76,000 people are already without power in Florida, as the outer bands of Hurricane Irma begin to affect the US mainland, the state's governor said late Saturday. The weather began deteriorating in the Florida Keys late Saturday and in other parts of southern Florida, the National Hurricane Center said. The hurricane centre predicts Irma will "move along or near the south-west coast" of Florida on Sunday. "All of America continues, I must say, to pray for families affected by Hurricane Harvey, Hurricane Irma, which looks like it's going to be a really bad one," he said. Irma's eye was about 175 kilometres south-east of the Florida Keys on Saturday evening moving at about 11 kph, the hurricane centre said.

Source: The China Post September 10, 2017 03:11 UTC