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Relatives and friends and their countrymen who were in southern bahamas, they're not thinking that at all because the reports are very devastating about what's coming out of that area. >> i'm sure we're going to start seeing the images come out of cuba as well. live for us there in the bahamas, rahema eli says, thank you. much more to come, hurricane irma is now on track to hit both coasts of florida, and also new footage of the extentive devastation across the bahamas where rahema ellis was first reporting from. we'll be right back. keep it here.

Morning. a lot of interaction with cuba. it's not looking like the same healthy storm we were tracking. the core of the storm flirting with the coastline there. that's hard for the storm to deal with and it cuts off from its energy source which of course is the warm water. again, the track takes a category 4 storm through the straits of florida here making landfall some time tomorrow. southwest florida, potentially up towards the tampa area. and this is our main storm surge concern. we're talking about the storm surge that could be devastating for the gulf coast of florida, but still tracking ...

Welcome back, everybody. we are tracking hurricane irma, right now hammering the coast of cuba b, being downgraded from a category 5 to a category 4 storm, just 5 miles an hour difference in the wind seeds. not much of a difference. bonnie, what are you seeing out there? >> well, you know, it's still a very large and powerful storm. we have hurricane winds and it extends 70 miles. when you talk about the width of florida, most people will be impactsed by those hurricane-had force winds. when you see where the eye of the storm is, it's just kind of riding along the coast of cuba. i mean, it's i...

Aisles of florida, the florida key west and we'll have extended coverage on hurricane irma as it continues to move into the caribbean, pounding cuba right now expected to hit the united states mainland.

Outer bands. see these pictures bringing wind gusts of 60 miles per hour. about 5.6 million floridians have been ordered to evacuate, making it the largest evacuation in the state's history. and you can see those outer bands of the storm now hitting southern florida. irma has already proven fatal in the caribbean where it left at least 23 people dead and destroyed several islands in its wake. and they are not in the clear yet as category 4 storm hurricane jose barrels toward the northern leeward islands, including the u.s. virgin islands. we've just got news in on the latest report that this i...