to clear a lot of houses quickly because of the footprint of fort myers. in the big bend, you may have two houses on a five-mile road. that is going to take a very long time to clear those. we have more than enough assets and resources to get that done in a timely manner, but i want to set expectations. some of this will take longer than what we experienced with the initial search and rescue in fort myers, again, because of the landscape. we will have to do a lot of tree cutting and emergency access to get into those areas to then do the securing and stabilizing. but we are working through that. we have maintained communications with our counties. we had a couple of 911 centers that went down briefly for 20 or 30 minutes. all 911 calls have been answered. there are minor backlogs in taylor county and madison county that local officials are working through. we are separating resources to help them get through those calls as quickly as possible. even though we had 91 one calls, there is no one in distress that has not been taking care of. -- taken care of. t

we were _ search in rescue in fort myers we were able — search in rescue in fort myers we were ablet of fort myers. up here in the big _ footprint of fort myers. up here in the big band you may have two houses that are _ the big band you may have two houses that are on _ the big band you may have two houses that are on a _ the big band you may have two houses that are on a five mile road. that is going — that are on a five mile road. that is going to — that are on a five mile road. that is going to take a very long time to clear— is going to take a very long time to clear those — is going to take a very long time to clear those. we have more than enough — clear those. we have more than enough assets and resources to get those _ enough assets and resources to get those done — enough assets and resources to get those done in a timely manner but i want _ those done in a timely manner but i want to— those done in a timely manner but i want to set— those done in a timely manner but i want to set expectations. some is going _ want to set expectations. some is going to _ want to set expect

the fort myers, sanibel area. that strengthened at the last minute and it really caught residents in the area off guard. there were people i spoke to yesterday that said they normally wouldn't evacuate and they chose to because of what they saw happen. today, totally different story. what i also saw was a lot of people walking outside. taking their boats and jet-skis on the water. i saw people biking, walking their dogs. and i asked as many as i could, how are you feeling? they were saying they were unbothered, unconcerned. i went to a couple of residences, people living in trailer parks. you mentioned zone a and b. there's a zone a here and that is under mandatory evacuation. the low lying areas most at risk for those surge concerns. but zone b, everyone i spoke to there was saying they were totally unbothered about weathering the storm from inside their mobile home, their apartment, wherever they might be. the thing to remember, we talked about the storm surge. we're expecting about 4 to 7 feet. things can alway

we were able to clear houses quickly because of the footprint of fort myers.nd, you may have two houses on a five-mile road. that will take a long time to clear those. we have more than enough assets and resources, i want to set expectations, it will take longer than we experienced in fort myers because of the landscape, we'll have to do tree cutting and push, emergency access to get into areas to then do securing and stabilizing. we are working through that. we maintained communication with our counties. all 911 calls have been answered, there are some minor backlogs in taylor county and madison that local shall ifs are working through and sup elementing resouss to get through the calls as quickly as possible. we have 911 calls, there is no one in distress that has not been taken care of. the ones in distress, we folks to immediately. we have folks calling saying i'm entrapped in my house and i'm okay, but i need help. they are okay, we will get to those folks as quick as we can get access in to them. response team will work around the clock to meet the needs

that is three feet higher than what was predicted for hurricane ian at fort myers beach. heed the warnings. if you are in the big bend area, your emergency managers are calling for evacuation, please do it. i was on the phone with john mcdonald, he is greatly concerned about -- 12-13 feet of storm surge there. we have to act now. we have launched our state assistance information line. 800-342-3557. residents can call and find out about how to prepare. road closures, alternate routes available, open shelters. shelters designed for medically dependent individuals and reentry information once it is safe to return. you can get up-to-date information on our website. we were with the cfo and i would reiterate what he said earlier today. take pictures of your home now. so that when the storm happens if you have damage, you have before and after pictures. take pictures of the interior part of your home as well. then please do not be taken advantage of after the storm. make sure you don't do any cash transactions, don't sign anything. if you have any issues when it comes to insura

