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coast, a defining aspect of it, along with the winds, has been the water. take a look at the time lapse video from fort myers earlier today, as the video began. it's fort myers and hard to imagine what it must have been like to see this pouring into your neighborhood. we've been learning numerous people are trapped in homes there and across the area. in addition to flooding from storm surges, there is the rainfall. as much as three months of rain forecast in the coming hours and days. starting off our coverage, randi kaye is in punta gorda tonight where she has been experiencing some of the worst soft storm today. randi, it still looks pretty brutal out there. >> reporter: yeah, anderson, it's pretty bad out here. this has been going on for hours. we had the little break at the beginning of the storm and the break at the eye. the clearing, as i mentioned, the birds came out. now we have been in it for hours, more than 120-mile-an-hour winds here. and the main thing really to point out to you is just the darkness here in addition to the

storm. so, we don't know what's really coming at us, but we did light up a little bit across the way for you. but of course the power is out here in downtown punta gorda where we are. and the winds are quite strong. so, we're keeping one eye on some flying debris that could be coming our way while also trying to show out what's going on here. but we're just at the edge of this parking garage where we have some safety we can run to just in case. if you take a look, you can see the rain probably and some of the light as it's coming down, still very, very heavy. the streets are not flooding. that is the good news. we're expecting a pretty massive storm surge here, anything up to 18 feet, because we're pretty close to charlotte harbor. and that is where the storm would have pushed the ocean water into the harbor and it would have overflowed into downtown punta gorda. so far that hasn't happened although they haven't ruled it out. i have to tell you i'm concerned for people who either chose to ride this storm out or didn't know any better because they probably haven't seen anything like this.

and if they had, they might have experienced charlie here back in 2004, which was a very fast-moving cat 4 storm. so, it was over very quickly. but this storm, as you know, has been dumping rain now for hours, which could lead to flooding. and people are going to be trapped in their homes possibly for a while before they can get the search and rescue teams out there in the high water vehicles. it could take a while, maybe well into tomorrow before they can try and get those people some help. we know they've been calling the emergency lines. but they're still waiting, anderson. >> those scenes in punta gorda in 2004 were terrible. randi, appreciate it. we'll check in again within the hour. chief climate correspondent bill we weir joins us now. bill, where are you and what are you seeing? >> i'm about a quarter mile from randi here in punta gorda. we're on higher ground here, so it gave us some sense of security with the predictions of storm surge.

thankfully we haven't seen that. we saw some nasty winds on the back end of this storm. what's interesting to follow up on what randi was saying about that 2004 storm, you know, hurricane charlie came in here and absolutely devastated this community. just the county alone took $3 billion in damages. 15 lives were lost in that storm. something like 11,000 homes and 300 businesses. they retired the name hurricane charlie because that storm was so painful for them. but they learned the lesson. so, punta gorda the first city in florida to adapt a climate resilience plan, a coastal adaptation plan in concert with the federal government in some stages to really try toal build up and prepare for days like this. so, tomorrow morning, at sunrise, we'll get our first glimpses to see whether they passed that test. it means better building codes, more strict building codes for windows and structures.

the city here has bought up low-lying vulnerable flooding areas and turned it into public spaces really at the forefront of thinking about how to live in this new planet we sort of built by accident with fossil fuels. warm water is the steroid of a hurricane. and one way to think about this storm that's even more sobering than what we're going through now is that this may be medium or a low-level storm of the future if the current trends continue, anderson. >> yeah. bill weir, thank you. appreciate it. we're going to check in with you later. the national hurricane center has been issuing updates throughout the storm. they just put out another. let's go to jennifer gray in the weather center. what have you learned? >> the storm is continuing to weaken stliegtly, which is good news. it's 105-mile-per-hour winds right now. so, that is still extremely strong. this is a category 2 storm now moving to the northeast, still moving at only 8 miles per hour.

