♪ ♪ >> kayleigh: coming to you with a fox news hurricane alert, hurricane ian's extremely dangerous eye wall is now living on shore in florida. it's forecasted to make landfall just hours from now, and conditions are deteriorating quickly. governor ron desantis is warning the more than 2 million people in the evacuation zone that if you did not get out,

it's now too late. hello, everyone. this is "outnumbered." i'm kayleigh mcenany here with my cohosts, emily compagno and harris faulkner. also joining us, fox news meteorologist amy freeze, and todd piro. we are tracking hurricane speed 11 to make them x11 paid its tracking winds with a just shy of a category 510 hurricane, making it one of the most powerful storms to hit this country. it's expected to make landfall in the next few hours and forecasters are warning a life threatening storm surge, devastating wind damage, and massive flooding. there are more than a quarter of a million now in florida without power. the international airport has stopped passenger frights. let's go to nicole valdes, the hurricane headquarters. nicole? >> good afternoon. winds are strengthening. we are seeing more rainfall. you mentioned this, conditions are quickly deteriorating across

the tampa bay area. i want to show you a quick image as we look over the bay. you will see the ripples in the water, the trees going as it moves with that wind. if you look off in the distance, you will see an interesting impact of this hurricane, water receding into the bay. you see the dry spots where water used to be. i want to exclude what's happening. it essentially can called a reverse surge, water draining out further into the bay. however, it's really the beginning of what could be catastrophic storm surge. all that water will eventually come back, and it can do that dangerously fast. i want to point out some video that we've already had come into our newsroom from sanibel, where we have seen hurricane ian make the approach earlier today. those reverse surge conditions, we have already seen it in places including tampa, st. petersburg, and venice,

among others. bridges across tampa bay are setting down and we have seen devastating flooding in areas including key west yesterday as hurricane en slowly approach those islands there. it's only a matter of time until we see things get even worse than we are already seeing at this point happen here. the threat continues, not just for that storm surge, but catastrophic winds and flooding as we see what could be an incredible amount of rain over the next several hours here, kayleigh. >> kayleigh: nicole, i'm from the tampa bay area. i have video coming in to me from friends and family right out of the bay, literally sucked out of their backyards. docs where there are normally boats, jet skis, now it is just sand. you can walk on it. in fact, i have a video of that. my question for you is, this is rare. tampa hasn't seen this. but we have this area, punta gorda, fort myers, seeing

a category 4 hit before in the form of hurricane charley. a lot of people making that comparison. but this is also a slower moving storm. >> right, and that's why think the concern for rain comes in. the more rainfall we'll see over a period of time. we'll see these continues demott conditions continue. yes, the comparison is definitely going to be made as we have watched at that track shift over the last several days, and it's tough or emergency officials to give people an idea of where they will see that direct hit. you mention that, because of how large and how massive hurricane ian is, it truly does not matter if your community and your city is directly hit, if it sees that eye and that landfall. clearly we are talking about such a widespread impact with this storm, which is why we have been so focused on getting those evacuations going days ahead of this thing. thankfully it seems like many in the tampa bay area have listened.

they are out of their homes and in those mandatory evacuation zones. you talked about that receding water, many people in tampa bay said they saw that when we had hurricane irma hit the gulf coast of florida five years ago. interesting phenomenon. it doesn't happen all the time, but when it does, it can definitely be dangerous. >> kayleigh: it is certainly rare. one last question for you, this is the fifth strongest hurricane to ever hit the continental u.s. as i see it, there was one and labor day 1935, there was camille in '69, and andrew, the miami area will never forget that, and hurricane michael in 2018. this is coming in at number five. is that right, nicole? >> it definitely looks like it based on what are meteorologist over at fox weather has been talking about today. when you're talking about a storm that is teetering on a category 5, winds at 155 miles per hour, it's hard to talk about the last time we saw something as dangerous, as threatening to people,

