but jacksonville is the story. i want to go over to say hi to by mbuddy, stephanie, we were mere when the storm was setting in. a lot of things we have to talk about this morning. i don't want to lose sight of 9/11. it is the anniversary, the 16th anniversary of 9/11. something that is so important to those of us in the city. but right now our immediate attention is on jacksonville. >>> ali, i just left a 9/11 memorial event. if you lived in new york or washington, d.c., part of that group in pennsylvania, it's a day you can never forget. but the day we're focusing on now is in florida. and let's bring in a florida times union reporter david bauerline from jacksonville. david, take us to the ground there, what is it like? >> well, the flooding downtown and along the river -- >> sounds like we have lost david there. but jacksonville is the biggest city in florida. we always think about miami, but not only is jacksonville very big, it's got low-lying places and a lot of the houses that are owned by people or rented b

hopefully we can coordinate with the city of jacksonville. >> shepard: the jacksonville beach mayor, charlie latham, never seen the likes of this. i want to go to miami now, see these signs? it turns out, this is people trying to turn to miami beach. they will only let you in if you have a driver's license that says "i live on miami beach." they had shut down miami beach until noon today, they weren't going to let any residents get back in there. people are trying to get back into miami beach but everybody can't get in there, you have to live there to get back in there. they are very worried about keeping about keeping law & order. this is the hard rock stadium, they now call it where the dolphins play. some serious damage to the roof, they are working to assess how bad that damage was and what they are going to do about returning to football in the western part of the county ther there. there's a lot to watch this afternoon, down in south florida it is damage assessment and trying to get the power back on. down in the florida keys, they are working to make sure all their bridges are

jacksonville, a fornd tcle, aa e jacksonville, a fornd tnd or fo quick are response in jacksonville and rescue mode to save as many people as we could. and it is hard to believe that the most devastating damage is in key west and jacksonville, and that is not the way it is predicted. so throughout the district, we have, you know, in this district a lot of people are on food dependence program, and so it is very important that we petition the federal government through the state of florida to make sure that people who are on food stamps will get a hot meal, and that they will not be turned around when they go to restaurants and so forth because they have young kids and so forth. so we are still in the rescue mode here in jacksonville, and the flooding has been devastating, and the mayor was out there on the boats today rescuing people. you know, so we are not in rekov are -- recovery, but in rescue mode. >> and in addition to that, what is the biggest concern in the cominging hours? >> well, you know, health care and making sure that the hospitals are functioning well to get the peop

this is jacksonville right now. this is the largest city in terms of square footage, in terms of square mileage in the united states. it is flooding right now because the river that is supposed to flow out into the atlantic is stuck because there is a tide coming in. we're keeping a very, very close eye. the police chief in jacksonville is saying, if you're stuck in your house, put a white flag on it and we'll try to find you. they're warning people in the a and b evacuation zones -- won't mean anything if you don't live there -- the st. john's river is going to cause problems. get out if you still can. we have pictures of rescue boats just posted to the mayor's twitter account. the governor employed three teams of wildlife officers to help rescue people stranded by the flooding. officials say there are historic flood levels in this city. the levels will go even higher by high tide this afternoon. bill is going to tell us in a minute what the high tide numbers are going to look like. irma itself is now a tropical st

jacksonville, south of jacksonville. let us listen. >> a crew that was hauling a boat, we know more rescue is going on. our issue right now is the water gets deeper from here. i am standing in knee-deep water, but it gets waste-deep, and perhaps even if you can pan down the street, you may be able to see someone kayaking. do note that will is someone kayaking? he says it is a kayak, not a rescue boat we seen some included some video i want to show you from a little while ago of a family being taken by cruz, jeff has been coming around knocking on doors to make sure everyone is okay, because this is waste deep water. expected to get bigger waste deep or at worst. again, you're looking at video taking people end, ten, 15-foot boat, helping them out, and taking them down the road. it will take them a couple of blocks away, i am told. that is an area where trying to get to come and some of them may go to shelters, but that family we spoke to a little while ago, they are okay pure and most of the people we have spoken to are

now take a look at jacksonville. even though the body of the storm is beginning to pull on off, that wind is driving that water in this direction. and if we take a look at the st. johns river under this polygon right now, it pulls all that water to the north right into jacksonville. you combine that with the high tide, which was about 2:00, and, again, the estimates are that we could even get another two to three feet higher as you mentioned. will we do so? that remains a question mark. but even as it is, that is very dangerous right now with respect to the flooding conditions in jacksonville already beginning to rise. and for a little historical p s pers -- perspective, the last time we set a record for water level like that cresting was after hurricane dora in 1964. you heard that police chief say in all his time there, or may have been the mayor in all his time there and he's been there 50 years, he's never seen anything like this. it was probably because he was a young boy or not even born yet when dora came thro

