U. S. Virgin islands and puerto rico later tonight. The effects will be larger than any of us really anticipated. Look at the size and scope of this storm system, 420 miles in diameter. The Tropical Force Winds extend out in diameter 300 miles. Now along the florida peninsula, its only 140 miles across. It will have more storm surge than andrew and sure looks like it will barrel down. A mandatory evacuation is under way for tourists and residents in the keys this morning. This is not getting smaller. Its getting bigger. Prepare now. Stock up on emergency supplies. How worried are you about the storm . Extremely worried. On a scale of 1 to 10. Probably 13. One family narrowly missed harvey in houston and came here for vacation and now stranded. With fema set to run out of Disaster Relief money by the end of the week, the house of representatives is scheduled to vote on the Hurricane Harvey and aid package later today. The backlash is building over trd trumps immigration decision with protests from coast to coast. Mr. President how is the daca message i have a great heart for the folks were talking about. Hes probably ashamed of his decision. The president s action gives congress six months to pass a replacement. Mr. Trump tweeting late tuesday, if they cant, i will revisit the issue. This is easily the least popular thing donald trump has done. Name the last thing that 75 of Trump Supporters opposed that donald trump did . A number of major ceos have come out against the decision. Youre talking about children brought here without their consent, when they are one and two years old. We begin with breaking news, Hurricane Irma is smashing into land with millions of men and women and children in her path. The worst is likely yet to come. Right now the potentially kas strofic storm is hitting the caribbean islands and winds whipping off roofs and knocking off communication lines and sending debris flying. Listen for a second to the sheer power behind this [ winds howling ] i mean, that sounds like the gods screaming. Thats a crazy, crazy sound. Hurricane hunters are recording this very video as they flew through the raging storm and into the eye. The Virgin Islands and puerto rico could be next today. Florida is facing a coast to coast threat. Governor rick scott could not be more serious saying if youre told to evacuate, get out of town. The storm is wider than the peninsula itself. Its path subject to last minute pivots and were live across the impact zone with everything you need to know right now. Moments ago we received brandnew numbers on irmas strength and projected path. Nbc meteorologist dylan dreyer joins us now. Its over waters and here it is, moving about to approach the british Virgin Islands. I want to show the eye of the storm. If you were in space and could look down at the clouds, this is exactly what it looks like. You can see really that well defined eye and from a hurricane standpoint, this thing is about as perfect as it gets. Now, it does still have winds at 185 Miles Per Hour, just hearing that video you show, just shows you the intensity of winds that strong. Moving westnorthwest at 16 Miles Per Hour. Its looking like its going to stay to the north of puerto rico and north of hispaniola and north of cuba which means theres not a lot of land mass that will break this thing down and cause it to weaken. It is expected to maintain its strength as a hurricane five as it moves through turks and caicos and bahamas and even as it weak ens to a 4, that still has winds up to 145 Miles Per Hour. Extremely intense. That takes us to sunday morning. Lets talk about the storm surge. Because in the turks and caicos and also in the bahamas, we could see a 15 to 20foot storm surge in addition to the winds we are expecting. Lets take this out. As far as the computer models. We look at various different computer models to see where this storm is forecast to go. Remember, as we get into the sunday, monday, time frame thats still very far from right now. A lot will change. Heres where were seeing a lot of unity with these models through the turks and caicos as we go into friday. Then as we go into saturday, its going to basically go in between cuba and withbahamas an forecasting in northward turn, where it happens thats where we have questions in the forecast. Some models keep it to the east of florida. Some have it going through florida and up into the carolinas. Either way Hurricane Force winds extend 50 miles out from the center of the storm. Tropical Storm Force Winds extend 17 5 miles out. Even if this storm is not a direct hit, theres still a lot of impacts near the center of this storm. We really do have to focus on florida and georgia and the caroli carolinas, were not 100 certain who exactly will be affected but its the forecast we need to follow and make your plans now. Those warm waters, its like the magic evil ee lix ir for these storms. Thanks. Lets go to Morgan Ratford in san juan, purt reerto rico. Reporter this storm is no joke. We saw a huge band come through and in the past few minutes significant changes. The wind has picked up and waters are becoming choppier. Weve seen the shoreline rise about 2 or 3 feet. Just to give you a sense of things, as people are preparing for this storm, weve seen three things. One people have been in line wrapped around the grocery store, trying to get last minute nonperishables and those shelters are starting to fill up. Entire families are going to one of those 456 emergency shelters set up all throughout the island and bringing families for food and shelter and protection and water and backup generators and people here are stuck and stranded. Even those who tried to evacuate cannot get out. 150 flights have been canceled here coming in out of the city of san juan. Well keep you updated throughout the day as the storm moves in. People are hunkering down and preparing for what could be the harshest part of the storm later in the day and later this afternoon. The National Guard and fema said the number one priority is going to be saving lives and well