Waves on the southend beach of Tybee Island, Ga. pound the beach as Tropical Storm Irma heads into the state, Monday, Sept., 11, 2017. Tybee officials said wind gusts are reported at 60 miles per hour on the beach. / The Associated Press
Hurricane Irma has made landfall, and is working its way up our state. The remnants of Irma were downgraded to a tropical storm, but that storm remains a major threat. We checked in with National Weather Service meteorologist Dave Nadler and GPB reporter Emily Jones.
Celeste Headlee is an award-winning journalist who previously hosted GPB Radio’s “On Second Thought,” radio program. She has appeared on NPR, PBS World, CNN, BBC and other networks and began working as a public radio journalist in 1999.
Sean Powers was Georgia Public Broadcasting's first director of podcasting. He joined GPB in 2014 as a producer/reporter with On Second Thought, and remained with the program until 2018.
Based in Savannah, Emily Jones reports on all things coastal and manages GPB's Savannah bureau.
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