you know where randi and bill were all day today, they received multiple reports of winds topping 120 miles per hour, and they have been battered since around 2:00 and 3:00. those winds should start to die down now in the coming hours. you can see the back side of the storm now starting to push on shore. and tomorrow morning, the west coast of florida will actually see sunshine. the rest of the state is going to be in for a long night and a rough morning tomorrow, as we continue to see rain. we could see 20 to 30 inch of rain. so, we are going to see major flooding, and it's also going to take a while, anderson, for a lot of the storm surge to recede because we still are getting that onshore flow. we've had reports of up to 12 feet of storm surge across portions of southwest florida, and we've seen it up to people's second story, as you were showing earlier in your show. it's going to take a while for that water to recede. >> is it the wind or the storm surge, at this point, that's the biggest threat? >> i think it depends on where

you are. it's definitely the storm surge if you're in southwest florida because the water is up to your second story. it's going to take a while for that water to go down. if you're in central florida along the east coast, around daytona beach, you're going to be more worried about the wind and the rain. you're going to get winds of hurricane force all throughout the night. it's dark out. you're not going to have power. we have 2 million people without power. that number is going to grow. when you receive 30 inch of rain, we are going to see major flooding across central florida and along the east coast of florida as well by tomorrow morning. >> and what areas are you most looking at in the hours ahead? >> i'm most looking at central florida. so, this storm right here to the west of lake okeechobee, this is going to continue to push to the north and east throughout the night. we're looking at places like orlando, melbourne, the space coast, daytona beach. the storm is going to come back over the atlantic and bend back

into georgia and south carolina. so, we can't forget about that coast as well, which is also very vulnerable. we could see three to five feet of storm surge there around charleston, savanna, places like that, that we know are also vulnerable coastline. but across central florida, that's where we're focused for tonight through tomorrow morning to get through this rain and the wind that we still have ahead of us over the next 12 hours or so. >> jennifer, i mean, is it likely it will still be a hurricane if it goes up to south carolina, georgia? >> it's going to decrease. it should most likely be a tropical storm by the time it leaves the coast of florida. it is predicted to stay a tropical storm by the time it makes it to the coast of georgia and south carolina. but who's the say after it gets out over the water of the atlantic off the southeast coast of the u.s. that it could strengthen just a little bit. right now the forecast has it maintaining that 65-mile-per-hour winds. but it only has to increase

another nine miles per hour before it's a category 1 storm. so, still a little uncertainty there. >> jennifer gray, appreciate it. the city of fort myers experienced extreme flooding. the mayor, kevin anderson, joins us now. how is the situation now? >> well, it's been a long day, anderson. right now the city is pretty well dark. about 96% of the city is without electricity. i'm located right in the core of downtown just two blocks away from the river. i get to watch the streets flood. probably got up to close to four feet of water in downtown, i would say almost every business in the core of downtown. >> we're watching the time lapsed image of just water filling up those streets around you. >> yes, yes. they're starting to supply -- a couple hours ago at the peak, there was a fire hydrant i could see that was almost completely covered. now it's about halfway covered.

>> i spoke to the fort myers fire chief last hour. he was saying that they can't go out there, rescue people in current conditions. they've got to wait for the winds to die down, below 45 miles per hour. what's your message to people in fort myers who need help but can't get it right now? >> they're going to have to be patient. you know, we did evacuation orders. they chose not to follow them. this is what comes with it. we will get to them as soon as we can, as soon as the winds die down, the water subsides, and the roads are clear. i would say this to people. if you have a medical emergency, still call 911 regardless because while they may not be able to respond, they may be able to help you by guiding you with some advice over the phone. >> do you have any idea of roughly how many people -- it's hard to know how many people

didn't heed mandatory evacuation orders or who, you know, were in a mandatory evacuation zone. do you have any idea of how many people decided to stay? >> no, that's a tough one to gauge. about the only thing we can gauge with some degree of accuracy is the number of people who went in the shelters. and there were thousands. >> thousands went in shelters. >> thousands. >> there's a curfew in place in fort myers for the next 48 hours. what's the number one thing you just want residents to know right now? >> it is very unsafe to be out there moving around, especially in the flood waters. there's no telling what's in those waters. they're not safe. you know, you could step on debris. you know, there's runoff from sewers and just -- it's just not a good situation. plus you never know, with the squalls, when they can pop up,

