‘Pray for everybody’: Hurricane Irma begins its assault on Florida

By TAMARA LUSH and JAY REEVES
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. >> Announcing itself with roaring 130 mph winds, Hurricane Irma plowed into the mostly emptied-out Florida Keys early Sunday for the start of what could be a slow, ruinous march up the state’s west coast toward the heavily populated Tampa-St. Petersburg area.
“Pray, pray for everybody in Florida,” Gov. Rick Scott said on “Fox News Sunday.”
With an estimated 127,000 huddling in shelters statewide, the stor