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1. Shard Calculation

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Calculated Shard: 51 (from laksa043)

2. Crawled Status Check

Query:

curl -X POST \
  'http://laksa051.int.ahrefs:8124/' \
  -H 'Content-Type: text/plain' \
  -H 'X-ClickHouse-Database: crawler3' \
  -H 'Authorization: Basic YXBpOg==' \
  -d 'SELECT getAhrefsURLFromUnparsed(src_unparsed) AS found_url, ifNull(toUnixTimestamp(download_stamp), 0) AS crawl_time, ifNull(toUnixTimestamp(props_url_first_seen), 0) AS first_indexed_time, download_http_code AS http_code, src_unparsed AS src_unparsed, src_root_hash AS src_root_hash, history_drop_reason AS history_drop_reason, meta_title AS meta_title, meta_descriptions AS meta_descriptions, attrs_boilerpipe_text AS attrs_boilerpipe_text, attrs_markdown AS attrs_markdown, attrs_readable_markdown AS attrs_readable_markdown, meta_canonical AS meta_canonical FROM crawler3.page_info_local FINAL PREWHERE (src_root_hash, src_unparsed) IN ((getAhrefsRootHashFromUnparsed(getAhrefsUnparsedNoserviceFromURL(\'https://www.cnn.com/2017/09/06/us/hurricane-irma-puerto-rico-florida\')), getAhrefsUnparsedNoserviceFromURL(\'https://www.cnn.com/2017/09/06/us/hurricane-irma-puerto-rico-florida\'))) FORMAT JSONEachRow'

Response:

{"found_url":"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2017\/09\/06\/us\/hurricane-irma-puerto-rico-florida","crawl_time":1775858923,"first_indexed_time":1746254321,"http_code":200,"src_unparsed":"com,cnn!www,\/2017\/09\/06\/us\/hurricane-irma-puerto-rico-florida s443","src_root_hash":"2312100192101524051","history_drop_reason":null,"meta_title":"Storm blamed for three deaths in Caribbean | CNN","meta_descriptions":["Hurricane Irma – one of the strongest storms ever recorded in the Atlantic – is battering the northern Virgin Islands and hurtling toward Puerto Rico after smashing a string of small northern Caribbean islands, where at least three people were killed."],"attrs_boilerpipe_text":"Story highlights\nOfficials say three people killed, two seriously hurt in Caribbean islands\nNEW:  As storm moved away from Puerto Rico, it kept dumping rain\nCNN\n — \nHurricane Irma – one of the strongest storms ever recorded in the Atlantic – hammered Puerto Rico on Wednesday night after smashing a string of small northern Caribbean islands where at least three people were killed.\nCNN’s Leyla Santiago, in the Puerto Rican capital of San Juan, said there were 900,000 customers without power as strong winds lashed the island. Officials told her there were several rescues because of flooding but there were no immediate reports of injuries in the US territory of about 3.4 million people.\nGov. Ricardo Rosselló told CNN he thinks the island was being hit hard even though the eye of the storm stayed off shore.\nAd Feedback\nAd Feedback\n“From the center of operations that we have over here in San Juan, there is pretty significant damage already done,” he said, citing wind gusts of more than 100 mph.\nThe outer bands of the storm continued to whip heavy rain upon the island late Wednesday.\nTourist Steban Guajardo told CNN that water in the parking lot of a building he was at in the seaside neighborhood of Condado just kept rising.\nPuerto Ricans bracing for the high-octane winds and slashing rainfall started to feel Irma’s effects Wednesday afternoon. Strong breezes shook rickety rooftops and downpours battered the coast.\nResidents prepped their homes for safety and gathered food, supplies and belongings.\nThe storm is one of\nthree hurricanes in the Atlantic basin\n, the first time since 2010 that three active hurricanes have been in the Atlantic, according to CNN Weather.\nHurricane Irma: Live updates\n– At least two people died and two others were seriously injured in the islands of St. Barts and St. Martin, French Overseas Affairs Minister Annick Girardin said. An infant died in Barbuda, where as many as 95% of structures were damaged, Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda Gaston Browne told CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360˚.”\n– Irma has maintained intensity above 180 mph longer than any storm in Atlantic basin history.\n– Late Wednesday night, Irma’s core was spinning about 85 miles northwest of San Juan, with maximum sustained winds of 185 mph.\n– Meanwhile,  Jose, in the open Atlantic far to the southeast of Irma, became a hurricane. Katia, in the Gulf of Mexico, also became a hurricane.\n– In the US Virgin Islands, Gov. Kenneth E. Mapp ordered a 36-hour curfew.\n– On Thursday the storm will move very near or over the Turks and Caicos, with catastrophic damage likely. The storm will also pass just north of the Dominican Republic and Haiti, bringing hurricane force winds to northern sections of the island, with flooding and mudslides probable.\n– It’s too early to tell whether it will make landfall on the US mainland. Computer models show it could churn near Florida’s east coast by late Sunday, and forecasters warn the core still could hit the Florida peninsula.\n– Floridians should heed any evacuation order, Gov. Rick Scott said. “(A) storm surge could cover your house. We can rebuild homes – we cannot rebuild your family,” he said.\nAirlines cap prices for Hurricane Irma evacuees\nIrma’s core slammed the tiny island of Barbuda before moving over St. Martin and Anguilla and parts of the British Virgin Islands. Its maximum sustained winds of 185 mph were well above the 157 mph threshold of a Category 5 storm.\nBrowne told CNN the damage was “heart-wrenching. Absolutely devastating.” He estimated the damage on Barbuda, where he says 1,800 people live, to be at least $100 million.\nThe telecommunications system in Barbuda was wiped out and cell towers were knocked over, he said. Both the island’s hotels were demolished, he added.\nThere is also no way to land airplanes on the islands, Browne said from Antigua, whose 80,000 people comprise most of the two-island nation’s population.\nUnable to load video\nPlease try again later.\nError occurred while fetching labs\nVideo Ad Feedback\nVideo shows Irma ripping through island\nVideo shows Irma ripping through island\nOn Tortola, the largest of the British Virgin Islands, Kennedy Banda said fierce winds blew out the windows of his home. He and his family were taking shelter in a bathroom; he said he was bracing his body against the door in an attempt to keep it shut.\n“Everything is blown out,” he told CNN by phone near Road Town. “Everything is gone.”\nEarlier, he posted video on Facebook showing wind and pounding rain whipping the shoreline as Irma’s core approached.\nThe hurricane earlier battered\na string of northern Caribbean island nations\n, situated east of the more populous Virgin Islands group.\nReports suggested damage on parts of the smaller islands, a tropical region popular with tourists.\nIrma destroyed four of the most solid government buildings on the French-administered portion of nearby St. Martin, an island of about 75,000 people, French Interior Minister Gérard Collomb said in Paris.\nIt’s likely that all other older buildings there have at least been damaged, he said.\nRoughly 10 of these smaller islands – such as St. Martin, Antigua and Barbuda, and St. Kitts and Nevis – were pounded by hurricane conditions. One, Guadeloupe, has about 405,000 residents. The rest have about 264,400 people combined.\nStacy-Ann Taylor, whose husband works at a hotel in St. Maarten, stayed there during the storm with their two children. When the storm winds started blowing hard in the middle of the night, they went into the hallway, as did a bunch of other hotel guests.\nAbout five or 10 minutes later she heard the loud sound of glass smashing in the room.\n“Then we could feel a lot of pressure to the ears (like an airplane was taking off or landing) and the sound from the wind sounded like I was in a haunted house,” she said.\nShe\nposted a video to Facebook Live\non Wednesday, in which she said she was happy to have survived. About 90 seconds into the recording, she shows the damage to the street the hotel is on.\n“It was hell last night,” she said.\nThough Irma’s path is uncertain, forecasters have said it\ncould turn toward Florida over the weekend\n, and officials there are\nordering some evacuations\nand shutting down schools.\nIrma affected many northern Caribbean islands, even those not touched by the powerful core. In Marigot, Guadeloupe, Florida resident Loren Ann Mayo rode out the storm on the sixth floor of a beachside hotel.\n“We’ve been hiding in the bathroom,” she said in a video she posted to Facebook. About an inch of water covered parts of the floor, and pieces of drywall had fallen onto a balcony and a bed inside, she said.\nMayo was there on a business trip. “It is pouring down rain. It is howling,” she told CNN. “Most people are either in their bathroom, or they’ve been moved downstairs to the third floor where management thinks is a very, very safe spot.”\nStorm surge is a concern for the Turks and Caicos Islands and the Central Bahamas (up to 20 feet), as is heavy rain (up to 20 inches in the Virgin Islands, and up to 20 in parts of Puerto Rico).\nIn the Bahamas, emergency evacuations have been ordered for six southern islands – Mayaguana, Inagua, Crooked Island, Acklins, Long Cay and Ragged Island.\n“This is the largest such evacuation in the history of the country,” Prime Minister Hubert Minnis said.\n“Some of the (Bahamian) islands aren’t more than 9 feet (above sea level). Storm surges there may be 20 feet. You get the idea what’s going to happen to those islands,” CNN meteorologist Chad Myers said.\nFlorida: Evacuations and a rush for supplies\nHurricane watches may be issued for parts of South Florida and the Keys on Thursday.\nMany Floridians spent Wednesday stocking up on food or making plans to head inland,  and in some cases were leaving gas stations out of fuel and stores without needed supplies.\nKatherine Pina said four stores she visited in Fort Lauderdale were out of bottled water. She said she saw one man reselling jugs of water for $5.\n“People are doing an opportunity to get some money, I guess,” she said.\nWorkers at five gas stations in Miami Beach told CNN by phone Wednesday that all were out of fuel. One said the station expected to receive more Wednesday night; another said a resupply was coming Thursday morning.\nSome South Florida communities ordered evacuations. Monroe County, which includes the Florida Keys, ordered people out Wednesday.