>> a flash flood emergency for jacksonville. we have never seen levels like this in downtown jacksonville as long as they've been keeping records, since the 1800s. so this is how bad it was. worse than 1964, the old record, hurricane dora. the winds have come onshore all night long. onshore, onshore, onshore. what she just felt was a 54-mile-per-hour gust, but now the winds have shifted and they are coming up from the south pushing the st. john's river out of the estuaries into jacksonville and the water can't get out yet so that's why the water is rising so fast where she is. need to be careful. it's not going over the walkway, not going into the hotel, but certainly flash flood emergency. this is as high as that water has ever been. >> and chad, as you said, the water can't get past jacksonville? it has to go into jacksonville. >> that's right. can't go out because the wind is still kind of pushing it in there through the estuary. there's only a small little river out through the jacksonville and the sait. john and not big eno

still very strong wind here in jacksonville. this is part of florida where authorities are warning anybody who is in their house and needs to be rescued to go ahead and put a white sheet on their door, right now. so that the authorities as the water continues to rise, when it is safe for them to go out, they know which house they need to go to. but it is already an ugly situation. no way that a vehicle will get through here. i'm not sure -- we have not seen anybody try down here. we did see somebody in a high water vehicle try to get through a little while ago, they had a hard time. the situation in jacksonville is not getting better right now, and we will be here ready to move back as the water raises, harris. >> harris: we want to remind everybody that this is more than 400 miles from where irma first came to shore in the keys, where you are right now part of that is so significant to talk about the size of the storm. i want to hand it off to brian kilmeade, i think you have a question. >> bill: for one thing, it does not seem

augustine such of jacksonville in north florida. bill karins, an update out of jacksonville? >> yeah, we just showed the reporter there on the beach there. the winds that are current. we'll take our weather one computer and so you the wind field of the storm. the storm is currently located just north of cedar key. the wind is still parallel to the coastline here on the coast. that's where daytona beach is. there's jacksonville. the winds extend 415 miles out to the center. here's some of our current gusts. the reporter right there, south of jacksonville, down to the daytona beach area, in the middle there. they're still getting gusts off the coast in 50 to 60-mile-per-hour range. punta gorda is fine. west palm beach is fine. winds picking up in tallahassee area at 51 miles per hour. they're north of the storm but the highest winds along the northeast coastline. and that's why that river is not flowing back out the way it's supposed to. and why the storm surge is building up there. that's why we're having such an incredible problem with the storm that's coming from the south t

to the city of jacksonville. we've lost about 90% of our electric power, electric power to about 90% of our customers, i think, is better said. we received about 27 inches of rain in 24 hours. >> wow. 27 inches in 24 hours. no wonder that river is back up. >> it's no question addition i've lived here 50 years and that's by far the most flooding i've ever seen. we also had some surge from the ocean. you may recall that during matthew last year, we took a pretty significant hit and lost all our dunes. we just replaced them over the last couple of months. they were tested again today. and for the most part they seem to be in pretty good shape. we had a couple small breaches but they're okay. >> what about in terms of people not in shelters, people in their residents, just standing by. obviously, the emergency relief people can't get to them this this kind of floodwaters. >> right. well, we've -- we haven't had any injuries, deaths or incidents where there was concern for loss of life. we've been fortunate in that re

first kelly is in jacksonville she joins us tonight. kelly, you've been covering this now all day today and yesterday. can you describe in jacksonville what you're seeing there today, how much the flooding is right now and how much of a concerns is. >> reporter: absolutely anderson. i'm standing in downtown jacksonville here, anybody familiar with the areas will be familiar with the landing, a very popular watering hole and these parks. a category 3 storm surge carried the waters in the st. johns river here up and over these seawalls and rolled it down the street. when we walked here at 11:00 a.m. this morning the water was three blocksen land and it continues to rise throughout the day. as bad as it looks three blocks inland we were told, it is going to guess worse. 2:00 p.m. when the tides were 3 feet, now it's worse. at time we saw white caps in the waters as it flooded the street of downtown. i had my rain jacket on all day but i don't think i ever felt rain fall from the sky, it was the wind ripping up on these tunnel that it creat