. >> fort myers, tarps on homes, a devastated area. >> final thoughts, janice. >> listen, it's another hurricane, right, and there will be another one and we will cover it and the best of humanity will come together afterwards. >> stay with fox news for continuing coverage. >> the state is still being impacted by the storm's bands and we are seeing that particularly in the northern part of the state. >> it's a dangerous storm. people need to prepare, be ready when it's coming through. >> there is still additional storm surge expected. >> this is extreme high, you can see all the boats out here. look at this. this is crazy. >> john: you'll eyes on florida and now georgia after hurricane idalia comes ashore as a category 3 hurricane, blasting destructive winds and life-threatening storm surge. the hurricane weakening to a category 1 but officials warn florida and georgia not out of the woods just yet. hello, john roberts, good wednesday afternoon to you. >> good to see you. it is a very rough day for pretty much all the south, i'm aishah hasnie in for sandra smith. idalia, making its his

we took a crew, a team down to fort myers last year. barge down and craned boats out of people's yards, on top of people's houses. and we've seen stuff that i didn't know a storm could do. and so it was a real big eye-opener to my whole family. i think my dad is worryied wors case scenario he doesn't want to be like what happened in fort myers. with insurance stuff going on, we're all worried. that's why we're staying here to see if there is anything that we can do to protect what we have. >> chase, hurricane hermine which was a hurricane 1 storm, it did pass through here. it had a 6-foot storm surge. now we're standing down by the water. there is a bar area up here in the building which is about 6 feet higher than us. how high up on your body did the water get? with a six-foot storm surge for hurricane hermine? >> it was chest high in our store, which is about 50 feet from our river. so i remember on for that storm, it was kind of up in the air that if it was going to turn into a hurricane, and we didn't prepare that much at all for hu

people saw the images of fort myers beach and that was catastrophic. you would go hundreds of miles away. you had major flooding, erosion on the east coast of florida, places like volusia county, the structure is falling down because of that. it had massive impacts. anytime you do this you would want it to impact this small amount of places as possible. >> if you are a resident in florida, there was one that commented. gov. desantis: my concern is protecting the people of florida, being ready to go. we have done that. in florida you have to do this. it is something we put a lot of time and effort to through the course of each year, knowing there will be times when you will have to activate it. we had a major one last year. one of the most expensive on record. we were hoping not to have any this year and we would get off lucky but that was not in the cards. it has been our focus, getting all of the stuff ramped up. the county is by and large i think have done a good job. things are going to happen over the next few days that will require a lot of suppor

clear a lot of houses quickly because of the footprint of fort myers.wo two houses on a five-mile road, so that's going to take a long time to clear those. we have more than enough assets and resources to get that done in a timely manner, but i want to set expectations. some of this is going to take longer than what we experienced with fort myers just because of the landscape. we're going to have to do a lot of push emergency access to get into those areas to then do the securing and stabilizing. but we are working through all of that. we have maintained com communications with all our counties. we had a couple 911 centers that went down briefly for about 20 or 30 minutes. but again, all 911 calls have been answered. there are some minor backlogs in taylor county and madison county that local officials are working through. then we're supplementing those resources to help them get through the calls as quickly as possible. i will reiterate that even though we have 911 calls, there's no one in distress that has not been taken care of. the ones in distress,

in that's those pictures you saw from fort myers beach and north fort myers beach. had the opportunity to go down there via helicopter a couple weeks ago there are still entire houses off the pads. people living in rv trailers. we still have a long way to go before -- >> ainsley: some people are still living else where inland until their houses are finished. >> yeah. because they have been destroyed or flooded. if the house wasn't destroyed, the house was flood, so everything is having to be repaired. >> steve: sure, this video actually a live image from tampa, it shows part of the bay right there on i-275. we just saw an emergency vehicle but, i know you can't see it, congressman, but there is some normal traffic. you know, the one thing you are absolutely right. the thing about a hurricane is you can see it coming for days, and people can plan to get out and they do if they are smart. but you know a lot of people they figure it's going to wobble like the last year and i'm going to just ride it out and unfortunately, it's too late if they are stuck in their house.

it's about parallel to fort myers. the storm surge is coming up. the fort myers areas to naples. this is going to be about as high as it gets in about the next six hours or so. tampa, you're dry now but that's going to end shortly. the first batch of showers and storms is m coing your way and that will increase. the 2:00 update was 90 miles per hour. this is the upper echelon of category 1. we're almost heading into category 2. it's looking very uniform. it's consolidated over the center of the storm. all these terms i'm telling you, it's going to intensify rapidly. it has 18 hours to get as strong as it's going to get before it 4ed heads up into areas of the big bend of florida. the hurricane center thinks low end category 4. this area is very prone to storm surge and that is the number one concern for life threatening, if there's going to be catastrophic damage, it will be because of that storm surge. that's always to the right of the center. so our friends in tallahassee are still staring at this and saying this thing better turn east because you wouldn't get the storm surge b

