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1. Shard Calculation

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Calculated Shard: 51 (from laksa179)

2. Crawled Status Check

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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/2017/09/07/us/hurricane-irma-caribbean-florida\')), getAhrefsUnparsedNoserviceFromURL(\'https://www.cnn.com/2017/09/07/us/hurricane-irma-caribbean-florida\'))) FORMAT JSONEachRow'

Response:

{"found_url":"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2017\/09\/07\/us\/hurricane-irma-caribbean-florida","crawl_time":1775197429,"first_indexed_time":1746422785,"http_code":200,"src_unparsed":"com,cnn!www,\/2017\/09\/07\/us\/hurricane-irma-caribbean-florida s443","src_root_hash":"2312100192101524051","history_drop_reason":null,"meta_title":"Miami could take major hit as deadly hurricane heads to US | CNN","meta_descriptions":["Conditions in the Turks and Caicos deteriorated Thursday as massive Hurricane Irma continued tracking toward South Florida where it could slam Miami this weekend."],"attrs_boilerpipe_text":"Ad Feedback\nVideo Ad Feedback\nIrma to slam southern Florida, head inland\n01:58\n• Source:\nCNN\nHurricane Irma\n14 videos\nVideo Ad Feedback\nIrma to slam southern Florida, head inland\n01:58\nNow playing\n• Source:\nCNN\nVideo Ad Feedback\nEvery hour, Hurricane Irma got visibly worse\n01:17\nNow playing\n• Source:\nCNN\nVideo Ad Feedback\nChainsaw-wielding nun clears debris after Irma\n00:55\nNow playing\n• Source:\nCNN\nVideo Ad Feedback\nNASA video shows 10 days of Irma in 30 seconds\n00:49\nNow playing\n• Source:\nCNN\nVideo Ad Feedback\nFirst responders rush to answer 911 calls\n01:43\nNow playing\n• Source:\nCNN\nVideo Ad Feedback\nSee Hurricane Irma's wrath hit Florida\n01:02\nNow playing\n• Source:\nCNN\nVideo Ad Feedback\nIrma weakens to a tropical depression\n02:06\nNow playing\n• Source:\nCNN\nVideo Ad Feedback\nStorm surge brings water back to Tampa Bay\n01:02\nNow playing\n• Source:\nCNN\nVideo Ad Feedback\nRichard Branson films devastation to his private island\n01:02\nNow playing\n• Source:\nCNN\nVideo Ad Feedback\nHurricane Irma leaves trail of devastation\n02:12\nNow playing\n• Source:\nCNN\nVideo Ad Feedback\nAmerican ran through eye of Irma to survive\n02:09\nNow playing\n• Source:\nCNN\nVideo Ad Feedback\nSidner in Daytona: Winds are beyond ferocious\n01:56\nNow playing\n• Source:\nCNN\nVideo Ad Feedback\nReporter: It's like power-washing my face\n01:28\nNow playing\n• Source:\nCNN\nVideo Ad Feedback\nSatellite images reveal Irma's impact\n00:50\nNow playing\n• Source:\nCNN\nStory highlights\nHurricane targeting South Florida landfall, forecasters say\nIrma's death toll is at 10, officials say, after US Virgin Islands announce deaths there\nCNN\n — \n[Breaking News Update 11:30 p.m.]\nThe National Hurricane Center has issued hurricane and storm surge warnings for South  Florida. The warning extends from Jupiter Inlet on the east coast of the state, southward around the Florida Peninsula to Bonita Beach on the west coast. The warning included the Florida Keys, Lake Okeechobee, and Florida Bay. The same area had previously been under a hurricane watch.\n[Story last published 10:51 p.m. ET]\nConditions in the Turks and Caicos deteriorated Thursday as deadly and massive\nHurricane Irma\nmoved in on the islands – and continued tracking toward South Florida where it could slam Miami this weekend.\n“It has become more likely that Irma will make landfall in southern Florida as a dangerous major hurricane, and bring life-threatening storm surge and wind impacts to much of the state,” the National Hurricane Center said Thursday.\nThe hurricane center forecast moved the most likely path of the eye of the storm to the west in its 5 p.m. ET advisory.\n“It looks like it’s shifting, even though it may be just 20 miles, it puts Miami right in the worst possible position,” CNN meteorologist Tom Sater said.\n“Because when you look at the formidable storm, the strongest winds, the strongest storm surge, the bands of heavy rain are always in that north, northeastern quadrant.”\nBut Sater cautioned that some models show the storm farther west and some farther east. It is still more than 600 miles from Florida.\nIrma, a\nCategory 5 storm\nchurning in the Atlantic with 175 mph sustained winds, killed at least 10 people on Wednesday as it devastated small northeastern Caribbean islands such as Barbuda and left hundreds of thousands of customers in Puerto Rico without power.\n“Regardless of which (Florida) coast you live on, be prepared to evacuate,” Florida Gov. Rick Scott said Thursday at a news conference, with forecasters warning the storm could reach South Florida by Sunday.\nComplete coverage of Hurricane Irma\nMandatory evacuations have been issued for many counties in South Florida, but Scott said others in Florida need to watch Irma’s path and be ready to move.\n“This is not a storm you can sit and wait through,” he said. He added later: “You don’t have to drive hundreds of miles or leave the state to be safe. Go to shelters.”\nGeorgia, too, is ordering coastal evacuations. People in the Savannah area and everywhere along the coast east of Interstate 95 – including Brunswick and St. Simons Island – are ordered to leave, starting Saturday,\nGov. Nathan Deal said\n.\nIrma still was battering the mountainous, northern parts of Haiti and the Dominican Republic on Thursday afternoon. It could dump up to 15 inches of rain there – an amount that could trigger dangerous flooding and mudslides, the US National Hurricane Center said.\nHurricane Irma: Live updates\nMeanwhile, the northeastern Caribbean islands just hit by Irma are anxiously watching Hurricane Jose to the east. On Thursday, Antigua and Barbuda issued a\nhurricane watch for Jose\n, which could pass close to those islands Saturday. Prime Minister Gaston Browne said the government has called for voluntary evacuations from Barbuda.\nIrma left at least 10 people dead Wednesday, including four on St. Martin, four in the US Virgin Islands, one on Anguilla, and one on Barbuda, officials said. The latter is barely habitable, with nearly all its buildings damaged, Browne said.\nJose became the third major hurricane of the Atlantic basin season on Thursday, with winds of 120 mph, according to the National Hurricane Center. The Category 3 storm is about 625 miles east-southeast of Antigua.\n– Around 8 p.m. ET, Irma’s center was about 55 miles west-southwest of Grand Turk Island, moving west-northwest with maximum sustained winds of 175 mph. Hurricane-force winds could be felt as far as 70 miles from the center. Irma previously had winds over 180 mph, keeping those speeds longer than any storm ever recorded in the Atlantic basin.\n– Irma could cross the southeastern Bahamas on Thursday evening and be near the central Bahamas on Friday.\n– Hurricane warnings are in effect for parts of Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, the Turks and Caicos Islands, and the southeastern, central and northwestern Bahamas.\n– A hurricane watch has been issued for Jupiter Inlet on Florida’s east coast to Bonita Beach on the west coast. It includes the Florida Keys to Lake Okeechobee.\n– Gov. Scott said Thursday he has directed Florida law enforcement to escort gas trucks to gas stations in an attempt to address reported fuel shortages. “We know fuel is very important” as people prepare to evacuate inland, he said. “While we’re making progress, you will see lines and outages, unfortunately.”\n–\nIrma is one of three active hurricanes in the Atlantic basin\n– the last time this happened was in 2010.\nHurricane Irma victims need your help\nSome computer models show Irma nearing Florida’s southern and east coasts by Sunday, and potentially threatening Georgia and South Carolina later. Florida officials are\nordering some evacuations\nand shutting down schools.\nMany Floridians spent Thursday stocking up on food or making plans to head inland. Video from\nCNN affiliate WSVN\nshowed Miami International Airport crowded with people waiting to leave the area.\nMiami resident Ashley Hahn was at a beach Thursday with her 4-year-old daughter, saying they were taking a final few dips before fleeing the storm.\n“It is chaotic with the lines and gasoline and waiting for water – you kind of need a break,” she said.\n“We are probably going to head north, just to be safe. I went through\n(1992’s Hurricane) Andrew\nas a child, and … I have seen videos of destruction and everything that it entails. I don’t want (my daughter) to be around for that.”\nMonroe County administrator Roman Gastesi stressed to residents in the Keys they need to heed the evacuation order and leave.\n“You might as well leave now, while you have a chance, because when you dial 911, you will not get an answer,” he said.\nFlorida is not the only state preparing for possible impact.\nGeorgia’s Gov. Deal declared a state of emergency for 30 counties. North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper and South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster also declared states of emergency.\nTurks and Caicos, Bahamas in Irma’s path\nIrma was bringing heavy rain and powerful winds to the low-lying Turks and Caicos Islands on Thursday. Residents were told to stay put.\n“It’s hunker down. Stay where you are. Because you can’t go out, because the winds are just far, far too strong,” Gov. John Freeman told CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360˚.”\nThe governor said the hospital on Grand Turk Island was among 15 buildings that had roof damage or loss.\nStorm surges could reach up to 20 feet, the National Hurricane Center says – twice as high as some of the islands’ elevations.\n“Some of these Turks and Caicos (Islands) will be completely overwashed,” CNN meteorologist Chad Myers said.\nThe Turks and Caicos are a British overseas territory with about 35,000 people. Officials there are “working intensively on disaster preparedness and response … (and) liaising with their counterparts in the Cayman Islands for assistance,” UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office Minister Alan Duncan said Thursday.\nThe Bahamas, a nation of about 390,000, ordered evacuations 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.\nCapt. Stephen Russell of the Bahamas National Emergency Management Agency said the concern was over the power of the storm surge and the potential it will have catastrophic results.\nIrma’s eye passed directly over Barbuda on Wednesday, leaving the small island’s 1,800 residents largely incommunicado for hours because it knocked over the telecommunications system and cell towers.\nAbout 95% of the buildings in Barbuda, one of two major islands in the nation of Antigua and Barbuda, are damaged, Browne said.\n“It looks like (a) garbage disposal,” Marlon Carr, a photographer who toured the island with the Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda, told CNN on Thursday. “There was rubble and roof galvanized all over the island. It looked like some of the houses … were imploded on.”\nVideo Ad Feedback\nWrath of Hurricane Irma on the Caribbean\n01:34\n• Source:\nCNN\nWrath of Hurricane Irma on the Caribbean\n01:34\nWitnesses told him of “40-foot containers flying, animals flying” during the storm. Some spoke of taking shelter in bathrooms as their homes were torn apart.\nBrowne estimated the damage will cost  $100 million to rebuild.\nIn St. Thomas in the US Virgin Islands, Kelsey Nowakowski posted images to Instagram of the aftermath there.\n“This doesn’t look like it was ever a tropical paradise. It looks like an eerie fairytale forest,” she said in her post.\nIn Puerto Rico, about 56,680 customers were without water, with the island’s northeast hit the hardest, according to Jesus Poupart of the emergency operations center. Emergency officials are still taking in reports to determine the extent of the damage.\nIn the beachside area of Piñones near San Juan, Irma tore the roof off Cristian López’s fried-food restaurant. He said he wouldn’t be able to reopen the place for about five days.\n“At least we are all alive,” he said.\nIn the northeast city of Fajardo, authorities conducted at least 10 rescues, an emergency dispatcher there told CNN. Of those, five were from flooded homes, two of people trapped in vehicles, and three who were trapped in an elevator, the dispatcher said.\nThis story has been updated to reflect a change in the death toll. The French government revised its count of the number of deaths attributed to Irma in the French Caribbean from eight to four.\nAre you affected by Irma? 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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. (Photo by Mark Wilson\/Getty Images)](https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/170911191918-07-irma-naples-0911.jpg?q=x_3,y_0,h_1684,w_2993,c_crop\/w_250)\n\nVideo Ad Feedback\n\nIrma weakens to a tropical depression\n\n02:06\n\nNow playing\n\n• Source: [CNN](https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/)\n\n![Tampa bay empty orig lc\\_00000000.jpg](https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/170911161451-tampa-bay-empty-orig-lc-00000000.jpg?q=x_0,y_0,h_1080,w_1919,c_fill\/w_250)\n\nVideo Ad Feedback\n\nStorm surge brings water back to Tampa Bay\n\n01:02\n\nNow playing\n\n• Source: [CNN](https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/)\n\n![richard branson island damage irma 2](https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/170911101938-richard-branson-island-damage-irma-2.jpg?q=x_263,y_2,h_877,w_1559,c_crop\/w_250)\n\nVideo Ad Feedback\n\nRichard Branson films devastation to his private island\n\n01:02\n\nNow playing\n\n• Source: [CNN](https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/)\n\n![This image released by the Monroe County Board of County Commissioners shows debris along the Overseas Highway in the Florida Keys, Fla., Monday, Sept. 11, 2017. 