Ultra Music Festival shuts down for the night due to weather

back now with some breaking news we are just learning that Ultra Music Festival has been shut down as rain pounds downtown Miami yeah this is a big development impacting thousands of people let's get right out to CBS News Miami's Larry seaward Larry what's the situation right now well you can look behind me you can see the crowds of people streaming down biscane Boulevard this is at Southeast First Street all of these people were inside the Ultra Music Festival when right around 9:00 tonight thi

s message came out I want to show you this a message put out on Twitter that these folks actually saw on the screen you can see an ultra alert severe weather lightning and strong winds for your safety Ultra is temporarily shutting down please calmly leave the park now more information on social media at Ultra they're actually making an announcement right now they've been asking people to leave rather calmly and I can show you earlier we were on the Metro mover platform there's a stream of people

that are on the stairs right now you can see they are waiting in line right here if you look to to your left the stairs that lead up to the Metro mover look how thick those that crowd is those people waiting for a ride to get back to their cars there's a thicker crowd up on the platform as well again all of this happening right at 9:00 tonight as we came on air again Ultra Music Festival temporarily shut down because of the threat of severe weather is what organizers are saying we've been talki

ng to people that are leaving here they've obviously paid a lot for their tickets and made a lot of plans to come to this festival and obviously tonight that is disrupted obviously there are there's music tomorrow and Sunday some of these people have to see if they'll come back we'll have more on the story coming up at 11:00 for now we're live downtown Larry C CBS News Miami