y por supuesto fort myers en sÍ que el aÑo pasado en septiembre sintiÓ el golpe de otro huracÁn muy potente los vientos de idalia. la principal preocupaciÓn de este sistema son las marejadas y clÓnicas, la posibilidad de que el agua sube tanto que pueda entrar a tierra y provocar grandes y peligrosas inundaciones. comenzamos con el reporte de rogelio mora-tagle. >> idalia avanza lenta y amenazante por el golfo de mÉxico y sus efectos se sienten en florida. comunidades que el aÑo pasado sintieron la furia de ian hoy experimentan un castigo menor de idalia. Éste es el huracÁn visto desde la estaciÓn internacional espacial, el Área de la bahÍa de tampa parece estar a salvo de un impacto directo y se espera que la marejada llegue a un nivel de siete pies. >> hablamos de que nos cubrirÍa a ti y a mi. >> es una de las lecciones qu aprendimos despuÉs del huracÁn bien, muchas personas en el condado que se vieron afectadas entendieron que el agua iba a entrar siete pies horizontal, vertical. >> inunda carreteras, los autos quedan bajo el agua que entra a las casas y puede entrar a los enchufes elÉct

it has turned to the southwest of the fort myers area. it's considered a category one storm but eventually we anticipate idalia will undergo what we call rapid intensification. that means we will see winds increase by 35 miles an hour in the next 24 hours. once this make landfall somewhere in the big bend this will likely have at least winds of one hundred 11 miles per hour. mph. we see some tornado warnings popping up here 17 miles from marco island, this will be going on until 12:15. we will see severe weather across the sunshine state from gainesville to the tampa area today. once the storm gets done with florida it will continue into georgia and south carolina and even north carolina. the atlanta metro area will likely get rain out of this. college, raleigh, north carolina, savannah will see some significant rain out of this, from 1 to 5 inches of rain across the florida panhandle. where we could pick up on 5 to 8 inches of rain. some estimates are saying we could pick up boards of 10 inches of rain by the time all this is done. neil:

por eso el mensaje de preparaciÓncomo fort myers y tampa. por eso el mensaje de preparaciÓn.ada, pero que previamente se anticipaba, pero es un poderoso disturbio que va a generar una marejada ciclÓnica de norte a sur en la costa oeste de la florida que podrÍa llegar hasta los 15 pies de altura, una situaciÓn sumamente preocupante ante la alta vulnerabilidad de la costa oeste de la florida en tÉrminos de la inundaciÓn costera. sabemos que la inundaciÓn costera es lo que mÁs cobra la vida de personas cuando los huracanes se adentran de esta forma sobre las costas estadounidenses. julio. >> es el mayor peligro de esta marejada ciclÓnica, ¿quÉ efecto tiene la luna llena en esta marejada? >> lo que ocurre es lo siguiente, estamos viviendo una superluna, significa que la luna con su movimiento elÍptico estarÁ en su punto mÁs cercano de la tierra. por consiguient va a ejercer mayor gravedad sobre nuestros ocÉanos. va a permitir que la marea alta sea mÁs elevada y lamentablemente va a coincidir con el momento en que un poderoso huracÁn se adentra sobre las costas, exacerbÁndose las

the thing that we saw and learned from fort myers that people were okay with the wind and rain, but it is the storm surge that took their lives. keep you and your family safe. >> cnn is tracking the storm from all angles. meteorologist derek van dam is live in clearwater for us. he leads off the coverage. derek, what are you seeing? >> yeah, boris. it is the calm before the storm, right. but the latest information that we can pass on to the viewers is that idalia is strengthening with 85-mile-an-hour sustained winds and lashing the southern portions of florida already. you saw the live view, and we will take et again from key west, and this is the indication of 50 miles per hour winds look like. that the outer band, and remember, the center of the storm now gusting over 100 miles per hour, and the official track is calling for a category 3 making landfall along the big bend, but the winds are going to be 125 miles per hour, and that is just shy of a category 4 hurricane. so we are anticipating and so does the national hurricane center, continued rapid strengthening, and it is a concern

i just saw fort myers has a two-foot storm surge, the storm is far away, already in two-foot range. later on tonight, this is what will head into the tampa area at 4 to 7 feet as we get that landfall the possibility of 10 to 15 feet of water, again this is a swampy area, not going to be like last year with'ian going downtown fort myers. a beach community, cedar key, we're concerned what that will look like when all is said and done. lot of pieces to this puzzle. every storm is different. >> ian when it turned, we think this isn't going to turn. >> it doesn't look like. we're worried about the people in tallahassee if it keeps going north. >> bill karins, thank you >>> the preparations in tampa, nearly 400,000 people live there and they're getting ready for effect thes of idalia. >> up to 7 feet of storm surge. marissa parra has the latest. >> reporter: the conditions in tam are kind of unique, here for about 24 hours and from my observations, the people who were most concerned, the people who wanted to leave have largely already done so, yesterday we saw the mad rush to the stores t