peter doocy is in jacksonville. let's get to steve harrigan life -- team fox coverage. >> it's pretty much of a mess. trees down, snapped in half, power lines down. driving is treacherous. no electricity. stop lights are out. a lot of people cutting each other off. when you go around and see shots from up above, trailer park home north of naples. you can see there is still extensive flooding. some homes have three to 4 feet of flooding. the good news is possible huge, deadly, catastrophic storm surge up to 16 feet didn't happen. the back end of the storm was weak. they've got their work cut out for them now. almost everyone in collier county has lost electric power. there is no cell phone service, so it's dark. you can't talk to people. you can't get around. you don't have air conditioning. you don't have tv, cell phones, wi-fi. you are alive but for the next couple weeks, you could be suffering here in naples. >> shepard: steve harrigan life. peter doocy in jacksonville. >> this is the main street bridge. it traver

jacksonville. mayor charlie latham is the mayor of jacksonville beach. mr. mayor, good morning. it's good to talk to you. could you give us an update on the flooding that you're experiencing? >> yes, ma'am. good morning. we have some massive flooding in the jacksonville beach area. we received about 27 inches of rain in 24 hours. we've lost about 90% of our electrical services to our customers. and this is flooding that, i've lived here for 50 years, i've never seen anything like it before. >> how much of this is rain, how much of this is tidal, mr. mayor? >> good question, matt. we actually had, under matthew, we had lost a significant amount of dunes during the storm. fortunately, this time, the new dunes that we recently installed held for the most part. we had a couple of small broaches, created some water along first street in jacksonville beach, but the vast majority of the water's coming from the massive amounts of rain that we've received. >> a lot of rain, but then we also talked about the

cnn's kelly har tung is in jacksonville. kelly, you've been covering this now all day, all yesterday. can you describe what you've been seeing in jacksonville today and how big the flooding is there right now and how much of a concern it is? >> absolutely, anderson. i'm standing in downtown jacksonville here. anybody familiar with this area will be familiar with the landing, a very popular watering hole in these parts. but this morning a category 3 storm surge carried the waters of the st. john's river here up and over this sea wall and rolled it through the streets of downtown jacksonville. when we walked up upon hogan street here at 11:00 a.m. this morning, the waur was three blocks inland and it continued to rise throughout the day. as bad it looks then three blocks inland, we were told it was going to get worse. 2:00 p.m., that's when the tooitd was at its highest here is when the water was at its highest through these floods. five and a half feet today above what you would typically see at high tide in jacksonville. at

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we'll be checking back in in jacksonville. as you can see, this is an ongoing problem there, as it is as you head north. george now seeing the effects of tropical storm irma. that's where we find nbc's garrett haik in albany with worsening conditions there. when we talked a couple hours ago, it was starting to rain pretty hard. how have you seen it change over the last couple of hours? >> reporter: jacksonville's loss may have been albany's gain. we're in a bit of a lull in the rain and particularly the wind here that has been such a problem. this is what the wind has been able to do when it has gusted up to 60 miles an hour in this community. taking down big, big trees. we're not going to get too much closer to this one because you can see it came down on top of a power line, knocking out power for this entire apartment complex of about 450 people. that's been the story around town, around southern georgia where a lot of these big trees have come down. thousands of folks without power. they'll likely be without power for quit

morgan radford in jacksonville. something that florida contends with regardless of whether or not there is a hurricane. there are rising waters all through florida. we'll talk about this when we come back. >>> up next, heading back to florida. gottie schwartz just back from surveying damage in the keys. an area particularly hard-hit by the wrath of irma. where it made landfall in florida. we're continuing, when we come back. you're watching msnbc. after brushing, listerine® total care strengthens teeth, helps prevent cavities and restores tooth enamel. it's an easy way to give listerine® total care to the total family. listerine® total care. one bottle, six benefits. power to your mouth™. i've got a nice long life ahead. big plans. so when i found out medicare doesn't pay all my medical expenses, i looked at my options. then i got a medicare supplement insurance plan. [ male announcer ] if you're eligible for medicare, you may know it only covers about 80% of your part b medical expenses. the rest is up to you.