\nIn Broward County, which includes Fort Lauderdale and other cities north of Miami, a mandatory evacuation will go into effect at noon Thursday for areas east of Federal Highway, Mayor Barbara Sharief said. The evacuation zone includes low-lying areas.\nMiami-Dade County ordered people out of mobile homes, barrier islands and other parts of the area.\nAre you affected by Irma? Text, iMessage or WhatsApp your videos, photos and stories to CNN: +1 347-322-0415.\n¿Te ha afectado Irma? Envía tus fotos, vídeos e historias a CNN por texto, iMessage y WhatsApp: +1 347-322-0415.\nCNN’s Bijan Hosseini,\nKhushbu Shah, Jamiel Lynch, Faith Karimi, Kyung Lah, Jaide Timm-Garcia, Eric Levenson, Paul Murphy, Christina Zdanowicz, David Williams, Amanda Jackson, Matou Diop, Gisela Crespo and Keith Williams contributed to this report.","attrs_markdown":"Thank You\\!\n\nYour effort and contribution in providing this feedback is much appreciated.\n\nClose\n\nAd Feedback\n\n[US](https:\/\/cnn.com\/us)\n\n[Crime & Justice](https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/us\/crime-and-justice)\n\n[Immigration](https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/us\/immigration)\n\n[Education](https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/us\/education)\n\n[Transportation](https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/us\/transportation)\n\n[Race & Identity](https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/us\/race-and-identity)\n\n[More]()\n\n[Crime & Justice](https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/us\/crime-and-justice)   [Immigration](https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/us\/immigration)   [Education](https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/us\/education)   [Transportation](https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/us\/transportation)   [Race & Identity](https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/us\/race-and-identity)\n\n[Watch](https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/subscription\/all-access)   [Listen](https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/audio)\n\nSubscribe\n\nSign in\n\nMy Account\n\n- [Settings](https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/account\/settings)\n- [Newsletters](https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/newsletters)\n- [Topics you follow](https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/follow?iid=fw_var-nav)\n- [Sign out](https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2017\/09\/06\/us\/hurricane-irma-puerto-rico-florida)\n\nYour CNN account Sign in to your CNN account\n***\nSign in\n\nMy Account\n\n- [Settings](https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/account\/settings)\n- [Newsletters](https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/newsletters)\n- [Topics you follow](https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/follow?iid=fw_var-nav)\n- [Sign out](https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2017\/09\/06\/us\/hurricane-irma-puerto-rico-florida)\n\nYour CNN account Sign in to your CNN account\n***\n[Listen](https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/audio)   [Watch](https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/subscription\/all-access)\n***\nEdition\n\n[US](https:\/\/us.cnn.com\/?hpt=header_edition-picker)\n\n[International](https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/?hpt=header_edition-picker)\n\n[Arabic](https:\/\/arabic.cnn.com\/?hpt=header_edition-picker)\n\n[Español](https:\/\/cnnespanol.cnn.com\/?hpt=header_edition-picker)\n\nEdition\n\n- [US](https:\/\/us.cnn.com\/?hpt=header_edition-picker)\n- [International](https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/?hpt=header_edition-picker)\n- [Arabic](https:\/\/arabic.cnn.com\/?hpt=header_edition-picker)\n- [Español](https:\/\/cnnespanol.cnn.com\/?hpt=header_edition-picker)\n***\n[Crime & Justice](https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/us\/crime-and-justice)\n\n[Immigration](https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/us\/immigration)\n\n[Education](https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/us\/education)\n\n[Transportation](https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/us\/transportation)\n\n[Race & Identity](https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/us\/race-and-identity)\n***\nFollow CNN\n\nDownload the CNN App\n***\n\n- [US](https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/us)\n  - 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Hurricane Irma sowed a trail of deadly devastation through the Caribbean on Wednesday, reducing to rubble the tropical islands of Barbuda and St Martin. \/ AFP PHOTO \/ ANP \/ Gerben VAN ES \/ Netherlands OUT \/ RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT \"AFP PHOTO \/ DUTCH DEFENSE MINISTRY\/GERBEN VAN ES\" - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - NO ARCHIVES - NO SALE- DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS (Photo credit should read GERBEN VAN ES\/AFP\/Getty Images)](https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/media\/sites\/cnn\/cnn-fallback-image.jpg)\n\nVideo Ad Feedback\n\nWrath of Hurricane Irma on the Caribbean\n\n01:34\n\nNow playing\n\n• Source: [CNN](https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/)\n\n![John Berman covering Hurrican Irma.](https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/media\/sites\/cnn\/cnn-fallback-image.jpg)\n\nVideo Ad Feedback\n\nEvery hour, Hurricane Irma got visibly worse\n\n01:17\n\nNow playing\n\n• Source: [CNN](https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/)\n\n![chainsaw nun](https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/media\/sites\/cnn\/cnn-fallback-image.jpg)\n\nVideo Ad Feedback\n\nChainsaw-wielding nun clears debris after Irma\n\n00:55\n\nNow playing\n\n• Source: [CNN](https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/)\n\n![irma path nasa 2](https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/media\/sites\/cnn\/cnn-fallback-image.jpg)\n\nVideo Ad Feedback\n\nNASA video shows 10 days of Irma in 30 seconds\n\n00:49\n\nNow playing\n\n• Source: [CNN](https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/)\n\n![hurricane irma rescues original image 1](https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/media\/sites\/cnn\/cnn-fallback-image.jpg)\n\nVideo Ad Feedback\n\nFirst responders rush to answer 911 calls\n\n01:43\n\nNow playing\n\n• Source: [CNN](https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/)\n\n![Irma](https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/media\/sites\/cnn\/cnn-fallback-image.jpg)\n\nVideo Ad Feedback\n\nSee Hurricane Irma's wrath hit Florida\n\n01:02\n\nNow playing\n\n• Source: [CNN](https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/)\n\n![EAST NAPLES, FL - SEPTEMBER 11: The Sunrise Motel remains flooded after Hurricane Irma hit the area on September 11, 2017 in East Naples, Florida. Yesterday Hurricane Irma hit Florida's west coast leaving widespread damage and flooding. 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Recovery along the island chain continues after Hurricane Irma made landfall on Sunday as a Category 4 hurricane then. (Sammy Clark\/Monroe County Board of County Commission via AP)](https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/170911194139-01-irma-florida-keys-0911.jpg?q=x_0,y_151,h_2122,w_3772,c_crop\/w_250)\n\nVideo Ad Feedback\n\nHurricane Irma leaves trail of devastation\n\n02:12\n\nNow playing\n\n• Source: [CNN](https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/)\n\n![Brian Poe](https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/170911200904-brian-poe.jpg?q=x_154,y_66,h_842,w_1496,c_crop\/w_250)\n\nVideo Ad Feedback\n\nAmerican ran through eye of Irma to survive\n\n02:09\n\nNow playing\n\n• Source: [CNN](https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/)\n\n![irma strong winds daytona sidner live\\_00001612](https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/media\/sites\/cnn\/cnn-fallback-image.jpg)\n\nVideo Ad Feedback\n\nSidner in Daytona: Winds are beyond ferocious\n\n01:56\n\nNow playing\n\n• Source: [CNN](https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/)\n\n![Bill Weir Key Largo 09\/10](https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/media\/sites\/cnn\/cnn-fallback-image.jpg)\n\nVideo Ad Feedback\n\nReporter: It's like power-washing my face\n\n01:28\n\nNow playing\n\n• Source: [CNN](https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/)\n\n![satellite images before after irma sot\\_00002727.jpg](https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/media\/sites\/cnn\/cnn-fallback-image.jpg)\n\nVideo Ad Feedback\n\nSatellite images reveal Irma's impact\n\n00:50\n\nNow playing\n\n• Source: [CNN](https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/)\n\n![TOPSHOT - An aerial photography taken and released by the Dutch department of Defense on September 6, 2017 shows the damage of Hurricane Irma in Philipsburg, on the Dutch Caribbean island of Sint Maarten. Hurricane Irma sowed a trail of deadly devastation through the Caribbean on Wednesday, reducing to rubble the tropical islands of Barbuda and St Martin. \/ AFP PHOTO \/ ANP \/ Gerben VAN ES \/ Netherlands OUT \/ RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT \"AFP PHOTO \/ DUTCH DEFENSE MINISTRY\/GERBEN VAN ES\" - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - NO ARCHIVES - NO SALE- DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS (Photo credit should read GERBEN VAN ES\/AFP\/Getty Images)](https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/media\/sites\/cnn\/cnn-fallback-image.jpg)\n\nVideo Ad Feedback\n\nWrath of Hurricane Irma on the Caribbean\n\n01:34\n\nNow playing\n\n• Source: [CNN](https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/)\n\n![John Berman covering Hurrican Irma.](https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/media\/sites\/cnn\/cnn-fallback-image.jpg)\n\nVideo Ad Feedback\n\nEvery hour, Hurricane Irma got visibly worse\n\n01:17\n\nNow playing\n\n• Source: [CNN](https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/)\n\n![chainsaw nun](https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/media\/sites\/cnn\/cnn-fallback-image.jpg)\n\nVideo Ad Feedback\n\nChainsaw-wielding nun clears debris after Irma\n\n00:55\n\nNow playing\n\n• Source: [CNN](https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/)\n\nSee more videos\n\n### Story highlights\nOfficials say three people killed, two seriously hurt in Caribbean islands\n\nNEW: As storm moved away from Puerto Rico, it kept dumping rain\n\nCNN\n\n—\n\nHurricane Irma – one of the strongest storms ever recorded in the Atlantic – hammered Puerto Rico on Wednesday night after smashing a string of small northern Caribbean islands where at least three people were killed.