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:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/170911020521-irma-strong-winds-daytona-sidner-live-00001612.jpg?q=x_2,y_0,h_1078,w_1915,c_crop\/w_250)\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:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/170910091750-bill-weir-key-largo-09-10.jpg?q=x_127,y_67,h_982,w_1745,c_crop\/w_250)\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:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/170911184617-satellite-images-before-after-irma-sot-00002727.jpg?q=x_351,y_176,h_682,w_1212,c_crop\/w_250)\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\nSee more videos\n\n### Story highlights\nHurricane targeting South Florida landfall, forecasters say\n\nIrma's death toll is at 10, officials say, after US Virgin Islands announce deaths there\n\nCNN\n\n—\n\n**\\[Breaking News Update 11:30 p.m.\\]**\n\nThe National Hurricane Center has issued hurricane and storm surge warnings for South Florida. The warning extends from Jupiter Inlet on the east coast of the state, southward around the Florida Peninsula to Bonita Beach on the west coast. The warning included the Florida Keys, Lake Okeechobee, and Florida Bay. The same area had previously been under a hurricane watch.\n\n**\\[Story last published 10:51 p.m. ET\\]**\n\nConditions in the Turks and Caicos deteriorated Thursday as deadly and massive [Hurricane Irma](http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/specials\/hurricane-irma\/) moved in on the islands – and continued tracking toward South Florida where it could slam Miami this weekend.\n\n“It has become more likely that Irma will make landfall in southern Florida as a dangerous major hurricane, and bring life-threatening storm surge and wind impacts to much of the state,” the National Hurricane Center said Thursday.\n\nThe hurricane center forecast moved the most likely path of the eye of the storm to the west in its 5 p.m. ET advisory.\n\n“It looks like it’s shifting, even though it may be just 20 miles, it puts Miami right in the worst possible position,” CNN meteorologist Tom Sater said.\n\n“Because when you look at the formidable storm, the strongest winds, the strongest storm surge, the bands of heavy rain are always in that north, northeastern quadrant.”\n\nBut Sater cautioned that some models show the storm farther west and some farther east. It is still more than 600 miles from Florida.\n\nIrma, a [Category 5 storm](http:\/\/www.nhc.noaa.gov\/aboutsshws.php) churning in the Atlantic with 175 mph sustained winds, killed at least 10 people on Wednesday as it devastated small northeastern Caribbean islands such as Barbuda and left hundreds of thousands of customers in Puerto Rico without power.\n\n“Regardless of which (Florida) coast you live on, be prepared to evacuate,” Florida Gov. Rick Scott said Thursday at a news conference, with forecasters warning the storm could reach South Florida by Sunday.\n\n![](https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/track.jpg?q=w_256,c_fill)\n\n[Complete coverage of Hurricane Irma](http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/specials\/hurricane-irma\/)\n\nMandatory evacuations have been issued for many counties in South Florida, but Scott said others in Florida need to watch Irma’s path and be ready to move.\n\n“This is not a storm you can sit and wait through,” he said. He added later: “You don’t have to drive hundreds of miles or leave the state to be safe. Go to shelters.”\n\nGeorgia, too, is ordering coastal evacuations. People in the Savannah area and everywhere along the coast east of Interstate 95 – including Brunswick and St. Simons Island – are ordered to leave, starting Saturday, [Gov. Nathan Deal said](https:\/\/gov.georgia.gov\/press-releases\/2017-09-07\/deal-expands-state-emergency-24-additional-counties).\n\nIrma still was battering the mountainous, northern parts of Haiti and the Dominican Republic on Thursday afternoon. It could dump up to 15 inches of rain there – an amount that could trigger dangerous flooding and mudslides, the US National Hurricane Center said.\n\n[Hurricane Irma: Live updates](http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2017\/09\/07\/us\/hurricane-irma-florida-latest\/index.html)\n\n![Carmelo Mota, a builder, searches for tools in his destroyed home in Charlotte Amalie, US Virgin Islands, on Monday, September 18. Hurricane Irma devastated the US territory and other Caribbean islands in the region, leaving them exposed to new storms brewing in the Atlantic.](https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/170919121108-01-irma-aftermath-us-virgin-islands-0918.jpg?q=w_3000,h_2000,x_0,y_0,c_fill\/h_447)\n\nCarmelo Mota, a builder, searches for tools in his destroyed home in Charlotte Amalie, US Virgin Islands, on Monday, September 18. Hurricane Irma devastated the US territory and other Caribbean islands in the region, leaving them exposed to new storms brewing in the Atlantic.\n\nChip Somodevilla\/Getty Images\n\n![An aerial photo shows the devastation in Road Town, the capital of Tortola, the largest and most populated of the British Virgin Islands, on Wednesday, September 13.](https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/170913215123-irma-carribean-0913-tortola-restricted.jpg?q=w_3600,h_2400,x_0,y_0,c_fill\/h_447)\n\nAn aerial photo shows the devastation in Road Town, the capital of Tortola, the largest and most populated of the British Virgin Islands, on Wednesday, September 13.\n\nJoel Rouse\/MOD\/ROYAL NAVY\/EPA\n\n![UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson talks to a resident of Anguilla during a visit on September 13. ](https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/170913215611-02-irma-caribbean-0913-british-virgin-islands-restricted.jpg?q=w_4921,h_3279,x_0,y_0,c_fill\/h_447)\n\nUK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson talks to a resident of Anguilla during a visit on September 13.\n\nAndrew Parsons\/Cal Sport Media\/Zuma Press\n\n![People collect food that was delivered by emergency workers in the Sandy Ground area of Marigot, St. Martin, on Tuesday, September 12.](https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/170913132506-04-irma-st-martin-0912.jpg?q=w_3000,h_2000,x_0,y_0,c_fill\/h_447)\n\nPeople collect food that was delivered by emergency workers in the Sandy Ground area of Marigot, St. Martin, on Tuesday, September 12.\n\nMARTIN BUREAU\/AFP\/Getty Images\n\n![Buildings are destroyed in St. Martin on September 12.](https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/170913132621-05-irma-st-martin-0912.jpg?q=w_3000,h_2000,x_0,y_0,c_fill\/h_447)\n\nBuildings are destroyed in St. Martin on September 12.\n\nCHRISTOPHE ENA\/AFP\/Getty Images\n\n![French President Emmanuel Macron shakes hands with St. Martin residents during a visit to the island on September 12.](https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/170913132155-02-irma-st-martin-0912-macron.jpg?q=w_3000,h_2000,x_0,y_0,c_fill\/h_447)\n\nFrench President Emmanuel Macron shakes hands with St. Martin residents during a visit to the island on September 12.\n\nCHRISTOPHE ENA\/AFP\/Getty Images\n\n![French soldiers patrol St. Martin on September 12.](https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/170913132009-01-irma-st-martin-0912.jpg?q=w_3000,h_2000,x_0,y_0,c_fill\/h_447)\n\nFrench soldiers patrol St. Martin on September 12.\n\nMARTIN BUREAU\/AFP\/Getty Images\n\n![A person works to clean up a street September 12 after Hurricane Irma flooded parts of Havana, Cuba.](https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/170913132316-01-irma-cuba-0912.jpg?q=w_3000,h_1920,x_0,y_0,c_fill\/h_447)\n\nA person works to clean up a street September 12 after Hurricane Irma flooded parts of Havana, Cuba.\n\nYAMIL LAGE\/AFP\/Getty Images\n\n![A man makes repairs in Havana on September 12.](https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/170913133345-02-irma-cuba-0912.jpg?q=w_3000,h_1996,x_0,y_0,c_fill\/h_447)\n\nA man makes repairs in Havana on September 12.\n\nYAMIL LAGE\/AFP\/Getty Images\n\n![This Marigot church was among the buildings destroyed in the storm.](https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/170913133610-01-irma-st-maarten-0912.jpg?q=w_3000,h_2000,x_0,y_0,c_fill\/h_447)\n\nThis Marigot church was among the buildings destroyed in the storm.\n\nJose Jimenez\/Getty Images\n\n![Cubans affected by Hurricane Irma line up to collect drinking water in Isabela de Sagua, Cuba, on Monday, September 11. ](https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/170912130824-03-irma-cuba-0911.jpg?q=w_3000,h_2001,x_0,y_0,c_fill\/h_447)\n\nCubans affected by Hurricane Irma line up to collect drinking water in Isabela de Sagua, Cuba, on Monday, September 11.\n\nRamon Espinosa\/AP\n\n![Dutch King Willem-Alexander, front right, tours damage in St. Maarten on September 11. ](https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/170912132319-02-irma-st-maarten-0911.jpg?q=w_3000,h_2000,x_0,y_0,c_fill\/h_447)\n\nDutch King Willem-Alexander, front right, tours damage in St. Maarten on September 11.\n\nVINCENT JANNINK\/AFP\/Getty Images\n\n![A palm tree sticks out of a pool on the French side of St. Martin on September 11.](https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/170912131757-04-irma-st-martin-0911-restricted.jpg?q=w_3000,h_2000,x_0,y_0,c_fill\/h_447)\n\nA palm tree sticks out of a pool on the French side of St. Martin on September 11.\n\nAurelien Morissard\/IP3\/Getty Images\n\n![A woman stands next to her water-logged belongings that had been laid out to dry in front of her home in Isabela de Sagua on September 11.](https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/170912130528-01-irma-cuba-0911.jpg?q=w_3000,h_2001,x_0,y_0,c_fill\/h_447)\n\nA woman stands next to her water-logged belongings that had been laid out to dry in front of her home in Isabela de Sagua on September 11.\n\nRamon Espinosa\/AP\n\n![People line up for supplies in St. Martin on September 11.](https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/170912131937-05-irma-st-martin-0911-restricted.jpg?q=w_3000,h_2000,x_0,y_0,c_fill\/h_447)\n\nPeople line up for supplies in St. Martin on September 11.\n\nAurelien Morissard\/IP3\/Getty Images\n\n![The skeleton of a boat drifts in St. Martin's Simpson Bay on September 11.](https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/170912124252-01-irma-st-maarten-0911.jpg?q=w_3000,h_2000,x_0,y_0,c_fill\/h_447)\n\nThe skeleton of a boat drifts in St. Martin's Simpson Bay on September 11.\n\nJose Jimenez\/Getty Images\n\n![People salvage material from the remains of a house in Isabela de Sagua on September 11.](https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/170912130752-02-irma-cuba-0911.jpg?q=w_3000,h_2001,x_0,y_0,c_fill\/h_447)\n\nPeople salvage material from the remains of a house in Isabela de Sagua on September 11.\n\nRamon Espinosa\/AP\n\n![Members of the British Army provide support on Tortola, one of the British Virgin Islands.](https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/170912123838-01-irma-british-virgin-islands-0912.jpg?q=w_3000,h_2000,x_0,y_0,c_fill\/h_447)\n\nMembers of the British Army provide support on Tortola, one of the British Virgin Islands.\n\nJoel Rouse\/MOD\/AP\n\n![A woman carries a dog at an airport checkpoint in St. Martin on September 11.](https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/170912131021-03-irma-st-martin-0911.jpg?q=w_3000,h_1996,x_0,y_0,c_fill\/h_447)\n\nA woman carries a dog at an airport checkpoint in St. Martin on September 11.\n\nCarlos Giusti\/AP\n\n![People wade through a flooded street as a wave crashes in Havana on Sunday, September 10.](https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/170911104650-05-irma-cuba-0910.jpg?q=w_3000,h_1889,x_0,y_0,c_fill\/h_447)\n\nPeople wade through a flooded street as a wave crashes in Havana on Sunday, September 10.\n\nYAMIL LAGE\/AFP\/Getty Images\n\n![Two men search through the rubble of their St. Martin restaurant on September 10.](https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/170911105649-01-irma-st-martin-0910.jpg?q=w_3000,h_2000,x_0,y_0,c_fill\/h_447)\n\nTwo men search through the rubble of their St. Martin restaurant on September 10.\n\nMARTIN BUREAU\/AFP\/Getty Images\n\n![People make their way through debris in the Cojimar neighborhood of Havana on September 10.](https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/170911155548-08-irma-cuba-0910.jpg?q=w_3000,h_2009,x_0,y_0,c_fill\/h_447)\n\nPeople make their way through debris in the Cojimar neighborhood of Havana on September 10.\n\nYAMIL LAGE\/AFP\/Getty Images\n\n![People board a plane leaving St. Martin on September 10.](https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/170911105827-02-irma-st-martin-0910.jpg?q=w_3000,h_2000,x_0,y_0,c_fill\/h_447)\n\nPeople board a plane leaving St. Martin on September 10.\n\nMARTIN BUREAU\/AFP\/Getty Images\n\n![A man wades through a flooded street in Havana on September 10.](https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/170910113946-01-irma-cuba-0910.jpg?q=w_3000,h_1688,x_0,y_0,c_fill\/h_447)\n\nA man wades through a flooded street in Havana on September 10.\n\nYamil Lage\/AFP\/Getty Images\n\n![An overview of Havana shows flooded streets on Saturday, September 9.](https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/170910130527-09-irma-cuba-0909.jpg?q=w_3000,h_1888,x_0,y_0,c_fill\/h_447)\n\nAn overview of Havana shows flooded streets on Saturday, September 9.