Hurricane Irma Looks Like It's Headed for Tampa

As Hurricane Irma moves away from Cuba and into the Florida Straits, the National Hurricane Center says it's looking more and more like the eye of the storm will bypass Miami and instead hit the Keys and the Tampa Bay area on Sunday, AP reports. 

Authorities now believe the storm, which was downgraded to a Category 3 after weakening over Cuba, will hit western Florida as a Category 4, with winds as high as 155 miles per hour. 

Authorities expect Irma to hit the Keys Sunday morning, the state's southwest coast that afternoon, and Tampa, with its population of 3 million, Sunday night into Monday morning. The extreme southwest of Florida could see storm surges of 12 feet, and the entire state is expected to get up to 20 inches of rain.

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