especially when you talk about a state that has seen a growth in their population. the concern really comes to danger of people, and especially the amount of people who now live along the water. they love the beauty, they love the sea, but when we started to see the storms really threaten that gulf coast with the warm water, the threat is only higher. >> kayleigh: thank you, nicole. harris, you and i have been talking about this. you covered storms for decades and decades. i texted my father and spoke with him, he is in commercial roofing so he's seen this in florida. he remembers andrew. he was telling me that, to see the damage they are, they were gas pumps literally lifted around the ground and turned 45 degrees. two by fours flying through the air, sheet metal wrapped around trees. this was hurricane andrew. my point is these storms can be absolutely devastating. those evacuation orders are real, and our hunger-down territories extremely real. >> harris: i look forward to

sharing the video. i know you sent it to our team. i want people to see the receding water so they know what to look for and the danger in that, but we'll wait for that video. what we mentioned with category 5 history in the united states is really interesting and important for people to understand. it is rare. out of 38 tropical cyclones that have become a cat 5s, only four have hit the united states. but when they do hit, they don't always hold together, but they were once at category 5, which means there winds are fierce. later we get to 157 or we stay at we get to 157 or we stay at 155, meteorologist janice dean, our senior meteorologist here at fox, has said there isn't much difference. as congress been byron donalds, whose district this is, with fort myers and cape coral, those areas are projected to take a direct hit less than three hours from now in the east coast here. for those people to understand that a cat 4, it doesn't matter

the number anymore. 155-mile-an-hour winds, and what your dad told you was so critical. it dislodges a lot of things. even when the storm moves, even if it drops to a cat 1 and you think, "i can go outside," congressman donalds was asking people not to do that. it'll be after dark by the time this thing moves on. don't go outside. you can't see what is in the air, those broken pieces of two by four that may be flying. the electrical lines in the water that maybe you can't see. he said there were a lot of standing water before, so they have low-lying areas that were problematic to begin with. all those things you are saying a really critical. the fact that the storm is going to happen later in the day, we can't say that enough. stay in your place of shelter. >> kayleigh: emily, that is so important. a lot of people don't realize, when hurricane andrew hit the miami area, a lot of the deaths happened in the aftermath. just as harris said, people walking through puddles where

there were a down power lines, running generators enclosed areas, where they were storing gas and garages. these things you don't think about, you are just trying to get through and get your electricity on, which has gone down for a quarter of a million people. but we have to be cautious during and in the direct aftermath, as well. >> emily: that's right. one of my close friends was career army national guard and she told me horrifying stories after hurricane katrina in new orleans when they were on patrol there, the bodies they found, and the methods and ways they found those bodies. it was absolutely heartbreaking. to your point, it was many things that perhaps were not top of mind at the time as people were trying to escape the flooding waters, on their roofs and in their attics and whatnot. but the devastation and risk is ongoing, and it encompasses a lot of things. i worry in my prayers go out to those vulnerable communities that were not able to evacuate. what about those in hospitals, those on life support?

even the animal shelters, the prison populations. they are all humans and they are all deserving of our mercy and our grace and our care and support, and i worry so much about all of those who are behind, especially those who have stayed behind to ensure the care and safety of others. all of those first r first resp, we are there for you, as well. >> kayleigh: you do this for a living, you do weather. my husband and i, our power went out this morning. i have friends texting me from a 60-mile radius of their power going out. now you have a quarter of a million people in this state who lost power before the storm even hit, which is remarkable if you pull up the charley trajectory. i can't forget driving through punta gorda and seeing the effects, life changed forever. >> amy: the less coastline, we have never seen a title flooding like we are seeing right now.