\n\nYAMIL LAGE\/AFP\/Getty Images\n\n![A woman surveys flooding in Havana on September 9. ](https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/170910123451-08-irma-cuba-0909.jpg?q=w_3000,h_1688,x_0,y_0,c_fill\/h_447)\n\nA woman surveys flooding in Havana on September 9.\n\nYAMIL LAGE\/AFP\/Getty Images\n\n![A boat rests in a cemetery after Irma tore through Marigot, St. Martin.](https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/170910131148-02-irma-st-martin-0909.jpg?q=w_3000,h_2000,x_0,y_0,c_fill\/h_447)\n\nA boat rests in a cemetery after Irma tore through Marigot, St. Martin.\n\nMARTIN BUREAU\/AFP\/Getty Images\n\n![Residents return home after Irma passed through Caibarien, Cuba, on September 9.](https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/170909174358-03-irma-cuba-0909.jpg?q=w_4000,h_2250,x_0,y_0,c_fill\/h_447)\n\nResidents return home after Irma passed through Caibarien, Cuba, on September 9.\n\nADALBERTO ROQUE\/AFP\/Getty Images\n\n![A man walks in Caibarien on September 9. ](https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/170909174356-02-irma-cuba-0909.jpg?q=w_3640,h_2047,x_0,y_0,c_fill\/h_447)\n\nA man walks in Caibarien on September 9.\n\nADALBERTO ROQUE\/AFP\/Getty Images\n\n![A man carries a child through a flooded street in Fort-Liberte, Haiti, on Friday, September 8.](https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/170908150745-01-irma-haiti-0908.jpg?q=w_3000,h_1997,x_0,y_0,c_fill\/h_447)\n\nA man carries a child through a flooded street in Fort-Liberte, Haiti, on Friday, September 8.\n\nHECTOR RETAMAL\/AFP\/Getty Images\n\n![A man walks on a St. Martin street covered in debris on September 8.](https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/170909090340-16-irma-st-martin-0908.jpg?q=w_2129,h_1198,x_0,y_0,c_fill\/h_447)\n\nA man walks on a St. Martin street covered in debris on September 8.\n\nMARTIN BUREAU\/AFP\/Getty Images\n\n![A damaged home is tilted onto its side on the Puerto Rican island of Culebra on Thursday, September 7.](https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/170908192405-irma-puerto-rico-0907.jpg?q=w_3000,h_1688,x_0,y_0,c_fill\/h_447)\n\nA damaged home is tilted onto its side on the Puerto Rican island of Culebra on Thursday, September 7.\n\nCarlos Giusti\/AP\n\n![A home is surrounded by debris in Nagua, Dominican Republic, on September 7.](https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/170908192802-05-irma-dominican-republic-0907.jpg?q=w_3000,h_1688,x_0,y_0,c_fill\/h_447)\n\nA home is surrounded by debris in Nagua, Dominican Republic, on September 7.\n\nTatiana Fernandez\/AP\n\n![Irma damage is seen in St. Martin's Orient Bay on September 7.](https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/170908093050-15-irma-st-martin-0907.jpg?q=w_3000,h_2003,x_0,y_0,c_fill\/h_447)\n\nIrma damage is seen in St. Martin's Orient Bay on September 7.\n\nLIONEL CHAMOISEAU\/AFP\/Getty Images\n\n![Employees from an electrical company work to clear a fallen tree in Sanchez, Dominican Republic.](https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/170908113928-04-irma-dominican-republic-0907.jpg?q=w_3000,h_2000,x_0,y_0,c_fill\/h_447)\n\nEmployees from an electrical company work to clear a fallen tree in Sanchez, Dominican Republic.\n\nTatiana Fernandez\/AP\n\n![A woman makes her way through debris in Fajardo, Puerto Rico, on September 7.](https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/170908093932-04-irma-puerto-rico-0907.jpg?q=w_3000,h_2000,x_0,y_0,c_fill\/h_447)\n\nA woman makes her way through debris in Fajardo, Puerto Rico, on September 7.\n\nRICARDO ARDUENGO\/AFP\/Getty Images\n\n![In this image made from video, damaged houses are seen in St. Thomas on September 7.](https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/170908094950-07-st-thomas-irma-0907.jpg?q=w_3000,h_1731,x_0,y_0,c_fill\/h_447)\n\nIn this image made from video, damaged houses are seen in St. Thomas on September 7.\n\nIan Brown\/AP\n\n![The storm left widespread destruction on the island of Barbuda on September 7.](https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/170908112123-01-irma-barbuda-0907.jpg?q=w_3000,h_1991,x_0,y_0,c_fill\/h_447)\n\nThe storm left widespread destruction on the island of Barbuda on September 7.\n\nAnika E. Kentish\/AP\n\n![A flattened home is seen in Nagua, Dominican Republic, on September 7.](https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/170908113734-02-irma-dominican-republic-0907.jpg?q=w_3000,h_2000,x_0,y_0,c_fill\/h_447)\n\nA flattened home is seen in Nagua, Dominican Republic, on September 7.\n\nTatiana Fernandez\/AP\n\n![Nagua residents ride through an area affected by the storm on September 7.](https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/170908113837-03-irma-dominican-republic-0907.jpg?q=w_2067,h_1378,x_0,y_0,c_fill\/h_447)\n\nNagua residents ride through an area affected by the storm on September 7.\n\nTatiana Fernandez\/AP\n\n![Trash and debris is washed ashore in Cap-Haitien, Haiti, on September 7.](https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/170908114149-01-irma-haiti-0907.jpg?q=w_3000,h_1997,x_0,y_0,c_fill\/h_447)\n\nTrash and debris is washed ashore in Cap-Haitien, Haiti, on September 7.\n\nHECTOR RETAMAL\/AFP\/Getty Images\n\n![People walk through damage in Marigot, St. Martin, on September 7.](https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/170907104539-02-irma-st-martin-0907.jpg?q=w_1893,h_1262,x_0,y_0,c_fill\/h_447)\n\nPeople walk through damage in Marigot, St. Martin, on September 7.\n\nLionel Chamoiseau\/AFP\/Getty Images\n\n![People survey damage in Marigot on September 7.](https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/170907104535-01-irma-st-martin-0907.jpg?q=w_2000,h_1125,x_0,y_0,c_fill\/h_447)\n\nPeople survey damage in Marigot on September 7.\n\nLionel Chamoiseau\/AFP\/Getty Images\n\n![Bluebeard's Castle, a resort in St. Thomas, was hit hard by Irma. St. Thomas resident David Velez sent this photo to CNN on September 7.](https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/170907093020-02-st-thomas-irma-0907.jpg?q=w_1600,h_900,x_0,y_0,c_fill\/h_447)\n\nBluebeard's Castle, a resort in St. Thomas, was hit hard by Irma. St. Thomas resident David Velez sent this photo to CNN on September 7.\n\nCourtesy David Velez\n\n![Irma ruined these vehicles in St. Thomas.](https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/170907093025-05-st-thomas-irma-0907.jpg?q=w_1600,h_900,x_0,y_0,c_fill\/h_447)\n\nIrma ruined these vehicles in St. Thomas.\n\nCourtesy David Velez\n\n![Waves smash into St. Martin on Wednesday, September 6.](https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/170907115102-04-irma-st-maarten-0907.jpg?q=w_3000,h_1688,x_0,y_0,c_fill\/h_447)\n\nWaves smash into St. Martin on Wednesday, September 6.\n\nGerben Van Es\/Dutch Defense Ministry\/Associated Press\n\n![A man looks at a vehicle turned upside down in the British territory of Anguilla. ](https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/170908191842-irma-anguilla-0906.jpg?q=w_1600,h_900,x_0,y_0,c_fill\/h_447)\n\nA man looks at a vehicle turned upside down in the British territory of Anguilla.\n\nGarson Kelsick via AP\n\n![An aerial view of St. Martin on September 6.](https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/170907115015-03-irma-st-maarten-0907.jpg?q=w_3000,h_1687,x_0,y_0,c_fill\/h_447)\n\nAn aerial view of St. Martin on September 6.\n\nGerben Van Es\/Dutch Defense Ministry\/Associated Press\n\n![Damaged cars are seen on a St. Martin beach on September 6.](https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/170907140934-14-irma-st-martin-0907.jpg?q=w_1847,h_1039,x_0,y_0,c_fill\/h_447)\n\nDamaged cars are seen on a St. Martin beach on September 6.\n\nLionel Chamoiseau\/AFP\/Getty Images\n\n![A boat is washed onto shore in St. Martin.](https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/170907140938-13-irma-st-martin-0907.jpg?q=w_2000,h_1125,x_0,y_0,c_fill\/h_447)\n\nA boat is washed onto shore in St. Martin.\n\nLionel Chamoiseau\/AFP\/Getty Images\n\n![Cars are piled up in Marigot on September 6.](https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/170907140945-11-irma-st-martin-0907.jpg?q=w_1807,h_1017,x_0,y_0,c_fill\/h_447)\n\nCars are piled up in Marigot on September 6.\n\nLionel Chamoiseau\/AFP\/Getty Images\n\n![A man walks past damaged buildings in St. Martin on September 6.](https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/170907140941-12-irma-st-martin-0907.jpg?q=w_1628,h_916,x_0,y_0,c_fill\/h_447)\n\nA man walks past damaged buildings in St. Martin on September 6.\n\nLionel Chamoiseau\/AFP\/Getty Images\n\n![A car is flipped onto its side in Marigot.](https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/170907140952-09-irma-st-martin-0907.jpg?q=w_2000,h_1125,x_0,y_0,c_fill\/h_447)\n\nA car is flipped onto its side in Marigot.\n\nLionel Chamoiseau\/AFP\/Getty Images\n\n![Broken palm trees are scattered on a Marigot beach on September 6.](https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/170907140958-07-irma-st-martin-0907.jpg?q=w_2000,h_1125,x_0,y_0,c_fill\/h_447)\n\nBroken palm trees are scattered on a Marigot beach on September 6.\n\nLionel Chamoiseau\/AFP\/Getty Images\n\n![Irma floods a beach in Marigot on September 6.](https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/170907140955-08-irma-st-martin-0907.jpg?q=w_2000,h_1125,x_0,y_0,c_fill\/h_447)\n\nIrma floods a beach in Marigot on September 6.\n\nLionel Chamoiseau\/AFP\/Getty Images\n##### Hurricane Irma tears through Caribbean\nPrev\n\nNext\n\nMeanwhile, the northeastern Caribbean islands just hit by Irma are anxiously watching Hurricane Jose to the east. On Thursday, Antigua and Barbuda issued a [hurricane watch for Jose](http:\/\/www.nhc.noaa.gov\/text\/refresh\/MIATCPAT2+shtml\/071449.shtml), which could pass close to those islands Saturday. Prime Minister Gaston Browne said the government has called for voluntary evacuations from Barbuda.\n\nIrma left at least 10 people dead Wednesday, including four on St. Martin, four in the US Virgin Islands, one on Anguilla, and one on Barbuda, officials said. The latter is barely habitable, with nearly all its buildings damaged, Browne said.\n\nJose became the third major hurricane of the Atlantic basin season on Thursday, with winds of 120 mph, according to the National Hurricane Center. The Category 3 storm is about 625 miles east-southeast of Antigua.\n\n## Here are the latest developments\n– Around 8 p.m. ET, Irma’s center was about 55 miles west-southwest of Grand Turk Island, moving west-northwest with maximum sustained winds of 175 mph. Hurricane-force winds could be felt as far as 70 miles from the center. Irma previously had winds over 180 mph, keeping those speeds longer than any storm ever recorded in the Atlantic basin.\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– Irma could cross the southeastern Bahamas on Thursday evening and be near the central Bahamas on Friday.\n\n– Hurricane warnings are in effect for parts of Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, the Turks and Caicos Islands, and the southeastern, central and northwestern Bahamas.\n\n– A hurricane watch has been issued for Jupiter Inlet on Florida’s east coast to Bonita Beach on the west coast. It includes the Florida Keys to Lake Okeechobee.\n\n– Gov. Scott said Thursday he has directed Florida law enforcement to escort gas trucks to gas stations in an attempt to address reported fuel shortages. “We know fuel is very important” as people prepare to evacuate inland, he said. “While we’re making progress, you will see lines and outages, unfortunately.”\n\n– [Irma is one of three active hurricanes in the Atlantic basin](http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2017\/09\/06\/americas\/three-hurricanes-atlantic-basin\/index.html) – the last time this happened was in 2010.\n\n![An aerial view shows the damage that Hurricane Irma left on the Dutch side of the island of St. Martin.](https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/170907120822-irma-damage-st-maarten.jpg?q=w_1110,c_fill)\n\nAn aerial view shows the damage that Hurricane Irma left on the Dutch side of the island of St. Martin.\n\nGERBEN VAN ES\/AFP\/AFP\/Getty Images\n\n[Hurricane Irma victims need your help](http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2017\/09\/07\/world\/iyw-help-for-hurricane-irma-victims\/index.html)\n\n## Southeastern US bracing for storm’s arrival\nSome computer models show Irma nearing Florida’s southern and east coasts by Sunday, and potentially threatening Georgia and South Carolina later. Florida officials are [ordering some evacuations](http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2017\/09\/06\/us\/hurricane-irma-evacuation-florida\/index.html) and shutting down schools.\n\n![](https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/plots.jpg?q=w_256,c_fill)\n\nMany Floridians spent Thursday stocking up on food or making plans to head inland. Video from [CNN affiliate WSVN](http:\/\/wsvn.com\/news\/local\/hurricane-watch-issued-for-south-florida\/) showed Miami International Airport crowded with people waiting to leave the area.\n\nMiami resident Ashley Hahn was at a beach Thursday with her 4-year-old daughter, saying they were taking a final few dips before fleeing the storm.\n\n“It is chaotic with the lines and gasoline and waiting for water – you kind of need a break,” she said.\n\n“We are probably going to head north, just to be safe. I went through [(1992’s Hurricane) Andrew](http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2013\/05\/31\/world\/americas\/hurricane-statistics-fast-facts\/index.html) as a child, and … I have seen videos of destruction and everything that it entails. I don’t want (my daughter) to be around for that.”