\n\nCNN’s Leyla Santiago, in the Puerto Rican capital of San Juan, said there were 900,000 customers without power as strong winds lashed the island. Officials told her there were several rescues because of flooding but there were no immediate reports of injuries in the US territory of about 3.4 million people.\n\nGov. Ricardo Rosselló told CNN he thinks the island was being hit hard even though the eye of the storm stayed off shore.\n\nAd Feedback\n\nAd Feedback\n\n“From the center of operations that we have over here in San Juan, there is pretty significant damage already done,” he said, citing wind gusts of more than 100 mph.\n\nThe outer bands of the storm continued to whip heavy rain upon the island late Wednesday.\n\nTourist Steban Guajardo told CNN that water in the parking lot of a building he was at in the seaside neighborhood of Condado just kept rising.\n\n> > Así las cosas en San Juan, Puerto Rico. Viene llegando IRMA y somos parte de este fenómeno. [@mmsoriano](https:\/\/twitter.com\/mmsoriano?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) [@lopezdoriga](https:\/\/twitter.com\/lopezdoriga?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) [@CarlosLoret](https:\/\/twitter.com\/CarlosLoret?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) [\\#México](https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/M%C3%A9xico?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) [pic.twitter.com\/PbmHCNvglN](https:\/\/t.co\/PbmHCNvglN)\n> > \n> > — Steban Guajardo (@StebanG\\_Oficial) [September 6, 2017](https:\/\/twitter.com\/StebanG_Oficial\/status\/905562946478239744?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)\n\nPuerto Ricans bracing for the high-octane winds and slashing rainfall started to feel Irma’s effects Wednesday afternoon. Strong breezes shook rickety rooftops and downpours battered the coast.\n\n> > Here we go..[\\#irma](https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/irma?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) [\\#puertorico](https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/puertorico?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) [\\#cnn](https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/cnn?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) [pic.twitter.com\/thldVgUzl8](https:\/\/t.co\/thldVgUzl8)\n> > \n> > — Leyla Santiago (@leylasantiago) [September 6, 2017](https:\/\/twitter.com\/leylasantiago\/status\/905424550359441408?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)\n\nResidents prepped their homes for safety and gathered food, supplies and belongings.\n\n\nThe storm is one of [three hurricanes in the Atlantic basin](http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2017\/09\/06\/americas\/three-hurricanes-atlantic-basin\/index.html), the first time since 2010 that three active hurricanes have been in the Atlantic, according to CNN Weather.\n\n> > There are currently three hurricanes in the Atlantic. The last time this happened was 2010. <https:\/\/t.co\/ADbT14uPET> [pic.twitter.com\/XRMpyzpDpG](https:\/\/t.co\/XRMpyzpDpG)\n> > \n> > — CNN Weather Center (@CNNweather) [September 6, 2017](https:\/\/twitter.com\/CNNweather\/status\/905536026084614150?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)\n\n[Hurricane Irma: Live updates](http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2017\/09\/06\/us\/irma-florida-latest\/index.html)\n\n## Latest developments\n– At least two people died and two others were seriously injured in the islands of St. Barts and St. Martin, French Overseas Affairs Minister Annick Girardin said. An infant died in Barbuda, where as many as 95% of structures were damaged, Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda Gaston Browne told CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360˚.”\n\n– Irma has maintained intensity above 180 mph longer than any storm in Atlantic basin history.\n\n– Late Wednesday night, Irma’s core was spinning about 85 miles northwest of San Juan, with maximum sustained winds of 185 mph.\n\n– Meanwhile, Jose, in the open Atlantic far to the southeast of Irma, became a hurricane. Katia, in the Gulf of Mexico, also became a hurricane.\n\n### [Full coverage](http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/specials\/hurricane-irma\/)\n[Track the storm](http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/interactive\/storm-tracker\/)\n\n[Mother searches for daughters](http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2017\/09\/07\/americas\/barbuda-hurricane-aftermath\/index.html)\n\n[There are 3 hurricanes in the Atlantic](http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2017\/09\/06\/americas\/three-hurricanes-atlantic-basin\/index.html)\n\n[Nursing homes prep for storms](http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2017\/09\/07\/health\/hurricane-irma-florida-seniors-nursing-homes-profile\/index.html)\n\n[Gas shortages in Florida](http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2017\/09\/07\/news\/economy\/gas-shortages-florida-irma\/index.html?iid=hp-stack-dom)\n\n[Nuclear plants shutting down](http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2017\/09\/07\/investing\/nuclear-plants-shutdown-florida-irma\/index.html?iid=hp-toplead-dom)\n\n[FEMA could run out of cash](http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2017\/09\/07\/politics\/fema-funding-disaster-relief\/index.html)\n\n[Florida hospitals closing ahead of storm](http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2017\/09\/06\/health\/hurricane-irma-florida-hospitals-closing\/index.html)\n\n[Mass evacuations in Florida](http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2017\/09\/06\/us\/hurricane-irma-evacuation-florida\/index.html)\n\n[US warships begin relief operations](http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2017\/09\/07\/politics\/hurricane-irma-us-military-operations\/index.html)\n\n[Hurricane checklist](http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2012\/08\/27\/us\/hurricane-preparation\/index.html)\n\n– In the US Virgin Islands, Gov. Kenneth E. Mapp ordered a 36-hour curfew.\n\n– On Thursday the storm will move very near or over the Turks and Caicos, with catastrophic damage likely. The storm will also pass just north of the Dominican Republic and Haiti, bringing hurricane force winds to northern sections of the island, with flooding and mudslides probable.\n\n– It’s too early to tell whether it will make landfall on the US mainland. Computer models show it could churn near Florida’s east coast by late Sunday, and forecasters warn the core still could hit the Florida peninsula.\n\n[![Picture shows the damages of Hurricane Irma, in St. Martin on September 6. ](https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/media\/sites\/cnn\/cnn-fallback-image.jpg) Picture shows the damages of Hurricane Irma, in St. Martin on September 6. Morel\/SIMAX\/SIPA\/Newscom Related article Hurricane Irma batters northern Caribbean islands](https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2017\/09\/06\/americas\/hurricane-irma-caribbean-islands\/index.html)\n\n– Floridians should heed any evacuation order, Gov. Rick Scott said. “(A) storm surge could cover your house. We can rebuild homes – we cannot rebuild your family,” he said.\n\n[Airlines cap prices for Hurricane Irma evacuees](http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2017\/09\/06\/news\/companies\/jetblue-hurricane-flights\/index.html)\n\n## Widespread damage on Barbuda\nIrma’s core slammed the tiny island of Barbuda before moving over St. Martin and Anguilla and parts of the British Virgin Islands. Its maximum sustained winds of 185 mph were well above the 157 mph threshold of a Category 5 storm.\n\nBrowne told CNN the damage was “heart-wrenching. Absolutely devastating.” He estimated the damage on Barbuda, where he says 1,800 people live, to be at least \\$100 million.\n\nThe telecommunications system in Barbuda was wiped out and cell towers were knocked over, he said. Both the island’s hotels were demolished, he added.\n\nThere is also no way to land airplanes on the islands, Browne said from Antigua, whose 80,000 people comprise most of the two-island nation’s population.\n\n**Unable to load video**\n\nPlease try again later.\n\nError occurred while fetching labs\n\nVideo Ad Feedback\n\nVideo shows Irma ripping through island\n\n00:46   • Source: [PTZtv.com](http:\/\/www.ptztv.com\/)\n\nVideo shows Irma ripping through island\n\n00:46  • [PTZtv.com](http:\/\/www.ptztv.com\/)\n\nOn Tortola, the largest of the British Virgin Islands, Kennedy Banda said fierce winds blew out the windows of his home. He and his family were taking shelter in a bathroom; he said he was bracing his body against the door in an attempt to keep it shut.\n\n“Everything is blown out,” he told CNN by phone near Road Town. “Everything is gone.”\n\nEarlier, he posted video on Facebook showing wind and pounding rain whipping the shoreline as Irma’s core approached.\n\n> > Omg\n> > \n> > Posted by [Kennedy Banda](https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/kennedy.banda.98) on [Wednesday, September 6, 2017](https:\/\/graph.facebook.com\/kennedy.banda.98\/videos\/10155112436301785\/)\n\n> > Omg\n> > \n> > Posted by [Kennedy Banda](https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/kennedy.banda.98) on [Wednesday, September 6, 2017](https:\/\/graph.facebook.com\/kennedy.banda.98\/videos\/10155112436301785\/)\n\nThe hurricane earlier battered [a string of northern Caribbean island nations](http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2017\/09\/06\/americas\/hurricane-irma-caribbean-islands\/index.html), situated east of the more populous Virgin Islands group.\n\nReports suggested damage on parts of the smaller islands, a tropical region popular with tourists.\n\n![](https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/media\/sites\/cnn\/cnn-fallback-image.jpg)\n\nIrma destroyed four of the most solid government buildings on the French-administered portion of nearby St. Martin, an island of about 75,000 people, French Interior Minister Gérard Collomb said in Paris.\n\nIt’s likely that all other older buildings there have at least been damaged, he said.\n\nRoughly 10 of these smaller islands – such as St. Martin, Antigua and Barbuda, and St. Kitts and Nevis – were pounded by hurricane conditions. One, Guadeloupe, has about 405,000 residents. The rest have about 264,400 people combined.