Irma was expected to strike the Florida Keys at daybreak Sunday. Trump called Irma "a storm of enormous destructive power" and asked "everyone in the storm's path to heed ALL instructions." Trump said that the United States is grieving for those who were killed by Irma even before the hurricane reached the U.S. mainland. "We've never seen anything like this," Trump said, pledging — as he did after Hurricane Harvey — that recovery and rebuilding would happen quickly. Elaine Duke, the acting secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, was scheduled Saturday to brief Trump and his advisors on the storms.

Source: Los Angeles Times September 10, 2017 01:23 UTC