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Hurricane Irma:  Eye Reaches West Coast of Florida

11/09/2017 GMT

BBC World Service - The Newsroom, Hurricane Irma:  Eye Reaches West Coast of Florida

Parts of Miami are underwater and two and a half million homes are without power.

Hurricane Irma has hit mainland Florida on the south-western part of the peninsula and is slowly moving north. Torrential rain and winds of nearly two hundred kilometres per hour toppled trees and power lines.; The government of Myanmar appears to have rejected the declaration of a ceasefire made by Muslim Rohingya militants.


(Photo: Palm fronds in street in Fort Lauderdale. Credit: Getty Images)

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