\n\n[![Motorists head north on US 1 in heavy traffic as Hurricane Irma continues its path in the northeast Caribbean, Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2017, in Key Largo, Fla. Hurricane Irma grew into a Category 5 storm, the most powerful seen in the Atlantic in over a decade, and roared toward islands in the northeast Caribbean Tuesday on a path that could eventually take it to the United States. (AP Photo\/Alan Diaz)](https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/170906104220-01-irma-fl-evacuation-0905.jpg?q=x_3,y_0,h_1684,w_2993,c_crop\/h_144,w_256) Motorists head north on US 1 in heavy traffic as Hurricane Irma continues its path in the northeast Caribbean, Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2017, in Key Largo, Fla. Hurricane Irma grew into a Category 5 storm, the most powerful seen in the Atlantic in over a decade, and roared toward islands in the northeast Caribbean Tuesday on a path that could eventually take it to the United States. (AP Photo\/Alan Diaz) Alan Diaz\/AP Related article Florida preps for mass evacuations, braces for possible gridlock](https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2017\/09\/06\/us\/hurricane-irma-evacuation-florida\/index.html)\n\nMonroe County administrator Roman Gastesi stressed to residents in the Keys they need to heed the evacuation order and leave.\n\n“You might as well leave now, while you have a chance, because when you dial 911, you will not get an answer,” he said.\n\nFlorida is not the only state preparing for possible impact.\n\nGeorgia’s Gov. Deal declared a state of emergency for 30 counties. North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper and South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster also declared states of emergency.\n\n## Turks and Caicos, Bahamas in Irma’s path\nIrma was bringing heavy rain and powerful winds to the low-lying Turks and Caicos Islands on Thursday. Residents were told to stay put.\n\n“It’s hunker down. Stay where you are. Because you can’t go out, because the winds are just far, far too strong,” Gov. John Freeman told CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360˚.”\n\nThe governor said the hospital on Grand Turk Island was among 15 buildings that had roof damage or loss.\n\n[![Picture shows the damages of Hurricane Irma, in St. Martin on September 6. ](https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/170908141948-03-irma-st-martin-0907-restricted.jpg?q=x_3,y_0,h_1617,w_2873,c_crop\/h_144,w_256) 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\nStorm surges could reach up to 20 feet, the National Hurricane Center says – twice as high as some of the islands’ elevations.\n\n“Some of these Turks and Caicos (Islands) will be completely overwashed,” CNN meteorologist Chad Myers said.\n\nThe Turks and Caicos are a British overseas territory with about 35,000 people. Officials there are “working intensively on disaster preparedness and response … (and) liaising with their counterparts in the Cayman Islands for assistance,” UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office Minister Alan Duncan said Thursday.\n\nThe Bahamas, a nation of about 390,000, ordered evacuations 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\nCapt. Stephen Russell of the Bahamas National Emergency Management Agency said the concern was over the power of the storm surge and the potential it will have catastrophic results.\n\n## Trail of destruction\nIrma’s eye passed directly over Barbuda on Wednesday, leaving the small island’s 1,800 residents largely incommunicado for hours because it knocked over the telecommunications system and cell towers.\n\nAbout 95% of the buildings in Barbuda, one of two major islands in the nation of Antigua and Barbuda, are damaged, Browne said.\n\n“It looks like (a) garbage disposal,” Marlon Carr, a photographer who toured the island with the Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda, told CNN on Thursday. “There was rubble and roof galvanized all over the island. It looked like some of the houses … were imploded on.”\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:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/170907120822-irma-damage-st-maarten.jpg?q=x_1202,y_668,h_982,w_1745,c_crop\/w_1280)\n\nVideo Ad Feedback\n\nWrath of Hurricane Irma on the Caribbean\n\n01:34   • Source: [CNN](https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/)\n\nWrath of Hurricane Irma on the Caribbean\n\n01:34\n\nWitnesses told him of “40-foot containers flying, animals flying” during the storm. Some spoke of taking shelter in bathrooms as their homes were torn apart.\n\nBrowne estimated the damage will cost \\$100 million to rebuild.\n\nIn St. Thomas in the US Virgin Islands, Kelsey Nowakowski posted images to Instagram of the aftermath there.\n\n> > [View this post on Instagram](https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BYuJOHtg_2t\/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading)\n> > \n> > [A post shared by Kelsey Nowakowski (@kelseynowa)](https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BYuJOHtg_2t\/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading)\n\n“This doesn’t look like it was ever a tropical paradise. It looks like an eerie fairytale forest,” she said in her post.\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\nIn Puerto Rico, about 56,680 customers were without water, with the island’s northeast hit the hardest, according to Jesus Poupart of the emergency operations center. Emergency officials are still taking in reports to determine the extent of the damage.\n\nIn the beachside area of Piñones near San Juan, Irma tore the roof off Cristian López’s fried-food restaurant. He said he wouldn’t be able to reopen the place for about five days.\n\n“At least we are all alive,” he said.\n\n\nIn the northeast city of Fajardo, authorities conducted at least 10 rescues, an emergency dispatcher there told CNN. Of those, five were from flooded homes, two of people trapped in vehicles, and three who were trapped in an elevator, the dispatcher said.\n\n*This story has been updated to reflect a change in the death toll. The French government revised its count of the number of deaths attributed to Irma in the French Caribbean from eight to four.*\n\n*Are you affected by Irma? 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Recovery along the island chain continues after Hurricane Irma made landfall on Sunday as a Category 4 hurricane then. 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The warning extends from Jupiter Inlet on the east coast of the state, southward around the Florida Peninsula to Bonita Beach on the west coast. The warning included the Florida Keys, Lake Okeechobee, and Florida Bay. The same area had previously been under a hurricane watch.\n\n**\\[Story last published 10:51 p.m. ET\\]**\n\nConditions in the Turks and Caicos deteriorated Thursday as deadly and massive [Hurricane Irma](http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/specials\/hurricane-irma\/) moved in on the islands – and continued tracking toward South Florida where it could slam Miami this weekend.\n\n“It has become more likely that Irma will make landfall in southern Florida as a dangerous major hurricane, and bring life-threatening storm surge and wind impacts to much of the state,” the National Hurricane Center said Thursday.\n\nThe hurricane center forecast moved the most likely path of the eye of the storm to the west in its 5 p.m. ET advisory.\n\n“It looks like it’s shifting, even though it may be just 20 miles, it puts Miami right in the worst possible position,” CNN meteorologist Tom Sater said.\n\n“Because when you look at the formidable storm, the strongest winds, the strongest storm surge, the bands of heavy rain are always in that north, northeastern quadrant.”\n\nBut Sater cautioned that some models show the storm farther west and some farther east. It is still more than 600 miles from Florida.\n\nIrma, a [Category 5 storm](http:\/\/www.nhc.noaa.gov\/aboutsshws.php) churning in the Atlantic with 175 mph sustained winds, killed at least 10 people on Wednesday as it devastated small northeastern Caribbean islands such as Barbuda and left hundreds of thousands of customers in Puerto Rico without power.\n\n“Regardless of which (Florida) coast you live on, be prepared to evacuate,” Florida Gov. Rick Scott said Thursday at a news conference, with forecasters warning the storm could reach South Florida by Sunday.\n\n![](https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/track.jpg?q=w_256,c_fill)\n\n[Complete coverage of Hurricane Irma](http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/specials\/hurricane-irma\/)\n\nMandatory evacuations have been issued for many counties in South Florida, but Scott said others in Florida need to watch Irma’s path and be ready to move.\n\n“This is not a storm you can sit and wait through,” he said. He added later: “You don’t have to drive hundreds of miles or leave the state to be safe. Go to shelters.”\n\nGeorgia, too, is ordering coastal evacuations. People in the Savannah area and everywhere along the coast east of Interstate 95 – including Brunswick and St. Simons Island – are ordered to leave, starting Saturday, [Gov. Nathan Deal said](https:\/\/gov.georgia.gov\/press-releases\/2017-09-07\/deal-expands-state-emergency-24-additional-counties).\n\nIrma still was battering the mountainous, northern parts of Haiti and the Dominican Republic on Thursday afternoon. It could dump up to 15 inches of rain there – an amount that could trigger dangerous flooding and mudslides, the US National Hurricane Center said.\n\n[Hurricane Irma: Live updates](http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2017\/09\/07\/us\/hurricane-irma-florida-latest\/index.html)\n\nMeanwhile, the northeastern Caribbean islands just hit by Irma are anxiously watching Hurricane Jose to the east. On Thursday, Antigua and Barbuda issued a [hurricane watch for Jose](http:\/\/www.nhc.noaa.gov\/text\/refresh\/MIATCPAT2+shtml\/071449.shtml), which could pass close to those islands Saturday. Prime Minister Gaston Browne said the government has called for voluntary evacuations from Barbuda.\n\nIrma left at least 10 people dead Wednesday, including four on St. Martin, four in the US Virgin Islands, one on Anguilla, and one on Barbuda, officials said. The latter is barely habitable, with nearly all its buildings damaged, Browne said.\n\nJose became the third major hurricane of the Atlantic basin season on Thursday, with winds of 120 mph, according to the National Hurricane Center. The Category 3 storm is about 625 miles east-southeast of Antigua.\n\n– Around 8 p.m. ET, Irma’s center was about 55 miles west-southwest of Grand Turk Island, moving west-northwest with maximum sustained winds of 175 mph. Hurricane-force winds could be felt as far as 70 miles from the center. Irma previously had winds over 180 mph, keeping those speeds longer than any storm ever recorded in the Atlantic basin.\n\n– Irma could cross the southeastern Bahamas on Thursday evening and be near the central Bahamas on Friday.\n\n– Hurricane warnings are in effect for parts of Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, the Turks and Caicos Islands, and the southeastern, central and northwestern Bahamas.\n\n– A hurricane watch has been issued for Jupiter Inlet on Florida’s east coast to Bonita Beach on the west coast. It includes the Florida Keys to Lake Okeechobee.\n\n– Gov. Scott said Thursday he has directed Florida law enforcement to escort gas trucks to gas stations in an attempt to address reported fuel shortages. “We know fuel is very important” as people prepare to evacuate inland, he said. “While we’re making progress, you will see lines and outages, unfortunately.”\n\n– [Irma is one of three active hurricanes in the Atlantic basin](http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2017\/09\/06\/americas\/three-hurricanes-atlantic-basin\/index.html) – the last time this happened was in 2010.\n\n![An aerial view shows the damage that Hurricane Irma left on the Dutch side of the island of St. Martin.](https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/170907120822-irma-damage-st-maarten.jpg?q=w_1110,c_fill)\n\n[Hurricane Irma victims need your help](http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2017\/09\/07\/world\/iyw-help-for-hurricane-irma-victims\/index.html)\n\nSome computer models show Irma nearing Florida’s southern and east coasts by Sunday, and potentially threatening Georgia and South Carolina later. Florida officials are [ordering some evacuations](http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2017\/09\/06\/us\/hurricane-irma-evacuation-florida\/index.html) and shutting down schools.\n\n![](https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/plots.jpg?q=w_256,c_fill)\n\nMany Floridians spent Thursday stocking up on food or making plans to head inland. Video from [CNN affiliate WSVN](http:\/\/wsvn.com\/news\/local\/hurricane-watch-issued-for-south-florida\/) showed Miami International Airport crowded with people waiting to leave the area.\n\nMiami resident Ashley Hahn was at a beach Thursday with her 4-year-old daughter, saying they were taking a final few dips before fleeing the storm.\n\n“It is chaotic with the lines and gasoline and waiting for water – you kind of need a break,” she said.\n\n“We are probably going to head north, just to be safe. I went through [(1992’s Hurricane) Andrew](http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2013\/05\/31\/world\/americas\/hurricane-statistics-fast-facts\/index.html) as a child, and … I have seen videos of destruction and everything that it entails. I don’t want (my daughter) to be around for that.”\n\nMonroe County administrator Roman Gastesi stressed to residents in the Keys they need to heed the evacuation order and leave.\n\n“You might as well leave now, while you have a chance, because when you dial 911, you will not get an answer,” he said.