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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 headline in barbuda's main newspaper today, destruction unreal, hundreds desperate to get out. those hundreds of people still left on the island are desperate to get out not only because of what has just happened but also because of what may happen next. hard as it is to believe, another hurricane is heading
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 incredibly difficult time. thanks for joining us. >> good evening, thank you. >> we're all watching these tracks of the storm both as it makes its way through the caribbean and the meteorologists' expectations about where it's going. what are you expecting in terms of the impact on your city? >> we are indeed bracing ourselves actually for a surge anywhere from 6 to 12 feet depending upon where irma
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 comparing the size of hurricane andrew versus hurricane irma showing how much bigger than irma is. is irma so big that it's dumb for me to ask about the track. is it so big that the subtleties
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