some comes even here at jacksonville. we're doing that. so we'll be doing what we would have done after last disasters, we'll be doing probably two days of call with our utility companies saying how can we help you? people want their power back. i've gotten a lot of phone calls from nursing homes and assisted living they're having issues with their generators and so we're doing everything we can to help them get either generators, fuel, power back on. that's one of the issues we're dealing with aggressively to help them. we are trying to get ahold of them constantly. a lot of them are calling me and we're working hard with that. i want to thank everybody. our national guard. i think it's over 8,000 members of our national guard have shown up and doing everything from helping with shelters to debris removal to clearing roads. they show up and do everything. people show up when their family might be in harm's way. i want to thank the national guard for showing up and thank highway patrol. 1700 officers keeping our roads open. we had some tra

but it did hit jacksonville hard. so a lot of people don't have lights or airconditioning or water today. that's why the city of jacksonville has offered bottles on twitter. they wrote water distribution for citizens greatly impacted by hurricane irma 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. while supplies last. they added a link where people can go to pick theirs up. this was not isolated incident in jacksonville. it was citywide. doubt under water. neighborhoods like this under water. a lot of roads still impassable. is it's going to take a long time to clean up and officials have a warning for anybody that is trying to get back in their houses. don't drive through this again because the levels could rise and fall unexpectedly for the next couple of days. melissa? >> melissa: peter doocy, thank you for that report. >> jon: while rescue crews continue to look for people inside their homes in jacksonville. shear look at the situation? jacksonville yesterday. >> as i want john's river is a couple blocks in where it is not supposed to b

john's river in jacksonville. the problem we had was the trifecta of just a tremendous amount of rain, as you would expect with a land-falling system, the orange is seven to ten inches. then on top of it, at the same exact time, the storm surge came in officially at five feet in jacksonville. so it doesn't have to be 10 to 15 feet to back up the rivers. then a foot of rain on top of it. all the gauges on the rivers are all showing major flood right now. i know we're showing you the pictures of the st. john's river but there are others like the st. mary's river that have seen record heights. and there are waters in homes that are going to slowly recede. the other thing people are worried about is what is next. the peak of the hurricane season, by the way, september 10th. so this storm hit like right on schedule for the absolute peak of the season. now wee head into the second half with the active period until the week of september. 75-mile-per-hour winds from jose. we'll wait for the new update at 11:00. things hav

south of jacksonville as you go further south into florida. look at these rainfall totals that we had. nearly 16 inches in fort pierce, around naples and a foot of rain fell into georgia. as you cross over north from jacksonville and go into the southeastern portion of georgia. look at the rainfall and ten inches in kingsland. we've been talking about homeland at 8 inches of rain and some of those spots in georgia, it's still raining and those numbers likely to go back up and naples, florida, taking the wind gust of 142 miles per hour. marco island, 142 miles per hour. some locations may have had higher numbers, but a lot of the weather stations in those looks broke. we don't have official data for those looks that could have potentially had higher wind gusts. here's a look at the radar. here is the heaviest rain at the moment. north of jacksonville, up toward savannah and charleston and that's where the heaviest bands of rain are occurring and we have flash floods here for the red boxes and they've been hitting the same spots over and over ag

let's go to jacksonville right now if we can. kaylee hartung is in jacksonville and has been covering this flooding and the images that we've seen from this, kaylee, have been astounding. what's it look like now? >> reporter: john, the waters of the st. johns river is still rolling into downtown jacksonville. we are two blocks inland from the st. john's river. the good news, i'm not standing in water right now. i am standing on high ground and the best way it has come up to look at this pile of debris, and the water is still very much a threat here. high tide was at 2:00. we recognize that would be the height of the concern here. that time has come and gone and it is a good sight to see these waters beginning to recede, but we all know how quickly these scenarios can change. the advice local officials are giving is go up, not out right now, but plenty of people not heeding these warnings all around me. this is about as busy as we've seen it outside. children, families getting a look still as these waters rolling into downtown, bu

sam: getting brand-new images just coming out of jacksonville. him ryan's report, take a look at this. in this video, this is just happening in the last hour or so. water coming through the door, there's a lot happening on social media this morning. there are a lot of videos coming out. , froms actually from dan last night. he is in charge of the president's social media account and said he was talking and advising the president and vice president over the weekend and showed him this video saying that this is miami airport. this is mexico city airport and ben the president's team can fooled with this so-called fake news. before you share, make sure the video is actually real. --larry: good idea, sam, thanks. a group of pink flamingos needing shelter from the storm. nobody is looking at the funds. exactly. veronica johnson and eileen whelan have been monitoring hurricane irma for us all morning long. overnight,eakening now barely at hurricane status, but we can still see it throughout the day with information, you probably know this. this is the f

