Hurricane Irma slammed into Florida as a Category 4 storm Sunday morning, and The Washington Post has assembled a four-camera live stream of Irma's winds and floods in and around downtown Miami.
The city's Brickell neighborhood is already underwater thanks to a storm surge, though the eye of the hurricane is still near Key West as of midday. "Irma is showing her strength now," reports a Miami holdout named Zak Mann who is chronicling his experience for ABC News. "Very strong gusts of wind. The streets are flooded up to the newspaper stands. You have a broken window at the JW Marriott with the curtains flying out of it. There is small pieces of debris flying through the air..."
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