\n\nFlorida is not the only state preparing for possible impact.\n\nGeorgia’s Gov. Deal declared a state of emergency for 30 counties. North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper and South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster also declared states of emergency.\n\n## Turks and Caicos, Bahamas in Irma’s path\nIrma was bringing heavy rain and powerful winds to the low-lying Turks and Caicos Islands on Thursday. Residents were told to stay put.\n\n“It’s hunker down. Stay where you are. Because you can’t go out, because the winds are just far, far too strong,” Gov. John Freeman told CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360˚.”\n\nThe governor said the hospital on Grand Turk Island was among 15 buildings that had roof damage or loss.\n\nStorm surges could reach up to 20 feet, the National Hurricane Center says – twice as high as some of the islands’ elevations.\n\n“Some of these Turks and Caicos (Islands) will be completely overwashed,” CNN meteorologist Chad Myers said.\n\nThe Turks and Caicos are a British overseas territory with about 35,000 people. Officials there are “working intensively on disaster preparedness and response … (and) liaising with their counterparts in the Cayman Islands for assistance,” UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office Minister Alan Duncan said Thursday.\n\nThe Bahamas, a nation of about 390,000, ordered evacuations 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\nCapt. Stephen Russell of the Bahamas National Emergency Management Agency said the concern was over the power of the storm surge and the potential it will have catastrophic results.\n\nIrma’s eye passed directly over Barbuda on Wednesday, leaving the small island’s 1,800 residents largely incommunicado for hours because it knocked over the telecommunications system and cell towers.\n\nAbout 95% of the buildings in Barbuda, one of two major islands in the nation of Antigua and Barbuda, are damaged, Browne said.\n\n“It looks like (a) garbage disposal,” Marlon Carr, a photographer who toured the island with the Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda, told CNN on Thursday. “There was rubble and roof galvanized all over the island. It looked like some of the houses … were imploded on.”\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:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/170907120822-irma-damage-st-maarten.jpg?q=x_1202,y_668,h_982,w_1745,c_crop\/w_1280)\n\nVideo Ad Feedback\n\nWrath of Hurricane Irma on the Caribbean\n\n01:34   • Source: [CNN](https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/)\n\nWrath of Hurricane Irma on the Caribbean\n\n01:34\n\nWitnesses told him of “40-foot containers flying, animals flying” during the storm. Some spoke of taking shelter in bathrooms as their homes were torn apart.\n\nBrowne estimated the damage will cost \\$100 million to rebuild.\n\nIn St. Thomas in the US Virgin Islands, Kelsey Nowakowski posted images to Instagram of the aftermath there.\n\n“This doesn’t look like it was ever a tropical paradise. It looks like an eerie fairytale forest,” she said in her post.\n\nIn Puerto Rico, about 56,680 customers were without water, with the island’s northeast hit the hardest, according to Jesus Poupart of the emergency operations center. Emergency officials are still taking in reports to determine the extent of the damage.\n\nIn the beachside area of Piñones near San Juan, Irma tore the roof off Cristian López’s fried-food restaurant. He said he wouldn’t be able to reopen the place for about five days.\n\n“At least we are all alive,” he said.\n\nIn the northeast city of Fajardo, authorities conducted at least 10 rescues, an emergency dispatcher there told CNN. 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The warning extends from Jupiter Inlet on the east coast of the state, southward around the Florida Peninsula to Bonita Beach on the west coast. The warning included the Florida Keys, Lake Okeechobee, and Florida Bay. The same area had previously been under a hurricane watch. [Story last published 10:51 p.m. ET] Conditions in the Turks and Caicos deteriorated Thursday as deadly and massive Hurricane Irma moved in on the islands – and continued tracking toward South Florida where it could slam Miami this weekend. “It has become more likely that Irma will make landfall in southern Florida as a dangerous major hurricane, and bring life-threatening storm surge and wind impacts to much of the state,” the National Hurricane Center said Thursday. The hurricane center forecast moved the most likely path of the eye of the storm to the west in its 5 p.m. ET advisory. “It looks like it’s shifting, even though it may be just 20 miles, it puts Miami right in the worst possible position,” CNN meteorologist Tom Sater said. “Because when you look at the formidable storm, the strongest winds, the strongest storm surge, the bands of heavy rain are always in that north, northeastern quadrant.” But Sater cautioned that some models show the storm farther west and some farther east. It is still more than 600 miles from Florida. Irma, a Category 5 storm churning in the Atlantic with 175 mph sustained winds, killed at least 10 people on Wednesday as it devastated small northeastern Caribbean islands such as Barbuda and left hundreds of thousands of customers in Puerto Rico without power. “Regardless of which (Florida) coast you live on, be prepared to evacuate,” Florida Gov. Rick Scott said Thursday at a news conference, with forecasters warning the storm could reach South Florida by Sunday. Complete coverage of Hurricane Irma Mandatory evacuations have been issued for many counties in South Florida, but Scott said others in Florida need to watch Irma’s path and be ready to move. “This is not a storm you can sit and wait through,” he said. He added later: “You don’t have to drive hundreds of miles or leave the state to be safe. Go to shelters.” Georgia, too, is ordering coastal evacuations. People in the Savannah area and everywhere along the coast east of Interstate 95 – including Brunswick and St. Simons Island – are ordered to leave, starting Saturday, Gov. Nathan Deal said . Irma still was battering the mountainous, northern parts of Haiti and the Dominican Republic on Thursday afternoon. It could dump up to 15 inches of rain there – an amount that could trigger dangerous flooding and mudslides, the US National Hurricane Center said. Hurricane Irma: Live updates Meanwhile, the northeastern Caribbean islands just hit by Irma are anxiously watching Hurricane Jose to the east. On Thursday, Antigua and Barbuda issued a hurricane watch for Jose , which could pass close to those islands Saturday. Prime Minister Gaston Browne said the government has called for voluntary evacuations from Barbuda. Irma left at least 10 people dead Wednesday, including four on St. Martin, four in the US Virgin Islands, one on Anguilla, and one on Barbuda, officials said. The latter is barely habitable, with nearly all its buildings damaged, Browne said. Jose became the third major hurricane of the Atlantic basin season on Thursday, with winds of 120 mph, according to the National Hurricane Center. The Category 3 storm is about 625 miles east-southeast of Antigua. – Around 8 p.m. ET, Irma’s center was about 55 miles west-southwest of Grand Turk Island, moving west-northwest with maximum sustained winds of 175 mph. Hurricane-force winds could be felt as far as 70 miles from the center. Irma previously had winds over 180 mph, keeping those speeds longer than any storm ever recorded in the Atlantic basin. – Irma could cross the southeastern Bahamas on Thursday evening and be near the central Bahamas on Friday. – Hurricane warnings are in effect for parts of Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, the Turks and Caicos Islands, and the southeastern, central and northwestern Bahamas. – A hurricane watch has been issued for Jupiter Inlet on Florida’s east coast to Bonita Beach on the west coast. It includes the Florida Keys to Lake Okeechobee. – Gov. Scott said Thursday he has directed Florida law enforcement to escort gas trucks to gas stations in an attempt to address reported fuel shortages. “We know fuel is very important” as people prepare to evacuate inland, he said. “While we’re making progress, you will see lines and outages, unfortunately.” – Irma is one of three active hurricanes in the Atlantic basin – the last time this happened was in 2010. Hurricane Irma victims need your help Some computer models show Irma nearing Florida’s southern and east coasts by Sunday, and potentially threatening Georgia and South Carolina later. Florida officials are ordering some evacuations and shutting down schools. Many Floridians spent Thursday stocking up on food or making plans to head inland. Video from CNN affiliate WSVN showed Miami International Airport crowded with people waiting to leave the area. Miami resident Ashley Hahn was at a beach Thursday with her 4-year-old daughter, saying they were taking a final few dips before fleeing the storm. “It is chaotic with the lines and gasoline and waiting for water – you kind of need a break,” she said. “We are probably going to head north, just to be safe. I went through (1992’s Hurricane) Andrew as a child, and … I have seen videos of destruction and everything that it entails. I don’t want (my daughter) to be around for that.” Monroe County administrator Roman Gastesi stressed to residents in the Keys they need to heed the evacuation order and leave. “You might as well leave now, while you have a chance, because when you dial 911, you will not get an answer,” he said. Florida is not the only state preparing for possible impact. Georgia’s Gov. Deal declared a state of emergency for 30 counties. North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper and South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster also declared states of emergency. Turks and Caicos, Bahamas in Irma’s path Irma was bringing heavy rain and powerful winds to the low-lying Turks and Caicos Islands on Thursday. Residents were told to stay put. “It’s hunker down. Stay where you are. Because you can’t go out, because the winds are just far, far too strong,” Gov. John Freeman told CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360˚.” The governor said the hospital on Grand Turk Island was among 15 buildings that had roof damage or loss. Storm surges could reach up to 20 feet, the National Hurricane Center says – twice as high as some of the islands’ elevations. “Some of these Turks and Caicos (Islands) will be completely overwashed,” CNN meteorologist Chad Myers said. The Turks and Caicos are a British overseas territory with about 35,000 people. Officials there are “working intensively on disaster preparedness and response … (and) liaising with their counterparts in the Cayman Islands for assistance,” UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office Minister Alan Duncan said Thursday. The Bahamas, a nation of about 390,000, ordered evacuations 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. Capt. Stephen Russell of the Bahamas National Emergency Management Agency said the concern was over the power of the storm surge and the potential it will have catastrophic results. Irma’s eye passed directly over Barbuda on Wednesday, leaving the small island’s 1,800 residents largely incommunicado for hours because it knocked over the telecommunications system and cell towers. About 95% of the buildings in Barbuda, one of two major islands in the nation of Antigua and Barbuda, are damaged, Browne said. “It looks like (a) garbage disposal,” Marlon Carr, a photographer who toured the island with the Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda, told CNN on Thursday. “There was rubble and roof galvanized all over the island. It looked like some of the houses … were imploded on.” Video Ad Feedback Wrath of Hurricane Irma on the Caribbean 01:34 • Source: CNN Wrath of Hurricane Irma on the Caribbean 01:34 Witnesses told him of “40-foot containers flying, animals flying” during the storm. Some spoke of taking shelter in bathrooms as their homes were torn apart. Browne estimated the damage will cost $100 million to rebuild. In St. Thomas in the US Virgin Islands, Kelsey Nowakowski posted images to Instagram of the aftermath there. “This doesn’t look like it was ever a tropical paradise. It looks like an eerie fairytale forest,” she said in her post. In Puerto Rico, about 56,680 customers were without water, with the island’s northeast hit the hardest, according to Jesus Poupart of the emergency operations center. Emergency officials are still taking in reports to determine the extent of the damage. In the beachside area of Piñones near San Juan, Irma tore the roof off Cristian López’s fried-food restaurant. He said he wouldn’t be able to reopen the place for about five days. “At least we are all alive,” he said. In the northeast city of Fajardo, authorities conducted at least 10 rescues, an emergency dispatcher there told CNN. Of those, five were from flooded homes, two of people trapped in vehicles, and three who were trapped in an elevator, the dispatcher said. This story has been updated to reflect a change in the death toll. The French government revised its count of the number of deaths attributed to Irma in the French Caribbean from eight to four. Are you affected by Irma? Text, iMessage or WhatsApp your videos, photos and stories to CNN: +1 347-322-0415. CNN’s Eric Levenson, Joseph Netto, Alba Prifti, Judson Jones, Marilia Brocchetto, Khushbu Shah, Rosa Flores and Paul Murphy contributed to this report. Ad Feedback Ad Feedback Ad Feedback Ad Feedback Ad Feedback Scan the QR code to download the CNN app on Google Play. Scan the QR code to download the CNN app from the Apple Store.
