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Welcome back. Im Cynthia Mcfadden with continuing live coverage as Hurricane Irma pounds the entire state of florida. The storm is still a category 2 hurricane, even ten hours after making landfall. The National Hurricane center says the eye of the storm is nearing lakeland, east of tampa, as it continues its trek north. The word from city and state officials from those hunkered down at this hour, stay put. The situation is still highly fluid. At least report, the storm still had sustained winds of 100 Miles Per Hour, which has knocked out power for well more than 3 million customers and there...

Tampa was one of the biggest fears yesterday as that storm moved up the west because that storm surge could have been so devastating. Yeah, you know, it was a very different story. Not what they were anticipating 48 hours ago when they thought it was going to be mostly east coast. Tampa got the alert that it move today the west and coming directly towards tampa. It was a lot of concern, it could get as high as 130 Miles Per Hour, thankfully, that did not happen. They did get hurricane forced winds but not to that height. But the concerns about the storm surge, were still waiting for reports of...

Hourplus. And to the top of the map, its now arriving in the jacksonville area ocala to gainesville, Flagler Beach area, daytona beach, new smyrna. Theyre getting the wind off the water. And you still have a little storm surge to go. So almost the entire peninsula from the keys to jacksonville right now is getting the Tropical Storm force winds. Where we still can get the hurricane gusts and we just had that gust to 70 at the Atlanta International airport. Its almost up to hurricane, the hurricane gust. But not quite. This entire area of red is still where the power is either out or still goin...

Gov. Ron DeSantis vetoed $42.6 million from what had been a record $151 million in appropriations for Flagler County and its cities.

Summer beak has only been here a few weeks, but Flagler Beach police said several issues with teenagers and kids getting into trouble have popped up.