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The hour. we continue with a fox news alert. all eyes on hurricane irma. right there on the side of your screen. current track of the storm. right-hand side tampa, florida, one of the areas that with the new projections that we heard over the course of the last 48 hours is projected to get hit hard. you can see right there it did. heather: wind damage and storm surge, two of the things that everyone continues to watch. we heard our own janice dean mention the number of people who are now without power in the state of florida. ha t. has gone from 3.3 to 5.5 million people without power in that ...

Get there and make sure that all the trees are not blocking the roadways anymore, make sure that the fuel, gasoline spills, and hazards are cleaned up. make sure that there are no power lines blocking the road. speaking of power, still a major issue. always a top priority after a hurricane. about 1.5 million households and businesses in miami county without power. you take two people living in each place, that's 3 million people in south florida without power. but 17,000 crews all out and about, 17,000 people, all working fast. we have seen it this morning. going in and taking care of what the...

Looks like some trees hanging pretty low at this point. that's why you have to really watch out for w. those power lines. then look, this is what have you come up upon. you have a palm tree just completely blocking the roadway. this is the situation right now. not a ton of flooding which, by the way, people are thrilled about. at this point it's just the the debris, it's the trees you have to worry about. back the to you. heather: one of the many reasons people are being told do not come out of your house until the sun is out. a lot of dangers on the roads. thank you, jillian. todd: go now to ...

Window where me and my dad were just standing there. the only reason we stopped is because it got to the point we felt it beating so hard okay we are going to leave the room, close the door and hope nothing happens. >> they said it was going to be a worse case se scenario the officials and they were correct. as can you hear behind me it's still a wind event. it's still blowing. the flooding, waters are rising. we drove through areas that have flood. we are trying to get to others to see just how deep it is. but certainly these roads are treacherous. and you absolutely, if you are waking up and...

>> abby: you have so much family to there, melissa. you say they are out of power. >> melissa: it is about the restoration without power. you have 6 million people in florida right now who do not have powered. they woke up as you said, hit overnight. we were on the air overnight as the tampa area was getting hit. her family as they woke up this morning, looks very much like a war zone. do you walk outside and there is stuff everywhere. you do not have the power to get things up and running. so it will be a major cleanup effort. but the folks in jacksonville to be under so much water like that ...