Like its going to be a category 4. Five days of food, two weeks worth of water. My generator is filled up. Help is on the way. The house has passed a 15. 3 billion disaster aid package for hurricanes harvey and irma. Which the president could be signing as early as today. In times such as these we see the strength and resolve of the american spirit and see the k d kindness of our people. America stands united and i mean totally united. While five former president s joined forces in an unprecedented message to raise money for harvey victims. As former president s, we wanted to help our fellow americans to recover. Weve got more love in texas than water. We love you, texas. Good day, as we continue our breaking News Coverage of Hurricane Irma, now a category 4 storm with 150 mile per hour winds, hurricane conditions will be felt along the south florida coastline in the next 36 hours, even before irma makes landfall early sunday morning. State and federal officials sending an urgent message, evacuate now before its too la late. Each storm is different because of the elements it brings with it. I can grrn you i dont know anybody in florida thats ever experienced whats going to hit south florida. They need to get out . They need to get out and listen and heed the warnings. Long gas lines and major gas shortages are a persistent problem throughout the state. Millions of residents are seeking shelter. Well bring you a live update from Florida Governor rick scott and new information from briefings. Gadi schwartz, rehema ellis in the bahamas. Gadi, what are you seeing, youre talking to people about the shortage and how theyre trying to prepare . Right now we are actually at the home depot that is the furthest most home depot thats open right now in the state of florida and the lines have basically dwindled because supplies have run out. Those are lines for regular supplies. Over here earlier there was a line that wrapped around this door for things like plywood but they have run out of plywood, they were rationing it down to five pieces per family. Weve been talking a lot about the families that are evacuating, the families that are waiting for gas to try to get out of here. In this area of florida, homestead, there are a lot of people that have complicated lives. Its not so easy to evacuate. The woman thats talking to that gentleman by the door, thats a mother, 27yearold mother. Shes got her daughter here, shes got a mother she needs to take care of. She works at burger king and doesnt have a car. A little bit earlier she was talking to us about what her plans are. She says that shes going to have to shelter in place because she has really no other option. So she was waiting for one of the last pieces of plywood. I wanted to ask, do you know whats going on in there . I know someone went in, whats the situation . They already sold out, so everybody ones that are already inside, theyre the only ones that are going to get the wood. Its already sold out. Everybodys trying to go to other places to find where theyre selling out. Here and lowes is sold out. Reporter it seems like everything is closed up at this point. Whats your plan . If anything were going to evacuate to a shelter, a high school. If not, were just coverage up and were putting up our shutters, our wood shutters. Reporter you were telling me your apartment is concrete, but youre worried about the roof, what are you worried about . My apartment is concrete. Im worried because the roof is always i dont know, like two weeks ago there was like a little leak. So im just wondering, you know, how is it going to happen for this hurricane . They said they worked on the roof, but i dont know. I dont know what to trust anymore. Reporter a little bit earlier you were saying you want to protect your daughter and you want to protect your mother. Shes 60. What are you hoping happens . We believe in the lord and hopefully, you know, it dont go that bad. But were praying, were going to stay calm and be inside the apartment. Just try to keep everybody calm. Reporter is there anywhere north you can go . Do you have i dont have a car. I dont have no car. All my friends and my family, theyre not answering. Everybody is separating. I dont know. So if anything, worse comes to worse im going to be in my apartment with my daughter and mother. Reporter were going to be close by, so well keep checking on you for the next couple of days. Appreciate it. Thank you so much. Reporter thank you for sharing your story. Thats just one of the many stories here in homestead. A lot of times when you see people who are unable to evacuate, theyve got a story behind them. Ist its something to take into consideration. There are shelters being put into place. That one she was talking to, its filled up right now. Its almost to capacity from what we understand. Right after shes done here waiting for supplies to come out, shes going to go check in to see whether or not they can get into that shelter. Its one of the stories were hearing out here. Andrea, back to you. Thank you so much. Thats a classic story in homestead and other communities where may dont have so many options. Three generations who will end up sheltering in place. What were seeing along the beach where we find thomas roberts. More challenges closer to the water. Reporter there are more challenges here closer to the water. Weve seen people working all day to remove types of obstacles here on the beach that would be detrimental to people like these different guard towers that have been moved all the back. There are different beach types of shacks that have been removed. We saw them taken out on oversized trucks a little bit earlier. Weve seen some people that have come out to get one last look at the beach. You can see a couple right here. Weve seen swimmers go in. Now, at the lifeguard stands, the lifeguards are here, the beach is officially closed. There is officially no swimming. There are two red flags currently up because of the unprecedented type of event were about to have here because of irma. We have seen people go into the water and swim. And so the guards i was talking to earlier, said that while they have said there is no