jacksonville, t is it like at this hour? >> we just got word from city officials at the shelter population is down to about 1400 people, roughly half as many people as they had in the shelters during the storm because the mandatory evacuation order has been lifted. many are returning, the st. john's river is still occupying entire streets. water gets really deep, we've actually seem some folks show up where it is still dry, calm as far as they can and realize they can't get close enough to go inspect their homes because the water is too deep so they have no idea how bad things actually are at the end of the road. this is one of the neighborhoods where officials spent most of their time yesterday responding to 75 different emergencies. the coast guard was here as wel well, units from tennessee, west virginia and kentucky all contributing. when you hear about people coming here from out of state to help, you get a sense of that with the coast guard response. to give you a sense of how -- the water is receding but it is still a

so let's bring in al, he's in jacksonville. we hear about this wrong kind of history, al, the most storm surge they've ever seen. is that true and what is the situation? >> right, good morning, chris, thanks very much. yes it is the highest storm tide -- surge on st. john's river since october 1846. we didn't have gauges on the river, then. we had extreme damage on the st. john's river at that point. our real concern right now is we have record water in these higher st. john's river from downtown jacksonville, southward through the city of falaco. the winds are now coming to a southerly direction and that wind is going to push that water northward into the city of jacksonville at the same time we are approaching high tide. the water can't get past jacksonville, it's got to go up and over the banks into the sanmarco, river side, south hampton, landon park and downtown areas. so, basically, we're looking at 4 to 6 feet of water, possible along the east bank of the st. john's river. as we start getting into some of the neighborhoo

now tropical storm irma is pounding the northeastern part of this state with flooding in jacksonvil jacksonville. now, one hour ago, irma was downgraded from a category a-1 to a tropical storm with maximum sustain winds of 70 miles per hour. it's moving towards tallahassee in the florida panhandle. then appears headed for georgia and alabama. cities like naples took a direct hit from the storm. there was flooding in miami and the florida keys. but in other areas, the damage was noted an baz ed aed an bad. the mayor of tampa told us they took only a glancing blow. right now the most widespread impact has been power outages. nearly 6 million people are without power as we speak. of the the two dozen storm related deaths, just one that we know of so far occurred in florida. as all of this is going on of course as you've been watching the country is marking 16 years since 9/11. the worst terror attack on u.s. soil. the president will take part in a moment of silence shortly. we'll have that for you when it happens. and in the meantime, we want to get the latest on hurricane irma. we do have a team o

this is jacksonville. record flood anything jacksonville. a car with its brake lights on is submerged up to its windows. there is a flash flood emergency in downtown jacksonville. this was taken moments ago. it's hard to know if anyone was in the car. that is the scene we are seeing in town after town after town throughout florida. this storm went from the furthest point south up -- all the way up the state. sara seidner has been battling the elements. the forecast said it wasn't supposed to hit with the ferocity it did. what is the latest at this hour? >> just trying to wipe off the lens there for you. when these rain events happen and the squalls come through, it tends to make it very difficult for you to see. i hope you can see the picture. the rain has subsided. the wind gusts are still coming. it has calmed down significantly. we were here about 4:20. i couldn't stand up. i had to literally hold onto this or fall over. same with my photographer. same with my producer who is here holding up lights, literally leaning over because the wind

north in jacksonville storm surge swell the st. johns river causing the worst flooding in 100 years monday. there was a national guard the role then assisting with more than three and 50 water rescues. senequa writes on the ground yesterday was nothing short of what the definition should be about the despite the time it will likely take to recover florida's governor is optimistic optimistic. >> we are going to get this thing rebuilt. this state astronomers julian people. >> the situation the caribbean is tired extremely dangerous in some parts prevent st. maarten her ports of armed gangs roaming resource at the hurricane irma. american tourists got out sunday but said the experience was surreal. >> would hurt people were coming in different resorts. a humanitarian crisis lingers in paradise, desperate scene playing out all over the caribbean as people wait for food and water in the sweltering sun. >> we need water and food. a french military ship expected to arrive today while the first british military planes arrived in turkey and

