we have fox weather's jane minar here as well. just when we got started here, jane, cedar key's gage representing water rise above normally high tide was at zero more or less, so in just a little bit less than a couple of hours, this is now up to 1.2 feet. and you can see live on your screen right now what that water rise looks like in cedar key. >> jane: the waves have grown in size. they've crashed over the barrier here. you know. they've already gun to flood out the road. you have the restaurant out in the distance of the camera. winds right now if you take a look at the direction of the winds, they've not even shifted to push in the onshore flow which will make the storm surge that much worse, in fact, grow in size by nearly in the worst-case scenario 10 feet or more. this here is solely the high tide just coming in. you can see how choppy those waves are. >> ian: jane, i'm looking at the gage here where we're getting the reading of 1.2 feet above normally dry ground at high tide. we're a half hour away from high tide in cedar

i'm ian oliver and i'm jane minar fox news is your hurricane head coaches and so many of you watching the development of idalia fox weather with you have every step of the way on every connected tv device, also on your phone 24/7 with the free fox weather app. again idalia to reach category 4 intensity at land fall. >> we have you covered with our extensive team coverage on the ground tonight folks in place across the southeast as the faster forward motion of this storm is expected to bring hurricane conditions well inland but as we mentioned, idalia is expected to reach major hurricane status tonight. it could be at any minute at this point. fox weather meteorologist bob van dylan completes our trio monitoring conditions live from clear watch beer right now bob i know you've been dealing with these outer bands, what's it looking like right now? >> i think right now ian the strongest outer band is affect us right now and this will probably be the last big one that goes through before it finally edges away from us because the center of circulation, the eye is moving past us now past ou