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Florida. Theres no guarantee of that. The center of the cone in miami. But you have to focus on this cone because thats where it could be at this point. Well talk more about the track and show you two new hurricanes that have formed in the atlantic. People in florida are take nothing chances as they board up their homes. Some Grocery Store shelves are already empty even though the impactc is a few days away. They have been stocking up for awhile. There are dozens of cars waiting to get gas. They are trying to get gas into the region. Nbc 10s Rosemary Connors is joining us live at philly airport. People still hoping for the best and trying to get out. They are hoping for that. Maybe tomorrow, maybe in the coming days. To be determined what happens with those flights. In the meantime, people in our area are getting firsthand accounts from their family members right in the mid ....
Make a direct hit on south florida. Lets go to maggie she s p live with the latest on the damage done so far and how florida residents are preparing. Reporter rick and sara, the National Hurricane center calling irma potentially cat trough. What we have seen so far out of the caribbean has baseball devastating. Hurricane irma tearing through the caribbean as a powerful category five and showing no signs of slowing down. Saint barts, guadeloupe, caught up in the devastating path and bearing down on saint martins, battering the tourist hot spots with winds of 185 winds and gusts even higher. We are literally inside three doorways in and this is what you can hear. The u. S. Now bracing for impact. Puerto rico is preparing for a catastrophe vent with 700 people already in shelters. No one is every ready for a category five hurricane. And florida is sitting directly in the path. This is serious and we cannot take chances. The flori ....
But lets begin with meteorologist tammie souza. Where is had headed . Its headed past the islands and towards the United States. Would you like to stand in an ef3 or ef4 tornado for 30 minutes to an hour . Thats what some of the islands had to do as the eye moved over them. Thats the type of force that endured. They had to spend up to an hour in those type of wibds. And then strong winds coming and going. Were watching it as it does approach puerto rico with the United States and look at the size of this eye. It is immense. The storm is still quite large at 185 mile an hour winds. Its not undergone the eye wall replacement. It will start to weaken. As it crosses the islands, the eye will go north of puerto rico. Its about the size of texas. If we take the outflow, were up to nearly a thousand miles in width with this particular storm. Its extremely dangerous because of the size ....
A direct hit with the eye wall and after the turks and caicos as we get into the latter part of the week and weekend. Temperatures in the upper 80s in the bahamas, that is a core of warm air it will feed off of that not really allowing irma to weaken whatsoever. And in fact, as we look at the latest track here, it shows north of cuba on saturday morning a category four hurricane and yesterday that was over the keys and today its more likely over miami. But i do not want you to look just at the actual direct path because you need to look at the entire cone of uncertainty. Its a 225 mile wide zone this far out so the actual track once did gets close to florida it could be anywhere within the 225 miles needs to watch the cone. A dangerous storm no matter what. Well look at this as well as our local forecast. Thank you adamment of course Hurricane Irma, just as adam mentioned causing a lot of damage in the caribbean. The four consider ....
Storm system is still 400 miles across and making the beeline to the turks and Caicos Island next on its path. The sustained Hurricane Force winds are compact about 50 miles from the eye. And puerto rico is avoiding the worst of the storm. And turks and caicos is not as lucky they are getting a direct hit and the Northeast Quadrant of the storm the strongest part they could be dealing with a storm surge above 20 feet and then it gets into the southern bahamas, looks like it will be north of cuba, that is great news for cuba but bad news for the u. S. Because the ocean temperature in the upper 80s, its like jet fuel to a storm and really not weakening much. This is the latest track from the hurricane center, taking it through the turks and Caicos Islands as a cata ....