keep you posted. Saving lives top prioritied. That was Morgan Ratford in san juan, puerto rico. Pld trump tweeting this morning. No rest for the wery, trump did not mention puerto rico, a u. S. Territory already feeling the effects. Governor Ricardo Rossello joins us. Thank you for being with us. What are you doing in puerto rico to be ready for this . Well, thank you for the opportunity ali and stephanie. Weve been working on provisional plans for the past five months, believe it or not. Puerto rico almost seems to be in the cross hairs of hurricanes. It was important as we got into the administration we had a team ready and able to executive. Weve implemented emergency protocols since last week and established 460 shelters of people that are in vulnerable positions and flooding areas and of course that would receive the brunt of the strong winds can actually move and be safe. That is the top priority. I am going around the island as we speak, making sure that the shelters are ready, that the people are moving in, making sure that seeing what the Energy Infrastructure is looking like for puerto rico so people can have information about that. But priority number one now is save being lives and making sure people are safe. Governor, without this storm, puerto rico was in serious financial strain, just last night i spoke to Real Estate Developers in san juan that said they are seriously concerned about the kind of support the u. S. Government will give to puerto rico if need be. Do you share that sent. And fear . Yesterday we read you had 15 million bucks prepared. That is nothing compared to what you could need. Right, well, internally on the local front, we have 15 million plus an additional 90 million for yesterday President Trump signed a prelandfall Emergency Declaration which facilitates resources coming into puerto rico, allowing us to be prepared and allowing us to make expenditures necessary at this juncture so we can guarantee one thing and that is the safety of the people of puerto rico. We already have the protocols in place as well during the storm and post storm. We want to make sure the people of puerto rico are aware that fema has been working hand in hand with our government that there are instruments such as the application that fema holds so that as with harvey, the people can make reclamations, with harvey, over half a million used that to make their reclamations and we feel there will be a powerful tool here as well in puerto rico. I know infrastructure is a worry and theres uncertainty about the storm. What we know its going to be strong. We hope it skips off a little bit off to the north but the most recent information actually has it coming closer to puerto rico. Were trying to make everybody aware of the seriousness of this situation. Making sure that people leave that live in housing that doesnt have the infrastructure necessary to support the high level sustained winds, that they can go to the shelters in place and making sure those people in flooding zones have been or will be evacuated within the next couple of hours. Governor, thank you so much. Please be safe, sending you and the people of puerto rico our best. Well stay on top of this throughout the entire hurricane no matter where it goes to report whats going on. Gabe gate feutierrez is live in keys. This is a place with a lot of touri tourists, they have a mandatory Evacuation Order and there are a lot of cars. Look behind gabe, thats it, in order to get to the keys, key larg go at the base, theres only one road in, one road out. Gabe . Reporter thats right, ali and steph. U. S. 1. This is the exodus, something weve seen throughout the morning. A steady stream of cars trying to get out of the keys. Schools are closed and they are evacuating tourists. The mandatory evacuations for all residents will begin later today into tonight u to our north in miamidade county, authorities have said they expect to start the evacuations as early as today. Now Florida Governor rick scott says that this is going to be a bigger, faster, stronger storm than hurricane andrew and around here that gets a lot of attention. Back in 1992, 25 years ago last month, category 5 storm, winds 165 Miles Per Hour. Irma were talking about 185 Miles Per Hour. You remember how much damage andrew did to places like homestead. There is concern here and authorities are saying that this could be just as dangerous. We have talked to a couple of residents on the ground here in key west. They do welcome the shift a little east. They seem to think that might work out better for them at least where im standing, however the authorities are saying, dont be fooled. Who knows exactly where its going to hit. It could affect the east coast places like miami and go up the east coast into georgia and carolinas. Millions across the east coast are watching this closely. You heard the reports there from morgan as puerto rico braces for impact. In the keys, what were seeing is this exodus happening throughout the day and seen a run on gas and supplies. Bottled water is getting tougher to come by, though Authorities Say stores are trying to restock. You have time to get supplies but if youre in a mandatory ee vak situation zone, you have to leave. As concerning as that exodus is, it should give you comfort that people so far ahead of time while skies are blue are getting out of town. Thank you gabe gutierrez. I was watching you on tv the governor of florida was saying its going to be bigger and faster and stronger than andrew. And remember a week ago there were people who didnt leave their homes ahead of harvey, some because they couldnt have afforded it. If the governor says get out, please follow his warning. Joining us is the mayor of monroe county, george nugent. Mayor, i understand you spoke to governor rick scott this morning. Tell me whats developed . You pretty much described most of it by your reporting. Ali, i want to thank you guys because hyperbole does not describe this storm. It is so devastatingly large, big and its something so we cant impress on our residents