when trees and branches could fall. so, they need to stay home until we tell them it's safe to get out there. >> mayor anderson, i really appreciate your time. and best of luck to you. and i hope everyone comes out okay. >> i'm looking to the sun coming up tomorrow and the e water subsiding and we can bounce back. >> mayor andnderson, thank you. ahahead a storm chasaser wh been in. so worst conditions. we'll talk to them. also a top specialist from the national hurricane center joins us. when you're tired of looking at your tired old bath, we fit your style, with hundreds of design options. bath fitter. it just fits. visit bathfitter.com to book your free consultation.

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gorda earlier today, as the eye made landfall just to the south and west of that location. and it was pretty horrific winds there and intense lightning and thunder, something i've never heard before in a hurricane, ripped apart punta gorda. after punta gorda, though, the worst of the damage i'm at right now. i'm at fort myers and it's like a war zone here. trees down everywhere, power lines down, stoplights down. really hard to maneuver around on the roads right now. >> how does it compare to other storms you've seen? >> you know, it's pretty standard for a hurricane. i've been in even category 5 hurricane michael in 2018, and it's not quite as bad as that. that's the worst damage i've ever seen. but west florida is pretty well built. most of the buildings here are pretty sturdy. it's mostly just your typical tree, power line damage, things that are a little bit more

fragile than the really well-built houses here in west florida. >> from what you saw -- i don't know the time of day or the time difference between being there, but between punta gorda and fort myers, which seemed worse off? >> i would say definitely much worse here in fort myers. punta gorda -- i believe parts of punta gorda didn't even lose power. i saw stoplights and stuff still working when i left there, street lights. i ended up -- i left punta gorda, i was trying to get myself into the center of that eye, which i did end up getting a little bit south and west of punta gorda right in the center of the storm there. typically with one of these hurricanes, you get a little calm eye, no winds. that wasn't the case with this storm. it was a fierce storm all the way through the eye. there were moment of a little bit lighter winds. we didn't get that clear eye you normally get where you can see the blue sky and the sun. but i did get a few glimmers of

sun here and there. it was a ferocious storm. it meant business from one end of the storm to the other. usually on the back side of these hurricanes, the first, the front of the hurricane comes through. that's usually the worst wind. it was almost on the back side in fort myers this evening. i was getting blasted by winds there in fort myers just about maybe even an hour ago, and it's just now in the last 20 minutes or so has started to die down a little bit. >> aaron jayjack, i appreciate it. thank you. power is out tonight for more than 200,000 customers in collier county, florida. that includes naples and marco island. marco island police say the area quickly filled up with two and a half feet of water. thanks for being with us. i know the city has issued a curfew citing extremely hazardous conditions on the road. can you talk a little bit about what the roadways look like? >> well, most of our roads are underwater or at least were as

of dark. so, we had a high tide at kind of peak of the surge in the 3:00 hour. so, we didn't want people to be out. unique to our community, we don't want people out on jet skis nour roadways and in our swales. so, we wanted people to stay at home, so we issued a curfew until 6:00 a.m. tomorrow morning. >> to people who have chosen to ride out the storm at home, what have you been hearing from them? are you able to reach them in case of emergency or have they been calling in to you to let you know how they're doing? >> we've heard from a few people today who got concerned, as water came up near their homes or in their homes. we had a few instances where people had specific emergencies, where we were actually able to send out a high water vehicle to provide some assistance. but overall, we really haven't had had an overwhelming number of those kind of cases.

we had a pretty significant surge, but we didn't have the kind of wind damage that has happened a little bit farther north. so, we were lucky in that. and overall, we're really looking forward to the sunshine tomorrow to be able to get out and do serious damage assessment because communications are not that good right now. the cell service and such. so, we're anxious to figure out what we've got. >> when do you think you'll be able to do that? first light? >> as soon as first light. we're out now to the extent we can be. but we don't want to put our people at risk either. so, we'll start the formal damage assessment process at first light and get -- we want to get our utility provider lcec out there so they can start to get to work getting power r bac on. so, we'll be at it early in the morning. >> michael mcniece, appreciate it. thank you. >> thanks, anderson. we're going to check in next with the national hurricane center. we'll be right back.

