Year: 2017

Brian Emfinger/LSM(NAPLES, Fla.) -- Drone footage shows the extent of the damage that Naples, Florida, sustained from Hurricane Irma on Sunday.The city, located on Florida's west coast, was hit by Irma around 5 p.m., and parts of the town are facing significant flooding.Some houses have sizable roof damage, while others have flooding on ground floors.As bad as the destruction looks, city officials were expecting far worse.Mayor Bill Barnett told reporters […]

Brian Blanco/Getty Images(TAMPA, Fla.) -- Hurricane Irma is so strong that it is pulling water away from coastlines, an unusual phenomenon taking place in certain areas of Florida's west coast.Irma's powerful winds first blow offshore, essentially sucking the water away from the coast.The winds pulled water out of the Tampa Bay and into the Gulf of Mexico. Portions of the bay that had been filled with water Sunday morning were […]

David Santiago/El Nuevo Herald/TNS via Getty Images(MIAMI) -- As Hurricane Irma continues to move north through Florida after making landfall on the state's west coast Sunday afternoon, an executive from Florida Power & Light estimated that it could "take weeks" to restore power to some parts of the state.Over 2.7 million homes were without power Sunday as the storm's 100-plus mph winds toppled power lines and sheared structures in the […]

iStock/Thinkstock(MIAMI) -- A woman in Miami who went into labor during Hurricane Irma delivered a baby girl at home after being talked through the delivery over the phone by doctors and emergency workers.The city of Miami's Twitter account had a post about the incident. .@CityofMiamiFire couldn't respond to woman in labor in Little Haiti. @JacksonHealth docs talked her through birth at home - it's a girl!— City of Miami (@CityofMiami) […]

Paul Hargave(HOUSTON) -- The body of a missing Houston real estate agent, who disappeared as Hurricane Harvey was barreling down on the area, has been found and her former husband has been charged with murder. Authorities discovered Crystal McDowell's body in a wooded area in western Chambers County, Chambers County Sheriff's Office announced Saturday.Her former husband, Steven McDowell, 44, has been arrested and charged with first-degree murder, police said. "Tragedy struck […]

ABC News(KEY WEST, Fla.) --  Not everyone in Key West, Florida, has complied with orders to evacuate the island as Hurricane Irma takes aim at the island.Case in point: The man seen in the video above, shot at Key West's Southernmost Point Buoy landmark, marking the southernmost point in the continental U.S.In the 19-second video, the man is seen standing on a barrier snapping photos of the churning waters. Within […]

ABC News(MIAMI) -- Hurricane Irma is edging closer and closer to Florida as millions of residents -- more than 200,000 of whom are without power -- brace for the impact of the most powerful Atlantic storm in a decade.The National Weather Service measured a 74-mph gust in the Florida Keys on Saturday night, marking the beginning of hurricane-force winds that forecasters say will steadily intensify in the coming hours. A […]

ABC News(TAMPA, Fla.) -- Hurricane Irma cut a swath of destruction through the Caribbean before moving slowly northwest toward Florida's west coast, where it is expected to make landfall Sunday.The eye of the hurricane is expected move over the Florida Keys at around 5 or 6 a.m., bringing winds up to 115 mph.The storm is then expected to make landfall near Naples, Florida, by Sunday evening. Heavy rain and strong […]