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Think of the sports teams headquartered in tampa. Irma is now a category 2 hurricane. It is no longer a category 3. This does not affect storm surge at all which we expect to be the worst part of the storm. 5 00 here in the east coast. 5 01 p. M. , in fact. Perhaps you heard there the news from the National Hurricane center through bill carons our meteorologist as weve been watching mike bettis from the Weather Channel. The good news and it is nothing, but good news for those in the north as this formidable, sprawling storm makes its way there is that we are no longer talking about a category 3. Irma is a 2. So it looks like bill caron, our biggest weather gust in the last hour will turn out to be 147 miles an hour. Yeah. 142 was the one from naples there and that was the highest that i saw. Im just trying to get the new stuff from the 5 00 update. It is now moving to th ....
It left behind. The extent of the devastation still largely unknown because the only road that connects the island change remains closed. Jacksonville, florida has surpassed historic flood levels and the National Weather service says those levels will keep rising. In southwest florida irma damaged thousands of homes and downed many power lines. Millions of people are without power and may be for some time. George, i think the number now is around 7 Million People without power. And that could last for weeks in some places. 1. 4 Million People here in the state of georgia alone, michael. I mentioned the rain still coming down here. Were feeling the effects, nothing like what we felt earlier in the day. We felt strong winds saw some flooding in different parts of the region, you talk about savannah, georgia, charleston, ....