Resort island of barbuda is in ruins. Stephanie ramos live in florida with the latest. Reporter this morning there are people trying to make a mass exodus out of florida as the monster storm raging closer to the coast and grows stronger. Irma is inching closer to south florida with winds 160 Miles Per Hour. The storm shifting farther west the eye of the storm on keys in florida. Nowhere in the florida keys will be safe. Were running out of time, the storm is almost here, if youre in an evacuation zone you need to go now. Reporter more than 5. 6 Million People have been asked to evacuate, many living in lowlying coastal areas. As time runs out, people are trying to escape the storm. Traffic so bad on the three main routes out of south florida, some people abandoned their cars because they have run out of gas. Those trying to get out by air finding themselves stuck, Fort Lauderdale airport closed. Miami International Spending all flights. Those trying to get in hoping to get a last minute ticket stranded. We spent hours trying to find a flight. Its been awful. We have not slept. Reporter some miami beach residents are counting on their storm resistant structures and staying put. We are going to ride it out. We have back up electricity. We have hurricane built building with cement. Reporter the winds have pick up, were starting to feel the outer rain bands of irma expected to reach south florida tomorrow morning. Abc news, back to you. We turn attention to meteorologist chris sowers who is tracking the latest on Hurricane Irmas track, chris, bring us up to speed. Reporter we have a few changes first the track has shifted to the west and the wind speeds have come down a little bit. It had winds up to 160 Miles Per Hour now its down to 155. Its a powerful category four storm. Havana sits here, the bahama islands are over my shoulder, florida straits, florida keys, this is Everglades National park in naples area. The storm will move like this. We thought it was going fob eastern florida, now western florida will take the hit. The first hit Sugarloaf Key and the second hit fort meyers beach and naples florida. Storm tracker 6 live you can see the outer edges, lets try that again. You can see the outer edges, the feeder bands starting to progress to the west. Southern florida, look at the reds, the across, the oranges, heavy rains shifting to the west northwest at 15 to 20 Miles Per Hour. Conditions will rapidly deteriorate across southern florida over the next 6 to 10 hours. It will be very, very bad for the southern keys and the western tip of southern florida. Were looking at Tropical Storm force winds across the keys. As the eye wall makes its landfall, key west, 127 Miles Per Hour. Those are winds gusts that could be higher than that. The secondary area along fort meyers beach. Winds over 100 Miles Per Hour thats sunday night. Into monday morning, it starts to lose steam and weakens into a Tropical Storm, but were seeing forecasted wind speeds in the 70 to 90mile an hour range in parts of the area. Spaghetti plots, each line represents a different tropical forecast model, they all target western florida at this point sometime early tomorrow morning. When i come back well focus on the storm surge and which areas will get hit worse and our forecast. This is the arrival board at Philadelphia International airport, the final flight from orlando arrived last night. The flight from Fort Lauderdale was supposed to arrived at 10 56 that was canceled. They are removing all canceled passengers to shelters. It was chaotic. The airport was very crowd crowded. Everybody was trying to get out. Everybody is worried. Reporter trying to escape the wrath of Hurricane Irma has been a massive exodus. Ive traveling to orlando for ten years and never seen anything like this before. We booked and got a flight in the nick of time. Reporter do you feel lucky . Definitely. Reporter others were not as lucky. James and laura arrived in florida on monday, and ended up scrambling to get out of there. We got canceled and so we booked a train. Reporter they ended up catching the last train from miami. It took 0 hours to get 30 hours to get here. They booked a train to pay paoli just to get out of florida. We didnt know what to do. It was scary. Reporter meanwhile, some who got out, there was a feeling of guilty for those who stayed behind. Because of my age, my son is down there, insisted that i come home. Rose annes family said they urge her to come here for her sisters 60th birthday while they stayed behind. Im happy, but im sad because im worried about them. Im leaving everybody there i dont know what i am going back to. All i can do is hope and pray and leave them in gods hands. For many escaping the wrath of Hurricane Irma they are hoping and praying for the best. At Philadelphia International, dann cuellar channel 6 action news. This morning the National Guard unit from cape may is on the its way to florida. The 253rd Transportation Company left yesterday morning. Chopper 6 hd was overhead as the convoy drove over the delaware Memorial Bridge there. The guards men are not sure yet where they will be helping out. They say they are raised to stay no matter long as it takes. Brian taff is in Fort Lauderdale florida, well have a live report from him and throughout the weekend as Hurricane Irma bears down on the Sunshine State. Were tracking the path of Hurricane Irma with the 6abc app. You can get the latest from our team of meteorologists on any possible impact to our area. The 6abc app, of course, a Free Download for your mobile device. Were tracking breaking news from the Lehigh Valley. Authorities in white hall township said a Police Officer was shot. This happened along the 47 let you 4700 block of main street. Police say the officer was shot in the leg responding to some sort of call. The officer signaled for help. The gunman was arrested at the scene. Were waiting this morning on the information about the officers condition well keep you posted. This morning the Country Music industry is grieving the loss of troy gentry following a Helicopter Crash in medford, new jersey. He died from injuries in the crash. Police responded to a call of a helicopter in distress at 12 40 p. M. Yesterday. The Helicopter Crashed 20 minutes later while on its way to the flying w airport and resort. 