welcome back. i m victor blackwell in miami. and florida governor rick scott has one message for the people ordered to evacuate the state of florida leave now. that warning is comes as hurricane irma bears down on the florida keys very soon. but it s expected to arrive early tomorrow morning. florida officials going door to door in some communities to spread the word, more than 1 million excuse me, 5 million people have been urged to get out of the way of the storm. the category 4 storm just over 200 miles from miami. and showing no signs of slowing down. our meteorologist chad myers, said it s expected to strengthen over the next few hours. 23-foot waves were recorded on the north part of cuba overnight. our national hurricane center said that irma will gain strength once it moves away from
seriously. and they did evacuate. and so, you don t from my just spoke to on the road on - i-75 said there s very little traffic this morning. so, i think that was a good thing. and getting that warning out early worked very well. absolutely. mayor barnett of naples, florida. thank you very much for being with us. we ll check back throughout the day. and you, sir, stay safe. the mayer maor makes a good poi that much of south florida is seasonal. hundreds of people who come down here for vacations, have homes here, their thanksgiving is roughly to easter, roughly. a lot of people live here, the truth is, the residents many of them have never lived through a storm like irma. what is coming here. we ll take a quick break. and our special live coverage of hurricane irma will continue in
i am a little concerned, doctor that we flood the everglades with 12 feat of water, and miami, let s say, west kendall, can flood from the back side. are you looking at that at all? yeah, there is the potential for that. that s generally for a slower moving storm that would be the biggest threat for that type of flooding. but there s going to be a lot of water with the storm, a lot of rainfall. there s going to be a lot of flooding problems just in general in the florida peninsula either from storm surge and/or the combination of very heavy rain. everybody wants to keep an eye out for that. thank you, doctor. also displaced wildstock, wildlife, in particular, alligators, i don t like wildlife anyway. doctor, we ll talk to you at 11:00. people, this is the real deal. this truly is. if you are in key west, you need to go. this could be 140-mile-per-hour storm knocking down the entire city. i was married there. i love key west. i love how it looks.
less appetite, chills, or rash. get this one done. ask your doctor or pharmacist about prevnar 13® today. you know, this is it pays to listen to rick reithmuth. along before any meteorologists noticed this thing fester in the pacific would be a problem, he was warning about is and he is now. obviously has the state department s interest for good reason. this one is a monster. crazy storm and went from a tropical storm to a category 5 hurricane in a day. that certainly breaks records. this storm kind of really surprised so many people, and we re now looking at likely the fifth strongest storm we ever had anywhere on the planet, not just the western hem fear, basing that off of milly mili bars, that s incredible. you sock the stow the storm
the storm. we have to add the movement of the storm with the wind field. and so as the winds pour on shore here, you re not out of the woods by any means, ocala, leesburg, all the way up to the east coast from port jupiter, all the way to daytona beach all the way down south into miami. because you re on the wrong side. you re on the bad side of the storm also causing significant storm surge. let me just use a different term. blooding. do you get that? storm surge is water that will kill you. it is water that is 8 to 12 feet above sea level. and your house, if you live the ocean, is not. that s what storm surge is. it is the push of the water, the pull of the water by the load and the difference of pressure. and as it pushes onshore, that water will get to everglades, it will get to you, naples, it will get to you fort myers, we re