in naples, at the major flood stage. but it's forecasted to double that or worse. so we are looking at water levels that we have not only not seen in modern history but that have never been recorded before. there's an enormous amount of water because this storm is so powerful. it has a long duration to grow in size. the other interesting thing scientifically about hurricane ian is that the eye wall has been expanded. the center is about 35 miles wide. normally a storm would be about 20 miles wide, or a strong hurricane, in the center. this enlargement is going to allow the hurricane to scoop up huge amounts of water out of the gulf. that's why it's going to be pushed along the shoreline for persistent duration because of the size of the storm. the longer it stays out in the open waters, the stronger the hurricane came get. a great point was made that so many new people have moved to florida in the last year and half because of covid. 500,000 population increase for

the state of florida. they've never seen the storm, they've never had the opportunity to go through it. putting their generated in their home, putting a grill in their garage, not thinking about those post-storm mistakes that can be so deadly. surge is the number one killer in hurricane, but secondary are things that happen after the storm. >> kayleigh: my fellow floridians who have been there for generations, i remember as people approached the sarasota area, a man telling me, "i'm never going to leave this area." that they have seen storms coming and then they don't come. it's important to listen to those warnings. there's the risk also for long time floridians who might have seen this, and never quite panned out the way it seems to be panning out here. >> amy: one thing i think will shock everyone is we want jesse coastline destruction, we have a

cold front in the middle of florida right now that will wring out the moisture. that's the reason places like disney have shut down for two days, because we know that the amount of water is just enormous, coming out of the storm. >> harris: i want to follow up real quickly about a question with that. one of the mayors was talking about how much cooler it is. that's my concern. he cut electricity off, it's still summer temperatures down in florida and people would be miserable. obviously it's 100% humidity, but it's in the low 70s. and you think that such a gift, because people will be more comfortable, but for the very reason you just mentioned, it allows the moisture to be unsettled, and that can be unleashed. hurricane irene, southern new jersey into northern new jersey. i remember it. it looked like it had passed and there were places underwater for weeks after hurricane irene. >> amy: the expansive nature of hurricanes are not just about the eye wall, the strongest part

of the storm, but their ability to have far-reaching effects, always in the northeast quadrant, or the northeast corner, basically, of the storm. you got the threat of tornadoes. can you imagine you're worried about hurricanes and flooding and then you're into the tornado warning? the fiercest winds you can get out of mother nature. they can expand for a while and there are long durations, the impacts are not just for the coastline, they are also for inland portions of the state. this will be a very expansive storm, infrastructure wives, and it'll be deadly. these are life threatening storm surges. >> kayleigh: todd, we have seen a great level cooperation. governor desantis has been on this. the president reached out to him. he reminds me in the wake of that horrible surfside condominium collapse, that we saw the federal government and the state of florida come together in a really powerful and productive way, and we are seeing that here.

the full force of the country coming together. >> todd: because that needs to happen. people are going to die within the next 24-48 hours. senator marco rubio on "fox & friends" this morning said as much. obviously loss of life is the number one concern. that goes without saying. but what is chilling to me, ladies, is i remember what my parents, my family, went through after sandy. after sandy destroyed their home. it is chilling to me to think about what's going to happen to the fine folks in the path of the storm going forward for the next days, weeks, and months. it is important to note, sandy wasn't even a hurricane. sandy was a tropical storm. and sandy only had really one of the main elements that we are worried about in this storm. he had a storm surge. but there wasn't a lot of wind with sandy. we had no wind damage and there wasn't a lot of rain, it was all storm surge. these folks are going to get a

boat load rain, winds the likes of which they have never seen, and the storm surge is going to be so much worse than sandy. so picking up the pieces for these folks is going to be very difficult. for me, knowing what my family had to go through, that's chilling. >> harris: i want to draw everyone's attention to the bottom of the screen. it is scrolling our latest information, and our team here at "outnumbered" has putting up that number of power outages. it has been above 270,000 without power in florida, most of that around where ian's outer bands have come on shore, as the eye wall approaches. that number went up exponentially in the last hour, and now it's starting to burst again. i ask everybody to look at that. if you have relatives in that area and they haven't charged their phones, if the cars are nearby where they can plug in that battery, whatever it takes, they want to keep the communication lines up. you've got to get your phones ready for this now, because you're not going to be able to