50yearold gentry was pulled from the wreckage, but later died. Yards away from the crash site gentry was scheduled to perform last night. I cried, i burst out crying, its like its so sad. Heartbreaking story, the pilot 30yearold James Robison of medford was pronounced dead at the scene. Ntsb is investigating the crash. Down the shore the contestants in Miss America Competition will take part in the show me your shoes parade. It will be the final time the ladies get to greet the public tomorrow night at boardwalk hall. The show me your shoes parade steps off at 5 00 p. M. On the ac boardwalk. You can see who takes the crown during the finale tomorrow night beginning at 9 00 p. M. Catch it right here on 6abc. Eagles get ready for the Season Opener in the nations capitol ahead, like the fine wine, two men make sure their whiskey is perfection. Well tell you the story of how they went from Fraternity Brothers to entrepreneurs. Prayers for those not path of Hurricane Irma. Reporter well have the latest on Hurricane Irma the projected path and the projected wind speeds. Take a look at the weather here back home across the delaware and Lehigh Valleys. Normally we should be around 83. Today were forecasting a high of 73. We have cooler numbers to talk about in the accuweather sevenday forecast coming up next. Pope francis made a plea to the faithful to pray for the victims of the earthquake in mexico and those in the path of Hurricane Irma. The pontiff made his remarks at the end of the mass in columbia yesterday. He said he was praying for those who lost loved ones or their homes. The visit was intended to be a celebration of the countrys step forward toward peace, the natural disasters dampened the mood. This is a live picture from naples florida as we monitor Hurricane Irma. The winds are picking up, the palm trees are blowing in the wind. You can see a person on the beach. This is all going to change for the worst in a matter of hours as Hurricane Irma slams into florida. Chris sowers is tracking the system. The question become also because naples isen 0 the gulf side of florida at sea level. How bad is the storm surge going to be there. Because they sit three feet above sea level. The track will shift to the west, the surge will come over the western tip of florida. They could see a storm surge in excess of ten feet. Ive seen storm surges travel 8 to 10 Miles Per Hour him they are looking at a tremendous amount of water that will barrel through over the next 1 to 24 12 to 24 hours. Hurricane irma category four storm, gust 185, 190 Miles Per Hour. Pressure is has come up 930 mill ibars. When irma hit cuba was a category five storm. Now its a category four. It may increase to a cot gory five again category five again as it crosses over the florida keys. Lets look at the enfrom infrd shot. The reds showing up around the center of the circulation which is coming off the coast of cuba. Florida straits getting into the florida keys. It will make a righthand side turn shortly, probably win the next 12 hours or so, which would put the worst part of the had hurricane on the western tip of florida notion the eastern tip. A tremendous storm surge expected in that part of florida. Marathon, key west, key largo seeing heavy rains. The latest traffic moving west northwest 12 Miles Per Hour. It will make the right hand turn shortly. Around the naples area or marko island. This area here landfall expected tomorrow morning between 2 and 5 00 a. M. As a category four storm with winds 150 Miles Per Hour as the storm moves over land getting close to tampa, it weakens dramatically as it loses its fuel source which is the warm waters of the atlantic and the gulf. Tuesday and wednesday it weakens into a Tropical Storm or tropical low. Were seeing good concensus between the forecast models. We have a couple of outliers which brings it over the gulf which will be good news for people in southern florida but terrible news for the folks up here. The track is who will get hit hardest. Looks like its naples. Rainfall totals range anywhere from 6 to 12 inches when all is said and done. Well see winds 150 Miles Per Hour for a brief period of time. This wall of water approaches ten feet from the coast fort meyers beach into the Everglades National park. These areas are close to sea level ranging 3 to 8 feet above sea level. That wall of water will push i understand land over the next few hours. Florida keys 90 to 120 Miles Per Hour winds. Naples, 125 Miles Per Hour winds, 6 to 12 inches of rain. Storm surge of 6 to 12 feet. For our area its pleasant, 73 degrees, hour by hour, 1 00 p. M. , 72. And 4 00 p. M. , 72. The exclusive accuweather sevenday forecast, yes, well see remnant rains from irma you but they wont occur until tuesday into wednesday. 74 tomorrow, monday looks great, 78. In art of aging, two entrepreneurs are looking to recapture the golden days of rye ris key in pennsylvania whiskey in pennsylvania. Reporter herman and john were frat brothers at penn and friends ever since. Her mans family owned a bar in western pennsylvania. 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M. , part of the reason why irma is not traveling up the eastern seaboard like other hurricanes like floyd, gloria is because of of the huge area of High Pressure closing the northern door if you will skirting along the u. S. canadian border. It will travel like this. As it does so it will force irma this way into the deep dixie south. As it gets off the coast next week, it will spin the storm a little bit and the remnant rains will move into the mid atlantic and the Delaware Valley. It will spin out, and the results could be showers or brief period of rain. The high works controversy over top, the storm goes that way. 73 today. 74 tomorrow, lots of sunshine, very comfortable low humidity levels. Turning to sports, the eagles are gearing up for their Season Opener in washington. The phillies are in the nations capitol where they are hoping to turn things around. Heres ducis rogers with all your saturday morning sports. Hello, again, they are healthy and hungry and ready. 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