride out the storm in your home, you should hunker down and get ready for a long couple of days. The wind event is on its way later tonight. Following that, you have the storm surge event. Im going to take a look around as we look at the trees, a gust coming through right now and the trees are getting blown around. Weve seen a little debris on the road. Nothing substantial because we havent seen the worst of the storm yet. Watching the barometer that i keep with me. Weve been watching the barometer drop precipitously. Last look, 993 millibars, if it gets down to 980, youre into cat 1 hurricane status. You mentioned the curfew is in effect. Once were here, the authorities want people to stay in their homes through the wind event. Through the water event and until they can get people out into the neighborhoods, out to the residences and make the determination that its safe to go back. Arthel . Arthel when the water is not at the beach, its not time to go to the beach. You should stay at home and hopefully everybody will heed the warning this indefinite curfew now, mike toben. Nobody out there as far as i can see in the shot right now. Reporter weve seen a little bit of the lookyloos still. Despite the curfew, very small amount. I think theres been so much in the way of taking this storm seriously, and i talked with insistence with the mayor of tampa who said harvey had a dramatic effect in getting people to respect this particular hurricane. You generally have a lot more people out satisfying their curiosity. Playing in the water when it starts churning up. Usually with storms. This time, they seem by and large to be respecting the warnings and this stage of the game, most of the people are respecting curfew. Arthel . Arthel good to hear, the danger is not over just yet. Mike tobin, thank you very much, eric . Eric how odd that is for the hurricane to suck out the sea water from the bay before the storm surge will roll in. That, as officials said, can be deadly. That is what occurred in madera beach, thats where jeff flock is, near st. Petersburg. What are you seeing now . Reporter right on the gulf, eric, maybe you see the same scene that mikes seeing. This is johns pass, a pass cut out to the gulf on an earlier hurricane. Look at that. Nobody has ever seen water like that, and mikes talking about people and curfews and all that sort of thing. I got a bunch of people who dont give a hoot about a dog gone curfew. These folks are staying, youre sticking it out here. Yes, sir. Reporter what possesses you . This is one of the safest structures in town. Reporter you told me about the parking garage, whats the deal . Built in 2012, and right at 175 miles an hour. Reporter this is a place of refuge, a parking garage, and i tell you im calling the motley crue out here. Reporter i dont see anybody disagreeing. Thats your dog by the way. That is his dog. Reporter whos dog . Thats tesla. Reporter what possesses you guys to stay here . Well, for starters, there wasnt really many safe places to go. We could have gone to tampa but theyre going to get hit just as hard with the wind, and we want to help people, honestly. Reporter there you go. We got to take care of our stuff on the beach. Reporter lot of people left a lot of stuff, maybe you see, arthel, i dont know if we can see, and eric, we cant see the boat. Guys staying on a boat out there. A lot of the guys are staying on boats, lot of the sailboats and everything are out there on the hook because its safer there than moored up against the dock. Reporter when the water comes in, were talking about this. Bob, when you see out to the gulf. When the back end of the storm comes around, the water coming back the same way. Every action has opposite and equal reaction. Reporter might be unequal. I havent seen this in four years, why, the way its happening. 40 years, ive never seen as much land showing right around here. Reporter sucked the water completely out of it. Its crazy. Ive never seen anything like it. Reporter that is crazy, nobody expecting. That and arthel and eric, i leave you with a picture of the gulf because of the counterclockwise rotation, were getting wind into the gulf knocking the waves down, but were going to get it the different way very shortly. I dont know what its going to look like, but well see. Eric jeff, when you say short leashing the worst is on its way. Did they and have you someplace to go, to be safe, basically in the high level, in the building that youre at . Reporter yeah, i think, a lot of people surviving a hurricane in a building like this is not a problem, thats not going to be a problem, but i tell you, you may wish you didnt survive it when you do survive, it after the water goes down, i suspect we dont have power, we wont have power, wont have much of anything and maybe not the ability to get back to dry land at some point. It could be miserable out here. You know how things are after a hurricane. Hot, no air conditioning, pretty unpleasant. See how that goes. Eric thats an understatement, especially what could happen over the next few days and weeks. Jeff flock, stay safe and catch up with you later on. Reporter deal. Arthel deal, he says, as the storm surge floods streets of miami. Irmas powerful winds are causing another big concern, there are two dozen cranes perched high atop construction sites in miami. And the storm collapsed two of them already today, so far no word on injuries. Thats good news. Earlier this week when Hurricane Irma hit puerto rico, this footage showing you how these cranes are meant to spin in the powerful winds like weather vanes, to spin around and go with the flow. Structural engineer mark duckett is a special inspector and construction safety expert. Mr. Duckett, thanks for being with us, one of the cranes that collapsed in miami happening at 300 biscayne boulevard at northeast third street, they are built to withstand high winds up to 140 miles an hour. What happened . Right now, this is too early to tell. Theres a lot of possibilities. But right now its a little too early to tell. Arthel what could some of the possibilities be, in your expertise . Sure, as one goes higher up in elevation, the wind speeds increase, so the cranes are obviously at the top of very tall buildings. Thats one possible explanation. Another explanation is the miami area was on the dirty side of the hurricane, and thats subject to tornadic events, so it could be a microburst or a tornado. Theres adverse interaction with other buildings with the wind, it could cause higher than expected wind speeds through funneling and it could have been an error in construction, you never know at this point. Arthel youve got about two dozen cranes perched on on