that is going to be upward of 16 feet comparable to what we saw in ian last year for fort myers, 10 to5 feet and you saw the damage from ian. this is incredible event, one that is ongoing. we had a landfall and have backside of the storm to come onshore and i am concerned people will let their guard down. here is the man of the hour brian norcross. glad to have you with fox weather doing wonderful work. we remember brian from hurricane andrew. >> ainsley: 31 years ago. >> steve: you were probably america's premiere authority when it comes to hurricanes, you have lived in florida so long. our family was watching all night long at the command center. you're a scientist and were looking at computersings and watches stuff. how does this storm as it preceded in the hours and thank you for getting up early, how has it progresed according to the forecast? any deviation that surprised you or right on the nose? >> the surprise was yesterday, strength of the outer band. you have not seen much wind, they are in between bands, somebody is getting the bands that are still going on and it is going t

the outer bands also reaching fort myers beach, which, of course, is the last place that needs this. that's where hurricane ian did so much damage nearly a year ago. the winds also picking up in sarasota tonight. and in florida's big bend region, where the hurricane may very well make landfall, north and west of tampa, the vulnerable barrier island of cedar key boarded up. most everyone is gone tonight. at this hour, the newest track coming in just late today. a slight shift in that track. ginger will take us right through it. where it will now hit. hurricane idalia now about 200 miles from tampa, moving at 16 miles an hour. expected to make landfall north of tampa. so, let's find out where, and of course, we always know that this path could still shift. let's get right to chief meteorologist ginger zee, where the winds are already whipping tonight on treasure island, florida. ginger? >> reporter: hey, david. we'll be with you for every wobble of that track overnight. bull right behind me, the darkening skies, the outer bands of idalia. the center is 150 miles to my southwest. that t

i can tell you after hurricane ian, it was like they would see the folks racing in to fort myers and and they were very, very appreciative of all the hard work being done. this is not easy work, especially in late august in florida. it's going to be nasty. it's going to be hot. there will be a lot of moving parts, so this is really important work. the state of florida very much appreciates everybody, particularly those that came from out of state to help the people of florida. i know the floridians very much appreciate it as well. thank you and god bless you. okay, we will hear from kevin guthrie. >> thank you, governor, and thank you for your leadership and thank you, cfo, for patrolling this. i want to start by picking up where the governor was going with. electrical companies accepting assistance from each other. this governor was able to pull it off with his leadership, and i will tell duke energy and melissa's team, 60 million plus dollars is the work they did for lee county, and that got the power back on in days versus what was going to be a total restoration of weeks and pote

let's take a look now at fort myers beach that. area too is still recovering from hurricane ian, which hit last year. these record warm waters in the gulf and even in the southern atlantic have really helped to fuel the storm's intensity. it is projected to be a category 3 hurricane by the time it makes landfall. remember, a category 3 is winds of at least 120 miles per hour. and this current track here has the storm striking florida's vulnerable big bend area. the national weather service is warning that you really can't compare this storm to anything because, quote, no one has seen this. a particular concern is cedar key. it's now at the center of this storm's track, about a hundred people in that island area are still refusing to leave even though officials fear that the town itself could be completely cut off from the mainland by a storm surge of some 8 to 12 feet. tampa bay also bracing as much as 4 to 6 feet of storm surge, anticipated there. and it isn't only florida. georgia and the carolinas also under a state of emergency

it was fort myers beach last year that had the storm surge events.the storm surge events. these low-lying coastal areas. and people do live there, but it's every year, every couple years where you're seeing this devastating destructive storm surge. how does that factor in to where people, do you think, choose to live or how they build along the florida gulf coast. >> yeah. well, what happens, unfortunately, from an economic standpoint, when a storm comes through, i'll give you an example, monroe county, it destroyed all the mobile home parks, everything that was down there back in 2018. and what's going to get rebuilt is not just going to be up to code. meaning up to modern code to withstand that kind of event, but it's going to be a lot more expensive because the cost of building it at that level. if you're the owner of a land that has a mobile home park and now you can sell it to someone who is going to develop it, dw you're going to go with the million dollar townhome offer. you can literally identify which were the house that is were build up to

as hermoso moves ever closer, we are looking at fort myers in florida, and you can make out there inhe plaza and clearly very high winds there as well dashmac hurricane idalia. for more information, check out our website. for more information, please check out our website at bbc.com/news for the latest on hurricane idalia. you can find out which areas have been evacuated, as well as on the ground coverage as the storm approaches the florida coast. around the world and across the uk, this is bbc news. let's look at some other stories making news. a 20—year—old man in uganda has become the first to be charged under the country's controversial anti—lgbtq legislation, which passed in may. the man is accused of what was described as aggravated homosexuality after he was alleged to have had relations with a 41—year—old man. the 20—year—old's lawyer says he will remain in custody until his case is heard by the country's high court. police in canada have brought an additional 12 charges against a man accused of supplying a poisonous chemical to people who died by suicide. 57—year—old kenneth