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hurricane ian is making its way northeast across florida. the mayor of orange county, florida, which includes orlando, is warning the area could see up to two feet of rain. don, what's it looking like right now? >> it's starting to really come down just really about over the last hour or so. we've been getting probably the biggest band of wind and rain we've seen, anderson. this is hunker down time. the mayor is saying that as well. it's time to hunker down. if you haven't left your home yet, you have to stay where you are. the problem is going to be this inland flooding. this thing is moving, sadly, slowly. you would think if it's moving slowly that that wouldn't be a problem. but the problem is, when it's moving slowly, it's dumping all this water, just sitting here, sitting here dumping water and

wind on the area. and as you know, the problem is going to be debris. we have been standing here for a couple of hours and things have been falling off the building, as these bands pick up the siding and drainpipes of the building. that is a big concern. we've also been witnessing members of the fire department going around orlando, checking on people, and especially the 79 mobile home parks here, trailer parks where people live. and they have been going to those trailer parks checking on people, making sure they're okay, and earlier today trying to get them to leave, according to the mayor. i'm not sure how successful they were in that. that's the issue here. they're concerned about the flooding here. they could get up to 2 foot of rain here. and they're concerned about the wind and debris and everything that's going to blow around. it's about 15,000 people in orange county without power. it pales come inin comparison t

rest of the state. by this time tomorrow, the mayor is saying they don't believe they'll have power and they believe the flooding will be a huge, huge problem by then. >> is there a sense of when the storm will be closest to orlando? >> it'll be here -- it's coming overnight. it should be here by the time my show comes on in an hour or so -- in 30 minutes or so. you'll probably start to get more of this wind from the bands. but probably 2:00 or 3:00 in the morning is when it's going to get worse, when we expect not to have power. hopefully that won't happen, but it should happen overnight, sometime around 2:00 or 3:00 in the morning. >> appreciate you being there. we'll see you in about 30 minutes from now. i want to go to the national hurricane center in miami and jamie rhome. i appreciate you joining us. what's the forecast showing at this point? >> you can see, anderson, that the center has unfortunately

moving over the southwest coast, where we got this devastating storm surge over fort meyers and naples. the reports i'm hearing, absolutely catastrophic down here. i'm fearful of what we're going to see when the sun comes up. now the center has moved inland, sort of right around sebring, if you've familiar with this part of florida. these bands are indicating rain rates of four to 5 inches an hour. that might need contextualization. that is a tremendous amount of rain. i'm pretty sure flash flooding is occurring as this moves off to the northeast. >> in term of peak surge -- i know you haven't seen numbers like this many times in your career -- how dangerous is it right now, and how long will that situation continue? >> well, the waters are still elevated. so, the peak storm surge, i think, has passed. waters are trying to come back

out, flow back out. but you can see the wrap around winds that kind of hang on and keep the water from receding quickly. so, it might be tomorrow morning before it fully comes back out. but i think to your question -- it's a really good question -- we did see observations and heard reports that the water rose, like, 5 feet in just a few minutes. that's why storm surge is so deadly and why we have to evacuate for it. >> how is this storm different than you expected it to be, or is it pretty much what you expected? >> unfortunately, it played out mostly as we expected. that's the hardest part of this job is making these forecasts and communicating these impacts. and then you feel so helpless afterwards when you see people suffering and in some cases losing their life. >> so, what is the track -- what does the next 24 hours look like for florida? >> it's going to be a long night for people along the i-4 corridor, as this heavy, heavy

