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Minutes. miami beach, high winds and rain are lashing the beach. hurricane irma is 22 miles south of miami and barrelling toward the florida coast after literally flattening a number of caribbean islands. the storm has been downgraded to a category 3, but the officials warn it could restrengthen. janice dean tracking irma from the fox extreme weather center. this weakening to a category 3, is that meaningful as far as the impact or splitting hairs? >> it's splitting hairs because it did interact with cuba and made a landfall in cuba and we expect weakening once it contacts with land or water. ...

Records the wind speed on the island. you know, we are tracking irma across florida. we've got reporters, live from miami beach to key largo, fort myers, all across the caribbean as well let's go first with the national hurricane center that updated advisory on the strength and the track of irma. let's go to chad myers in the weather center. the changes we've seen overnight -- because a lot of people went to sleep. and it was a category 5. and it was moving towards the west coast. we've seen some changes overnight, chad. get us all up to date. >> victor, the storm made contact with cuba overni...

Dropping move by president trump cutting a deal with democrats to hurricane harvey relief funds to temporarily raising the debt ceiling in order to avert a government shut down. sources now say republican leaders were blind sided. they say the republican leaders were stunned, along with the treasury secretary steve mnuchin all of whom were pushing for a long-term debt solution. we are covering all of that, much more this hour with our guests, including congressman jim himes of the intelligence committee, and our correspondents and specialists are also standing by. but let's get straight to c...

We are being very aggressive in our preparation for this storm and every floridaen should take this seriously and be aggressive to protect their family. if you're told to evacuate, get out quickly. >> we have a reporter fanned out across the affected region in cuba, miami, as well as in puerto rico and i want to go now to meteorologist allison chinchar who is tracking irma from atlanta. talk us through this storm and the path that it's on. >> that's right. the latest update just came out at the top of the skmour this is what we know. right now, winds still 185 miles per hour. it's moving west ...