. >> janice: this will be comparable to what ian did to the for fort myers. it's the continental shelf so all of this water goes on top of shallow ground and then when you talk about the tide so the natural rise in water, 16 feet with waves on top of that? i mean, it's devastating for this region. i'm so concerned for the people who decided to ride it out. i was listening to the first responders saying "we're not going to be able to get to you." >> ainsley: cedar key you have mentioned that. that little island the closist big city is gainesville but it's out there. and there is one little bridge. >> janice: you are cut off. >> ainsley: 100 residents decided to stay and they say every home could be flooded. and we saw that, remember, with ian we saw was it sanibel island and remember the governor built that bridge back very quickly so he was praised for that but you worry about the families that are there. >> janice: still people can't get into their homes. >> ainsley: sean's his parents had to put him in the home. i had to transport my mom with her oxygen. >>

give you one more tidbit of information about hope and her neighbors here, and last year in the fort myers area, when hurricane ian came through, everyone gathered supplies and food and dipers and building supplies and they drove it down to fort myers in a caravan a year ago, and now it is these residents, this town that need the help. boris. >> our hearts are going out to hope and those residents in horseshoe beach, and we hope they get the help they need. vic micolucci with wjxt, thank you. >>> this just in, just as clarence thomas is revealing new details of the private ships that were paid for mega donor harlan, we will have more on that. >>> and now, a look at what the judge agrees as to the length of sentence the proud boys will serve with their role in january 6th. >>> and a group that is going to be traveling to the u.s. frorom canada. my most important kitchen tool? my brain. so i choose new neuriva ultra. unlike some others, it supports 7 brain health indicators, includinmental alertness from one serving. to help keep me sharp. try new neuriva ultra. think bigger. i'll always tak

not like you would see down in miami or fort myers or even tampa. smaller towns like perry, st.ark's, crawford, tallahassee and gainesville. the governor saying they have 30,000 to 40,000 electrical linemen there or on the way. 400,000 gallons of gasoline. 600 search and rescue teams. hopefully they won't need those folks. when you get a huge storm moving in as this one is expected to be by the time it makes landfall, maybe a category 3 hurricane as janice dean was telling us, the need will be great. we'll keep watching it for you with our weather team. meanwhile, this. >> this crisis originated with the federal government and must be resolved through the federal government. the borders and decisions about who can work are solely determined by the federal government. >> john: blame game over the new york biden mess. biden administration is calling out fellow democratic leaders in new york state. getting its hands on letters from mayokas to hochul and new york city mayor adams. knocking their handling of the influx. dhs confirms to us that it gave the state and city dozens of rec

it knocked out fort myers beach and got to be worried about that happening again. >> absolutelyment that'sready and leave the low lying areas now, don't wait. get out there before the traffic gets heavy and talking about evacuation, don't have to evacuate out of state, don't have to evacuate hundreds of miles, 10 miles, 15 miles. get to a friend's house, a hotel or shelter or pet friendly hotels and shelters. get to higher ground and ride out the storm. the worst we're going to have here as everyone has been saying is going to be a storm submersible. that's going to be probably peaking about 2:00 p.m. tomorrow afternoon, 4-7 feet of storm surge on our pi pinellas county, clear water beach. stuart: the schools are closed and the airport is closing this afternoon. are you now formally telling people or encouraging them to evacuate as opposed to telling them to get out? >> absolutely. that started at 7:00 p.m. last night a mandatory evacuation from level a areas across the tampa bay area. i have a story to tell you about a friend that stayed in sanable. he didn't think the -- sanibel. the did

an hour, we can see it impacting from tallahassee all the way through cedar key, tampa, and even fort myers is going to see strong, violent winds, that could also bring up the storm surge, which it tends to be the deadliest part of the entire hurricane. we're also dealing with some weather here in the bay area that's worth watching, some dry north wind that's going to start making a shift later on tonight into early wednesday. that could bring about not only some fire weather watch, but a shift in the direction is going to bring in wildfire smoke from the pacific northwest. so lots to cover. we'll talk about that in the full forecast in a little bit. >>> for now, mike is helping you get around with cheaper gas prices. >> the lows are rising a bit. santa clara county's low is $4.59. we'll point out the great gas on grant road in mountain view. $4.69 is the low for alameda county, livermore star gas and mart. $4.79 is the best for san francisco, city and county, 76 on ocean avenue across from city college of san francisco. thanks for reporting this through gasbuddy.com. >>> on the roadways, a

