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Mitt romney is gliding towards the united states senate t. voter fraud commission axed and an alabama democrat joined the u.s. senate. we will be talking about that with two of washington's top reporters ahead. monday we will be joined by the author of the book that is tying the white house in knots. i wonder if they could stamp the book with read the book, the president doesn't want you to see. we'll ask michael wolff when he joins us here on set on monday. but first, here's bill kierans with a check on the forecast. bill, i have been trying, along with mika, both under the weather, but have ...

Possible direction. did check again with the power company. 340,000 people now without power in miami-dade county alone. that number has doubled, chris, since 5:00 when we first came on tv this morning. the power outages continue to go up as it storm continues to grow in intensity. anything we get here isn't as bad as what you're going to see on the west coast as this remarkable day continues. chris? >> intensity and duration. intensity and duration. we're going to get it worse and how long, because everything gets more vulnerable with water, wind and time. control room, if you can get better ...

140 miles an hour winds. why is irma different, do you think, reed? >> well, all of these storms are unique. but irma is like all these storms but much stronger. stronger wind speeds, winds gusting to 190 miles an hour. it is a sustained category five status. and it's still going to be moving over very warm waters and also a lot larger than hurricane andrew, for example. so those impacts are stretch out further from the center. so it will likely have a larger eye when it impacts the keys and also spread out the wind field and potentially the storm surge impact as well. this is an area that's e...

Warning, this is as real as it gets. nowhere in the florida keys will be safe. you still have time to evacuatement obviously you are a professional. this is what you do. i know you have an exit plan. what is it? >> you always have to have an exit strategy. you are constantly evaluating all forecast models. i have this instrument that measures wind speed and the pressure fall. it will record the data without us having to be there, so if this thing does get too strong we can still leave tomorrow morning. it is important for everybody to heed those evacuation warnings because this storm is absolu...

Right and that's where i'm going to be. it has to start the first minute after the winds subside. >> what is your biggest fear when you look at a storm here that is several times the size of hurricane andrew. it is going to get stronger as it hits the warm water. what is your biggest fear? >> obviously a storm surge is the one that kills the most people, the storm surge. and the reasons for evacuation is because the storm surge mappmap and i want to make sure those folks move out because there could be a deadly storm surge coming from this hurricane and it could push a large amount of water in...