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With this. still dealing with the potential for at least tropical storm force winds for much of the state of florida. hurricane force winds in the orange there and in the red. those are hurricane sustained winds. so, those will diminish but for the foreseeable future throughout the day today, hurricane force gusts are going to be possible. there is the models in pretty good agreement as we go through the next 24 to 48 hours. this potentially could stall. but the good news is it is going to weaken. power outage index here. we could see potentially more power outages as we go towards northeast f...

That is the keys. adam housley in key largo, looks better as far as the weather, but the damage is punishing. >> yes, the weather, the winds finally stopped early this morning. still battered after it hit mainly in a second time. still pretty brutal winds this morning. but as you can see behind me, the keys got absolutely hammered, especially on the ocean side. local officials are saying that it is a humanitarian crisis in some places. no water or little water depending on where you are in the keys. no cell phone service. no power anywhere. that makes it difficult. when you drive along this oc...

Utility workers that are trying to restore power to 43% of florida's customers who are now without power. a staggering number. on top of all of that we saw all the damage, panels flying off the buildings, flooding on brickle avenue and miami beach. people are just trying to come home and those homes are vacant. so now police are dealing with, yeah, you guessed it, looters. and so now they are sending out video of looters going after a foot locker in miami-dade county here. there is also a tweet that miami police department sent out with a photo of some looters that they arrested, thankfully, 2...

Barrier island west of st. petersburg. what are you seeing? >> well, we were hunkered down on same peach beach saint pete beach. coincidentally tampa bay some 300,000 people without power this morning. it goes to show that the storm had a mind of its own. i want to show you some of the unfortunate damage from irma, the yacht crushed up against the vote, the starlight sapphire dining yacht. the owner tells me as you can see it is up against that bridge there. they say that the bridge did not suffer damage, still working to determine if the wires and piping is hot. then after that the owner says...

Tall pine trees causing some of the loss of power right downtow downtown. you can see the storefronts are all dark, power has been knocked out to this part of tipton. this morning we woke up to know power, but then came back a few hours later, very spotty, this is affecting the entire state. governor declaring a state of emergency in all 159 georgia counties. on the coast, the issue is storm surge. they had to close down the highway 80 causeway, tying the land with the mainland. and also crosswinds in the airport, atlanta-based delta airlines canceling approximately 900 flights today, and to t...