Hurricane Irma: Dramatic Videos Show Storm Battering Florida

US state under siege from intense winds and rising floodwaters.
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Dramatic videos have emerged of the devastating impact being wrought in Florida by Hurricane Irma as it flooded streets and knocked out power to millions of homes and businesses.

The storm made landfall in the US on Cudjoe Key, in Monroe County, just after 9 am on Sunday with all of southern Florida feeling the effects of the storm creeping toward the shore.

At least three people are reported dead, a woman was forced to deliver her own baby, apartment towers swayed in high winds and trees were uprooted.

These are some of the videos emerging from of the storm at its most intense and rising floodwaters.

Naples, Florida:

.@ChrisCuomo: "This just, is coming out of nowhere. All of a sudden this street is flooded." https://t.co/r0splQxbjT https://t.co/YH8YbWXQx9

— CNN (@CNN) September 10, 2017

Downtown Miami:

From my brother's Univision colleagues in downtown Miami pic.twitter.com/ADJlO5R6tR

— Paul Adams (@BBCPaulAdams) September 10, 2017

Water still rising in downtown Miami along Brickell Avenue. Storm surge is intense. Neck deep in areas. @wsvn #HurrcaneIrma pic.twitter.com/RLhVWIkTzQ

— Brian Entin (@BrianEntin) September 10, 2017

This is Miami right now. #HurricaneIrma pic.twitter.com/bhVqJ1bmCP

— Ryan Fournier (@RyanAFournier) September 10, 2017

Store owners in #Miami watch as their store is surrounded by a wall of water. What a terrible and uneasy feeling. #HurricaneIrma #Irma @WFLA pic.twitter.com/F0wALvDpJz

— Josh Benson (@WFLAJosh) September 10, 2017

Florida Keys:

He was checking the wind measurements out of the eyewall as #HurricaneIrma ravaged down in Florida Keys. pic.twitter.com/ek52kTu2Yg

— Joint Cyclone Center (@JointCyclone) September 10, 2017

Surge coming up ! #KeyWest #irma pic.twitter.com/iQBGH7yrif

— Mike Theiss (@MikeTheiss) September 10, 2017

This is what it looks like at Dinner Key Marina in #CoconutGrove @wsvn #Irma pic.twitter.com/mH8LN8BdoE

— Lorena Estrada (@EstradaLorena) September 10, 2017

NBC NEWS: North bound lane of U.S. Route 1 in Florida Keys is impassable as Hurricane #Irma makes landfall pic.twitter.com/XZnj8gHVlJ

— Josh Caplan (@joshdcaplan) September 10, 2017

At its peak, the National Hurricane Center said the storm had maximum sustained winds of 130 miles per hour.

Irma, one of the most powerful hurricanes ever seen in the Atlantic, has already killed 28 people in the Caribbean.

Some 6.5 million people, about a third of the state’s population, had been ordered to evacuate southern Florida.

“This is a life-threatening situation,” Governor Rick Scott told a press conference.

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