swimming, the beaches are evacuated, there is still going to be swimmers, potentially surfers that are going to come out that theyll have to ask out of the water. That ship, one of the many cruise ships that weve seen leave port today. I have never honestly seen a cruise ship move this fast as we were watching it from down the beach at the southern most point of the Barrier Islands here as it was taking out to the hiseaso get ahead of irma. This is one of a couple we have seen. I was speaking to another lady who was worried about storm surge. Thats one of the biggest issues with this event. Not only the winds of this storm, but the water its going to bring. The suggestion, of seven to ten feet of storm surge. This tower is roughly about ten feet off the ground. Imagine a wall of water coming in to miami beach that could go all the way back into and over collins avenue potentially, would be absolutely savaging to this area of florida. We know, also, that gas has been of a premium, a commodity as we were out overnight in hollywood, florida, where gas stations were running dry. We saw long lines again this morning closer here to miami and almost a ghost town feeling here along the south beach area. Where certain people working in Different Hotels just getting ready. The majority of folks are pretty much gone. And as the governor and also the mayor have warned, if they want to get everybody out and do so, safely. And thomas, it looks like a ghost town. Ive never seen the beach that empty in florida. Obviously, bracing for what is about to come. Thank you, thomas roberts. Reporter its amazing, weve never seen it like this. And thankfully people are taking the message. Speaking of what is about to hit florida, rehema ellis is in the bahamas. I guess its a couple hundred miles south of you. Reporter thomas was talking about the concern of a storm surge of seven to ten feet. The fear here is of the storm surge from 15 to 20 feet. Im 58, so twice my size, a wall of water rushing over this area. And whats happening in the bahamas right now, let me take you to some video that we got on social media, the home of the largest population of flamingoes, most people will know that about this area. And where they were hoping that people would hunker down. Take a look and listen to some video from there where the storm is hitting right now. Some water. And everything. Reporter they have evacuated people from the southern bahamas. They are afraid there will be nothing for them to go back to. Here, the wind is picking up. The surf is also picking up. You can see some whitecaps on the water at this point. I want to take you and look over here what some people are doing on the beach. This is a very popular area for locals and tourists to come in for the best of bahamian food. These cards, they are tied down. They are hoping this will hold when the hurricane hits here with full fury in terms of Tropical Storm force winds later tonight and certainly tomorrow. But i wouldnt chance it, just expecting thats going to hold up. When that feared storm surge and that wall of some 15 to 20 feet high rushes over this area. Andrea . Rehema ellis, and clearly those kinds of protections are not likely to hold if its still as expected. 150 miles an hour and up. Stay safe. And we are at Miami International where people have been thronging, theyve been staying for days trying to get on flights. What are you hearing from the people lined up there, trying to get a path out . Reporter first of all, im coming to you off my iphone because our crew hasnt been able to get inside the airport. A representative told me the parking garage is overcapacity at this point because so many people have flocked here to try to get out. These seem to be the last folks, at least in this area of the airport that have a boarding pass and have a flight to get out of miami. At 5 00 p. M. Today. I want to swing over here to show you you see all these folks here . Look at the change in scene over here. Its practically an empty airport because so Many Airlines have already told passengers that if they dont have a boarding pass they should not show up here at the airport. Were told that almost 600 flights have been canceled already here at this airport because of Hurricane Irma. Thats more than half of the average daily traffic here at this airport. So its a lot and its caused a lot of disruption from what ive been able to talk to with the people here, theyre trying to leave on a flight to madrid today at 5 00 p. M. Theyre telling me they think its one of the last flights that will make it out. I was talking to this girl over here, shes been here since yesterday trying to get out of miami. A lot of these folks, theyre not used to facing a storm like this. Theyre folks from abroad and they have no idea where they will go or where they will evacuate to if they cant get out of Miami International. Im going to swing around to show you, again, people just hunkered down with their families, with their pets. Theyve been stranded here, spent the night here, many of them trying to get as far away from the deadly storm as possible. One additional thing, personnel saying they should not consider the airport a shelter. If people are here and thinking they can ride the storm out here at this airport, they will be evacuated. So, again, its either get out now or find an alternative plan. Andrea back to you. Does that mean theyre going to evict people in the middle of a storm from that airport where they are at least protected from the elements . If they have not found a path out. An airport representative told me today that this airport is not a shelter. That they are just they dont have the capacity to keep people safely here. That they can only sort of worry about airport personnel. And if the control tower here if it monitors sustained winds of 55 Miles Per Hour, this airport will shut down and people cannot stay here. They cannot leave their cars here because, again, they cannot vouch for the security of all these passengers during this massive lifethreatening storm that potentially be a direct hit on south florida. Thanks so much for the hustle getting in there on your iphone. Msnbc weather