in jacksonville, over a foot of rainfall, a flash flood emergency in downtown jacksonville. that st. john's river continues to rise. you have a record rain and storm surge. that's why we have a serious issue there this morning. the latest stat, 75-mile-per-hour winds. it's moving north-northwest. and what you're seeing in jacksonville, it's at 60 miles an hour right now. it's working toward a tropical storm. there's no such thing as a tropical storm. that will cause a number of power outages today. again, expect the influences along north and east of the center. even in atlanta, 60 miles an hour. we add in the rainfall. there you see the highest total. we've got another 6 inches of rain, in spots, 10 inches of rain before things wind down. gayle? >> eric, thank you. >> people in miami were able to escape the full force but they still experienced floodings and it caused at least two massive construction cranes to collapse. officials were worried about that the whole time. mark strassmann is down there now. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. many of the streets are fille

in terms of jacksonville, how long can people there expect to see this kind of flooding in jacksonville or the storm surge? >> basically this afternoon it started to recede, which is good news. we knew we were going to have this onshore flow even before the system made landfall. we were talking about jacksonville, i didn't think they would break the record from hurricane matthew last year, but they did. they got up to five and a half feet and that broke the record by half a foot, all the way up to saint john's river. it beat our dora in the '60s. in the savannah river they made it to 12 feet. up in the charleston area which still has a little bit of anion shore flow, they made it up to 9.92 feet in the harbor. it was over the battery and that was significant. still, third place behind hurricane hugo and matthews. it's going to lightning up somewhat. when it comes to the watches and the warnings we have in effect, obviously there are still flash floods. still have a flash flood emergency, and that is for the charleston areas as you see here across georgia, a tropical storm warning for at

the thing that people are buzzing about more here in jacksonville is that on sunday the jacksonville jaguars will play their first home game of the season as scheduled at everbanks stadium which is right along the banks of the st. john's river at a stadium where the parking lot just a few days ago was under a couple feet of water. back to you. todd: wow. sports unite us. that's what have you got to love. thanks. gathering to raise more than $44 million to help with hurricane recovery. heather: speaking of uniting or not. didn't take long for the hand in hand telethon to turn political. taking aim at president trump. jackie bans joins us live in the studio with those details. good morning, jackie. >> good morning, heather and todd are we really surprised about this. stevie wonder kicked off last night's star studded hand in hand telethon to raise money for hurricane victims. it didn't take long before celebrities lined up to criticize president trump's view on climate change. take a listen. >> anyone who believes that there's no such thing as global warming, must be blind or unintelli

jacksonville is a biggie. it will be a big deal with the record-setting flooding, and will not rest until 2:00 this afternoon. that's when high tide hits on the st. johns river in jacksonville. that will be a big deal throughout the day. also the florida keys, what will the damage be in the end as you look at the string of islands, and u.s. one that runs out, you heard adam housley talking about the end of the line essentially buried at least part of that world has been blown out. we'll wait to get a full damage assessment down there. one person who is about to see it first hand is with me now. at that is the florida democratic senator bill nelson by telephone. good morning to you. >> good morning. what a morning. >> yes, indeed, sir. we spoke 14 hours ago. i know you're still in orlando. you are getting on board a u.s. helicopter, you are going to pick up marco rubio, you fly together to key west, florida, sir. what have you been told about the damage in key west now? >> it is what you would expect with the 1

right around jacksonville. we will take you through the path of this storm and see community after community assessing the damage. the florida keys were the first to be hit by hurricane irma in the united states. officials say the keys are closed and residents who evacuated should stay away while they assess the damage. bill weir is in key largo for us. tell our viewers here in the united states and around the world what you have been seeing as you travel through the keys today. >> reporter: it's really interesting, wolf. it depends on which side of the coastal highway u.s. 1 you go on. the folks on the bayside seem to have a much better go of it. got through it better than those folks on the atlantic oceanside. you are getting a sample of the damage with the coast guard and naval helicopters taking surveys up and down the coast. it goes back to the story of the big bad wolf. no pun intended, wolf. the houses made of sticks or mobile homes of tin did not nearly fare as well as those who lived in the better cons

we will continue to send resources to jacksonville and any otr community in ne. rainfall exceeding a foot in many communities in northeast central and southwe florida. fortunately the heaviest rains have cleared the state. however, this rain caused flash flooding in nortast florida, rivers across the state contin to rise a standing water remains an issue over the entire peninsula. the bgest threat for this week airma leaveflorida will be river flooding and most of it will be ithnohern part of the state. stay tuned to local advisory for rir flood watches and warnings. families in southeast and northwest florida as well as the tampa bay area need to be especially vigant while riversill remain at flood levels. anwe will see that in the i-5 corridor. the heaviest winds have left florida but the entire peninsula experienced tropical form winds and hurricane gusts beingelt as far northeast as jacksonville. thankfully the threat of tornadoes have diminished. we received seven reports o tornadoes, including two in brevard county. the national weather service i working to