expectations, this infrastructure grid is completely different than the infrastructure that is in lee, fort myers, the greater lee county area. lee county is obviously an urban-type issue. this is an issue where we have miles and miles of rural area that may service one or two residents. we are working with people, but it is going to be a little bit different. we may only be able to bring on a handful of customers with a 10 mile stretch of line. we are going to get it done. i told the governor we are trying -- trying to get the majority of people in the next 48 hours, but we will be constantly in contact with duke energy. today, i want to talk more about what it is that you should be doing now that the disaster has hit and you are getting ready to start taking your debris to the edge of the roadway. it will help us significantly, your local government significantly, the solid waste individuals if you would separate your debris at the roadway. number one, don't put it in the road, put it at the edge. we need to be able to get up and down the roadways with emergency vehicles, with other crews as we

places like fort myers beach are already experiencing flooding.area is still recovering from hurricane ian that landed last fall. florida's governor, ron desantis, who is urged people to evacuate. he is warning that the damage here could be severe. >> you really have got to go back to the late 1800s to find a storm of this magnitude that will enter where this one looks like it is going to enter tomorrow. so we don't really have a historical analog in anybody's memory, so it is likely to cause a lot of damage. >> joining us now is cnn senior producer, victoria kennedy. she is with hurricane hunters who will be flying through the storm in just a little while. victoria, you're about to get on this plane with a hurricane hunters. tell us, what are you going to be looking for when you are up there? with >> high, abby, thank you for having me. i am here at keasler air force base in biloxi, mississippi. this is home to the 53rd whether recon -- also known as the hurricane hunters and we are on the runway right now. or about to get ready to board the big

. >> john: big difference from ian in fort myers. steve from tarpon springs, florida. thank you. hurricane idalia setting its sights on the southeast, already blasting parts of florida and georgia and forecast to barrel through the carolinas later on tonight. any moment now, the south carolina governor henry mcmaster will be providing an update on the state's response. continuing coverage as "america reports" rolls into hour two. i'm john roberts in washington, good to have you with me. >> aishah: good to see you again. i'm aishah hasnie in for sandra smith. so the cat 3 hurricane left behind a path of destruction in florida's big bend, strongest storm to hit that area in 125 years. we have been watching catastrophic storm surge and heavy rain flooding roadways and bridges in florida. >> john: stunning drone video of a home that last its entire roof, completely blown away in keaton beach, which is where the national hurricane center says the eyewall came ashore. let's get right to fox weather as katie burns, live in charleston, south carolina, where the storm is headed and looks

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. >> reporter: heavy flooding in fort myers, parts of southern florida, are already feeling the effects of hurricane idalia before it makes landfall today. >> this is crunch time right now. >> reporter: a state of emergency has been declared, and evacuation orders issued for dozens of florida counties with deadly storm surges expected to reach as high as 15 feet in some areas. >> if you do choose to stay in one of the evacuation zones, first responders will not be able to get you until after the storm has passed. >> reporter: many floridians have heeded those warnings. >> i just feel like no one should probably stay at this point. >> reporter: though others say they'll ride out the storm. >> being the caretaker of the oldest building in cedar key, i feelel kind off like i need t t here. >> repeporter: efffforts havee taken to protect the state's most vulnerable, with flood barriers installed at multiple hospitals and some patients evacuated. rescue animals have also been moved out of the impact zone. u.s. coast guard units and more than 5,000 national guard troops are prepared for searc

you are looking at conditions in fort myers tonight.e hurricane is expected to make landfall as a dangerous category four hurricane around 5:00 a.m. local time tomorrow. tonight, california's governor newsom is sending search and rescue personnel to help those in the storm's path, including a crew from alameda fire. ike ejiochi is there in ta with more on how communities are faring. >> the national weather service calling idalia a major event. the bands already causing havoc in the sunshine state. wins picking up speed. tornado warnings near naples, but the biggest concern, life-threatening storm surge. governor ron desantis ordering evacuations for low-lying areas in 22 counties. >> [indiscernible] it has come to our are ike: in tampa, the city's main hospital creating an aqua fence to keep the water out. the barrier island of cedar key boarded up. delete urban search and rescue teams are on the ground along with power crews from as far away as maine, anticipating major power outages. the national guard deploying 55,000 guardsmen to as