enough to get out of the florida keys, were so vulnerable to situations that can happen and were experiencing some fuel shortages that the governor pointed out but were trying to do restocking as soon as possible. I havent seen anybody eventually out of gas but the lines are long with the people that are evacuating. They are doing what were asking them to do. We have a mandatory evacuation going on since 7 00 a. M. Yesterday. So were preparing and the governor is showing the necessary attention to the most vulnerable place in the state of florida with the storm bearing down on us. Thats a good thing but we are prepared. The evacuation is going well and we pray for those people in puerto rico and other places who have already had the impacts of this storm. Mayor, can you speak to the challenges of the fact to get to the keys, theres simply one road in and one road out. When you look at traffic like that, that looks like a sunday afternoon, people going to alabama jacks but its not a nice sunday. People are desperately trying to get out of town. If that road gets significantly more backed up, then what . We think we still have plenty of time to evacuate those who are evacuating. We do not shelter in place with a cat 3 or above storm. So these people need to get out or they will wind up in weve had storms that have scared some people in the past that didnt evacuate. This storm has no comparison. Its going to be larger and stronger than andrew as you guys pointed out. So they need to get out of here and we will get them out of here and off the road but as long as this is a steady yesterday i was coming back from key larg go and it was just a steady stream of cars all night and starting again this morning of people leaving the keys. So right now thats not a big concern. We feel like that anybody that wants to evacuate will be able to do that. We hope they do. Mayor, thanks very much. We wish you continued good luck. Well continue to spread the word so people in there make the decision to do. George neugent of monroe county. President trump just made more comments about this hurricane, were going to be hearing from him but this idea they dont shelter in place above category 3. Put in per inspect i have been, today is the day congress is voting on relief funding for harvey. Harvey happened just a week ago. Many people havent even made it back to their homes. Their homes where they lost everything and now here we are looking at another major storm. Lets get right now to theed from whos making comments. Lets listen in. Thank you very much. We have the congressional leaders here with us today and we have a lot to discuss including the fact that theres a new and seems to be record breaking hurricane heading right toward florida and puerto rico and other places. Well see what happens. Well know in a very short period of time but it looks like it will be something that will be not good, believe me, not good. We have many, many things that are on the plate. Hopefully we can solve them in a rational way and maybe we wont be able to. Well probably know pretty much at the end of this meeting or the meetings that well be having over a short period of time. But our country has a lot of great assets and we have some liabilities we have to work out. Well see if we can do that. I appreciate everybody being here. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Nancy and chuck, thank you very much. And thank you. Mr. President , are you willing to the debt ceiling thanks, guys. Well see. No second thoughts. Congress do something about daca rerecipients . I certainly hope they do. Thank you. All right, no second thoughts when asked about the decision he made on daca, which is interesting because theres some reporting there might be second thoughts. Its confusing to what the president decides. I mean, when you think about the statement Jeff Sessions put out yesterday morning and it was all about law and order, Jeff Sessions making the arguments with the last administration did was violate the law. Then we heard from the president last night, suddenly it was hopes and dreams aej compassion. Im not sure where the white house stands. He was also asked whether congress is going to fix daca in the next six months and he said i hope they do. I certainly hope they do. And marco rubio said we cant do it without you, boss. John harwood, cnbcs editor in large listening with this. Theres a lot of president has got to get done here, john. Theyve got 11 more days. 11 working days. With a very big list that has to start with harvey relief, whatever happens with irma, government has to not shut down at the end of the month. They are talking about tax reform, president is giving a speech later today and talking about repealing obamacare by the end of the month because otherwise they have to get 60 votes to do it. Thats an impossible list for congress that actually gets things done. It is an impossible list. What we saw from the president a moment ago is that he is not sure of the path forward and to stephanies point, hes not sent a clear signal as to what he wants congress to do about daca. That revisit the issue tweet that he sent out last night undercut the position that he was establishing earlier in the day yesterday. What were now seeing is that you know, throughout this year, as donald trump has stumbled and made mistakes in the Republican Congress failed to repeal and replace obamacare, everybody said whats going to happen when there is when theres a crisis not of his own making, thats not selfcreated that hits him and hes got to respond to it. Were in that moment now. And its changing the calculus for Everything Else that has to be done. Its crowded the september agenda and money going to be needed, guys, to respond to harvey and respond to irma, is going to make it harder for them to pass a big tax cut because the democrats are going to have something to say about this. Theyve got to raise the debt limit and democrats are setting conditions on their cooperation. Take the democrats and put them aside. How about republicans