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Conditions by first light tomorrow morning. 6:00 a.m. roughly 150,000 people without electricity in miami-dade alone. in the state, 160,000 people without electricity. there have been rescue attempts from an individual who was stuck in an elevator. fire and police personnel have still be responding to phone calls and service requests. lots of them being tripped fire alarms across some. buildings here. but as soon as the winds become sustained at 40 miles or higher issa they will pluck the personnel from the road and anyone who stayed here is on their own. issa? >> yeah, yeah. and that curfew h...

Florida keys with hurricane force wind and pound iing track. officials warning that irma is likely to bring potentially lethal flooding along the coast and widespread power outages. issa? >> thanks very much michael. it's not just shifting west. as we heard in the last 20 minutes from tom saida it's shifting northwest. for many people the shift we have seen in the last six hours or so has caught many people by surprise. the city of naples is in the eye of the storm. that's where we find our ed lavendara. ed from what you have seen on the ground, are people heeding the warnings? have people bee...

At times. occasionally the rain picks up a lib. we are still not really feeling the effects of what we know is on its way to this part of southwest florida. so all eyes on that. but the emergency officials we have spoken with say they are ready for this landfall and ready to answer any calls for help and distress after the storm passes. but they feel like they have done everything they could have done to get people into safe places before this storm makes landfall. issa? >> ed, i know you said you spoke to the mayor. what was the mayor's biggest concern? >> it's the storm surge. this is an are...

Of course the storm being so big. it's as big as the state of florida. wherever you are in the state you are going to be impacted. issa thanks so much. we'll check in with you a little bit later. and we saw as tom was indicating there, that track headed towards the north of the state, heading up towards tampa, florida. and we have the mayor of tampa, bob buck horn on the line joining us. you are pretty much in the line of sight of irma. what preparations have been taken to make people as ready as they can be, and the city ready? mayor buck horn, you can hear me? we seem to have lost mayor bob ...

Necessarily to a shelter or georgia. all you have to do is get out of flood zone a. b, c, d, and e, it could be a few blocks away, could be a few miles away. all you need to do is get to higher grourch, get to a safe place, stay with a friend. it's not necessary that you completely pack up and move somewhere else. >> our thoughts and prayers are with you there in tampa. as you say, wasn't expected to be this much of a threat to your city. hopefully it won't be as bad as it could be. mayor, thanks so much for being with us. issa, that vulnerability for the city of tampa, which is a large city o...