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Recover from this monster storm. earlier i spoke with jack seiler, the mayor of ft. lauderdale and began by asking what the priorities are. >> we've got obviously to dry out a little bit. we've got a fair amount of rain from a very, very big and bad and very, very broad storm. but we're in a phase right now where we're dealing with trying to complete our assessment. we've been out of the storm now for about a full day, but our area being just a rather large urban area, greater ft. lauderdale is almost 2 million people. we've just are in the process of finally doing our assessment in terms of p...

We thought it was appropriate to put a curfew in place to make sure that nobody goes out there to take advantage of those that have already been disadvantaged by this storm. >> mayor seiler, we know that the folks in fort lauderdale, some of them went to naples to get away, to seek shelter, only to come right back and try to avoid what's going to happen to the west coast of florida. what's the biggest challenge right now in trying to track this storm and make sure that all of your folks stay safe? >> well, listen, every update we get, watching your tv station, every update we get, this thing i...

Days. people ought on on notice. i was on with some of your experts last night. this is a big storm. it is one of the biggest, baddest, broadest storms i've ever dealt with. the level of -- the immense nature, the intense nature is huge. and rather than worry about, are we going to be on the east coast of florida or the west coast of florida, listen to the people and, you know, government that are telling you, go hunker down, grab a book, get with family and friends, go to higher and dryer ground but this thing about going back and forth across the shat a state and worrying about what shelter ...

This was the scene only moments ago in cuba. watch this, hurricane irma beginning to hit cuba. that's our correspondent patrick oppmann. been reporting in sunshine till a little while ago. then all of a sudden he was caught in the wind and rain. this shows you how quickly the bands of rain and wind can hit. patrick now is safe. he's under cover, but there he is. you saw what was going on. we're going to check back with patrick shortly. there is a new forecast that's just been released extending hurricanes warnings and watches north on both florida coasts. the storm now is expected to be a ca...

Issues tomorrow, we'll have a curfew in place and we'll be very strict in terms of enforcement. we do not want people coming onto the cause way or crossing the cause way coming onto the barrier island. more importantly, after the storm. we don't want to see looting. we don't want to see people taking advantage of those who have been disadvantaged by the storm. so, our police have been told if they need to take whatever necessary measures are to keep the barrier island free of people during this curfew period, if someone stays in their unit, they're going to stay in their unit. we're not going ...