plug in anywhere. >> kayleigh: we know the utility workers are out there ready to go but they can't go out until it safe. >> amy: it'll be 24 hours at least. you need a settling of the winds, and this is a long-duration storm. it won't wrap up after the eye wall comes on shore. we might be looking at late thursday or friday before the crew can get out and start working. >> kayleigh: that's a long time. amy mentioned the life threatening storm surges and that we are learning that naples, florida, is experiencing a record storm surge. we are told the worst is yet to come. keep it here for breaking hurricane ian coverage. we'll be right back. for appraisal or termite inspections. no upfront costs at all to get the cash you need. veterans get more at newday. okay everyone, our mission is to provide complete balanced nutrition for strength and energy. woo hoo! ensure, complete balanced nutrition

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>> emily: fox with hurricane alert, ian's monstrous eye wall is moving on shore in florida

right now. governor desantis telling those who have remained in the red evacuation zones that it's time to hunker down and prepare for the storm. dissent is warned those in collier, sarasota, and charlotte counties that it was too late to leave and urge anyone still out on the roads to get to a safe place safe place s soon as possible. steve harrigan's live in charlotte county florida. how are you? >> doing good here. it is too late for charlotte county. those are certainly on his words to hear from the governor. right now about 900 people in this county are in shelters. they are about 175 shelters opened up across florida. they have warned two and a half million people all along the coast to leave. they've actually ordered about 1.75 million people to evacuate. a lot of those people have not evacuated, and just from standing here, i can tell you over the last hour that conditions have gotten worse.

the wind has kicked up considerably. we are not seeing trees snap, but we are beginning to see small objects fly around, and branches. first is going to be the wind, then the surge, then flooding from the rain. so a real triple threat here for the west coast of florida over the next several hours. emily, back to you. >> emily: steve, my question to you is about the cadence. you say the wind has picked up, you have been noticing upticks in certain elements. has the cadence become more rapid? as you see those upticks is getting faster and faster, or has it become a steady incline? >> it has picked up considerably over the last half hour. i have to tell you, when we walked outside here today, there's a little bit of fear for the first time. like, uh-oh, this is really bad and it's going to get worse over the next several hours. the palm trees are bending considerably, but they are not snapping. so it'll be a tough go here with

40-mile-an-hour winds. you're certainly on your own, because first responders will not be coming out until this storm passes. i think the one real blessing is that it's daytime, so you don't have this happening in complete darkness overnight. at least you can see the trees bend and it's not just hearing them. >> emily: steve, stay safe, please. they are so grateful for your reporting on the ground. our prayers are with you. amy, i want to bring you in here. we are so grateful you're on the couch with us today. tell us what viewers need to know in light of what steve just recorded. >> amy: the number one thing is you are on your own. he talked about how the emergency responders have now said they're not going to be coming out, so charlotte county, punta gorda county, you don't have a first responder to come out now. you are on your own. if you didn't make an evacuation, you have to shelter in place. if there is an emergency, it will be until those conditions let up that they start to resume. if you are in a situation where you are caught in a storm,

there's a lot of things you can do. simple things like even filling up your bathtub, making sure you have use of the water heater if you run out of water. but staying in the center part of the home, as many walls as possible between you and the outdoors, is the only place you can really shelter. almost like you would for a tornado. you want to get to a low spot but not the basement, in the case of a hurricane, because you don't want to get flooded. you want to get into the center of the home with a lot of balls in between you. being out there in those conditions, you will be able to see, you mentioned how quickly it can deteriorate. this will happen in the manner of minutes we go to tropical storm force winds to above hurricane force winds. those hurricane force winds extend from the center of the storm, more than 50 miles. we are at 45-50 miles extending from the center of the storm. that means you don't have to be right up against the coastline to feel the brunt of hurricane force winds that can do damage and be very destructive. >> emily: and as the population there in florida is watching this, relying on us for