en jacksonville se comieron vecindarios. el estado de california defiende a sus 200,000 jÓvenes soÑadores, entablando una demanda, tras la derogaciÓn del programa "daca". presentador: este es su noticiero univisiÓn, edición nocturna con enrique acevedo e ilia calderÓn. aranza: bienvenidos. los cayos, en el sur de florida se convirtieron en la zona cero tras el impacto del huracÁn "irma". autoridades declararon una crisis humanitaria por el nivel de devastaciÓn y hoy fueron casa por casa en una misiÓn de rescate para todos aquellos que se rehusaron a abandonar esas islas. juan:quÉ tal? las mismas autoridades del condado confirmaron esta noche que a partir de las 7:00 a.m. aquÍ, permitirÁn desde este retÉn y en uno que hay unas millas mÁs adelante, el acceso a los habitantes de tres cayos, cayo largo, tavernier e isla morada. tendrÁn que tener este sticker amarillo o identificarse con su licencia de conducir para demostrar que son residentes. veamos imÁgenes. las heridas que el huracÁn "irma" dejÓ en los cayo

of also, it's looking better for places like charlottesville and jacksonville that had tremendous flooding. and charlottesville was watching for the possibility of tornados, i have not seen any reports of tornados. harvey did not move. it stalled over houston for so long. irma is going to be getting out of the way moving northwest at 15 miles an hour as a depression. that central pressure coming up and as it tracks towards memphis and western kentucky. we'll see a little of that rain push into our area late tomorrow. for the time being, two five inches for parts of georgia as the system is moving out. especially the northwestern pouring and we'll start to see the rain overspreading much of the tennessee valley, wind gusts much better also with irma, not seeing anything too strong, atlanta gusts of 32, stronger as you get up towards charlotte greenville columbia and wilmington but nothing severe damage these trees are weakened and as with saw in the atlanta area, they could still be falling, that's a big danger for people trying to drive around even with a tropical depression downgraded. mu

of jacksonville there's several areas that are now reporting that their flood stage has been reached so that's what we're seeing, a lot more flood warnings being issued for much of the state and that's now starting to extend into georgia as well. so a multistate issue in addition to the gusty winds. >> i can tell you the last time i ever heard of atlanta on a tropical storm warning, major city there. major impact. what sort of impact will this have. >> the major impact for them the wind is, of course, going to be a concern because they have the likelihood of seeing it 50 miles per hour at times but i have a feeling that will be the flooding and rainfall that's moving in because that's holding together with that track. notice that it's passing just west of atlanta as we move into evening and through the tuesday morning time period. so likely they're going to get some of those stronger winds during that time but rainfall really looking to hold together for them so we'll have to keep an eye on that even as it tracks to the tennessee valley. >> kelly ann, thank you. >>> one of the big co

good luck to you in jacksonville. >> thank you. be safe down there. >> it sound s trite, but it's true. the worst in mother nature requires the best in human nature. we have been seeing it. even jacksonville is way ahead of the game of where they are down here. you can hear the pitter patter of a helicopter coming through. it's the coast guard. they're doing their initial surveillance here. the people who made it, like griffin and darwin, this family across the street. it's really not known whether local authorities are even able to ascertain whether they survived. as we see these missions start to fly over -- i don't think that's coast guard. that's national guard. as they are starting to fly by, this is the first wave of assessment. they are coming overhead and taking a look. that's a nef chop avy chopper, who is there. that's the situation. people who will receive that information are people like task force two, who we are with. we watched them work all through the night. making their way through debris like this, up to a doorwa

right around jacksonville. we will take you through the path of this storm and see community after community assessing the damage. the florida keys were the

that flood right in downtown jacksonville. they're still seeing that here. that is going to move our way. we are seeing the cloud cover. this is tomorrow morning. notice around 1:00, we have the cloud cover around the area, but not much in the way of showers. you see a couple here back towards west virginia, but we have a better chance into tomorrow night as irma really just kind of breaks up and sends a piece of energy our way. here is wednesday morning 5:00 a.m., some shower activity out there. same deal around 9:00, 10:00 in the morning on wednesday. cloudy, a little on the cool side, and yeah, we have a chance for showers but not that many. even sunshine late in the day on wednesday. >>> now, we've got irma moving in towards the united states. this will continue to weaken. and we have jose. we've been talking about jose for the better part of a week, too. it is now just to the northeast of the bahamas. looking very ragged, but currently let's take a look at the current position here. and the current strength, it has winds