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SEPTEMBER 11: The Sunrise Motel remains flooded after Hurricane Irma hit the area on September 11, 2017 in East Naples, Florida. 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Recovery along the island chain continues after Hurricane Irma made landfall on Sunday as a Category 4 hurricane then. 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The warning extends from Jupiter Inlet on the east coast of the state, southward around the Florida Peninsula to Bonita Beach on the west coast. The warning included the Florida Keys, Lake Okeechobee, and Florida Bay. The same area had previously been under a hurricane watch. \[Story last published 10:51 p.m. ET\]** Conditions in the Turks and Caicos deteriorated Thursday as deadly and massive [Hurricane Irma](http://www.cnn.com/specials/hurricane-irma/) moved in on the islands – and continued tracking toward South Florida where it could slam Miami this weekend. “It has become more likely that Irma will make landfall in southern Florida as a dangerous major hurricane, and bring life-threatening storm surge and wind impacts to much of the state,” the National Hurricane Center said Thursday. The hurricane center forecast moved the most likely path of the eye of the storm to the west in its 5 p.m. ET advisory. “It looks like it’s shifting, even though it may be just 20 miles, it puts Miami right in the worst possible position,” CNN meteorologist Tom Sater said. “Because when you look at the formidable storm, the strongest winds, the strongest storm surge, the bands of heavy rain are always in that north, northeastern quadrant.” But Sater cautioned that some models show the storm farther west and some farther east. It is still more than 600 miles from Florida. Irma, a [Category 5 storm](http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/aboutsshws.php) churning in the Atlantic with 175 mph sustained winds, killed at least 10 people on Wednesday as it devastated small northeastern Caribbean islands such as Barbuda and left hundreds of thousands of customers in Puerto Rico without power. “Regardless of which (Florida) coast you live on, be prepared to evacuate,” Florida Gov. Rick Scott said Thursday at a news conference, with forecasters warning the storm could reach South Florida by Sunday. ![](https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/track.jpg?q=w_256,c_fill) [Complete coverage of Hurricane Irma](http://www.cnn.com/specials/hurricane-irma/) Mandatory evacuations have been issued for many counties in South Florida, but Scott said others in Florida need to watch Irma’s path and be ready to move. “This is not a storm you can sit and wait through,” he said. He added later: “You don’t have to drive hundreds of miles or leave the state to be safe. Go to shelters.” Georgia, too, is ordering coastal evacuations. People in the Savannah area and everywhere along the coast east of Interstate 95 – including Brunswick and St. Simons Island – are ordered to leave, starting Saturday, [Gov. Nathan Deal said](https://gov.georgia.gov/press-releases/2017-09-07/deal-expands-state-emergency-24-additional-counties). Irma still was battering the mountainous, northern parts of Haiti and the Dominican Republic on Thursday afternoon. It could dump up to 15 inches of rain there – an amount that could trigger dangerous flooding and mudslides, the US National Hurricane Center said. [Hurricane Irma: Live updates](http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/07/us/hurricane-irma-florida-latest/index.html) ![Carmelo Mota, a builder, searches for tools in his destroyed home in Charlotte Amalie, US Virgin Islands, on Monday, September 18. Hurricane Irma devastated the US territory and other Caribbean islands in the region, leaving them exposed to new storms brewing in the Atlantic.](https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/170919121108-01-irma-aftermath-us-virgin-islands-0918.jpg?q=w_3000,h_2000,x_0,y_0,c_fill/h_447) Carmelo Mota, a builder, searches for tools in his destroyed home in Charlotte Amalie, US Virgin Islands, on Monday, September 18. Hurricane Irma devastated the US territory and other Caribbean islands in the region, leaving them exposed to new storms brewing in the Atlantic. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images ![An aerial photo shows the devastation in Road Town, the capital of Tortola, the largest and most populated of the British Virgin Islands, on Wednesday, September 13.](https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/170913215123-irma-carribean-0913-tortola-restricted.jpg?q=w_3600,h_2400,x_0,y_0,c_fill/h_447) An aerial photo shows the devastation in Road Town, the capital of Tortola, the largest and most populated of the British Virgin Islands, on Wednesday, September 13. Joel Rouse/MOD/ROYAL NAVY/EPA ![UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson talks to a resident of Anguilla during a visit on September 13. ](https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/170913215611-02-irma-caribbean-0913-british-virgin-islands-restricted.jpg?q=w_4921,h_3279,x_0,y_0,c_fill/h_447) UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson talks to a resident of Anguilla during a visit on September 13. Andrew Parsons/Cal Sport Media/Zuma Press ![People collect food that was delivered by emergency workers in the Sandy Ground area of Marigot, St. Martin, on Tuesday, September 12.](https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/170913132506-04-irma-st-martin-0912.jpg?q=w_3000,h_2000,x_0,y_0,c_fill/h_447) People collect food that was delivered by emergency workers in the Sandy Ground area of Marigot, St. Martin, on Tuesday, September 12. MARTIN BUREAU/AFP/Getty Images ![Buildings are destroyed in St. Martin on September 12.](https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/170913132621-05-irma-st-martin-0912.jpg?q=w_3000,h_2000,x_0,y_0,c_fill/h_447) Buildings are destroyed in St. Martin on September 12. CHRISTOPHE ENA/AFP/Getty Images ![French President Emmanuel Macron shakes hands with St. Martin residents during a visit to the island on September 12.](https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/170913132155-02-irma-st-martin-0912-macron.jpg?q=w_3000,h_2000,x_0,y_0,c_fill/h_447) French President Emmanuel Macron shakes hands with St. Martin residents during a visit to the island on September 12. CHRISTOPHE ENA/AFP/Getty Images ![French soldiers patrol St. Martin on September 12.](https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/170913132009-01-irma-st-martin-0912.jpg?q=w_3000,h_2000,x_0,y_0,c_fill/h_447) French soldiers patrol St. Martin on September 12. MARTIN BUREAU/AFP/Getty Images ![A person works to clean up a street September 12 after Hurricane Irma flooded parts of Havana, Cuba.](https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/170913132316-01-irma-cuba-0912.jpg?q=w_3000,h_1920,x_0,y_0,c_fill/h_447) A person works to clean up a street September 12 after Hurricane Irma flooded parts of Havana, Cuba. YAMIL LAGE/AFP/Getty Images ![A man makes repairs in Havana on September 12.](https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/170913133345-02-irma-cuba-0912.jpg?q=w_3000,h_1996,x_0,y_0,c_fill/h_447) A man makes repairs in Havana on September 12. YAMIL LAGE/AFP/Getty Images ![This Marigot church was among the buildings destroyed in the storm.](https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/170913133610-01-irma-st-maarten-0912.jpg?q=w_3000,h_2000,x_0,y_0,c_fill/h_447) This Marigot church was among the buildings destroyed in the storm. Jose Jimenez/Getty Images ![Cubans affected by Hurricane Irma line up to collect drinking water in Isabela de Sagua, Cuba, on Monday, September 11. ](https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/170912130824-03-irma-cuba-0911.jpg?q=w_3000,h_2001,x_0,y_0,c_fill/h_447) Cubans affected by Hurricane Irma line up to collect drinking water in Isabela de Sagua, Cuba, on Monday, September 11. Ramon Espinosa/AP ![Dutch King Willem-Alexander, front right, tours damage in St. Maarten on September 11. ](https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/170912132319-02-irma-st-maarten-0911.jpg?q=w_3000,h_2000,x_0,y_0,c_fill/h_447) Dutch King Willem-Alexander, front right, tours damage in St. Maarten on September 11. VINCENT JANNINK/AFP/Getty Images ![A palm tree sticks out of a pool on the French side of St. Martin on September 11.](https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/170912131757-04-irma-st-martin-0911-restricted.jpg?q=w_3000,h_2000,x_0,y_0,c_fill/h_447) A palm tree sticks out of a pool on the French side of St. Martin on September 11. Aurelien Morissard/IP3/Getty Images ![A woman stands next to her water-logged belongings that had been laid out to dry in front of her home in Isabela de Sagua on September 11.](https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/170912130528-01-irma-cuba-0911.jpg?q=w_3000,h_2001,x_0,y_0,c_fill/h_447) A woman stands next to her water-logged belongings that had been laid out to dry in front of her home in Isabela de Sagua on September 11. Ramon Espinosa/AP ![People line up for supplies in St. Martin on September 11.](https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/170912131937-05-irma-st-martin-0911-restricted.jpg?q=w_3000,h_2000,x_0,y_0,c_fill/h_447) People line up for supplies in St. Martin on September 11. Aurelien Morissard/IP3/Getty Images ![The skeleton of a boat drifts in St. Martin's Simpson Bay on September 11.](https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/170912124252-01-irma-st-maarten-0911.jpg?q=w_3000,h_2000,x_0,y_0,c_fill/h_447) The skeleton of a boat drifts in St. Martin's Simpson Bay on September 11. Jose Jimenez/Getty Images ![People salvage material from the remains of a house in Isabela de Sagua on September 11.](https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/170912130752-02-irma-cuba-0911.jpg?q=w_3000,h_2001,x_0,y_0,c_fill/h_447) People salvage material from the remains of a house in Isabela de Sagua on September 11. Ramon Espinosa/AP ![Members of the British Army provide support on Tortola, one of the British Virgin Islands.](https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/170912123838-01-irma-british-virgin-islands-0912.jpg?q=w_3000,h_2000,x_0,y_0,c_fill/h_447) Members of the British Army provide support on Tortola, one of the British Virgin Islands. Joel Rouse/MOD/AP ![A woman carries a dog at an airport checkpoint in St. Martin on September 11.](https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/170912131021-03-irma-st-martin-0911.jpg?q=w_3000,h_1996,x_0,y_0,c_fill/h_447) A woman carries a dog at an airport checkpoint in St. Martin on September 11. Carlos Giusti/AP ![People wade through a flooded street as a wave crashes in Havana on Sunday, September 10.](https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/170911104650-05-irma-cuba-0910.jpg?q=w_3000,h_1889,x_0,y_0,c_fill/h_447) People wade through a flooded street as a wave crashes in Havana on Sunday, September 10. YAMIL LAGE/AFP/Getty Images ![Two men search through the rubble of their St. Martin restaurant on September 10.](https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/170911105649-01-irma-st-martin-0910.jpg?q=w_3000,h_2000,x_0,y_0,c_fill/h_447) Two men search through the rubble of their St. Martin restaurant on September 10. MARTIN BUREAU/AFP/Getty Images ![People make their way through debris in the Cojimar neighborhood of Havana on September 10.](https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/170911155548-08-irma-cuba-0910.jpg?q=w_3000,h_2009,x_0,y_0,c_fill/h_447) People make their way through debris in the Cojimar neighborhood of Havana on September 10. YAMIL LAGE/AFP/Getty Images ![People board a plane leaving St. Martin on September 10.](https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/170911105827-02-irma-st-martin-0910.jpg?q=w_3000,h_2000,x_0,y_0,c_fill/h_447) People board a plane leaving St. Martin on September 10. MARTIN BUREAU/AFP/Getty Images ![A man wades through a flooded street in Havana on September 10.](https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/170910113946-01-irma-cuba-0910.jpg?q=w_3000,h_1688,x_0,y_0,c_fill/h_447) A man wades through a flooded street in Havana on September 10. Yamil Lage/AFP/Getty Images ![An overview of Havana shows flooded streets on Saturday, September 9.](https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/170910130527-09-irma-cuba-0909.jpg?q=w_3000,h_1888,x_0,y_0,c_fill/h_447) An overview of Havana shows flooded streets on Saturday, September 9. YAMIL LAGE/AFP/Getty Images ![A woman surveys flooding in Havana on September 9. ](https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/170910123451-08-irma-cuba-0909.jpg?q=w_3000,h_1688,x_0,y_0,c_fill/h_447) A woman surveys flooding in Havana on September 9. YAMIL LAGE/AFP/Getty Images ![A boat rests in a cemetery after Irma tore through Marigot, St. Martin.](https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/170910131148-02-irma-st-martin-0909.jpg?q=w_3000,h_2000,x_0,y_0,c_fill/h_447) A boat rests in a cemetery after Irma tore through Marigot, St. Martin. MARTIN BUREAU/AFP/Getty Images ![Residents return home after Irma passed through Caibarien, Cuba, on September 9.](https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/170909174358-03-irma-cuba-0909.jpg?q=w_4000,h_2250,x_0,y_0,c_fill/h_447) Residents return home after Irma passed through Caibarien, Cuba, on September 9. ADALBERTO ROQUE/AFP/Getty Images ![A man walks in Caibarien on September 9. ](https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/170909174356-02-irma-cuba-0909.jpg?q=w_3640,h_2047,x_0,y_0,c_fill/h_447) A man walks in Caibarien on September 9. ADALBERTO ROQUE/AFP/Getty Images ![A man carries a child through a flooded street in Fort-Liberte, Haiti, on Friday, September 8.](https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/170908150745-01-irma-haiti-0908.jpg?q=w_3000,h_1997,x_0,y_0,c_fill/h_447) A man carries a child through a flooded street in Fort-Liberte, Haiti, on Friday, September 8. HECTOR RETAMAL/AFP/Getty Images ![A man walks on a St. Martin street covered in debris on September 8.](https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/170909090340-16-irma-st-martin-0908.jpg?q=w_2129,h_1198,x_0,y_0,c_fill/h_447) A man walks on a St. Martin street covered in debris on September 8. MARTIN BUREAU/AFP/Getty Images ![A damaged home is tilted onto its side on the Puerto Rican island of Culebra on Thursday, September 7.](https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/170908192405-irma-puerto-rico-0907.jpg?q=w_3000,h_1688,x_0,y_0,c_fill/h_447) A damaged home is tilted onto its side on the Puerto Rican island of Culebra on Thursday, September 7. Carlos Giusti/AP ![A home is surrounded by debris in Nagua, Dominican Republic, on September 7.](https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/170908192802-05-irma-dominican-republic-0907.jpg?q=w_3000,h_1688,x_0,y_0,c_fill/h_447) A home is surrounded by debris in Nagua, Dominican Republic, on September 7. Tatiana Fernandez/AP ![Irma damage is seen in St. Martin's Orient Bay on September 7.](https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/170908093050-15-irma-st-martin-0907.jpg?q=w_3000,h_2003,x_0,y_0,c_fill/h_447) Irma damage is seen in St. Martin's Orient Bay on September 7. LIONEL CHAMOISEAU/AFP/Getty Images ![Employees from an electrical company work to clear a fallen tree in Sanchez, Dominican Republic.](https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/170908113928-04-irma-dominican-republic-0907.jpg?q=w_3000,h_2000,x_0,y_0,c_fill/h_447) Employees from an electrical company work to clear a fallen tree in Sanchez, Dominican Republic. Tatiana Fernandez/AP ![A woman makes her way through debris in Fajardo, Puerto Rico, on September 7.](https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/170908093932-04-irma-puerto-rico-0907.jpg?q=w_3000,h_2000,x_0,y_0,c_fill/h_447) A woman makes her way through debris in Fajardo, Puerto Rico, on September 7. RICARDO ARDUENGO/AFP/Getty Images ![In this image made from video, damaged houses are seen in St. Thomas on September 7.](https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/170908094950-07-st-thomas-irma-0907.jpg?q=w_3000,h_1731,x_0,y_0,c_fill/h_447) In