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Whether forecasts warn of catastrophic damage throughout the day you will be seeing scenes like this a massive exodus 1. 2 Million People are under evacuation orders. Schools colleges closed for the day and next monday. Load up drive north hope you can find some gas. These are scenes from caribbean islands irma has hit truly devastating, we dont know full extent of the damage, the wind rain and the storm surge is coming to florida it is just hours away. Now look at this, 8 earthquake off the south coast of mexico a tsunami warning extensive damage on land. Here is Something Else that is settin...

Likely going to take its first landfall over the florida keys, where that is to be determine preponderance of the evidence we have to the wait to find out how quickly that storm makes the sharp turn to the north to tell where its going to go. Its likely to go along places like naples, fort myers, into tampa and then move all inward and push into the states like georgia, alabama and tennessee. It will reintensify back to a category 4 storm. Look at how warm the water is in this region, upper 80s, that is the perfect fuel for a storm like this to be able to intensify, thats what we expect it to ...

Nation and protecting our safety in our hour of need. And today isaac continues to do exactly that. Isaac still works at the pentagon. Now as a sergeant. Hes on duty right now and hes joined us here today for the ceremony and this morning all of us and all of america thank isaac for his service. Where is isaac . [ applause ] thank you. Thank you, isaac. To isaac and to every First Responder and survivor of the attack you carry on the legacy of the friends you lost, you keep alive the memory of those who perished and you make america proud, very, very proud. To the family members with us today,...

Devastation from hurricane irma on the southeast coast of florida. the devastation all the way up the west coast as well. let's go to ryan young in clearwater, florida. ryan. >> reporter: john, look, we were in clearwater last night getting pounded by the winds. we experienced wind gusts above 80 miles per hour. look behind us. you can still see police officers blocking off the bridge here to the beach. that's as a precaution and seen many people getting turned around but you see these signs of just sheer power because of the wind. you see the wind just relentlessly rip things apart as we drov...

But it's the surge on the north side. the worst side of the storm. this is now the worst side of the storm. now, there is some surge going back into tampa but two to three feet. not what could have been had the storm been slightly farther offshore. it is a tropical storm, 70 miles per hour. it is dying. it is disintegrating. there is enough of a high pressure up here that the winds will gust to near hurricane strength. all the way through georgia, south carolina and even southern north carolina later on today. at least 70-mile-per-hour gusts all through this region. that will bring power lines...