\n\n## ‘It was hell’\nStacy-Ann Taylor, whose husband works at a hotel in St. Maarten, stayed there during the storm with their two children. When the storm winds started blowing hard in the middle of the night, they went into the hallway, as did a bunch of other hotel guests.\n\nAbout five or 10 minutes later she heard the loud sound of glass smashing in the room.\n\n“Then we could feel a lot of pressure to the ears (like an airplane was taking off or landing) and the sound from the wind sounded like I was in a haunted house,” she said.\n\nShe [posted a video to Facebook Live](https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/stacyann.taylor.1\/videos\/10211483365573625) on Wednesday, in which she said she was happy to have survived. About 90 seconds into the recording, she shows the damage to the street the hotel is on.\n\n“It was hell last night,” she said.\n\n![Hurricane Irma ripped the roofs off buildings in Point Blanche, St. Maarten.](https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/media\/sites\/cnn\/cnn-fallback-image.jpg)\n\nHurricane Irma ripped the roofs off buildings in Point Blanche, St. Maarten.\n\nXaverius van der Hoek\/WhatsApp\n\nThough Irma’s path is uncertain, forecasters have said it [could turn toward Florida over the weekend](http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2017\/09\/06\/weather\/irma-us-predictions\/index.html), and officials there are [ordering some evacuations](http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2017\/09\/06\/us\/irma-florida-latest\/index.html) and shutting down schools.\n\nIrma affected many northern Caribbean islands, even those not touched by the powerful core. In Marigot, Guadeloupe, Florida resident Loren Ann Mayo rode out the storm on the sixth floor of a beachside hotel.\n\n> > THE EYE OF IRMA\n> > \n> > Posted by [Loren Ann Mayo](https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2017\/09\/06\/us\/hurricane-irma-puerto-rico-florida) on [Wednesday, September 6, 2017](https:\/\/graph.facebook.com\/LorenAnnMayo\/videos\/10159372245215387\/)\n\n> > THE EYE OF IRMA\n> > \n> > Posted by [Loren Ann Mayo](https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2017\/09\/06\/us\/hurricane-irma-puerto-rico-florida) on [Wednesday, September 6, 2017](https:\/\/graph.facebook.com\/LorenAnnMayo\/videos\/10159372245215387\/)\n\n“We’ve been hiding in the bathroom,” she said in a video she posted to Facebook. About an inch of water covered parts of the floor, and pieces of drywall had fallen onto a balcony and a bed inside, she said.\n\nMayo was there on a business trip. “It is pouring down rain. It is howling,” she told CNN. “Most people are either in their bathroom, or they’ve been moved downstairs to the third floor where management thinks is a very, very safe spot.”\n\nStorm surge is a concern for the Turks and Caicos Islands and the Central Bahamas (up to 20 feet), as is heavy rain (up to 20 inches in the Virgin Islands, and up to 20 in parts of Puerto Rico).\n\n![People prepare Wednesday for Irma's arrival in San Juan, Puerto Rico.](https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/media\/sites\/cnn\/cnn-fallback-image.jpg)\n\nPeople prepare Wednesday for Irma's arrival in San Juan, Puerto Rico.\n\nThais Llorca\/EPA-EFE\/REX\/Shutterstock\n## The Bahamas prepare\n![](https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/media\/sites\/cnn\/cnn-fallback-image.jpg)\n\nIn the Bahamas, emergency evacuations have been ordered for six southern islands – Mayaguana, Inagua, Crooked Island, Acklins, Long Cay and Ragged Island.\n\n“This is the largest such evacuation in the history of the country,” Prime Minister Hubert Minnis said.\n\n“Some of the (Bahamian) islands aren’t more than 9 feet (above sea level). Storm surges there may be 20 feet. You get the idea what’s going to happen to those islands,” CNN meteorologist Chad Myers said.\n\n## Florida: Evacuations and a rush for supplies\nHurricane watches may be issued for parts of South Florida and the Keys on Thursday.\n\nMany Floridians spent Wednesday stocking up on food or making plans to head inland, and in some cases were leaving gas stations out of fuel and stores without needed supplies.\n\n![Winston Mora, left, and Gus Sousa put hurricane shutters on a business Wednesday in Miami.](https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/media\/sites\/cnn\/cnn-fallback-image.jpg)\n\nWinston Mora, left, and Gus Sousa put hurricane shutters on a business Wednesday in Miami.\n\nJoe Raedle\/Getty Images\n\nKatherine Pina said four stores she visited in Fort Lauderdale were out of bottled water. She said she saw one man reselling jugs of water for \\$5.\n\n“People are doing an opportunity to get some money, I guess,” she said.\n\n[![NASA Hurricane IRMA From ISS Sept 5](https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/media\/sites\/cnn\/cnn-fallback-image.jpg) NASA video Related video Space station gets a look at Hurricane Irma](https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/videos\/weather\/2017\/09\/05\/nasa-hurricane-irma-from-iss-orig-vstan.cnn)\n\nWorkers at five gas stations in Miami Beach told CNN by phone Wednesday that all were out of fuel. One said the station expected to receive more Wednesday night; another said a resupply was coming Thursday morning.\n\nSome South Florida communities ordered evacuations. Monroe County, which includes the Florida Keys, ordered people out Wednesday.\n\n[![Irma spaghetti models 8 a.m. Wednesday](https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/media\/sites\/cnn\/cnn-fallback-image.jpg) Related article Spaghetti models put Hurricane Irma near Florida this weekend](https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2017\/09\/06\/weather\/irma-us-predictions\/index.html)\n\nIn Broward County, which includes Fort Lauderdale and other cities north of Miami, a mandatory evacuation will go into effect at noon Thursday for areas east of Federal Highway, Mayor Barbara Sharief said. The evacuation zone includes low-lying areas.\n\n[![A local shopper talking on his cell phone, looks at empty shelves that held water at Public supermarket in Boynton Beach, Florida, September 5, 2017. Residents prepare early for the arrival of Hurricane Irma which is still five days away from hitting Florida. A state of emergency was declared in the state by Governor Scott on Monday as Hurricane Irma was elevated to a category 4 storm. 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Officials told her there were several rescues because of flooding but there were no immediate reports of injuries in the US territory of about 3.4 million people.\n\nGov. Ricardo Rosselló told CNN he thinks the island was being hit hard even though the eye of the storm stayed off shore.\n\nAd Feedback\n\nAd Feedback\n\n“From the center of operations that we have over here in San Juan, there is pretty significant damage already done,” he said, citing wind gusts of more than 100 mph.\n\nThe outer bands of the storm continued to whip heavy rain upon the island late Wednesday.\n\nTourist Steban Guajardo told CNN that water in the parking lot of a building he was at in the seaside neighborhood of Condado just kept rising.\n\nPuerto Ricans bracing for the high-octane winds and slashing rainfall started to feel Irma’s effects Wednesday afternoon. Strong breezes shook rickety rooftops and downpours battered the coast.\n\nResidents prepped their homes for safety and gathered food, supplies and belongings.\n\nThe storm is one of [three hurricanes in the Atlantic basin](http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2017\/09\/06\/americas\/three-hurricanes-atlantic-basin\/index.html), the first time since 2010 that three active hurricanes have been in the Atlantic, according to CNN Weather.\n\n[Hurricane Irma: Live updates](http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2017\/09\/06\/us\/irma-florida-latest\/index.html)\n\n– At least two people died and two others were seriously injured in the islands of St. Barts and St. Martin, French Overseas Affairs Minister Annick Girardin said. An infant died in Barbuda, where as many as 95% of structures were damaged, Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda Gaston Browne told CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360˚.”\n\n– Irma has maintained intensity above 180 mph longer than any storm in Atlantic basin history.\n\n– Late Wednesday night, Irma’s core was spinning about 85 miles northwest of San Juan, with maximum sustained winds of 185 mph.\n\n– Meanwhile, Jose, in the open Atlantic far to the southeast of Irma, became a hurricane. Katia, in the Gulf of Mexico, also became a hurricane.\n\n– In the US Virgin Islands, Gov. Kenneth E. Mapp ordered a 36-hour curfew.\n\n– On Thursday the storm will move very near or over the Turks and Caicos, with catastrophic damage likely. The storm will also pass just north of the Dominican Republic and Haiti, bringing hurricane force winds to northern sections of the island, with flooding and mudslides probable.\n\n– It’s too early to tell whether it will make landfall on the US mainland. Computer models show it could churn near Florida’s east coast by late Sunday, and forecasters warn the core still could hit the Florida peninsula.\n\n– Floridians should heed any evacuation order, Gov. Rick Scott said. “(A) storm surge could cover your house. We can rebuild homes – we cannot rebuild your family,” he said.\n\n[Airlines cap prices for Hurricane Irma evacuees](http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2017\/09\/06\/news\/companies\/jetblue-hurricane-flights\/index.html)\n\nIrma’s core slammed the tiny island of Barbuda before moving over St. Martin and Anguilla and parts of the British Virgin Islands. Its maximum sustained winds of 185 mph were well above the 157 mph threshold of a Category 5 storm.\n\nBrowne told CNN the damage was “heart-wrenching. Absolutely devastating.” He estimated the damage on Barbuda, where he says 1,800 people live, to be at least \\$100 million.\n\nThe telecommunications system in Barbuda was wiped out and cell towers were knocked over, he said. Both the island’s hotels were demolished, he added.\n\nThere is also no way to land airplanes on the islands, Browne said from Antigua, whose 80,000 people comprise most of the two-island nation’s population.\n\n**Unable to load video**\n\nPlease try again later.