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And it could be 130 miles an hour at its peak. derek van dam, thank you so much. get inside, take some shelter. isa, back to you in miami. >> yeah, it is a beast of a hurricane. what we're feeling, what derek is feeling there, michael, is just the outer bands of hurricane irma. of course, we'll have an update at the top of the hour on the latest path of the hurricane to find out whether it's shifted and how fast or how slow it is moving. do stay with us. i'm isa soares in miami. >> and i'm michael holmes in orlando, florida. our coverage of hurricane irma continues on "new day" in just a momen...

You can't drive down the street in this type of wind. you can barely stand in it. for them to put themselves out there, to rescue people, to pull them out of elevators where they may be stuck because parts of miami beach now have no power. we woke up to no power. they can't put themselves in harm's way. the fire and police department here had told -- had tweeted out that they simply could not make rescued after sustained winds of 30 miles per hour. let me tell you, chris, we are absolutely there. they are not going to be out there. if you remain in miami beach, you are on your own. west side o...

This for more than 30 minutes now. and until this thing comes in. brian, again, i got to tell you, i'm completely blocked from the north. nothing coming from the north. and this wind is hooking a little bit. i've got have a convention center to the east. as this wind is making it up and over this convention center, so this is what we were telling people to hunger down for and get in. and if our reporters are on the beach earea, if they can hear m, get inside and brace for this wind now. folks north, hollywood, ft. lauderdale, this beach, this is the kind of wind you will be getting. the reason...

>> your husband is actually holding his place. adrian is holding your place in line. >> yes. two of our children are there. >> this is your mom? >> she's my mother. >> how are you doing? >> fine, thank you. >> has it been a long wait for you ot here? >> no english. >> she speaks spanish. we've been here for a while and i know it's very hard but it's encouraging to see how many people are starting to help us to get there, get inside, and we thank god that we have a shelter, that we have a safe place. it's hard for everybody, i believe, but we all have to be patient and we have to cooperate and ...

Understand it, is 7,000 or 8,000 inside this arena. we have not gotten an actual count of how many people are here waiting outside. but assuming it takes several more hours, we're expecting, you know, the winds to pick up. we see some gusts here right now. and we see some of these rain bands picking up. these folks are worried that they're not going to be able to get inside and then what happens is, if they can't get inside, where do they go? because they keep being told this might be the last shelter that they're going to be able to go to. so we have ems here. we've seen some people with heat...