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going to one particular shelter near ft. myers. many of them are still waiting to get in. we re going to check in with our drew griffin who s there in the hour ahead. but first, let s get the latest most porntdly on where this storm is headed. allison chinchar is in the weather center. bring us up to date. right, anderson. take a look at what we have right now, imagery where we can see the latest on irma. winds 125 miles per hour gusting up to 155 miles per hour. the movement it s been what we call wobbling where it s going back and forth between west and north and west and north. the question is when does it finally start to make that really sharp turn to the north. we focus on the maximum wind gusts. notice for the most part it s the western half of florida where we have our strongest winds. key west, this will be our peak maximum wind gusts around 138 miles per hour. but say up around ft. myers 136, even tampa going to be in the triple digits right around 116 miles per hour. ....
marker. their blood type, their d.o.b., their social, in case the very worst happens. that s how dire and how broad this storm is on the coast of texas. so obviously, over these next few hours, we ll be covering this. we re a bit hampered because communications right at this point, after landfall, can often enter into a kind of dark side of the moon phase. some satellite television trucks because of rain fade and high winds lose their ability to broadcast a signal. even some satellite phones can t work. cellphone service is down along with power. so we ll bring you reporting from it from our friends at the weather channel, from our own meteorologist bill karins, when we can. now to the other news that is happening tonight. somewhat under the cover of the first natural disaster of his presidency, a category 4 hurricane making landfall in the united states, the president and our white house stories, on the phone with us, our friend and colleague, the host of our 4:00 p.m. hour h ....
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lavandera on a boat near dickinson texas, between houston and gal ves ston. you ve been talking to brave picture and showing incredible pictures, what s the latest? this is our fivtd chance to get into some of these neighborhoods. this is a neighborhood called bayou chantilly, just off of i-45. you can see how devastating the floodwaters have been seth came up here earlier in the day, he was rescue iing people the last several hours. he did one last pass through the neighborhood. if you can focus in on this home in front of you, take a look at the roof, you can see the axe seen here throughout the day, who have driven up i-45 and used it as a boat launch. and this is just one of hundreds of boats that are out on the water here in south houston, this is one particular neighborhood where this is unfolding. this is happening all across the city here this afternoon. we re seeing so many cars in drive ways. talk about how quickly the water came up. incredibly quickly. peopl ....
we saw some of that flooding all over the roadways. now we re talking about major highways, i-10 south of here. 69 is closed. beaumont becoming its own mini island, and in very many places across jefferson county, you have islands just trying to get help to them, because there are so many rivers that are passing through. rivers that used to be streamtr like this street behind me. you see the water coming off the street there. that s traveling into a drainage ditch, and this is the problem. we just saw a man try to cross the drainage ditch. he thought it was a street. he was almost washed away before our eyes. he was able to swim right back up before the current took him away. that is why police are saying here in southeast, texas, this is not over by any means. the brunt of the storm may be head thing way right now. drew griffin in beaumont. emergency services and possible rescues to go into eastern parts of texas into western louisiana. we thought new orleans was going to h ....