\n\nError occurred while fetching labs\n\nVideo Ad Feedback\n\nVideo shows Irma ripping through island\n\nVideo shows Irma ripping through island\n\nOn Tortola, the largest of the British Virgin Islands, Kennedy Banda said fierce winds blew out the windows of his home. He and his family were taking shelter in a bathroom; he said he was bracing his body against the door in an attempt to keep it shut.\n\n“Everything is blown out,” he told CNN by phone near Road Town. “Everything is gone.”\n\nEarlier, he posted video on Facebook showing wind and pounding rain whipping the shoreline as Irma’s core approached.\n\nThe hurricane earlier battered [a string of northern Caribbean island nations](http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2017\/09\/06\/americas\/hurricane-irma-caribbean-islands\/index.html), situated east of the more populous Virgin Islands group.\n\nReports suggested damage on parts of the smaller islands, a tropical region popular with tourists.\n\nIrma destroyed four of the most solid government buildings on the French-administered portion of nearby St. Martin, an island of about 75,000 people, French Interior Minister Gérard Collomb said in Paris.\n\nIt’s likely that all other older buildings there have at least been damaged, he said.\n\nRoughly 10 of these smaller islands – such as St. Martin, Antigua and Barbuda, and St. Kitts and Nevis – were pounded by hurricane conditions. One, Guadeloupe, has about 405,000 residents. The rest have about 264,400 people combined.\n\nStacy-Ann Taylor, whose husband works at a hotel in St. Maarten, stayed there during the storm with their two children. When the storm winds started blowing hard in the middle of the night, they went into the hallway, as did a bunch of other hotel guests.\n\nAbout five or 10 minutes later she heard the loud sound of glass smashing in the room.\n\n“Then we could feel a lot of pressure to the ears (like an airplane was taking off or landing) and the sound from the wind sounded like I was in a haunted house,” she said.\n\nShe [posted a video to Facebook Live](https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/stacyann.taylor.1\/videos\/10211483365573625) on Wednesday, in which she said she was happy to have survived. About 90 seconds into the recording, she shows the damage to the street the hotel is on.\n\n“It was hell last night,” she said.\n\nThough Irma’s path is uncertain, forecasters have said it [could turn toward Florida over the weekend](http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2017\/09\/06\/weather\/irma-us-predictions\/index.html), and officials there are [ordering some evacuations](http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2017\/09\/06\/us\/irma-florida-latest\/index.html) and shutting down schools.\n\nIrma affected many northern Caribbean islands, even those not touched by the powerful core. In Marigot, Guadeloupe, Florida resident Loren Ann Mayo rode out the storm on the sixth floor of a beachside hotel.\n\n“We’ve been hiding in the bathroom,” she said in a video she posted to Facebook. About an inch of water covered parts of the floor, and pieces of drywall had fallen onto a balcony and a bed inside, she said.\n\nMayo was there on a business trip. “It is pouring down rain. It is howling,” she told CNN. “Most people are either in their bathroom, or they’ve been moved downstairs to the third floor where management thinks is a very, very safe spot.”\n\nStorm surge is a concern for the Turks and Caicos Islands and the Central Bahamas (up to 20 feet), as is heavy rain (up to 20 inches in the Virgin Islands, and up to 20 in parts of Puerto Rico).\n\nIn the Bahamas, emergency evacuations have been ordered for six southern islands – Mayaguana, Inagua, Crooked Island, Acklins, Long Cay and Ragged Island.\n\n“This is the largest such evacuation in the history of the country,” Prime Minister Hubert Minnis said.\n\n“Some of the (Bahamian) islands aren’t more than 9 feet (above sea level). Storm surges there may be 20 feet. You get the idea what’s going to happen to those islands,” CNN meteorologist Chad Myers said.\n\n## Florida: Evacuations and a rush for supplies\nHurricane watches may be issued for parts of South Florida and the Keys on Thursday.\n\nMany Floridians spent Wednesday stocking up on food or making plans to head inland, and in some cases were leaving gas stations out of fuel and stores without needed supplies.\n\nKatherine Pina said four stores she visited in Fort Lauderdale were out of bottled water. She said she saw one man reselling jugs of water for \\$5.\n\n“People are doing an opportunity to get some money, I guess,” she said.\n\nWorkers at five gas stations in Miami Beach told CNN by phone Wednesday that all were out of fuel. One said the station expected to receive more Wednesday night; another said a resupply was coming Thursday morning.\n\nSome South Florida communities ordered evacuations. 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Boilerpipe Text	Story highlights Officials say three people killed, two seriously hurt in Caribbean islands NEW: As storm moved away from Puerto Rico, it kept dumping rain CNN — Hurricane Irma – one of the strongest storms ever recorded in the Atlantic – hammered Puerto Rico on Wednesday night after smashing a string of small northern Caribbean islands where at least three people were killed. CNN’s Leyla Santiago, in the Puerto Rican capital of San Juan, said there were 900,000 customers without power as strong winds lashed the island. Officials told her there were several rescues because of flooding but there were no immediate reports of injuries in the US territory of about 3.4 million people. Gov. Ricardo Rosselló told CNN he thinks the island was being hit hard even though the eye of the storm stayed off shore. Ad Feedback Ad Feedback “From the center of operations that we have over here in San Juan, there is pretty significant damage already done,” he said, citing wind gusts of more than 100 mph. The outer bands of the storm continued to whip heavy rain upon the island late Wednesday. Tourist Steban Guajardo told CNN that water in the parking lot of a building he was at in the seaside neighborhood of Condado just kept rising. Puerto Ricans bracing for the high-octane winds and slashing rainfall started to feel Irma’s effects Wednesday afternoon. Strong breezes shook rickety rooftops and downpours battered the coast. Residents prepped their homes for safety and gathered food, supplies and belongings. The storm is one of three hurricanes in the Atlantic basin , the first time since 2010 that three active hurricanes have been in the Atlantic, according to CNN Weather. Hurricane Irma: Live updates – At least two people died and two others were seriously injured in the islands of St. Barts and St. Martin, French Overseas Affairs Minister Annick Girardin said. An infant died in Barbuda, where as many as 95% of structures were damaged, Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda Gaston Browne told CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360˚.” – Irma has maintained intensity above 180 mph longer than any storm in Atlantic basin history. – Late Wednesday night, Irma’s core was spinning about 85 miles northwest of San Juan, with maximum sustained winds of 185 mph. – Meanwhile, Jose, in the open Atlantic far to the southeast of Irma, became a hurricane. Katia, in the Gulf of Mexico, also became a hurricane. – In the US Virgin Islands, Gov. Kenneth E. Mapp ordered a 36-hour curfew. – On Thursday the storm will move very near or over the Turks and Caicos, with catastrophic damage likely. The storm will also pass just north of the Dominican Republic and Haiti, bringing hurricane force winds to northern sections of the island, with flooding and mudslides probable. – It’s too early to tell whether it will make landfall on the US mainland. Computer models show it could churn near Florida’s east coast by late Sunday, and forecasters warn the core still could hit the Florida peninsula. – Floridians should heed any evacuation order, Gov. Rick Scott said. “(A) storm surge could cover your house. We can rebuild homes – we cannot rebuild your family,” he said. Airlines cap prices for Hurricane Irma evacuees Irma’s core slammed the tiny island of Barbuda before moving over St. Martin and Anguilla and parts of the British Virgin Islands. Its maximum sustained winds of 185 mph were well above the 157 mph threshold of a Category 5 storm. Browne told CNN the damage was “heart-wrenching. Absolutely devastating.” He estimated the damage on Barbuda, where he says 1,800 people live, to be at least $100 million. The telecommunications system in Barbuda was wiped out and cell towers were knocked over, he said. Both the island’s hotels were demolished, he added. There is also no way to land airplanes on the islands, Browne said from Antigua, whose 80,000 people comprise most of the two-island nation’s population. Unable to load video Please try again later. Error occurred while fetching labs Video Ad Feedback Video shows Irma ripping through island Video shows Irma ripping through island On Tortola, the largest of the British Virgin Islands, Kennedy Banda said fierce winds blew out the windows of his home. He and his family were taking shelter in a bathroom; he said he was bracing his body against the door in an attempt to keep it shut. “Everything is blown out,” he told CNN by phone near Road Town. “Everything is gone.” Earlier, he posted video on Facebook showing wind and pounding rain whipping the shoreline as Irma’s core approached. The hurricane earlier battered a string of northern Caribbean island nations , situated east of the more populous Virgin Islands group. Reports suggested damage on parts of the smaller islands, a tropical region popular with tourists. Irma destroyed four of the most solid government buildings on the French-administered portion of nearby St. Martin, an island of about 75,000 people, French Interior Minister Gérard Collomb said in Paris. It’s likely that all other older buildings there have at least been damaged, he said. Roughly 10 of these smaller islands – such as St. Martin, Antigua and Barbuda, and St. Kitts and Nevis – were pounded by hurricane conditions. One, Guadeloupe, has about 405,000 residents. The rest have about 264,400 people combined. Stacy-Ann Taylor, whose husband works at a hotel in St. Maarten, stayed there during the storm with their two children. When the storm winds started blowing hard in the middle of the night, they went into the hallway, as did a bunch of other hotel guests. About five or 10 minutes later she heard the loud sound of glass smashing in the room. “Then we could feel a lot of pressure to the ears (like an airplane was taking off or landing) and the sound from