construction sites in the miami area and you just laid out many variables that could come into play. The question is why couldnt the cranes be moved before the storm . Good question, a lot of people ask that. These things take up to a week, each one to take down, and they take Specialty Contractors and theres not a lot of them. So its basically unfeasible to get them all down in time. Arthel so mr. Duckett, this is the first time the new building codes and construction requirements have been put to this kind of test. What kind of review will take place after irma . Well, certainly in these kinds of events, we were lucky, first of all, we dent get hit with a category5. A lot of times collapses and damages prompt the code officials, the authors of standards to go back and relook at things and possibly change them and that certainly may happen this time. Arthel for the people who live in a building next to the crane, first of all, what do you tell them to do . What are they to do . Well, at this point, the bulk of the stopper has passed miami. So thats a moot point for those cranes in that area. Arthel still high winds on the way, though. There are. But very unlikely theyll see the high winds theyve already seen. Arthel youre saying the folks who live next to the cranes, buildings next to the crane, they shouldnt worry about any, but should the winds pick up, its my understanding they should go into the interior of the building away from windows, go in the stairwell. Is that correct . Absolutely one of the safest places in the large building, youre right, absolutely. Arthel so do you have any sort of concerns playing in your mind right now . A lot of people are going to be looking at this once the storm is over and once the Recovery Efforts start . Going to be lots of questions regarding this, and im not blaming you, sir, youre here answering my questions, but you know, lots of questions will be asked. Theyll be, youre right. And sometimes rightly so. In this case, do we need to go back and relook at what the standards are for these construction cranes . Thats a very likely possibility. We have to go back and talk to those people that write those standards in the code and sit down and have a long talk. Arthel okay, we will definitely follow up on this, mr. Mark duckett, structural engineer, special inspector and construction safety expert. Thank you very much, sir, and be safe. Thank you. Eric Officials Say the damage is substantial. We dont have full and complete accounting of the full damage from irma. Bryan llenas is in downtown miami where bryan, the worst appears over but its not over . Reporter it is not, were in a precarious situation in brickell, downtown miami. This is the panorama, meant to be the largest building in miami when its done being constructed. This is a residential building, and there have been glass panels falling off of the building since we got here. Seen three or four of the blue giant panels. We saw this one come crashing down as people are starting to come out of their apartments and look up into the sky. This is why people say after the storm, its usually a lot worse in terms of the chances of getting injured because you find yourself coming out, surveying the damage and having six foot glass panels come crashing down to the ground. If you look at the damage on brickell, this is a downed tree here, and weve got actual flooding down here. Ill try fwroing you guys as quickly as i can. Im still looking at the building, but this is brickell avenue and this is what it looks like. Downed trees and down the road, you will see bigtime flooding there. I would say probably four or five inches of flooding. Right down the road over there. The j. W. Marriott. Its nothing but water there. So weve got glass panels from here, people coming out of their apartments and youve got about six inches of water here for about six or seven blocks at least. This is the storm surge they were talking about and were starting to see here. Brickell is a very popular neighborhood in downtown miami. Lots of condos, lots of restaurants, Mary Brickell village to my right. The dominican consulate is right here. A place where a lot of people want to live, and you are starting to see right now the type of flooding that is caused by the storm surge in miami. This is as bad as weve seen it personally so far, and take a look, weve got downed things here, and this is some of the debris weve seen come down from that building, and this is the water that were seeing. The j. W. Marriott here in brickell. This is the hotel. The water has come down a little bit from right after the storm, based on previous reports but it goes all the way out there on brickell and about twelfth street, brickell avenue. This goes all the way south past Coconut Grove so it appears to be going down a little bit but not a good situation to be. In i know that the storm, at least the bulk of it has gone past miami, were getting heavy gusts, the rain is coming down and not advised for people to be coming out because of downed power lines and what we showed you from the panorama building. There are construction sites all over miami where things could potentially come down on you. So its a dangerous situation post storm and were not fully out of it yet. Eric bryan, that was the danger and the worry over hurricane andrew that it would have a direct hit on downtown any. Indication of injuries, some people in the apartments may have sheltered in place, there was the Evacuation Order but folks went into the stairways . We got one man who lives in the building across from the panorama on the 42nd floor. One of the panels came crashing into his balcony completely tearing it off. Well have photos later. That was the situation these folks were dealing with when they were in their own condos. You know this area, this area was under a mandatory evacuation and for good reason, because they fully expected a storm surge here, and the bottom line is when youve got water, rescue crews cant get to you. The last thing you want to do, let me get this for guy here. The last thing you want to do is find yourself in a situation where you need help and people cant get to you. From what we understand people have lost power, starting to come out. You have seen a half a dozen people. Eric are those alarms that we hear . Reporter yes, those alarms, looks like theyre coming from that way, im not entirely sure what it is. You see the parking garage beeping. Eric, 20 feet down, about 200 feet down the road, saw a parking garage completely flooded, inundated. That is the j. W. Marriott, we have the colonnades plaza and i dont know how far this goes, we had reports of 19th, 19th street. This is seven blocks brickell a