say is run from the water, hide from the wind >> reporter: residents and business owners in the fort myers area concerned and still rebuilding after hurricane ian hit nearly a year ago. >> it was real le harly hard toe something you built destroyed in an instant >> reporter: gas contaminated with diesel. the contaminated fuel could cause damage to engines. meanwhile, residents are stocking up on supplies and lining up at sandbag locations >> i'm just afraid that our luck is going to run out. we're not going to be prepared one time, and that's when the luck's going to run out. >> reporter: cedar key, florida. >> our thanks to priscilla coming up, ang jiie lassman wil give us an update. >>> a shooting at chapel hill sent the entire campus into lockdown as heavily-armed police swarmed the area students described scenes of terror and confusion >> immediately we all stayed heightened on the stalls squatting on the toilet. >> later an arrest was made live on nbc station wral. the all-clear given around 5:00 p.m. local time neither the shooting victim nor suspect has been named by authorities yet

say is run from the water, hide from the wind >> reporter: residents and business owners in the fort myers area concerned and still rebuilding after hurricane ian hit nearly a year ago. >> it was really hard to see something that you've built just destroyed. in an instant. >> reporter: as drivers load up on gas in tampa officials warning of fuel contaminated with diesel at more than two dozen gas stations over the weekend the contaminated fuel could cause damage to engines. meanwhile, residents are stocking up on supplies and lining up at sandbag locations >> i'm just afraid that our luck is going to run out, we're not going to be prepared one time, and that's when the luck's going to run out >> reporter: priscilla thompson, nbc news, cedar key, florida >>> we'll turn now to the terrifying moments today at the university of north carolina chapel hill the campus placed on lockdown for hours after a gunman fatally shot a faculty member. police apparently making the arrest on live tv. here's ali vitali. >> reporter: tonight an alarming if too familiar scene a college campus on lockdown after

. >> reporter: the keys and fort myers beach already seeing flooding crystal river is now in the cross hairs. this is somewhat new territory for you guys, right? a major hurricane hasn't come through this area, i've been told, ever >> we haven't seen anything like this in a very long time >> reporter: idalia threatens to wash away parts of the florida coast with record-setting storm surge, a hurricane's deadliest threat the initial rush of water comes quickly. at six feet it breaks through doors and windows. at nine feet, it moves further inland a 12 to 15-foot storm surge would be catastrophic. that roofline is about 15 feet right there. look where the water is already at high tide, inches from the back yard. now a double threat from mother nature a king tide expected, when the sun, moon and earth align to produce tides one to two feet higher than normal the view from the space station shows idalia's monstrous size. but its destructive power needs to be seen up close. look at these villages in western cuba, submerged by rains. >> very few people can survive being in the path of major

on the ground in florida, these are pictures out of fort myers.a could bring up to seven feet or two meters of storm surge to the densely popular you -- densely populated tampa bay area. wind speeds are expected to reach on hundred 25 miles per hour or 200 kilometers per hour. 49 of the state's 67 counties are already under some form of evacuation orders. prior to evacuating, residents placed sandbags around structures to protect homes and businesses from flooding and storm surges. ron desantis said in preparation, 1.1 million gallons of fuel are on standby, as well as 5500 national guardsmen and 250 starlike internet devices. . 40,000 workers are ready to's -- ready to restore power. damages inevitable so evacuation is essential, said ron desantis. >> you have time, particularly in the northern part of the state, you have time to evacuate. you don't need to outrun the storm. cat to higher ground, get into a safe structure, ride out the storm. then you can go back to your place. in some of these areas like cedar key, some of these others along the

we've seen flooding already in fort myers. here's the very latest on the dalia at 105 miles an hour, making it category 2 hurricane right now. it is moving over very fertile waters that are so warm, almost bathtub like out there right now. and so is likely to blossom. so by late tonight, early tomorrow morning, we've got a category 3 hurricane, a major hurricane approaching the big bend area, a florida. then here we go coming on shore, maybe near perry. that's the very latest forecast track. now this. what we're worried about is right around the east side of the storm system. that's where you're going to see that big wall of water that we call the storm surge, maybe as high as 10, maybe 15 feet high coming cpon shore somewhere in this area. and because of that, you see cedar key not too far away, almost falling within the uncertainty cone as it moves onshore. but when that comes onshore, that's the most devastating part of hurricanes in law flat. really anything it's pap at that point is going to carry on right through georgia

i talked to representative adam botana from fort myers beach this morning about 3:00 a.m., he said it'st a lot of storm surge, not a lot of damage, but certainly not ian. but he says it's reminiscent of what they experienced in hurricane irma. happy to hear that and appreciate him giving me a call to give me ground truth. we are here, we are ready. we will deploy our response and recovery teams as quickly as we possibly can. you know we like to move very quickly here at the division. we are ready to provide the needed support to our big bend communities as well as communities with standing impacts from the other bands of the storm, under the governor's leadership. we have certainly amassed a great team here at the division, and with state agency heads that have moved bureaucracy and red tape to get things done where we're restoring 100,000 accounts in less than eight hours. so, please rest assured we will do whatever it takes to help our communities recover from idalia. i've got general -- we have general haas here this morning, again, john,ky not tell you how much i appreciate you and

