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Whipped through the caribbean, killed at least 17 people so far, at least 5 from st. maarten and people in puerto rico and the u.s. virgin islands and in barbuda. barbuda is next door to st. maarten, a little larger geographically but fewer people. fewer than 2,000 people live there overall. this is before hurricane irma hit. this is barbuda today. the prime minister says barbuda is barely habitable. the only airport and hospital were destroyed. there's no running water and no phone service because the communications tower that you see right there just snapped in half by irma. this was the hea...

The west coast of the florida peninsula, a city of about 77,000 people. irma has been passing over cuba now and it tracked a little west of where it had previously been expected. apparently the implications of that for irma's florida track are such that, well, such that bill karins told us he just called his mom to let her know that on this new track or what appears to be this new track, her hometown of ft. myers may be looking at a storm surge there of six feet which is a very big deal. joining us now is the mayor of ft. myers, florida, randall henderson. mayor henderson, i know this is an in...

The storm track. some forecasts ended up being more certain than others, more accurate. is that inter play between the different forecasts at play at all for this giant storm? that's a pressing question for me tonight. how good are the models predicting the track of hurricane irma and how much consensus is there among those models. that's my first question. second question, is my first question stupid because of the size of the storm? the last category 5 storm was hurricane andrew 25 years ago. you've probably seen these mockups that people have been doing. people have been physically comparin...

The x axis there, that's just a timeline. it starts at 1850 on the left-hand side and it proceeds decade by decade all the way until now. the y axis, the numbers that go up and down on the left side of the chart, that is sustained wind speed in these various storms. clearly what's scary right now about looking at this chart today is that way up there at the top of the chart, our current hurricane is also very close to the top of the chart in terms of wind speed. irma is the storm that's been cutting through the caribbean, bearing down now on florida, but you can see there we have almost never ...