take a look at the boards, miami, canceled, jacksonville, canceled. one of those flights got out earlier, but it's still a mess, it will be a long road. take a look at the statistics so far since this storm started ruing last week. , 10,000lights canceled alone in the state of florida. 1000 of those flights were yesterday. this is live radar we are pulling up and you can see planes over the entire state of florida. get this, none of those are commercial carriers, they are all fedex planes. other than that, it is a very slow go this morning. america's largest hub has suffered extensive damage in they are monitoring that. all of the carriers have to bring in their planes from other hearts of the country, staff them and get them out. it will be a couple of days before operations return to normal. reporting live from reagan national, i'm sam sweeney. larry: a live look from herndon. crews are loading up the trucks and headed down south to get the lights back on in florida. kennedy will be there live in about 25 minutes to give you their perspective as the

a new flood disaster ongoing from jacksonville to charleston. and in florida, over 7 million without power. many could be knocked out for weeks. tonight, our first look at the scope of devastation in the keys, as a state dependent on ism races to get damaged airports back open. >>> bannon unleashed. in his first major interview, the ex-trump aide unloads, raising eyebrowse over what he says was maybe the biggest political mistake in modern history. >>> massive breach fallout affecting nearly every family in america. tonight the steps to take now to protect your identity and your credit for years to come. >>> and a somber day of remembrance. 16 years after 9/11. "nightly news" begins right now. >>> this is nbc "nightly news" with lester holt reporting tonight from sarasota, florida. >>> good evening. all of florida and now beyond is dealing with the aftermath of what was hurricane irma. tonight there are unlikely stories of communities spared at the last minute as others faced a peril as irma's march up the state. two people have died since irma'

in jacksonville. >> downtown jacksonville that we sees a of right now. now, one of the things we do know is because of the storm surge, it is truly at a record high and it's something that has beat hurricane dora which was in 1964. it's kind of baffling to think about that literally part of the rainwater from the st. john's river is now flooding downtown jacksonville. just to let you know. i know you are not here so you can't smell. we think there must be an issue because we can definitely smell sewage at this point. so we are probably going to leave this area really soon because we don't know what's in this water but there is debris and all sorts of different items that we have seen just walking over here to bring you this live coverage. we have seen branches, everything from signs also smells like there is waste in this area. reporting in downtown jacksonville. steve: all right. great. thank you for that live report japan miss dean is tracking the hurricane. jacksonville is northeast quadrant that's the one with all the rain. janice: storm surge is hap

john's river in jacksonville. and in charleston, second most flooding behind hurricane hugo back in 1989. >>> now, we're going to be tracking irma moving back towards the west. but we have to turn our attention to jose over the next couple of days, too, because that's another hurricane that may try to make its way towards the east coast. much more on both of e for you. we'll see you in just a couple minutes. first let's go down to david culver. he's been down there in the miami/fort lauderdale area. you rode this out. fortunately you were off the beaches. what are you seeing in assessing the damage? >> reporter: doug, the beach has moved 500 feet from the actual beach into places like this. this parking lot here in fort lauderdale, just along a-1-a. much of it covered, they've had to clean it as though you would clean snow up in northern virginia or the d.c. area. of course, down here with the sun out, certainly feeling like a beautiful evening but it's been a day of work being for a lot of these people, cleaning

last night in jacksonville more than 3,000 people slept in shelters. and we're told 15 different neighborhoods here in jacksonville were or still under water. anderson. >> all right thank you very much. >>> i want you to meet lee jenkins. she's in the neighborhood of jacksonville florida. you don't have electricity right now? >> no and will not until 22nd. >> your house is over there. i don't know if the folks at home can see, the giant tree up ended, the roots of it lifted most of the houses off the grown. did you hear this happening? >> we did. it sounded more like an impact on the house, just three thugs in a row. it didn't sound like a tree. shortly thereafter my husband poked his head out and we saw what was going on. we tried to check on the neighbors as best we could. >> so, they were -- they were here? >> they were here and inside a closet he said for about 15 hours. >> and they're obviously not living in this house now? >> no they're currently at a hotel as we understand it. >> what's it like in terms of supplies. everyone say you feed three d