the wind sounded like I was in a haunted house,” she said. She posted a video to Facebook Live on Wednesday, in which she said she was happy to have survived. About 90 seconds into the recording, she shows the damage to the street the hotel is on. “It was hell last night,” she said. Though Irma’s path is uncertain, forecasters have said it could turn toward Florida over the weekend , and officials there are ordering some evacuations and shutting down schools. Irma affected many northern Caribbean islands, even those not touched by the powerful core. In Marigot, Guadeloupe, Florida resident Loren Ann Mayo rode out the storm on the sixth floor of a beachside hotel. “We’ve been hiding in the bathroom,” she said in a video she posted to Facebook. About an inch of water covered parts of the floor, and pieces of drywall had fallen onto a balcony and a bed inside, she said. Mayo was there on a business trip. “It is pouring down rain. It is howling,” she told CNN. “Most people are either in their bathroom, or they’ve been moved downstairs to the third floor where management thinks is a very, very safe spot.” Storm surge is a concern for the Turks and Caicos Islands and the Central Bahamas (up to 20 feet), as is heavy rain (up to 20 inches in the Virgin Islands, and up to 20 in parts of Puerto Rico). In the Bahamas, emergency evacuations have been ordered for six southern islands – Mayaguana, Inagua, Crooked Island, Acklins, Long Cay and Ragged Island. “This is the largest such evacuation in the history of the country,” Prime Minister Hubert Minnis said. “Some of the (Bahamian) islands aren’t more than 9 feet (above sea level). Storm surges there may be 20 feet. You get the idea what’s going to happen to those islands,” CNN meteorologist Chad Myers said. Florida: Evacuations and a rush for supplies Hurricane watches may be issued for parts of South Florida and the Keys on Thursday. Many Floridians spent Wednesday stocking up on food or making plans to head inland, and in some cases were leaving gas stations out of fuel and stores without needed supplies. Katherine Pina said four stores she visited in Fort Lauderdale were out of bottled water. She said she saw one man reselling jugs of water for $5. “People are doing an opportunity to get some money, I guess,” she said. Workers at five gas stations in Miami Beach told CNN by phone Wednesday that all were out of fuel. One said the station expected to receive more Wednesday night; another said a resupply was coming Thursday morning. Some South Florida communities ordered evacuations. Monroe County, which includes the Florida Keys, ordered people out Wednesday. In Broward County, which includes Fort Lauderdale and other cities north of Miami, a mandatory evacuation will go into effect at noon Thursday for areas east of Federal Highway, Mayor Barbara Sharief said. The evacuation zone includes low-lying areas. Miami-Dade County ordered people out of mobile homes, barrier islands and other parts of the area. Are you affected by Irma? Text, iMessage or WhatsApp your videos, photos and stories to CNN: +1 347-322-0415. ¿Te ha afectado Irma? Envía tus fotos, vídeos e historias a CNN por texto, iMessage y WhatsApp: +1 347-322-0415. CNN’s Bijan Hosseini, Khushbu Shah, Jamiel Lynch, Faith Karimi, Kyung Lah, Jaide Timm-Garcia, Eric Levenson, Paul Murphy, Christina Zdanowicz, David Williams, Amanda Jackson, Matou Diop, Gisela Crespo and Keith Williams contributed to this report.
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Hurricane Irma sowed a trail of deadly devastation through the Caribbean on Wednesday, reducing to rubble the tropical islands of Barbuda and St Martin. / AFP PHOTO / ANP / Gerben VAN ES / Netherlands OUT / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO / DUTCH DEFENSE MINISTRY/GERBEN VAN ES" - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - NO ARCHIVES - NO SALE- DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS (Photo credit should read GERBEN VAN ES/AFP/Getty Images)](https://www.cnn.com/media/sites/cnn/cnn-fallback-image.jpg) Video Ad Feedback Wrath of Hurricane Irma on the Caribbean 01:34 Now playing • Source: [CNN](https://www.cnn.com/) ![John Berman covering Hurrican Irma.](https://www.cnn.com/media/sites/cnn/cnn-fallback-image.jpg) Video Ad Feedback Every hour, Hurricane Irma got visibly worse 01:17 Now playing • Source: [CNN](https://www.cnn.com/) ![chainsaw nun](https://www.cnn.com/media/sites/cnn/cnn-fallback-image.jpg) Video Ad Feedback Chainsaw-wielding nun clears debris after Irma 00:55 Now playing • Source: [CNN](https://www.cnn.com/) See more videos ### Story highlights Officials say three people killed, two seriously hurt in Caribbean islands NEW: As storm moved away from Puerto Rico, it kept dumping rain CNN — Hurricane Irma – one of the strongest storms ever recorded in the Atlantic – hammered Puerto Rico on Wednesday night after smashing a string of small northern Caribbean islands where at least three people were killed. CNN’s Leyla Santiago, in the Puerto Rican capital of San Juan, said there were 900,000 customers without power as strong winds lashed the island. Officials told her there were several rescues because of flooding but there were no immediate reports of injuries in the US territory of about 3.4 million people. Gov. Ricardo Rosselló told CNN he thinks the island was being hit hard even though the eye of the storm stayed off shore. Ad Feedback Ad Feedback “From the center of operations that we have over here in San Juan, there is pretty significant damage already done,” he said, citing wind gusts of more than 100 mph. The outer bands of the storm continued to whip heavy rain upon the island late Wednesday. Tourist Steban Guajardo told CNN that water in the parking lot of a building he was at in the seaside neighborhood of Condado just kept rising. > > Así las cosas en San Juan, Puerto Rico. Viene llegando IRMA y somos parte de este fenómeno. [@mmsoriano](https://twitter.com/mmsoriano?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) [@lopezdoriga](https://twitter.com/lopezdoriga?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) [@CarlosLoret](https://twitter.com/CarlosLoret?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) [\#México](https://twitter.com/hashtag/M%C3%A9xico?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) [pic.twitter.com/PbmHCNvglN](https://t.co/PbmHCNvglN) > > > > — Steban Guajardo (@StebanG\_Oficial) [September 6, 2017](https://twitter.com/StebanG_Oficial/status/905562946478239744?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) Puerto Ricans bracing for the high-octane winds and slashing rainfall started to feel Irma’s effects Wednesday afternoon. Strong breezes shook rickety rooftops and downpours battered the coast. > > Here we go..[\#irma](https://twitter.com/hashtag/irma?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) [\#puertorico](https://twitter.com/hashtag/puertorico?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) [\#cnn](https://twitter.com/hashtag/cnn?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) [pic.twitter.com/thldVgUzl8](https://t.co/thldVgUzl8) > > > > — Leyla Santiago (@leylasantiago) [September 6, 2017](https://twitter.com/leylasantiago/status/905424550359441408?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) Residents prepped their homes for safety and gathered food, supplies and belongings. The storm is one of [three hurricanes in the Atlantic basin](http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/06/americas/three-hurricanes-atlantic-basin/index.html), the first time since 2010 that three active hurricanes have been in the Atlantic, according to CNN Weather. > > There are currently three hurricanes in the Atlantic. The last time this happened was 2010. <https://t.co/ADbT14uPET> [pic.twitter.com/XRMpyzpDpG](https://t.co/XRMpyzpDpG) > > > > — CNN Weather Center (@CNNweather) [September 6, 2017](https://twitter.com/CNNweather/status/905536026084614150?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) [Hurricane Irma: Live updates](http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/06/us/irma-florida-latest/index.html) ## Latest developments – At least two people died and two others were seriously injured in the islands of St. Barts and St. Martin, French Overseas Affairs Minister Annick Girardin said. An infant died in Barbuda, where as many as 95% of structures were damaged, Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda Gaston Browne told CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360˚.” – Irma has maintained intensity above 180 mph longer than any storm in Atlantic basin history. – Late Wednesday night, Irma’s core was spinning about 85 miles northwest of San Juan, with maximum sustained winds of 185 mph. – Meanwhile, Jose, in the open Atlantic far to the southeast of Irma, became a hurricane. Katia, in the Gulf of Mexico, also became a hurricane. ### [Full coverage](http://www.cnn.com/specials/hurricane-irma/) [Track the storm](http://www.cnn.com/interactive/storm-tracker/) [Mother searches for daughters](http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/07/americas/barbuda-hurricane-aftermath/index.html) [There are 3 hurricanes in the Atlantic](http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/06/americas/three-hurricanes-atlantic-basin/index.html) [Nursing homes prep for storms](http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/07/health/hurricane-irma-florida-seniors-nursing-homes-profile/index.html) [Gas shortages in Florida](http://money.cnn.com/2017/09/07/news/economy/gas-shortages-florida-irma/index.html?iid=hp-stack-dom) [Nuclear plants shutting down](http://money.cnn.com/2017/09/07/investing/nuclear-plants-shutdown-florida-irma/index.html?iid=hp-toplead-dom) [FEMA could run out of cash](http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/07/politics/fema-funding-disaster-relief/index.html) [Florida hospitals closing ahead of storm](http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/06/health/hurricane-irma-florida-hospitals-closing/index.html) [Mass evacuations in Florida](http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/06/us/hurricane-irma-evacuation-florida/index.html) [US warships begin relief operations](http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/07/politics/hurricane-irma-us-military-operations/index.html) [Hurricane checklist](http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/27/us/hurricane-preparation/index.html) – In the US Virgin Islands, Gov. Kenneth E. Mapp ordered a 36-hour curfew. – On Thursday the storm will move very near or over the Turks