coverage, are there chances that they will be an unexpected trajectory? is there a large trajectory as this store moves across? how much is remained to be seen as the storm continues its path that might be unpredictable? >> amy: this is what everyone's wondering, where does it go next? once the storm makes landfall, the center of the storm coming inland, right now we see the outer eye wall which is a different portion. the center is calm. once you go over land, you still have to deal with the other sid. we will still see the store make landfall. the northside has an enormous amount of water with us. this can reenter the warm atlantic waters on the other side of florida and it can make a secondary landfall in georgia or the southern coastline of south carolina. this will be what we wait and watch for. when the storm moves this

slowly, and it's this big in size, it will take its time across florida. there is a possibility, the cone of possibility we look at in forecasting, that the storm could stay over northern florida, stay in lend, and start marching up the coastline. but this is a case we have referred to already in previous storms. just because it lowers from a category 5 storm, or near category 5 storm, back even to a tropical storm status, does not minimize the water impact this could have. for the florida-georgia line, portions of the southeast. we have had an incredibly wet summer for the southeast. their water tables and water levels are running so high right now, even half inch to an inch of water can flood places like birmingham, alabama. there really are high water levels right now, so a storm coming over the southeast is a threat to them. >> emily: i want to follow-up with you on that, as well. as we are looking at this and watching this live footage we are also showing, as harris pointed out, the updates on the

bottom of the screen. in a moment we said we are expecting surges up to 18 feet. being a californian, and used earthquakes, and the richter scale, which exponentially increases the risk and the damage with every numerical increase, is that the same with this surge? as viewers are watching this and see the risk, up to 18 feet, is that an nth degree exponential increase? you mentioned half an inch of water can be destructive, will it 18 feet look like? >> amy: surge comes over dry land. for a typical beach go or, if you find yourself standing in the sand where the water meets your toes, that the water level. the surge is how much the water comes up for you. right now in naples we are at 4 feet up your body, half your body. we are looking to double that. in naples right now, that surge level is not only major flooding stage, but it's also historic. we have never seen a surge that

high measured in naples, florida. we are expecting to double that. that brings water inland to buildings, homes, streets, massive destruction. surge is usually measured in feet, not like the scale which would be very comparable to the richter scale. however, surge really does represent a threat. some of these levels we are expecting the water to go to are based on the wave action and the persistent wind, both of which hurricane ian is packing a punch on. some storms don't have all the different characteristics. this one has got the water load, it's got the wave action, and it's got a punch of land. >> harris: that's what you were saying, when your parents faced sandy. we really only saw the surge. i live in jersey on the hudson river, and it started to suck the water out. when it came back, we had a 25-foot swell that took out our chase bank. people died in our town trying

to move their cars. they were lower than sea level as the water came back in. and we were pretty far north on that tributary of the hudson river away from the ocean, which is where the water is mainly getting pushed up the hudson river. it was a nightmare. and we didn't have rain. i mean, it barely reigned. we were mandatory evacuees because we are right on the water, but we also didn't have that much ambient wind. it was the wind on the water pushing the surge. to have every element together, as you were saying, is really troubling about this storm. one thing i wanted to ask you about, amy, the clearwater mayor was telling me earlier that he had to put out urban forestry calls to be ready to clean the roads immediately, because of the weather conditions that they have had all summer long. the trees were almost ready to fall anyway from all the standing water, all the precipitation that has fallen all summer long, so now they are so weakened that a storm like

this rips them out of the ground pretty easily with the wind and the rain. >> amy: pretty easily, a 30 to d take it out. >> harris: and those crews will come back when it passes. >> amy: once the storm does stop or calm, it's important to get the roads cleared so the emergency vehicles can get back on them, but i have a feeling there will be a lot of work to do before they can even clear roadways to get back into these communities. >> emily: right now there's catastrophic flooding in fort myers as hurricane ian continuing livale coverage next. so we're hard at work, helping them achieve financial freedom. we're investing for our clients in the projects that power our economy. from the plains to the coasts, we help americans invest for their future. and help communities thrive.

