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16 minutes past the hour. we have breaking coverage of hurricane irma as it pears across florida. packing violent winds, torrential rains and breaking records along the way. irma leaving a trail of destruction in south florida. a hundred mile-an-hour wind gusts. major water damage at miami international airport. airport will be closed today. officials hope to resume a limited flight schedule on tuesday. >> schools in miami-dade closed until further notice. and this dramatic video shows just how powerful the winds were in miami. blowing the roof right off of this two-story building. derek van d...

>> wow. that is some live shot. thank you. >> sara sidner -- >> well done. >> gutsy journalism there. that's a reminder to folks, as far as up north to jacksonville, still a lot to come on the op site side of where you thought this storm was. a lot of punch left. in miami this storm punched a lot as well. 100 miles an hour. the miami-dade airport will be closed today. a limited flight schedule on tuesday. schools in miami-dade county, also closed until further in the. >> yeah. some schools are shelters at the moment. they have been taking care of people. this shows how powerful wind are in mia...

What's it like there now, sara? >> if anyone thought this storm would blow over irma calming down, yes be, she has lowered her intensity. but not here on daytona beach. on daytona beach this is the strong ef win strongest winds we have seen. and they keep getting stronger each hour. we are in another one of those incredibly power bands and what we have seen incredible pictures by cnn, photographers an reporters and anchors across the west coast and down to miami, we are now getting some of those powerful winds here. now we do realize that this has gotten down to cat 4 and starting to fall apar...

We were told we today come back inside. we did so we are getting stronger gusts but right around the time when this is going to get its absolute worst. our forecasters there and cnn center, around 4:00, this is going to be the most difficult time and that's sustained for half an hour to 45 minutes. we are getting some of that right now. i want to mention something to you. we keep seeing lights go out and at one point it looked like the city was dark but then it was back on-line. we are in the same hotel when hundreds of florida power and light workers and florida power and light is going to be...

Department. they say the most dangerous part of the storm for miami is now. when people venture out and there is so much danger lushe d around where you are. >> yes. they are curious. they want to know, how is their property? how did their house fair? how did the trees fair? not a good time to go that. obviously downed power lines. water. water problems. trees blocking roadways. stale dangerous here. in fact still mandatory evacuation. or mandatory curfew in the region. this is equivalent to what we expect to see with hurricane category 1 wind. look at this tree that toppled over in the destru...