i tell people normally when i want to do midwestern nights, i just go to fort myers in january and ie half the midwest there. but we love everybody that comes down to florida, particularly southwest florida from iowa and other parts. >> thank you. well, listen, good friend, former colleague, governor from florida. and so i appreciate that and appreciate the friendly competition. so ron is out there doing the 99 county tour. i think you may be ahead of me. hey, you know what, we're in iowa, and in iowa, we're iowa nice. so let's give everybody the opportunity to hear our candidates. so we'll stop. we'll stop until you do. but we're all going to have an opportunity to hear from each and every candidate. that's what we've been doing. so, ok. you're doing the 99 county tour. i'm very competitive. i think you may be ahead of me. so tell me, you know, you're putting in a lot of miles. talk to me about what you're hearing and seeing across iowa. gov. desantis: well, i think what we're hearing is people understand that our country is in decline and we need to reverse this decline and revive

the remnants of last year's hurricane ian, which cost lives, homes and businesses, still litter fort myerse happy with how governor desantis responded. i'm olivia, i'm 2a years old and i'm the president of the southwest florida young republicans. olivia grew up open to both political parties but during the 2016 election, she couldn't afford to attend a democrats rally, while donald trump spoke for free. she sees the overturning of roe as a positive moment for local democracy. i never really felt that the federal government should have a say in, like, reproductive rights and so, when you bring it back to the state level, you're bringing it back into the hands of the people. olivia is supporting desantis�*s bid to be president. what would you say to people who think governor desantis is just trying to out—trump trump? he wants to be the next president and he doesn't really care about the people in florida? i would say that's completely false. you can just look at his response to south—west florida during the hurricane, and even after. he's always very concerned about the constituents. his nu

you are looking at conditions in fort myers tonight.rricane is expected to make landfall as a dangerous category four hurricane around 5:00 a.m. local time tomorrow. tonight, california's governor newsom is sending search and rescue personnel to help those in the storm's path, including a crew from alameda fire. ike ejiochi is there in ta with more on how communities are faring. >> the national weather service calling idalia a major event. the bands already causing havoc in the sunshine state. wins picking up speed. tornado warnings near naples, but the biggest concern, life-threatening storm surge. governor ron desantis ordering evacuations for low-lying areas in 22 counties. >> [indiscernible] it has come to our are ike: in tampa, the city's main hospital creating an aqua fence to keep the water out. the barrier island of cedar key boarded up. delete urban search and rescue teams are on the ground along with power crews from as far away as maine, anticipating major power outages. the national guard deploying 55,000 guardsmen to assist

. >> reporter: the keys and fort myers beach already seeing flooding. crystal river is now in the crosshairs. this is somewhat new territory for you guys, right? a major hurricane hasn't come through this area i've been told ever. >> correct. we haven't seen anything like in a very long time. >> reporter: idalia threatens to wash away parts of the florida coast with record-setting storm surge. that's a hurricane's deadliest threat. the initial rush of water comes suddenly. 3 feet is considered life-threatening. at 6 feet, waves cause significant damage, breaking through doors and windows. at 9 feet, the floods move farther inland. a 12 to 15-foot storm surge would be catastrophic for low-lying communities in florida. that roofline, that's about 15 feet right there. and look where the water already is at high tide, inches from the backyard. now a double threat from mother nature. a king tide expected wednesday. that's when the sun, moon, and earth align to produce tides 1 to 2 feet higher than normal. the few from the space station shows idalia's monstro

shift at any point, just like hurricane ian did last year when it shifted south, devastating the fort myersa and killing 149 people in the state. >> if it wobbles west, you're looking at tallahassee is going to end up getting getting impacted, wobbles east. you're going to see more severe impacts here in the tampa bay area being caught by surprise could be devastating for homeowners who may be without insurance this year, more than a dozen insurance companies have stopped writing home insurance policies in the state, blaming the rising cost and higher flood risk due to climate change. >> farmers insurance announcing just yesterday that it's cutting more than 2400 jobs, 11% of its workforce after ending home insurance coverage in florida last month. nearly 15% of homeowners in the state are without insurance. and more are dropping their plans voluntarily . the average policy in florida now costs roughly $6,000. that's up 42% from last year, nearly triple the national average. and there's also a risk for tornadoes along the coast as that storm approaches. we'll take a closer look at the forec