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>> harris: amy freeze, you are almost on this flight. i want to talk about this for a minute. fox news got it pretty intense and turbulent ride along into the eye of ian. let's watch. >> we showed up today to fly hurricane ian. basically our mission, as hurricane hunters, we are a reserve unit flying the center

of a storm, so we have to enter the eye wall at 10,000 feet, fly around the center of the storm until he finds zero wind, and that fixes the point from where everything else is measured at the national hurricane center. they use that to build their forecasts from that center point. >> harris: saw a reporter on the plane says the pilot said it was the roughest and worst flight of his career. we are told that a storm hunter for the national hurricane center went through the eye at the same time it actually turned around because it got so intense. so even i, between all the news and weather we've done, we've been on a lot of choppers. i was just down of the board in a chopper for hours. to turn one around, it's got to be pretty bad. >> amy: right, and these guys are built for this. they are looking for the center. this particular flight is in there looking for the particular position so we can get better data. sometimes these flights go 8-9 hours where they are tracking

the data. they want to get a different surface level reading, things like that, and they have special aircraft. there's three or four different types of "hurricane hunters," so there's an air force division, we have the noaa hurricane hunters, and they have special aircraft. not only did they take their instrumentation on the plains and get these data markers, but they can drop little devices inside of the storm. think of "twister." remember that movie? that's another thing they can do to capture data. that is so important, because not only is the position where the center of the storm is, because that house project where it's going to go, but the other readings tell us the strength of the storm, give us temperature readings, let us know how the ocean is interacting with the storm itself. it's very fascinating, and all of this began, i believe, in the late '60s, early '70s, on a bet. there were guys training the air force and said, "do you think we can travel into a

category 1 storm?" they did it and it changed the way we forecast. >> harris: i love the military, but i think everyone knows that. they weren't actually baby rattles, but they looked like it in the movie. do you have a question? >> todd: i find it fascinating that people risk their lives to do this kind of work for us so we are ultimately better able to predict. not me, meteorologists, people like yourself, to save more lives in the process. these individuals turned around in the storm because of the danger. that really underscores what the people of florida are up against. >> harris: very early in the morning, todd, you have been watching this storm builds day after day after day. when you get on the air, we are starting to get some of our first updates. what has your week been like with hurricane ian? >> todd: it definitely has exponentially grown, and i would even say that's from this morning's coverage. if for no other facts then we are covering this full time now, and even this morning, at 4:00 in the morning, there was of the

news that we interspersed, because we knew this would be a serious storm, but i truly believe within the last eight plus hours, when the latest modeling has come in, because the national weather service has been updating, the intensity, the fear associated with the storm and the potential for destruction has grown within even that time frame. people need to pay heed to this, because this is going to be big. >> harris: a lot of our lessons are learned from those things that people survived and told us, these are the things that we would have done differently. i know you've been taking a look at another storm, kayleigh. >> kayleigh: that's right. growing up in florida you're used to hurricanes, and they are unlike any other natural disaster in that you get a heads up before you come. you can prepare. but you can't always prepare for the shifts. katrina, for a little bit of time, we thought it would come to the tampa bay area. you pay the storm doesn't come to your area, but then what are you praying for? it shifts and goes to another area and devastates and destroys

a town like new orleans. these are devastating shifts for whoever it shifts to, and in this case, shifting to charlotte county and this fort myers area, it's one of the least populated places on the gulf coast of florida, but if you live there and you've made your livelihood there, it doesn't matter that it avoids a metropolis like tampa. it hits your home. for this punta gorda community in particular, looking at hurricane charley from 2004, i was looking at pictures and they are devastating. i saw a church that is reduced to rubble and the only thing left was a steeple and a cross on the top. there's a really good article by fort myers news press where they talk about this same community that was hit so hard by a category 4 storm is preparing to get hit again, and they talked to a resident named kevin doyle who said it was harrowing, terrifying, and he talked about watching the roof of his house fly off because the windows bust out and then the roof can fly off. he said you didn't know which street you were on, there's no landmarks, no signs, no traffic