and Caicos, with catastrophic damage likely. The storm will also pass just north of the Dominican Republic and Haiti, bringing hurricane force winds to northern sections of the island, with flooding and mudslides probable. – It’s too early to tell whether it will make landfall on the US mainland. Computer models show it could churn near Florida’s east coast by late Sunday, and forecasters warn the core still could hit the Florida peninsula. [![Picture shows the damages of Hurricane Irma, in St. Martin on September 6. ](https://www.cnn.com/media/sites/cnn/cnn-fallback-image.jpg) Picture shows the damages of Hurricane Irma, in St. Martin on September 6. Morel/SIMAX/SIPA/Newscom Related article Hurricane Irma batters northern Caribbean islands](https://www.cnn.com/2017/09/06/americas/hurricane-irma-caribbean-islands/index.html) – Floridians should heed any evacuation order, Gov. Rick Scott said. “(A) storm surge could cover your house. We can rebuild homes – we cannot rebuild your family,” he said. [Airlines cap prices for Hurricane Irma evacuees](http://money.cnn.com/2017/09/06/news/companies/jetblue-hurricane-flights/index.html) ## Widespread damage on Barbuda Irma’s core slammed the tiny island of Barbuda before moving over St. Martin and Anguilla and parts of the British Virgin Islands. Its maximum sustained winds of 185 mph were well above the 157 mph threshold of a Category 5 storm. Browne told CNN the damage was “heart-wrenching. Absolutely devastating.” He estimated the damage on Barbuda, where he says 1,800 people live, to be at least \$100 million. The telecommunications system in Barbuda was wiped out and cell towers were knocked over, he said. Both the island’s hotels were demolished, he added. There is also no way to land airplanes on the islands, Browne said from Antigua, whose 80,000 people comprise most of the two-island nation’s population. Unable to load video** Please try again later. Error occurred while fetching labs Video Ad Feedback Video shows Irma ripping through island 00:46 • Source: [PTZtv.com](http://www.ptztv.com/) Video shows Irma ripping through island 00:46 • [PTZtv.com](http://www.ptztv.com/) On Tortola, the largest of the British Virgin Islands, Kennedy Banda said fierce winds blew out the windows of his home. He and his family were taking shelter in a bathroom; he said he was bracing his body against the door in an attempt to keep it shut. “Everything is blown out,” he told CNN by phone near Road Town. “Everything is gone.” Earlier, he posted video on Facebook showing wind and pounding rain whipping the shoreline as Irma’s core approached. > > Omg > > > > Posted by [Kennedy Banda](https://www.facebook.com/kennedy.banda.98) on [Wednesday, September 6, 2017](https://graph.facebook.com/kennedy.banda.98/videos/10155112436301785/) > > Omg > > > > Posted by [Kennedy Banda](https://www.facebook.com/kennedy.banda.98) on [Wednesday, September 6, 2017](https://graph.facebook.com/kennedy.banda.98/videos/10155112436301785/) The hurricane earlier battered [a string of northern Caribbean island nations](http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/06/americas/hurricane-irma-caribbean-islands/index.html), situated east of the more populous Virgin Islands group. Reports suggested damage on parts of the smaller islands, a tropical region popular with tourists. ![](https://www.cnn.com/media/sites/cnn/cnn-fallback-image.jpg) Irma destroyed four of the most solid government buildings on the French-administered portion of nearby St. Martin, an island of about 75,000 people, French Interior Minister Gérard Collomb said in Paris. It’s likely that all other older buildings there have at least been damaged, he said. Roughly 10 of these smaller islands – such as St. Martin, Antigua and Barbuda, and St. Kitts and Nevis – were pounded by hurricane conditions. One, Guadeloupe, has about 405,000 residents. The rest have about 264,400 people combined. ## ‘It was hell’ Stacy-Ann Taylor, whose husband works at a hotel in St. Maarten, stayed there during the storm with their two children. When the storm winds started blowing hard in the middle of the night, they went into the hallway, as did a bunch of other hotel guests. About five or 10 minutes later she heard the loud sound of glass smashing in the room. “Then we could feel a lot of pressure to the ears (like an airplane was taking off or landing) and the sound from the wind sounded like I was in a haunted house,” she said. She [posted a video to Facebook Live](https://www.facebook.com/stacyann.taylor.1/videos/10211483365573625) on Wednesday, in which she said she was happy to have survived. About 90 seconds into the recording, she shows the damage to the street the hotel is on. “It was hell last night,” she said. ![Hurricane Irma ripped the roofs off buildings in Point Blanche, St. Maarten.](https://www.cnn.com/media/sites/cnn/cnn-fallback-image.jpg) Hurricane Irma ripped the roofs off buildings in Point Blanche, St. Maarten. Xaverius van der Hoek/WhatsApp Though Irma’s path is uncertain, forecasters have said it [could turn toward Florida over the weekend](http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/06/weather/irma-us-predictions/index.html), and officials there are [ordering some evacuations](http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/06/us/irma-florida-latest/index.html) and shutting down schools. Irma affected many northern Caribbean islands, even those not touched by the powerful core. In Marigot, Guadeloupe, Florida resident Loren Ann Mayo rode out the storm on the sixth floor of a beachside hotel. > > THE EYE OF IRMA > > > > Posted by [Loren Ann Mayo](https://www.cnn.com/2017/09/06/us/hurricane-irma-puerto-rico-florida) on [Wednesday, September 6, 2017](https://graph.facebook.com/LorenAnnMayo/videos/10159372245215387/) > > THE EYE OF IRMA > > > > Posted by [Loren Ann Mayo](https://www.cnn.com/2017/09/06/us/hurricane-irma-puerto-rico-florida) on [Wednesday, September 6, 2017](https://graph.facebook.com/LorenAnnMayo/videos/10159372245215387/) “We’ve been hiding in the bathroom,” she said in a video she posted to Facebook. About an inch of water covered parts of the floor, and pieces of drywall had fallen onto a balcony and a bed inside, she said. Mayo was there on a business trip. “It is pouring down rain. It is howling,” she told CNN. “Most people are either in their bathroom, or they’ve been moved downstairs to the third floor where management thinks is a very, very safe spot.” Storm surge is a concern for the Turks and Caicos Islands and the Central Bahamas (up to 20 feet), as is heavy rain (up to 20 inches in the Virgin Islands, and up to 20 in parts of Puerto Rico). ![People prepare Wednesday for Irma's arrival in San Juan, Puerto Rico.](https://www.cnn.com/media/sites/cnn/cnn-fallback-image.jpg) People prepare Wednesday for Irma's arrival in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Thais Llorca/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock ## The Bahamas prepare ![](https://www.cnn.com/media/sites/cnn/cnn-fallback-image.jpg) In the Bahamas, emergency evacuations have been ordered for six southern islands – Mayaguana, Inagua, Crooked Island, Acklins, Long Cay and Ragged Island. “This is the largest such evacuation in the history of the country,” Prime Minister Hubert Minnis said. “Some of the (Bahamian) islands aren’t more than 9 feet (above sea level). Storm surges there may be 20 feet. You get the idea what’s going to happen to those islands,” CNN meteorologist Chad Myers said. ## Florida: Evacuations and a rush for supplies Hurricane watches may be issued for parts of South Florida and the Keys on Thursday. Many Floridians spent Wednesday stocking up on food or making plans to head inland, and in some cases were leaving gas stations out of fuel and stores without needed supplies. ![Winston Mora, left, and Gus Sousa put hurricane shutters on a business Wednesday in Miami.](https://www.cnn.com/media/sites/cnn/cnn-fallback-image.jpg) Winston Mora, left, and Gus Sousa put hurricane shutters on a business Wednesday in Miami. Joe Raedle/Getty Images Katherine Pina said four stores she visited in Fort Lauderdale were out of bottled water. She said she saw one man reselling jugs of water for \$5. “People are doing an opportunity to get some money, I guess,” she said. [![NASA Hurricane IRMA From ISS Sept 5](https://www.cnn.com/media/sites/cnn/cnn-fallback-image.jpg) NASA video Related video Space station gets a look at Hurricane Irma](https://www.cnn.com/videos/weather/2017/09/05/nasa-hurricane-irma-from-iss-orig-vstan.cnn) Workers at five gas stations in Miami Beach told CNN by phone Wednesday that all were out of fuel. One said the station expected to receive more Wednesday night; another said a resupply was coming Thursday morning. Some South Florida communities ordered evacuations. Monroe County, which includes the Florida Keys, ordered people out Wednesday. [![Irma spaghetti models 8 a.m. Wednesday](https://www.cnn.com/media/sites/cnn/cnn-fallback-image.jpg) Related article Spaghetti models put Hurricane Irma near Florida this weekend](https://www.cnn.com/2017/09/06/weather/irma-us-predictions/index.html) In Broward County, which includes Fort Lauderdale and other cities north of Miami, a mandatory evacuation will go into effect at noon Thursday for areas east of Federal Highway, Mayor Barbara Sharief said. The evacuation zone includes low-lying areas. [![A local shopper talking on his cell phone, looks at empty shelves that held water at Public supermarket in Boynton Beach, Florida, September 5, 2017. Residents prepare early for the arrival of Hurricane Irma which is still five days away from hitting Florida. A state of emergency was declared in the state by Governor Scott on Monday as Hurricane Irma was elevated to a category 4 storm. Photo by Gary I Rothstein/UPI... (Newscom TagID: upiphotostwo549306.jpg) \[Photo via Newscom\]](https://www.cnn.com/media/sites/cnn/cnn-fallback-image.jpg) A local shopper talking on his cell phone, looks at empty shelves that held water at Public supermarket in Boynton Beach, Florida, September 5, 2017. Residents prepare early for the arrival of Hurricane Irma which is still five days away from hitting Florida. A state of emergency was declared in the state by Governor Scott on Monday as Hurricane Irma was elevated to a category 4 storm. Photo by Gary I Rothstein/UPI... (Newscom TagID: upiphotostwo549306.jpg) \[Photo via Newscom\] GARY I ROTHSTEIN/UPI/Newscom Related article With Harvey's havoc on their minds, Floridians brace for Irma](https://www.cnn.com/2017/09/05/us/hurricane-irma-florida-prep/index.html) Miami-Dade County ordered people out of mobile homes, barrier islands and other parts of the area. Are you affected by Irma? Text, iMessage or WhatsApp your videos, photos and stories to CNN: +1 347-322-0415. ¿Te ha afectado Irma? Envía tus fotos, vídeos e historias a CNN por texto, iMessage y WhatsApp: +1 347-322-0415. CNN’s Bijan Hosseini, Khushbu Shah, Jamiel Lynch, Faith Karimi, Kyung Lah, Jaide Timm-Garcia, Eric Levenson, Paul Murphy, Christina Zdanowicz, David Williams, Amanda Jackson, Matou Diop, Gisela Crespo and Keith Williams contributed to this report. 