The storm. Were doing whatever we can to help. Shepard lets get to it. Good friday afternoon from the Fox News Deck. Were tracking Hurricane Irma. Floridas governor says the window to escape the path of the storm is closing. With each updated forecast, the chance of a direct hit on some part of South Florida and then up the peninsula of florida are increasing. This as the head of fema says i dont know anybody in florida has experienced what were about to get. The florida says we should expect life threatening conditions from coasttocoast. He says this is a catastrophic storm like our state has never seen. Over 500,000 people there from mandatory Evacuation Orders, including miami, miami beach, the keys. Rick scott telling people to be
patient when dealing with crowded highways. He says more troopers are on the road to help with the flow of the traffic. He says the state has sent school buses to get residents out of dangerous areas. Some gas stations have long lines. Others have no fuel at all. Governor scott says the entire state, more than 20 Million People should be ready to leave, if necessary. This storm is wider than our entire state. Its expected to cause major and life threatening impacts from coasttocoast. Remember Hurricane Andrew is one of the worst storms in the history of florida. Irma is more devastating on its current path. Shepard irma has left a trail of destruction in the caribbean. The death toll is 23. Thousands of others homeless. The storm battering the turks and Caicos Islands this morning with waves as high as 20 feet across that island. Thousands of tourists trapped on
the Virgin Islands in st. Bart and st. Maarten. Witnesses saw the damage first hand. The storm destroyed homes, schools and businesses. It ripped rooftops off of houses as families huddled inside. A Television Station said i feel like im on the moon. Theres not a single tree standing anymore. Forecasters say the storm is extremely dangerous. Maximum sustained winds are at 155 miles an hour down from 185 at the peak. Still a powerful category four hurricane. The winds are widespread, extending 70 miles from the center. If it goes up the center of the state, Hurricane Force winds could be felt by everybody in the peninsula. We know by know whichever way
peninsula of florida is dealing with this storm, probably experiencing Hurricane Force winds. Its a danger. We have covered these. The center does make an impact at least for the worst of the storm surge. But that also gives the indication that the others dont need to worry. Thats not the case. Everybody probably for the lower past of florida will experience major Hurricane Force winds, which will blow all kinds of trees down, all kinds of Power Outages across a wide swath. This is the radar. Right there, over towards the bahamas. Weve seen the bands get closer and closer. A couple things, the latest advisory that just came out at 2 00. Its not the complete advisory but the intermediate ones. They raised the winds. Theyve been at 150. The pressure has come down. Theyre bad signs that we could she a strengthening storm. Its also though moving a little more to the west instead of to the northwest. That may be has some implications for us. Heres the official track. Most of South Carolina out of
major hurricane on hands. Shepard thanks, rick. Many people obeyed the order to get out of miami beach. You dont have to do what you dont want to do. The mayor in at least one city says theyre getting out. You can see homes and businesses boarded up. Sidewalks and streets empty. Some people will try to ride it out. Team coverage continues. Phil keating on miami beach where theres no traffic on a friday morning. Its a stunner. Its crazy. Its a ghost town here. I have tragic news to report before we show you around. We have the first Hurricane Irma related fatality. A Davey Florida man fell 15 feet to his death from a ladder while trying to install hurricane shutters. Here on ocean drive, everything pretty much is closed. Boarded up, shuttered up. World famous news cafe where Johnny Versace used to hang
outs. This is wet willies. Boarded up. Thats what you see in all the buildings. This is all about storm surge and keeping flood waters out. The Storm Surge Forecast is 510 feet. All of this will undoubtedly be under water. Theres been a smatteders of people that have come down to take in the emptiness of it all, Flying Drones and driving by with cameras rolling. While hundreds of thousands have evacuated to the north, including many miami beach residents, some still as the clock is Ticking Refuse to leave. I work in the fire department. I have to be at work sunday anyways, if i can make it to work. Im nervous but focused. Because my building, we have electricity and well be safe. Yeah, i dont know. I have no idea. This will be my first hurricane. I dont have idea. You sure picked a good one. Yeah. As of about 8 minutes ago, the last plane outside of Miami International airport took off heading northbound. We expect over the next several days perhaps longer depending on the destruction, no more inbound planes will be coming either. Thanks, phil. And the mayor has ordered 650,000 people to evacuate. The mayor will join us live to tell us how theyre preparing for a catastrophic storm. Thats coming up from the Fox News Deck on this friday afternoon. Prudential asked these couples how much money do you think youll need in retirement . Then we found out how many years that money would last them. How long do you think well keep oooooohhh you stopped youre gonna leave me back here at year 9 . How did this happen . It turned out, a lot of people fell short,