lights. cables lying across the road. this is the kind of devastation. this community has experienced this in 2004 and they now brace for this. >> harris: i want everyone to pay attention to the screen now. these are the live pictures coming in from charlotte county florida, where this beast is projected to have a direct hit. recall earlier that i had interviewed congressman byron donalds in his district, encompassing some of those areas that are in direct line from hurricane ian, not the least of which we are looking at right now. but cape coral and fort myers and those areas, it's coming in now, so we want to pay attention as this new video comes in, and we thank the photographer for wiping the screen live, because it lets us really see how different this look even 45 minutes ago. you're right, todd, things are changing pretty quickly now. the projected landfall for hurricane ian has moved forward just a bit. it was between noon and 2:00, then 1:00 and 2:00, and now

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where we are feeling some of the impacts from hurricane ian. as you can see, it is raining. it is light out here but we definitely have a breeze. if you look at the tree behind me, not very dramatic just yet, but in the coming hours it is definitely going to increase as we get into the night. we are expecting winds up to 75 miles per hour, especially overnight going into tomorrow, and about a foot of rain in this area. now, it's interesting, because orlando is in the path of this hurricane, but it's also a place where many people have resorted to. so it is a safe haven for some, but also we are going to get these impacts here. back to you. >> amy: amy freeze here, one of your colleagues from fox weather. as you are looking around, are you seeing anyone in the orlando area that has stayed back? anyone who didn't evacuate? any emergency vehicles? we are seeing in the surrounding communities that everyone is on

lockdown. >> in the orlando area, we have seen a lot of people out and about, especially downtown. people walking around, and in the rural areas, definitely a lot of cars out on the road. people are evacuating from the tampa area, i have met several people who said they were coming here to evacuate from that area. back to you. >> harris: thank you very much. great reporting, as things have not gotten as bad as we'd first been told. >> amy: it's possible. she is talking about how people have come to orlando to hunker down but they also will have to ride out the elements, flooding rains, the potential for tornadoes and even some pretty strong winds. so there will be whether to deal with the people have to shelter from. >> harris: stay close to us. our coverage continues here onty "outnumbered." so to help you remember that liberty mutual customizes your home insurance, here's a pool party. ♪ good times. insurance! ♪

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>> words like cat -- catastrophic events, and destruction hurricane ian could bring. conditions are intensifying in fort myers, florida. robert has more. >> guys, this is the worst we have seen it right now. hurricane force winds here in

fort myers downtown in the harbor, that is a fire extinguisher that has come out of the ground, trees down, boats with the tarps unraveling. the trees knocked around, our camera and our equipment, we are going to try to find some sort of a shelter as this just came in in the past moments here, incredible winds from ian, as it is making its way to sanibel island. we are on the dirty side, it will make its way to the north. we are going to get mashed here. there are downed trees all over the area. we thought it was bad this morning, seeing the surge come in on fort myers beach and now this afternoon, fort myers taking a beating. i hope people are inside. there is nothing safe about this remotely. and we are going to go find shelter soon because these winds, hurricane force, are gusting very intensely right now, and the power, and by the

way, the water is rising here. it's come up almost two feet in the past hour here on the bay, and we hope that it does not come to fruition, 12 feet or more. serious conditions here and you can see all of the trees that have fallen apart, trees are down, and these boats not in good condition. let's hope that they actually stay hooked in as the bands continue to come in. hurricane ian, a tough one certainly here for this part of florida and the entire peninsula moving forward in the coming days. back to you. >> robert, please stay safe, find some cover there away from those projectiles, thank you very much for your reporting. seeing that inside look, amy, he's in a hurricane right now. we are hours from the eye hitting, it was projected 2 to 4:00 p.m., so we are right there. >> robert is in the eyewall right now and experienced reporter for being in hurricanes. what he's standing in is difficult to stand in for a