contributor sam champion is in miami beach with a look at the latest hurricane warnings, possible paths through florida. Good to see you. Reporter theres really not much options now, the models have been in agreement for a while now that this is a florida storm. An all florida storm as a eightyfour f category 4 storm. Were going to talk about a lot of things. The theres the eye you can see it passing between cuba and the bahamas. Look at the models. Were showing your anywhere from a category 4, staying at a 4. It has 150 Miles Per Hour winds as a category 4. Dont be relaxed that you dont see a 5 there. A category 5 is 156. This is 150. Theres not much difference. So as a strong category 4 making its way off the coast of cuba makes a righthand turn towards the tip of florida. We look at a landfall sunday at 8 00 p. M. , 145 Miles Per Hour. Stronger than andrew. Hitter the central keys and then moving up the center of florida. Hitting all of south florida. Remember, this storm is about 340 miles wide. The eye wall is 70 miles wide. Longterm, this is heads up for north florida and georgia. Alabama. South carolina. Tennessee. Kentucky. Because whats left of this circulation with driving rain and wind, wind in excess of 35 Miles Per Hour, will be in tennessee by the time we get into tuesday. So as we know, these storms are not just coastal storms, they have a lot of impact. Lets talk about the impact on south florida. Well time it out for you. Saturday evening, were looking at winds at 64 Miles Per Hour, to 52 Miles Per Hour from key west to miami. As you just said, if when miami airport gets a 50 Miles Per Hour wind they shut down the airport. That happens by saturday night. The governor needs to have a plan of what to do those people. They dont have enough shelters. Thats a huge issue. By the time we get to sunday night. Weve got 70 Miles Per Hour in key west. 127 winds sunday night in miami. As the center of this storm, the eyewall of this storm moves up into land in florida. Sunday evening, now, the worst conditions are from ft. Myers into port st. Lucie. Think of the eyewall as like a curve, moving through the entire state. And heres the problem with all of this, as we watch this storm move north, there are only two ways out of the state of florida. One is the turnpike and one is 95. This storm is driving as if it were going on that path. Straight up the turnpike, straight up 95. If anyone is on those roads or out in this storm at 111, 127 mile per hour winds, theyre not going to make it through that storm. They need to be sheltered in that storm. Telling people to leave the coast and telling people to evacuate, thats putting a lot of people on the road and a lot of people have questioned about where do i go. You can survive the storm, youve got to get out of the way of storm surge. Here on miami beach, the area behind me, the storm surge will be from 5 to 10 feet. Im 6 feet tall, so were talking about higher i can reach of water moving in the low lying areas. Not just the east coast, also the west coast of florida will have that water. The west coast of florida needs to brace for impact like the east coast. As the storm continues to drive up the state, the water will come in behind it and the winds will be strong with that eye and just behind that eye as it moved up the west coast. All florida, all impacts. This is a storm that florida has never seen before. Sam champion, graphically describing exactly what is about to hit the state. Thank you so much. And Gabe Gutierrez has made his way into Miami International. The issue is what to do with all those people, gabe . Reporter hey there, andrea. We just got here to baggage claim at American Airlines terminal 1. This is just some of the bags. The sea of bags. Fill woued with belongings of pe who have been here waiting for several hours. If we can walk over here, this area was much more chaotic a few minutes ago. It was hard to get in here. Theres been an announcement over the loud speaker that all stranded passengers should head to another terminal to be bussed to shelters. This was the international area. And there have been several passengers that were trying to get here, leave miami, just ahead of this storm and make it to santo demiomingo. They were told by airport employees their bags had to be locked away. They could not have access to those bags and those bags had to be stored until after the hurricane possibly on monday. Some of these people were very upset that they would not be able to access those bags. We spoke with at least two women who had medicines inside, were not allow to access them. They were very frustrated. Theres a lot of confusion here, the people who had been standing here, they dont know where theyll ride out the storm. Some were able to have hotels, some were not. If we walk back over here, this is a Customer Service desk for American Airlines maybe about 10, 15 minutes ago this was full. That announcement came over the loud speaker that they now plan to bus passengers that were here to another terminal in order to bussed to shelter. Theres a lot of confusion about what happens next. Tens of thousands of cruse ship passengers as well. They were dumped here in south florida and now trying to figure out where to go. A lot of travel chaos at the moment as passengers try to beat this storm. What they have been finding is that theyre at the airport and they have to wait several hours while a crew gets into place. Theyve had around 500 flights cancel so far today. The airport says that this mia will not close unless there are safety concerns. And, really, what theyre trying to get across is that this airport is not a shelter. So that the problem is, what happens to these stranded passengers, many of them might be tourists that were coming from across the country, hoping to get to another country. Some people that maybe never had to deal with a hurricane, never expect today deal with a hurricane, they need to find out how theyll ride out the storm. Ill send it back to you and well try to catch up with some of those folks theyre trying to bus over to the shelters. Just get back to us if you have more information where people cant get to their bags. I