this image made from video, damaged houses are seen in St. Thomas on September 7. Ian Brown/AP ![The storm left widespread destruction on the island of Barbuda on September 7.](https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/170908112123-01-irma-barbuda-0907.jpg?q=w_3000,h_1991,x_0,y_0,c_fill/h_447) The storm left widespread destruction on the island of Barbuda on September 7. Anika E. Kentish/AP ![A flattened home is seen in Nagua, Dominican Republic, on September 7.](https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/170908113734-02-irma-dominican-republic-0907.jpg?q=w_3000,h_2000,x_0,y_0,c_fill/h_447) A flattened home is seen in Nagua, Dominican Republic, on September 7. Tatiana Fernandez/AP ![Nagua residents ride through an area affected by the storm on September 7.](https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/170908113837-03-irma-dominican-republic-0907.jpg?q=w_2067,h_1378,x_0,y_0,c_fill/h_447) Nagua residents ride through an area affected by the storm on September 7. Tatiana Fernandez/AP ![Trash and debris is washed ashore in Cap-Haitien, Haiti, on September 7.](https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/170908114149-01-irma-haiti-0907.jpg?q=w_3000,h_1997,x_0,y_0,c_fill/h_447) Trash and debris is washed ashore in Cap-Haitien, Haiti, on September 7. HECTOR RETAMAL/AFP/Getty Images ![People walk through damage in Marigot, St. Martin, on September 7.](https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/170907104539-02-irma-st-martin-0907.jpg?q=w_1893,h_1262,x_0,y_0,c_fill/h_447) People walk through damage in Marigot, St. Martin, on September 7. Lionel Chamoiseau/AFP/Getty Images ![People survey damage in Marigot on September 7.](https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/170907104535-01-irma-st-martin-0907.jpg?q=w_2000,h_1125,x_0,y_0,c_fill/h_447) People survey damage in Marigot on September 7. Lionel Chamoiseau/AFP/Getty Images ![Bluebeard's Castle, a resort in St. Thomas, was hit hard by Irma. St. Thomas resident David Velez sent this photo to CNN on September 7.](https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/170907093020-02-st-thomas-irma-0907.jpg?q=w_1600,h_900,x_0,y_0,c_fill/h_447) Bluebeard's Castle, a resort in St. Thomas, was hit hard by Irma. St. Thomas resident David Velez sent this photo to CNN on September 7. Courtesy David Velez ![Irma ruined these vehicles in St. Thomas.](https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/170907093025-05-st-thomas-irma-0907.jpg?q=w_1600,h_900,x_0,y_0,c_fill/h_447) Irma ruined these vehicles in St. Thomas. Courtesy David Velez ![Waves smash into St. Martin on Wednesday, September 6.](https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/170907115102-04-irma-st-maarten-0907.jpg?q=w_3000,h_1688,x_0,y_0,c_fill/h_447) Waves smash into St. Martin on Wednesday, September 6. Gerben Van Es/Dutch Defense Ministry/Associated Press ![A man looks at a vehicle turned upside down in the British territory of Anguilla. ](https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/170908191842-irma-anguilla-0906.jpg?q=w_1600,h_900,x_0,y_0,c_fill/h_447) A man looks at a vehicle turned upside down in the British territory of Anguilla. Garson Kelsick via AP ![An aerial view of St. Martin on September 6.](https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/170907115015-03-irma-st-maarten-0907.jpg?q=w_3000,h_1687,x_0,y_0,c_fill/h_447) An aerial view of St. Martin on September 6. Gerben Van Es/Dutch Defense Ministry/Associated Press ![Damaged cars are seen on a St. Martin beach on September 6.](https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/170907140934-14-irma-st-martin-0907.jpg?q=w_1847,h_1039,x_0,y_0,c_fill/h_447) Damaged cars are seen on a St. Martin beach on September 6. Lionel Chamoiseau/AFP/Getty Images ![A boat is washed onto shore in St. Martin.](https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/170907140938-13-irma-st-martin-0907.jpg?q=w_2000,h_1125,x_0,y_0,c_fill/h_447) A boat is washed onto shore in St. Martin. Lionel Chamoiseau/AFP/Getty Images ![Cars are piled up in Marigot on September 6.](https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/170907140945-11-irma-st-martin-0907.jpg?q=w_1807,h_1017,x_0,y_0,c_fill/h_447) Cars are piled up in Marigot on September 6. Lionel Chamoiseau/AFP/Getty Images ![A man walks past damaged buildings in St. Martin on September 6.](https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/170907140941-12-irma-st-martin-0907.jpg?q=w_1628,h_916,x_0,y_0,c_fill/h_447) A man walks past damaged buildings in St. Martin on September 6. Lionel Chamoiseau/AFP/Getty Images ![A car is flipped onto its side in Marigot.](https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/170907140952-09-irma-st-martin-0907.jpg?q=w_2000,h_1125,x_0,y_0,c_fill/h_447) A car is flipped onto its side in Marigot. Lionel Chamoiseau/AFP/Getty Images ![Broken palm trees are scattered on a Marigot beach on September 6.](https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/170907140958-07-irma-st-martin-0907.jpg?q=w_2000,h_1125,x_0,y_0,c_fill/h_447) Broken palm trees are scattered on a Marigot beach on September 6. Lionel Chamoiseau/AFP/Getty Images ![Irma floods a beach in Marigot on September 6.](https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/170907140955-08-irma-st-martin-0907.jpg?q=w_2000,h_1125,x_0,y_0,c_fill/h_447) Irma floods a beach in Marigot on September 6. Lionel Chamoiseau/AFP/Getty Images ##### Hurricane Irma tears through Caribbean Prev Next Meanwhile, the northeastern Caribbean islands just hit by Irma are anxiously watching Hurricane Jose to the east. On Thursday, Antigua and Barbuda issued a [hurricane watch for Jose](http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/text/refresh/MIATCPAT2+shtml/071449.shtml), which could pass close to those islands Saturday. Prime Minister Gaston Browne said the government has called for voluntary evacuations from Barbuda. Irma left at least 10 people dead Wednesday, including four on St. Martin, four in the US Virgin Islands, one on Anguilla, and one on Barbuda, officials said. The latter is barely habitable, with nearly all its buildings damaged, Browne said. Jose became the third major hurricane of the Atlantic basin season on Thursday, with winds of 120 mph, according to the National Hurricane Center. The Category 3 storm is about 625 miles east-southeast of Antigua. ## Here are the latest developments – Around 8 p.m. ET, Irma’s center was about 55 miles west-southwest of Grand Turk Island, moving west-northwest with maximum sustained winds of 175 mph. Hurricane-force winds could be felt as far as 70 miles from the center. Irma previously had winds over 180 mph, keeping those speeds longer than any storm ever recorded in the Atlantic basin. ### [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) – Irma could cross the southeastern Bahamas on Thursday evening and be near the central Bahamas on Friday. – Hurricane warnings are in effect for parts of Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, the Turks and Caicos Islands, and the southeastern, central and northwestern Bahamas. – A hurricane watch has been issued for Jupiter Inlet on Florida’s east coast to Bonita Beach on the west coast. It includes the Florida Keys to Lake Okeechobee. – Gov. Scott said Thursday he has directed Florida law enforcement to escort gas trucks to gas stations in an attempt to address reported fuel shortages. “We know fuel is very important” as people prepare to evacuate inland, he said. “While we’re making progress, you will see lines and outages, unfortunately.” – [Irma is one of three active hurricanes in the Atlantic basin](http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/06/americas/three-hurricanes-atlantic-basin/index.html) – the last time this happened was in 2010. ![An aerial view shows the damage that Hurricane Irma left on the Dutch side of the island of St. Martin.](https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/170907120822-irma-damage-st-maarten.jpg?q=w_1110,c_fill) An aerial view shows the damage that Hurricane Irma left on the Dutch side of the island of St. Martin. GERBEN VAN ES/AFP/AFP/Getty Images [Hurricane Irma victims need your help](http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/07/world/iyw-help-for-hurricane-irma-victims/index.html) ## Southeastern US bracing for storm’s arrival Some computer models show Irma nearing Florida’s southern and east coasts by Sunday, and potentially threatening Georgia and South Carolina later. Florida officials are [ordering some evacuations](http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/06/us/hurricane-irma-evacuation-florida/index.html) and shutting down schools. ![](https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/plots.jpg?q=w_256,c_fill) Many Floridians spent Thursday stocking up on food or making plans to head inland. Video from [CNN affiliate WSVN](http://wsvn.com/news/local/hurricane-watch-issued-for-south-florida/) showed Miami International Airport crowded with people waiting to leave the area. Miami resident Ashley Hahn was at a beach Thursday with her 4-year-old daughter, saying they were taking a final few dips before fleeing the storm. “It is chaotic with the lines and gasoline and waiting for water – you kind of need a break,” she said. “We are probably going to head north, just to be safe. I went through [(1992’s Hurricane) Andrew](http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/31/world/americas/hurricane-statistics-fast-facts/index.html) as a child, and … I have seen videos of destruction and everything that it entails. I don’t want (my daughter) to be around for that.” [![Motorists head north on US 1 in heavy traffic as Hurricane Irma continues its path in the northeast Caribbean, Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2017, in Key Largo, Fla. Hurricane Irma grew into a Category 5 storm, the most powerful seen in the Atlantic in over a decade, and roared toward islands in the northeast Caribbean Tuesday on a path that could eventually take it to the United States. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)](https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/170906104220-01-irma-fl-evacuation-0905.jpg?q=x_3,y_0,h_1684,w_2993,c_crop/h_144,w_256) Motorists head north on US 1 in heavy traffic as Hurricane Irma continues its path in the northeast Caribbean, Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2017, in Key Largo, Fla. Hurricane Irma grew into a Category 5 storm, the most powerful seen in the Atlantic in over a decade, and roared toward islands in the northeast Caribbean Tuesday on a path that could eventually take it to the United States. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz) Alan Diaz/AP Related article Florida preps for mass evacuations, braces for possible gridlock](https://www.cnn.com/2017/09/06/us/hurricane-irma-evacuation-florida/index.html) Monroe County administrator Roman Gastesi stressed to residents in the Keys they need to heed the evacuation order and leave. “You might as well leave now, while you have a chance, because when you dial 911, you will not get an answer,” he said. Florida is not the only state preparing for possible impact. Georgia’s Gov. Deal declared a state of emergency for 30 counties. North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper and South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster also declared states of emergency. ## Turks and Caicos, Bahamas in Irma’s path Irma was bringing heavy rain and powerful winds to the low-lying Turks and Caicos Islands on Thursday. Residents were told to stay put. “It’s hunker down. Stay where you are. Because you can’t go out, because the winds are just far, far too strong,” Gov. John Freeman told CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360˚.” The governor said the hospital on Grand Turk Island was among 15 buildings that had roof damage or loss. [![Picture shows the damages of Hurricane Irma, in St. Martin on September 6. ](https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/170908141948-03-irma-st-martin-0907-restricted.jpg?q=x_3,y_0,h_1617,w_2873,c_crop/h_144,w_256) 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) Storm surges could reach up to 20 feet, the National Hurricane Center says – twice as high as some of the islands’ elevations. “Some of these Turks and Caicos (Islands) will be completely overwashed,” CNN meteorologist Chad Myers said. The Turks and Caicos are a British overseas territory with about 35,000 people. Officials there are “working intensively on disaster preparedness and response … (and) liaising with their counterparts in the Cayman Islands for assistance,” UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office Minister Alan Duncan said Thursday. The Bahamas, a nation of about 390,000, ordered evacuations 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. Capt. Stephen Russell of the Bahamas National Emergency Management Agency said the concern was over the power of the storm surge and the potential it will have catastrophic results. ## Trail of destruction Irma’s eye passed directly over Barbuda on Wednesday, leaving the small island’s 1,800 residents largely incommunicado for hours because it knocked over the telecommunications system and cell towers. About 95% of the buildings in Barbuda, one of two major islands in the nation of Antigua and Barbuda, are damaged, Browne said. “It looks like (a) garbage disposal,” Marlon Carr, a photographer who toured the island with the Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda, told CNN on Thursday. “There was rubble and roof galvanized all over the island. It looked like some of the houses … were imploded on.” ![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://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/170907120822-irma-damage-st-maarten.jpg?q=x_1202,y_668,h_982,w_1745,c_crop/w_1280) Video Ad Feedback Wrath of Hurricane Irma on the Caribbean 01:34 • Source: [CNN](https://www.cnn.com/) Wrath of Hurricane Irma on the Caribbean 01:34 Witnesses told him of “40-foot containers flying, animals flying” during the storm. Some spoke of taking shelter in bathrooms as their homes were torn apart. Browne estimated the damage will cost \$100 million to rebuild. In St. Thomas in the US Virgin Islands, Kelsey Nowakowski posted images to Instagram of the aftermath there. > > [View this post on Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/p/BYuJOHtg_2t/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading) > > > > [A post shared by Kelsey Nowakowski (@kelseynowa)](https://www.instagram.com/p/BYuJOHtg_2t/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading) “This doesn’t look like it was ever a tropical paradise. It looks like an eerie fairytale forest,” she said in her post. > > 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) In Puerto Rico, about 56,680 customers were without water, with the island’s northeast hit the hardest, according to Jesus Poupart of the emergency operations center. Emergency officials are still taking in reports to determine the extent of the damage. In the beachside area of Piñones near San Juan, Irma tore the roof off Cristian López’s fried-food restaurant. He said he wouldn’t be able to reopen the place for about five days. “At least we are all alive,” he said. In the northeast city of Fajardo, authorities conducted at least 10 rescues, an emergency dispatcher there told CNN. Of those, five were from flooded homes, two of people trapped in vehicles, and three who were trapped in an elevator, the dispatcher said. This story has been updated to reflect a change in the death toll. The French government revised its count of the number of deaths attributed to Irma in the French Caribbean from eight to four. Are you affected by Irma? Text, iMessage or WhatsApp your videos, photos and stories to CNN: +1 347-322-0415. CNN’s Eric Levenson, Joseph Netto, Alba Prifti, Judson Jones, Marilia Brocchetto, Khushbu Shah, Rosa Flores and Paul Murphy contributed to this report. 