Emergency workers around hurricane-scarred Florida worked to make sure elderly residents were safe, evacuating multiple assisted-living facilities, after eight people died in a sweltering nursing home that lost its air conditioning in the storm.
The National Hurricane Center said Irma had winds of 120 mph (195 kilometers) and was centered 20 miles (30 kilometers) south of Naples on Sunday afternoon. It was moving north at 12 mph (19 kilometers per hour). At that rate, the center of the storm should come ashore sometime between 4 and 5 p.m.
Facebook user Drew Alston shot these videos of the damaging winds caused by Hurricane Irma from his cellphone inside a hotel room in St. Thomas 2 p.m. local time September 6, 2017. **Warning: Viewer Discretion is advised due to explicit…