normal person. wind speeds are easily over 65, 75 miles an hour, so the gusts are difficult to stand in. a situation where at some point he would have to start holding on to things because it's difficult to stand up in a wind like that. you notice his kind of stance he has and leaning into the wind, that makes it possible to be there, and wearing a helmet, that's also a way to protect himself from the conditions. >> away from things flying through and when you saw the one big gust, you know, i know that's when you go in. it's not the rain or wind, it's the things dislodged and you cannot see them coming and he's brilliant to wear that helmet. now time to go inside and not keep him out there too long. that was a tremendous bit of reporting he just did and the presence of mind, and we have seen a lot of people try to hang on to things, but in something like this, it normally does not

stay together. this one held together. >> it has, held together, only one aspect. we are seeing the wind and the rain in sideways, we can see, but he also mentioned briefly the surge will be coming and that's the one thing that you are not going to be able to withstand or outrun. outrunning water is not possible, it finds its way quickly. wind you can shelter from likely nearby with it, probably a concrete structure like a parking garage they'll be able to shelter in. >> i remember after hurricane katrina, which fell in august, i volunteered in spring in pass christian, mississippi. over seven months later and people there still needed three meals a day. >> yes. >> people there were still living in tents. the level of destruction and you articulate, not being able to outrun the surge, its frightening. your parents' home was destroyed, level of destruction, longevity of the destruction from the storm i cannot overstate. >> right now we do have a pretty

good indication about 50 miles of shoreline, from fort myers to charlotte will never look the same again. >> after 2004, $3.2 billion, with a b, in damage. 11,000 homes leveled, and think of the insurance claims and rebuilding process what that takes for a community who experience this, not too long ago. all right, we are awaiting an update on hurricane ian. florida governor ron desantis set to brief us minutes from now at 1:00 p.m. eastern. meantime, the eyewall of this monster storm just shy of a category 5 has already started coming on shore. landfall is not expected for another few hours. amy, so, you mentioned we are in the eyewall. now, the eye is this place of complete calmness, but not to be deceived because you still have the other side of the storm that comes after the eye. >> exactly. and a way to visualize it for someone, it's kind of a simple

comparison. if you are mixing something in a bowl and as quickly as you can mix it you see the center open up as you are mixing cake or a batter of some sort, it opens up in the middle. that's exactly what's happening with the hurricane, only the winds are doing the force of opening up that center. the center is actually calm, and the force is greatest in the eyewall, so a false sense of security, almost an opening and sometimes even a clear sky for the center of the hurricane. but you still have the other half of the storm to come. and so these -- it's a long duration storm and this will be a good example where likely we will see an eyewall come on shore. >> i often hear meteorologists describe a storm having its own sort of personality, if you will, from the beginning. you've been watching this so long, what would you say about ian at this point? >> water, a large amount of water is held in the storm. it came across the caribbean in warm water that was abnormally

warm frankly, upper 80s to near 90°, that kind of warm water fuels the storm, like putting the pedal to the metal to allow the storm to basically grow in size and intensity. moved over western cuba, barely a blip, you guys, such a small island, barely any hills on it, raced over cuba and intensified. and last night to this morning to talk about the change in coverage over the last hour, the eyewall redefined, and that let us know the intensity would be there as it approached the western shores of florida, has not seen a storm like this probably ever. we have seen record levels already from the storm surge, and we can look back in modern history and tough to find a storm that has brought this kind of water. >> amy, only 30 seconds here but high tide as well a factor. >> high tide will be a factor. some areas see a lower tide through the afternoon, some a

higher tide, that makes a big difference. from the shoreline to the back bays and also to rivers inland. so, know your high tides. >> we are looking at the images, increasingly dire. stay inside as the storm approaches and wreaks havoc, pray for the charlotte county community and the rest of florida as we toss it over to "america reports." >> john: any moment now we are expecting an update from florida governor ron desantis as the eyewall of hurricane ian begins to move on shore bringing with it the potential for catastrophic damage. hello, john roberts in washington. sandra, welcome back. >> sandra: good to be with you, sandra smith in new york. "america reports," a quickly developing situation, ian expected to make landfall between 2 and 4:00 p.m. right now packin