rain moves kind of slowly. this system is just crawling across the state. moves slowly up, impacts orlando. and then all that rain on saturated soil, we're at the end of the wet season here in florida, the rainy season here in florida. that's going to topple trees, take out power. it's just going to be a long, long night for people here in central florida. >> it's also the end of the rainy season for florida. how does that complicate things? >> it does because the soil is already saturated. if you're not familiar with florida and our rainy season, it basically rains daily, afternoon thunderstorms, for about six months. so, we're at the tail end of the rainy season, which means the soil is saturated. there's water everywhere. i go home and my yard is just saturated because therere's jus water everywhere. >> jamie rhohome, appreciate wh you're doing. i know it's going to be a longn night for you. thank you. cocoming up, we'll get the newest information fwrun of the hafrdest hit counties. we'll be right back. customizes your car insurance so you only pay for what you need!

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ground, i want to show you what it looked like as it came ashore. here's a report from correspondent station wtxt and what he went through. >> this is north port, we're about 45 miles from fort meyers and people here say they've never had a direct hit from a hurricane until now. they are certainly getting it. that is the powerful hurricane ian right behind us. you can see it is absolutely just punishing these trees, the vegetation, and everything in its wake. we have seen trees snap. we've seen trees come down the road. all the stop signs are gone. and some roofs from nearby buildings have been ripped off. so, you may be wondering how i'm able to stand up in this, when these wind gusts are over 150, 160 miles an hour. well, because we are at this fire station. this is fire station 81 in north port. the firefighters keeping watch on the area and us. so, this is a category 5 rated

building, they tell us. and certainly this is the only thing keeping us from being out in this. i want to show you what it looks like. we saw this tree come down before our eyes. we've seen roofs. we've seen pieces of metal coming down the road right there. i talked with firefighters, police officers, sheriff's deputies here. they are not responding to any calls right now. they're not responding to any 911 calls. they can't rescue anyone because it's just too dangerous for them to be out on the roads. so, we've been looking. they have been getting calls, and unfortunately people out here who were told to evacuate days ago, just have to fend for themselves until the worst of this storm comes through. you know, i've been in a lot of hurricanes throughout the state of florida, throughout the southeast. this is an incredibly powerful one. it reminds me of hurricane michael back in 2018 out there

in florida's panhandle, absolutely devastating parts of panama city, wiping out mexico beach. hopefully, hopefully, this area fares better, but we won't know until this storm goes away. in north port, back to you. >> that was the beginning. as for right now, curfews are throughout the area, including charlotte county, home to punta gorda. dozens were reported trapped this afternoon on little gas april la island, a barrier island where 43 people refused to leave. the county is inundated with emergency calls. patrick, what is the latest? how are you? how is charlotte county doing tonight? >> well, we're still experiencing hazardous conditions here in charlotte county. our residents are still hunkered down, at least they should be. those who did not evacuate, and

we hope most of our residents did, they're hunkered down away from the wind, away from the storm surge. but we do fear there is some catastrophic damage out there that we're going to see come morning time and come when the winds abate. >> what's the power situation? are you still experiencing power loss there? >> absolutely. we have, you know, somewhere around 95%, 98% outages in charlotte county. it's to be expected with storm that has winds as strong as ian does. >> and obviously much of the population in charlotte county is concentrated close to the shoreline. what's the storm surge like? >> it remains to be seen. we're in the dark now. we haven't been able to monitor the storm surge levels. i hope it did not reach that catastrophic worse case scenario. but i fear -- we're preparing for that regardless. our hope is that the impacts aren't as bad as we fear, but it may very well be.

>> are you getting calls in for help? obviously you had to halt emergency services, as a storm has been coming through. >> right. unfortunately our dispatch continues to receive calls, our 911 center. and just like every other county, our emergency response agencies cannot safely operate. it's not safe for them or anyone else to be outside our structures. so, they cannot give calls to service right now. yes, we're receiving calls of water and homes, other situations, but until the hazardous conditions end, they won't be able to answer those calls. >> do you have a sense of when that might be? >> we're really hoping that by morning time we see the tropical storm force winds leave our area. we've seen hurricane michael change force, speed, numerous occasions. with every advisory, there's little change. our hope is that it moves our area quickly and we can get