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maybe they think their home wont be able to sustain a category four or five hurricane. Thats different than other storms weve had here. Most people hunker down and ride it out. This is different. Were seeing that dynamic play out here. Shepard what is working well and what is giving you troubles . I think our Response Plan as well, were prepared for the storm, prepared for the aftermath of the storm. Right now, its the issue of an unprecedented number of people going into our shelters. Weve asked Miamidade County residents to help each other and take those folks that are evacuating from a mandatory evacuation zone. I think in terms of traffic, its somewhat better than i thought it would be at this point. Yeah, i know human nature and people tend to wait to the last
minute. Maybe its not come this way and do at the last minute, maybe a shelter or take off in a car. We have to be prepared for that. The Police Department is prepared for that events. Its a big job. County of 2. 7 Million People. You know, theres a lot of Working Parts here that have to go smoothly. Thanks, mayor. All the best to you and all those in South Florida. Thanks for taking the time with us. Its my pleasure. Thanks very much. Lets hope this storm veers off and goes somewhere else. Shepard were sure hoping. Into the atlantic and just fizzles out. Shepard out to sea. Leave us alone. Carlos jimenez. I want to show you the Traffic Helicopter again. This is about a mile south of ocala. The trees have blocked it as
fate would have it. Weve been watching the southbound lines. We saw tractor trailers headed south. Theres still supplies getting down to South Florida. Its raining. Nothing to do with the storms. That means its a little after 3 00 in central florida. Minutes ago and said can you go live . I say heck yeah. Were busy right now. The air force reserve, were just crushing it. Were making it happen. Shepard what are you learn something. You can see, this is an extremely powerful storm. Its going to be the benchmark storm for the next decade. Katrina, as you well know and i know first hand, its been a benchmark for the long time but now looks like irma will be the replacement for it. Shepard for me as far as destruction, there was Hurricane Hugo in the carolinas. That just snapped millions of trees and turned them to projectiles. And then Hurricane Andrew. With the very tight eye and small area that it crossed. When it went through cutler ridge, homestead, levelled everything. But it wasnt that big around. This thing though, its got a little bit of everything to
hate. Yeah, it does. Its a massive storm. The big thing here, Everybody Listening right now, just really Pay Attention to the authorities and civil defense. Dont take this storm lightly. I rode out andrew in louisiana when it came across the gulf as it hit florida and wiped those guys out. Dont get complacent. The other thing is dont have this false sense of security. Just because you made it through andrew, no big deal. That is the level is there for andrew, its higher for irma. Heed the warnings. Shepard we talk about how successful the evacuation has been. It has been. If 10 of the people you asked to evacuate dont leave, that leaves tens of thousands of people behind on that coast. That is frightening. That is frightening. Our guys and gals in the Hurricane Hunters and the Emergency Responders are working
hard to help people. Its really important that everybody leaves. If we can save everybody, thats awesome. Shepard Lieutenant Colonel cross, have you seen anything at all that would suggest outside of a overrun of the mountains in cuba, anything that might make it diminish in size. We dont really get in forecasting. Its been over open water. You can see the eye. Its really tight. Almost like a Textbook Example of the most powerful hurricane. Really incredible. Theres things out there that will interact with it, but i cant say whether or not i think theres anything that will effect it. Shepard Lieutenant Colonel sean cross, all the best. Thanks a lot. Good luck to everybody. Shepard thank you. People getting out by land, air and by sea. A lot of boats. Cruise ships that just dropped people off in miami and now they had to scramble. Some are going to shelters. And then people leaving by boat. Yes, some people on cruise ships came back early. They werent able to get out of miami. So one cruise ship, norwegian do you have a live map of cruise ships . Yes. You can see this big empty space where the hurricane is and all of these tanker ships. The reds are tankers and the blue are passenger ships. Pinks are the pleasure yachts. This one, the norwegian escape, which is an appropriate name, they said they were going west. They have about 4,000 passengers on board that Couldnt Get Out of miami. They said we dont know when well be back or where were going. Looks like theyre going to mexico. The captain said get on board. Well get you to safety. We dont know when well bring
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