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Closer and closer to us here. there was a significant weather advisory for central miami-dade county. the winds picking up tropical force winds officially. that means any trees with coconuts, flying debris, life-threatening conditions as some of that debris makes its way down to ocean drive, for instance. fortunately, everyone's heeded the warning to evacuate. really, there is just no one out right now with the exception of my team and i. victor. >> all right, derek van dam for us in south beach in miami, derek, thank you so much. stand by. we'll get back to you later this morning. i want to...

Evacuation orders. and evacuation zones that we've seen that are really just emptying across the state. florida governor rick scott has told people to leave now. head to those shelters. we are expecting the governor to hold a news conference on hurricane irma at the top of the hour. so about 15 or 20 minutes away. of course, we will bring that to you live. irma is now a category 4 storm headed to florida. the storm surge, one of the greater threats of this storm. heavy rains coming, the winds as you know, a little more than an hour, more shelters open in fort myers, in the west coast of florid...

Naples, fort myers, sarasota, same story. even into key west. all the way from key west to tampa, could be still a hurricane cat 1 or cat 2. all the way up into northern or central florida. winds in atlanta probably 60 or 70. crazy storm. back to you, guys. >> all right, chad myers for us in the cnn severe weather center. we just got an update. governor rick scott will be holding an update, a press conference at the top of the hour, on the latest on preparations for this monster storm, hurricane irma. of course, we will bring that to you in just about 20 to 25 minutes. again, governor rick sco...

I got the pick of the litter here. no one to talk to. everyone has heeded the warnings to evacuate. the national weather service just tweeted from the miami bureau the international airport had an official wind gust of 58 miles per hour. where i'm standing we're averaging 35 to 45 miles per hour. it's picking up sand and pelting us in the face. it's also getting a bit tricky to stand because the wind can be so gusty at times. and really take your body along with it. i want to show you just quickly, because i want our camera from the storm that continues to come in. but look to the shore here, ...

West in the overnight hours, we did see a slight shift to about key west to naples. now, naples you're really in the middle of what should be the eye wall in 24 to 36 hours. the eye wall is still over cuba. it lost a lot of intensity overnight. the wind is now 130, but don't take your eye off the ball here. this is still a very big storm. it's forecast to get back into warm water. and likely to get back up to a category 5, pushing water over cudjoe, key west, big pine, key west itself. everglades city, possibly to naples or cape coral. that's the area we're really watching here. farther to the...