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Readable Markdown	### Story highlights Officials say three people killed, two seriously hurt in Caribbean islands NEW: As storm moved away from Puerto Rico, it kept dumping rain CNN — Hurricane Irma – one of the strongest storms ever recorded in the Atlantic – hammered Puerto Rico on Wednesday night after smashing a string of small northern Caribbean islands where at least three people were killed. CNN’s Leyla Santiago, in the Puerto Rican capital of San Juan, said there were 900,000 customers without power as strong winds lashed the island. Officials told her there were several rescues because of flooding but there were no immediate reports of injuries in the US territory of about 3.4 million people. Gov. Ricardo Rosselló told CNN he thinks the island was being hit hard even though the eye of the storm stayed off shore. Ad Feedback Ad Feedback “From the center of operations that we have over here in San Juan, there is pretty significant damage already done,” he said, citing wind gusts of more than 100 mph. The outer bands of the storm continued to whip heavy rain upon the island late Wednesday. Tourist Steban Guajardo told CNN that water in the parking lot of a building he was at in the seaside neighborhood of Condado just kept rising. Puerto Ricans bracing for the high-octane winds and slashing rainfall started to feel Irma’s effects Wednesday afternoon. Strong breezes shook rickety rooftops and downpours battered the coast. Residents prepped their homes for safety and gathered food, supplies and belongings. The storm is one of [three hurricanes in the Atlantic basin](http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/06/americas/three-hurricanes-atlantic-basin/index.html), the first time since 2010 that three active hurricanes have been in the Atlantic, according to CNN Weather. [Hurricane Irma: Live updates](http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/06/us/irma-florida-latest/index.html) – At least two people died and two others were seriously injured in the islands of St. Barts and St. Martin, French Overseas Affairs Minister Annick Girardin said. An infant died in Barbuda, where as many as 95% of structures were damaged, Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda Gaston Browne told CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360˚.” – Irma has maintained intensity above 180 mph longer than any storm in Atlantic basin history. – Late Wednesday night, Irma’s core was spinning about 85 miles northwest of San Juan, with maximum sustained winds of 185 mph. – Meanwhile, Jose, in the open Atlantic far to the southeast of Irma, became a hurricane. Katia, in the Gulf of Mexico, also became a hurricane. – In the US Virgin Islands, Gov. Kenneth E. Mapp ordered a 36-hour curfew. – On Thursday the storm will move very near or over the Turks and Caicos, with catastrophic damage likely. The storm will also pass just north of the Dominican Republic and Haiti, bringing hurricane force winds to northern sections of the island, with flooding and mudslides probable. – It’s too early to tell whether it will make landfall on the US mainland. Computer models show it could churn near Florida’s east coast by late Sunday, and forecasters warn the core still could hit the Florida peninsula. – Floridians should heed any evacuation order, Gov. Rick Scott said. “(A) storm surge could cover your house. We can rebuild homes – we cannot rebuild your family,” he said. [Airlines cap prices for Hurricane Irma evacuees](http://money.cnn.com/2017/09/06/news/companies/jetblue-hurricane-flights/index.html) Irma’s core slammed the tiny island of Barbuda before moving over St. Martin and Anguilla and parts of the British Virgin Islands. Its maximum sustained winds of 185 mph were well above the 157 mph threshold of a Category 5 storm. Browne told CNN the damage was “heart-wrenching. Absolutely devastating.” He estimated the damage on Barbuda, where he says 1,800 people live, to be at least \$100 million. The telecommunications system in Barbuda was wiped out and cell towers were knocked over, he said. Both the island’s hotels were demolished, he added. There is also no way to land airplanes on the islands, Browne said from Antigua, whose 80,000 people comprise most of the two-island nation’s population. Unable to load video Please try again later. Error occurred while fetching labs Video Ad Feedback Video shows Irma ripping through island Video shows Irma ripping through island On Tortola, the largest of the British Virgin Islands, Kennedy Banda said fierce winds blew out the windows of his home. He and his family were taking shelter in a bathroom; he said he was bracing his body against the door in an attempt to keep it shut. “Everything is blown out,” he told CNN by phone near Road Town. “Everything is gone.” Earlier, he posted video on Facebook showing wind and pounding rain whipping the shoreline as Irma’s core approached. The hurricane earlier battered [a string of northern Caribbean island nations](http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/06/americas/hurricane-irma-caribbean-islands/index.html), situated east of the more populous Virgin Islands group. Reports suggested damage on parts of the smaller islands, a tropical region popular with tourists. Irma destroyed four of the most solid government buildings on the French-administered portion of nearby St. Martin, an island of about 75,000 people, French Interior Minister Gérard Collomb said in Paris. It’s likely that all other older buildings there have at least been damaged, he said. Roughly 10 of these smaller islands – such as St. Martin, Antigua and Barbuda, and St. Kitts and Nevis – were pounded by hurricane conditions. One, Guadeloupe, has about 405,000 residents. The rest have about 264,400 people combined. Stacy-Ann Taylor, whose husband works at a hotel in St. Maarten, stayed there during the storm with their two children. When the storm winds started blowing hard in the middle of the night, they went into the hallway, as did a bunch of other hotel guests. About five or 10 minutes later she heard the loud sound of glass smashing in the room. “Then we could feel a lot of pressure to the ears (like an airplane was taking off or landing) and the sound from the wind sounded like I was in a haunted house,” she said. She [posted a video to Facebook Live](https://www.facebook.com/stacyann.taylor.1/videos/10211483365573625) on Wednesday, in which she said she was happy to have survived. About 90 seconds into the recording, she shows the damage to the street the hotel is on. “It was hell last night,” she said. Though Irma’s path is uncertain, forecasters have said it [could turn toward Florida over the weekend](http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/06/weather/irma-us-predictions/index.html), and officials there are [ordering some evacuations](http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/06/us/irma-florida-latest/index.html) and shutting down schools. Irma affected many northern Caribbean islands, even those not touched by the powerful core. In Marigot, Guadeloupe, Florida resident Loren Ann Mayo rode out the storm on the sixth floor of a beachside hotel. “We’ve been hiding in the bathroom,” she said in a video she posted to Facebook. About an inch of water covered parts of the floor, and pieces of drywall had fallen onto a balcony and a bed inside, she said. Mayo was there on a business trip. “It is pouring down rain. It is howling,” she told CNN. “Most people are either in their bathroom, or they’ve been moved downstairs to the third floor where management thinks is a very, very safe spot.” Storm surge is a concern for the Turks and Caicos Islands and the Central Bahamas (up to 20 feet), as is heavy rain (up to 20 inches in the Virgin Islands, and up to 20 in parts of Puerto Rico). In the Bahamas, emergency evacuations have been ordered for six southern islands – Mayaguana, Inagua, Crooked Island, Acklins, Long Cay and Ragged Island. “This is the largest such evacuation in the history of the country,” Prime Minister Hubert Minnis said. “Some of the (Bahamian) islands aren’t more than 9 feet (above sea level). Storm surges there may be 20 feet. You get the idea what’s going to happen to those islands,” CNN meteorologist Chad Myers said. ## Florida: Evacuations and a rush for supplies Hurricane watches may be issued for parts of South Florida and the Keys on Thursday. Many Floridians spent Wednesday stocking up on food or making plans to head inland, and in some cases were leaving gas stations out of fuel and stores without needed supplies. Katherine Pina said four stores she visited in Fort Lauderdale were out of bottled water. She said she saw one man reselling jugs of water for \$5. “People are doing an opportunity to get some money, I guess,” she said. Workers at five gas stations in Miami Beach told CNN by phone Wednesday that all were out of fuel. One said the station expected to receive more Wednesday night; another said a resupply was coming Thursday morning. Some South Florida communities ordered evacuations. Monroe County, which includes the Florida Keys, ordered people out Wednesday. In Broward County, which includes Fort Lauderdale and other cities north of Miami, a mandatory evacuation will go into effect at noon Thursday for areas east of Federal Highway, Mayor Barbara Sharief said. The evacuation zone includes low-lying areas. Miami-Dade County ordered people out of mobile homes, barrier islands and other parts of the area. Are you affected by Irma? Text, iMessage or WhatsApp your videos, photos and stories to CNN: +1 347-322-0415. ¿Te ha afectado Irma? Envía tus fotos, vídeos e historias a CNN por texto, iMessage y WhatsApp: +1 347-322-0415. CNN’s Bijan Hosseini, Khushbu Shah, Jamiel Lynch, Faith Karimi, Kyung Lah, Jaide Timm-Garcia, Eric Levenson, Paul Murphy, Christina Zdanowicz, David Williams, Amanda Jackson, Matou Diop, Gisela Crespo and Keith Williams contributed to this report.
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