1. Hurricane Irma is cycling toward Florida and is expected to hit late Saturday.

Florida’s governor, Rick Scott, warned that the hundreds of thousands of residents in its path should get out while they still can. People jammed the roads and airports as they scrambled to evacuate in Florida and parts of Georgia. The head of FEMA said that residents from Alabama to North Carolina should monitor the storm and be prepared.

Now a category 4 storm, Irma battered Turks and Caicos overnight. The death toll across the Caribbean rose to at least 20, and the islands hardest hit by Irma are now bracing for Hurricane José. This video shows the destruction.