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Florida. >> reporter: and i'm isa soares coming to you live from miami. you are watching cnn's continuing coverage of hurricane irma. >> and winds are lashing south florida right now as hurricane irma nears the u.s. mainland. let's have a look at some video now, the storm a category 3 but expected to gain strength as it crosses very harm open water between cuba and florida. warm water feeds a strong like this. now, irma's path has shifted towards the west. many people from naples through tampa are seeking shelter from the storm surge expected to follow. we're seeing fleets of utility trucks he...

If that storm surge is in your home, that's major devastation. let's zoom out a little bit more, go up the coast. here's tampa and here's st. pete, here's that waterway, an additional 15 feet of water possible across he region. this jutes out a little bit. this has already moved toward the northwest just slightly. we're looking at being battered by that upper right quadrant that's where we see the potential for very high winds, the potential for tornadoes. already i saw fisher island, 57 mile an hour wind gust. key biscayne, 65 mile per hour wind gust. if you shifted from the east coast of flo...

Or so from high tide. >> starting this evening they anticipate the storm surge. two of me at the height of me -- we could see a wall of water come across. that's something they're very concerned about it. >> a sign of what you're in for. maybe even stronger and b even very soon. one of those outer bands from hurricane irma hitting miami right now. >> people who may have gone to miami for their inland are going to come back to the beach because we're right near the ocean. the storm surge is still in zmrekt hurricane irma has take than turn to the north-northwest which means the winds and rains ...

Purple, blue haze quite freakily throughout the night. so that's an indication that the strong win gusts are knocking over maybe perhaps some of the palm trees and palm leaves and whipping up some of the conditions there. isa, it's going to be a long night ahead of us, we expect the worst conditions to pick up as we head into first light tomorrow morning. >> reporter: absolutely derrick there for us in miami beach. and michael, as derrick was just saying, the most important thing is we've been hearing from officials in the last hour is not to be come place sent. there are so many elements at p...

Potent. you're parallel to the storm right now, have you noticed your winds shifting to the southeast or to the south? >> we're protected completely from the north, let me check. i have to turn around and look, i loss my wind gauge right here. no, it's in the same direction right now, we have been waiting for that of when that would be to the north of our location. but i will tell you, as far as storm winds and rain goes, this is the worst of the day. >> sam from living in that area and seaing how much trees and what 100 miles per hour winds can do, how long do you think it will be for power. ...