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Readable Markdown	Ad Feedback ![irma forecast track 12a fri](https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/170907234713-irma-forecast-track-12a-fri.jpg?q=x_21,y_9,h_1063,w_1889,c_crop/w_1280) Video Ad Feedback Irma to slam southern Florida, head inland 01:58 • Source: [CNN](https://www.cnn.com/) Hurricane Irma 14 videos ![irma forecast track 12a fri](https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/170907234713-irma-forecast-track-12a-fri.jpg?q=x_21,y_9,h_1063,w_1889,c_crop/w_250) Video Ad Feedback Irma to slam southern Florida, head inland 01:58 Now playing • Source: [CNN](https://www.cnn.com/) ![John Berman covering Hurrican Irma.](https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/170911080953-john-berman-3-cut-wet.jpg?q=x_0,y_17,h_1041,w_1851,c_crop/w_250) Video Ad Feedback Every hour, Hurricane Irma got visibly worse 01:17 Now playing • Source: [CNN](https://www.cnn.com/) ![chainsaw nun](https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/170912210239-chainsaw-nun.jpg?q=x_225,y_70,h_812,w_1444,c_crop/w_250) Video Ad Feedback Chainsaw-wielding nun clears debris after Irma 00:55 Now playing • Source: [CNN](https://www.cnn.com/) ![irma path nasa 2](https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/170911134238-irma-path-nasa-2.jpg?q=x_2,y_0,h_1078,w_1915,c_crop/w_250) Video Ad Feedback NASA video shows 10 days of Irma in 30 seconds 00:49 Now playing • Source: [CNN](https://www.cnn.com/) ![hurricane irma rescues original image 1](https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/170911053335-hurricane-irma-rescues-original-image-1.jpg?q=x_254,y_87,h_799,w_1421,c_crop/w_250) Video Ad Feedback First responders rush to answer 911 calls 01:43 Now playing • Source: [CNN](https://www.cnn.com/) ![Irma](https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/170910074703-irma.jpg?q=x_3,y_0,h_1442,w_2562,c_crop/w_250) Video Ad Feedback See Hurricane Irma's wrath hit Florida 01:02 Now playing • Source: [CNN](https://www.cnn.com/) ![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. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)](https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/170911191918-07-irma-naples-0911.jpg?q=x_3,y_0,h_1684,w_2993,c_crop/w_250) Video Ad Feedback Irma weakens to a tropical depression 02:06 Now playing • Source: [CNN](https://www.cnn.com/) ![Tampa bay empty orig lc\_00000000.jpg](https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/170911161451-tampa-bay-empty-orig-lc-00000000.jpg?q=x_0,y_0,h_1080,w_1919,c_fill/w_250) Video Ad Feedback Storm surge brings water back to Tampa Bay 01:02 Now playing • Source: [CNN](https://www.cnn.com/) ![richard branson island damage irma 2](https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/170911101938-richard-branson-island-damage-irma-2.jpg?q=x_263,y_2,h_877,w_1559,c_crop/w_250) Video Ad Feedback Richard Branson films devastation to his private island 01:02 Now playing • Source: [CNN](https://www.cnn.com/) ![This image released by the Monroe County Board of County Commissioners shows debris along the Overseas Highway in the Florida Keys, Fla., Monday, Sept. 11, 2017. 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) Video Ad Feedback Hurricane Irma leaves trail of devastation 02:12 Now playing • Source: [CNN](https://www.cnn.com/) ![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) Video Ad Feedback American ran through eye of Irma to survive 02:09 Now playing • Source: [CNN](https://www.cnn.com/) ![irma strong winds daytona sidner live\_00001612](https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/170911020521-irma-strong-winds-daytona-sidner-live-00001612.jpg?q=x_2,y_0,h_1078,w_1915,c_crop/w_250) Video Ad Feedback Sidner in Daytona: Winds are beyond ferocious 01:56 Now playing • Source: [CNN](https://www.cnn.com/) ![Bill Weir Key Largo 09/10](https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/170910091750-bill-weir-key-largo-09-10.jpg?q=x_127,y_67,h_982,w_1745,c_crop/w_250) Video Ad Feedback Reporter: It's like power-washing my face 01:28 Now playing • Source: [CNN](https://www.cnn.com/) ![satellite images before after irma sot\_00002727.jpg](https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/170911184617-satellite-images-before-after-irma-sot-00002727.jpg?q=x_351,y_176,h_682,w_1212,c_crop/w_250) Video Ad Feedback Satellite images reveal Irma's impact 00:50 Now playing • Source: [CNN](https://www.cnn.com/) ### Story highlights Hurricane targeting South Florida landfall, forecasters say Irma's death toll is at 10, officials say, after US Virgin Islands announce deaths there CNN — \[Breaking News Update 11:30 p.m.\] The National Hurricane Center has issued hurricane and storm surge warnings for South Florida. The warning extends from Jupiter Inlet on the east coast of the state, southward around the Florida Peninsula to Bonita Beach on the west coast. The warning included the Florida Keys, Lake Okeechobee, and Florida Bay. The same area had previously been under a hurricane watch. \[Story last published 10:51 p.m. ET\] Conditions in the Turks and Caicos deteriorated Thursday as deadly and massive [Hurricane Irma](http://www.cnn.com/specials/hurricane-irma/) moved in on the islands – and continued tracking toward South Florida where it could slam Miami this weekend. “It has become more likely that Irma will make landfall in southern Florida as a dangerous major hurricane, and bring life-threatening storm surge and wind impacts to much of the state,” the National Hurricane Center said Thursday. The hurricane center forecast moved the most likely path of the eye of the storm to the west in its 5 p.m. ET advisory. “It looks like it’s shifting, even though it may be just 20 miles, it puts Miami right in the worst possible position,” CNN meteorologist Tom Sater said. “Because when you look at the formidable storm, the strongest winds, the strongest storm surge, the bands of heavy rain are always in that north, northeastern quadrant.” But Sater cautioned that some models show the storm farther west and some farther east. It is still more than 600 miles from Florida. Irma, a [Category 5 storm](http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/aboutsshws.php) churning in the Atlantic with 175 mph sustained winds, killed at least 10 people on Wednesday as it devastated small northeastern Caribbean islands such as Barbuda and left hundreds of thousands of customers in Puerto Rico without power. “Regardless of which (Florida) coast you live on, be prepared to evacuate,” Florida Gov. Rick Scott said Thursday at a news conference, with forecasters warning the storm could reach South Florida by Sunday. ![](https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/track.jpg?q=w_256,c_fill) [Complete coverage of Hurricane Irma](http://www.cnn.com/specials/hurricane-irma/) Mandatory evacuations have been issued for many counties in South Florida, but Scott said others in Florida need to watch Irma’s path and be ready to move. “This is not a storm you can sit and wait through,” he said. He added later: “You don’t have to drive hundreds of miles or leave the state to be safe. Go to shelters.” Georgia, too, is ordering coastal evacuations. People in the Savannah area and everywhere along the coast east of Interstate 95 – including Brunswick and St. Simons Island – are ordered to leave, starting Saturday, [Gov. Nathan Deal said](https://gov.georgia.gov/press-releases/2017-09-07/deal-expands-state-emergency-24-additional-counties). Irma still was battering the mountainous, northern parts of Haiti and the Dominican Republic on Thursday afternoon. It could dump up to 15 inches of rain there – an amount that could trigger dangerous flooding and mudslides, the US National Hurricane Center said. [Hurricane Irma: Live updates](http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/07/us/hurricane-irma-florida-latest/index.html) Meanwhile, the northeastern Caribbean islands just hit by Irma are anxiously watching Hurricane Jose to the east. On Thursday, Antigua and Barbuda issued a [hurricane watch for Jose](http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/text/refresh/MIATCPAT2+shtml/071449.shtml), which could pass close to those islands Saturday. Prime Minister Gaston Browne said the government has called for voluntary evacuations from Barbuda. Irma left at least 10 people dead Wednesday, including four on St. Martin, four in the US Virgin Islands, one on Anguilla, and one on Barbuda, officials said. The latter is barely habitable, with nearly all its buildings damaged, Browne said. Jose became the third major hurricane of the Atlantic basin season on Thursday, with winds of 120 mph, according to the National Hurricane Center. The Category 3 storm is about 625 miles east-southeast of Antigua. – Around 8 p.m. ET, Irma’s center was about 55 miles west-southwest of Grand Turk Island, moving west-northwest with maximum sustained winds of 175 mph. Hurricane-force winds could be felt as far as 70 miles from the center. Irma previously had winds over 180 mph, keeping those speeds longer than any storm ever recorded in the Atlantic basin. – Irma could cross the southeastern Bahamas on Thursday evening and be near the central Bahamas on Friday. – Hurricane warnings are in effect for parts of Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, the Turks and Caicos Islands, and the southeastern, central and northwestern Bahamas. – A hurricane watch has been issued for Jupiter Inlet on Florida’s east coast to Bonita Beach on the west coast. It includes the Florida Keys to Lake Okeechobee. – Gov. Scott said Thursday he has directed Florida law enforcement to escort gas trucks to gas stations in an attempt to address reported fuel shortages. “We know fuel is very important” as people prepare to evacuate inland, he said. “While we’re making progress, you will see lines and outages, unfortunately.” – [Irma is one of three active hurricanes in the Atlantic basin](http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/06/americas/three-hurricanes-atlantic-basin/index.html) – the last time this happened was in 2010. ![An aerial view shows the damage that Hurricane Irma left on the Dutch side of the island of St. Martin.](https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/170907120822-irma-damage-st-maarten.jpg?q=w_1110,c_fill) [Hurricane Irma victims need your help](http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/07/world/iyw-help-for-hurricane-irma-victims/index.html) Some computer models show Irma nearing Florida’s southern and east coasts by Sunday, and potentially threatening Georgia and South Carolina later. Florida officials are [ordering some evacuations](http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/06/us/hurricane-irma-evacuation-florida/index.html) and shutting down schools. ![](https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/plots.jpg?q=w_256,c_fill) Many Floridians spent Thursday stocking up on food or making plans to head inland. Video from [CNN affiliate WSVN](http://wsvn.com/news/local/hurricane-watch-issued-for-south-florida/) showed Miami International Airport crowded with people waiting to leave the area. Miami resident Ashley Hahn was at a beach Thursday with her 4-year-old daughter, saying they were taking a final few dips before fleeing the storm. “It is chaotic with the lines and gasoline and waiting for water – you kind of need a break,” she said. “We are probably going to head north, just to be safe. I went through [(1992’s Hurricane) Andrew](http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/31/world/americas/hurricane-statistics-fast-facts/index.html) as a child, and … I have seen videos of destruction and everything that it entails. I don’t want (my daughter) to be around for that.” Monroe County administrator Roman Gastesi stressed to residents in the Keys they need to heed the evacuation order and leave. “You might as well leave now, while you have a chance, because when you dial 911, you will not get an answer,” he said. Florida is not the only state preparing for possible impact. Georgia’s Gov. Deal declared a state of emergency for 30 counties. North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper and South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster also declared states of emergency. ## Turks and Caicos, Bahamas in Irma’s path Irma was bringing heavy rain and powerful winds to the low-lying Turks and Caicos Islands on Thursday. Residents were told to stay put. “It’s hunker down. Stay where you are. Because you can’t go out, because the winds are just far, far too strong,” Gov. John Freeman told CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360˚.” The governor said the hospital on Grand Turk Island was among 15 buildings that had roof damage or loss. Storm surges could reach up to 20 feet, the National Hurricane Center says – twice as high as some of the islands’ elevations. “Some of these Turks and Caicos (Islands) will be completely overwashed,” CNN meteorologist Chad Myers said. The Turks and Caicos are a British overseas territory with about 35,000 people. Officials there are “working intensively on disaster preparedness and response … (and) liaising with their counterparts in the Cayman Islands for assistance,” UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office Minister Alan Duncan said Thursday. The Bahamas, a nation of about 390,000, ordered evacuations 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. Capt. Stephen Russell of the Bahamas National Emergency Management Agency said the concern was over the power of the storm surge and the potential it will have catastrophic results. Irma’s eye passed directly over Barbuda on Wednesday, leaving the small island’s 1,800 residents largely incommunicado for hours because it knocked over the telecommunications system and cell towers. About 95% of the buildings in Barbuda, one of two major islands in the nation of Antigua and Barbuda, are damaged, Browne said. “It looks like (a) garbage disposal,” Marlon Carr, a photographer who toured the island with the Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda, told CNN on Thursday. “There was rubble and roof galvanized all over the island. It looked like some of the houses … were imploded on.” ![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://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/170907120822-irma-damage-st-maarten.jpg?q=x_1202,y_668,h_982,w_1745,c_crop/w_1280) Video Ad Feedback Wrath of Hurricane Irma on the Caribbean 01:34 • Source: [CNN](https://www.cnn.com/) Wrath of Hurricane Irma on the Caribbean 01:34 Witnesses told him of “40-foot containers flying, animals flying” during the storm. Some spoke of taking shelter in bathrooms as their homes were torn apart. Browne estimated the damage will cost \$100 million to rebuild. In St. Thomas in the US Virgin Islands, Kelsey Nowakowski posted images to Instagram of the aftermath there. “This doesn’t look like it was ever a tropical paradise. It looks like an eerie fairytale forest,” she said in her post. In Puerto Rico, about 56,680 customers were without water, with the island’s northeast hit the hardest, according to Jesus Poupart of the emergency operations center. Emergency officials are still taking in reports to determine the extent of the damage. In the beachside area of Piñones near San Juan, Irma tore the roof off Cristian López’s fried-food restaurant. He said he wouldn’t be able to reopen the place for about five days. “At least we are all alive,” he said. In the northeast city of Fajardo, authorities conducted at least 10 rescues, an emergency dispatcher there told CNN. Of those, five were from flooded homes, two of people trapped in vehicles, and three who were trapped in an elevator, the dispatcher said. This story has been updated to reflect a change in the death toll. The French government revised its count of the number of deaths attributed to Irma in the French Caribbean from eight to four. Are you affected by Irma? Text, iMessage or WhatsApp your videos, photos and stories to CNN: +1 347-322-0415. CNN’s Eric Levenson, Joseph Netto, Alba Prifti, Judson Jones, Marilia Brocchetto, Khushbu Shah, Rosa Flores and Paul Murphy contributed to this report. Ad Feedback Ad Feedback Ad Feedback Ad Feedback Ad Feedback Scan the QR code to download the CNN app on Google Play. Scan the QR code to download the CNN app from the Apple Store.
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