emergency crews back out on the roads and helping our residents. >> patrick fuller, i really appreciate your time. thank you. joining us now on the phone is dr. beau dine. dr., thanks for being with us. doctor, what is the situation? >> sure, anderson, oh, it's actually very terrible. i'm still in the hospital. i still haven't been able to leave, and we typically don't. we knew -- being in florida, of course we know that these storms can be pretty bad. however, we weren't quite expecting it to be this bad. we'll typically plan and have a bunch of us doctors and nurses and other staff members sleep in the hospital. so, here unfortunately today we had about 160 patients in house and our roof blew off, part of the roof on the icu. so, of course we had torrential rains coming in which then went down the stairwell, which then

went to other floors. luckily we have a super, super good staff and everybody pitched in and tried to get the patients to a safe place as quickly as possible. but we can't even evacuate them quite yet. we're hoping we can evacuate them in the morning because right now the winds are too strong. >> so, how many -- by the way, 160 patients, is that a full hospital? >> no. i think our hospital normally holds 220 and in a surge can hold probably 250 or so. >> so, were you able to actually move people in the icu, or do they have to stay in the icu? >> well, when an icu patient is in the icu, that just means they need a ventilator or they need drips or so on. even though the icu was not usable anymore, it doesn't all of a sudden make that patient not an icu patient. you can still take that patient

on the ventilator, on the drips, move them to a different room. that has to be done, of course n a hurry, and stabilize them and let them continue the treatment there. so, that of course -- that's always our most important thing, as medical people, to make sure that everybody stays safe. and at the same time, you're walking through puddles and trying to just battle the logistics of where do we put them, which room is available, which room can we -- >> i've got tell you, we're just now putting up video we've got. it looks like -- i don't know if it's a patient or hospital personnel or a doctor -- looks like a doctor -- slowly walking through a hallway that is just flooded with water. >> right. right. and that was unfortunately on the first floor. we were kind of expecting from our cmo, we were expecting that would flood, which is why of course down there we didn't have any patients. we had already moved the mernl si room up one floor into the

recovery room. but then we weren't expecting that it would flood on the fourth floor. and that of course made it difficult because now we had water on the first floor but we also had water coming down from the fourth floor. and that was -- >> what a day. thank god. so, i mean -- you said the 160 beds, you weren't able to evacuate any of them out yet. obviously that's something you would like to do. you say they're all still in the hospital. >> we're all still in the hospital, which is why of course doctors are staying and the nurses are staying, which is fantastic. we've had to put three and four people into a room that's really meant for two people just because what else can we do? >> right. >> and obviously our icu people, we have them in recovery room from the operating room because that has the capability of holding icu patients. so, it's far from ideal, but luckily we have good backup generators here. and short of the air conditioning not working,

everything else that's vital is working. and that's of course the important part. >> but the air conditioning is out obviously. >> in the rooms that we're in, yes. we do have them in the operating rooms. those are out. >> wow. i mean, dr. bodine, i appreciate all you and the staff are doing. >> sure. >> i can't imagine what it's like for all of you and for the facility's folks who are working clearly overtimeme in many sens of that word. thank k you so much. i wish you the best. >> sure. thank k you. >> we'll check in with y you lar on. >> thank you. >> for now, we'll have more from around the area, around the state of florida next. we'll be right back.

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there's a little bit of a lull and then it picks up again. so, you just never know what to expect, as you know. earlier we were seeing there was a piece of a building that came off. there was a stop sign. there's been some debris as well. you can see across the way there's some twisted metal just in the yard. but those are the only lights that are on right now because we put them there in downtown punta gorda, where we are, because there are major power outages all around here. so, certainly that's expected with hurricane we saw the transformers earlier. we're not far from charlotte harbor, as you know, and that's where we're expecting the storm surge to come from and pour right into downtown here. so far that hasn't happened. we are on the back side of the storm. they still are expecting some type of surge but hopefully not the 12 to 18 feet that they were expecting or predicting earlier, ishl say. we had the eye com e that only w

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