and we have been really lucky here in osceola county.storm is in the southern part, which is not very populated. so, it's put us on a left hand side. it's lowered our chances for some of those higher winds. but it's really giving us that. rain we have not have any major incident reports as of 2:00 this morning. obviously, once the sun comes up, we really are going to get to see some of the impacts that are happening around osceola county. >> all right, brandon arrington, we thank you so much for the perspective, they're in osceola county, thank you. >> sunrise is about four hours away from. now we have continuing coverage of hurricane throughout the morning. and >> when we come, back another look at the other major headlines this morning, including the historic night for yankee slugger aaron judge. >> [noise] and a 32. jokey to left field -- this could be -- could be -- as a business owner, your bottom line is always top of mind. so start saving by switching to the mobile service designed for small business: comcast business mobile. flex

we have seen more than a foot of rain already and since the last hour, in orange and northern osceola countieslando's in orange county, we've had a flash flood warning get issued that will last for the next couple hours because we are expecting additional rains. so far, we've seen anywhere between five and 9 inches of rain around and south of orlando. there's a lot more. it's been on the northern side and heavier precipitation. the southern side, there is dry air that's been working into it. for the most part, we have seen the heavy rain on the northern tier of the storm. but the rain has been incredible. some of the totals that we have seen are now approaching 20 inches. we are closing in on 16 inches and this is where the flash flood warning is for the next couple hours. but that swath of rain is what fell after we saw landfall. this is the last six or ten hours and we had landfall shortly after 3:00 p.m. this afternoon. the same location where hurricane charley made landfall back in 2004, interesting to know. but where the storm surge was and it's what's most concerning, darkness has fallen

let's bring in osceola county emergency director bill linton. thanks for joining us. you're in the early stages of assessing the extent of damage and flooding throughout the county. how bad is it from what you understand? and tell us what you're seeing now. >> good evening, jake. it's been historical. it's been a worst case scenario for us here in osceola county. we're projecting the last several days 10 to 15 inches of rain. weerm closely approaching that 14-inch mark today. but we've had areas of kissimmee, parts of our unincorporated area flood that we've never seen before. the kissimmee video that you showed was one of our hospitals here, osceola regional, which is our trauma 2 level center, was surrounded by water this morning. rescuers could not make entry. some of that area has receded now, which is good. the ambulances have retained service there now. we actually had another hospital that was taking on water in the emergency room this morning too. so we're fortunate but we've been doing a lot of rescues in subdivisions and both our county and city of kissimmee

so tell us a little bit about osceola county.t kind of industry, what kind of structures, tell me a little bit about the county. >> so we're definitely a mix of agricultural. we have a lot of tourist industry here as well. a lot of folks that are on the western portion of the county that were more affected by the heavy winds. that's where the people going to the theme parks stay. a lot of the tornado activity we had were indicated. we didn't get a lot of reports for damage. they happened on the east side. it's more agricultural, thankfully. but what we're seeing now, like i said, we're seeing heavy, heavy rains and as things continue, even as folks wake up to see what's going on around them, the rains to the north of us in the areas north of us in orange county and those places are coming down to us still for a day or two afterwards. so we won't have seen the worst of it still for some time. >> andrew sullivan, i thank you for being with us this morning. snil. >> thank you. >> nearly 2 1/2 floridians are without power. stay with

the teen-agers stayed with their father, who is a deputy with the osceola county sheriff's office.o work but couldn't report to work because of the flooding and they said they stayed in the house as long as they could, but the water kept coming up and coming up and coming up. they said in the last two hours they just couldn't take it anymore. they said water was coming up through the toilets, up through the sinks, water was everywhere, their cabinet doors were floating open. they said all of their furniture was floating and so they got to the point that they had to climb out of a window as well. and she left with her smallest kids ages 3 to 12 and those were the people you saw earlier that were over standing in the parking lot that had just been rescued. >> and that's in kissimmee. that's in the orlando area. central floor seeing fresh water flooding, the water rising inside the houses there. this storm is not done. hurricane ian bearing down as a tropical storm now on orlando. its path will take it up the peninsula. there are very serious flood warnings there, life threatening sto

it will have major impact in places like osceola and orange county. it is now projected to exit the state of florida after passing through volusia county, it will go into the atlantic ocean, probably gain strength and run into some other states. once it gets out of florida, it will be taking up a lot of water and that will impact northeast florida, st. john's river,, do ball county. -- duvall county. major category for impact, the storm surge will be severe, a water and flooding for slow-moving storms. very severe impact in southwest florida, but those impacts will continue all through the state. this will not leave the state of florida until sometime friday morning. this is a lot of nasty weather we are in store for the next few days. kevin guthrie is here, i will let kevin come up. >> appreciate your continued leadership on this response to hurricane ian. hurricane ian is currently bringing hurricane force winds and rain to the keys and south florida. our meteorologist just mentioned before coming in here that tropical storm force winds may extend 3

with height, that's when you start to get the quick spin-up tornadoes, and tornado warnings for osceola countyuntil 3:30. later on, tomorrow evening we anticipate the storm continuing to move northward, the eye may shift to the atlantic and we could see another landfall between savanah and charleston, south carolina and will continue to move westward and clip columbia and charlotte. and the biggest concerns are storm surge. that is the thing that kills the most people during a hurricane event here and we are expected to see swells from 12 to 18 feet, bonita springs, fort myers, and extending to punta gorda. so john, sandra, this is a dangerous situation, a dangerous night and this is one of the even more important reasons why we keep telling folks to make sure they download the fox weather app, because when this storm surge happens, and those winds continue to move into your area, the power is going to go out and we want to make sure that people have a way of getting those alerts. >> john: we just saw some pictures of lakewood ranch of extensive flooding. but punta gorda, there has not been a

you look at the streets and see how much is left over including orange county, orlando, osceola, seminole and polk county that runs across the i- four corridor moving to the northeast. >> my counties on the east coast in the path of the hurricane have not been added. and we'll continue to push the administration to do so. here is why that's so critical. there are so many other pieces to this. there is a corps of engineers, hud for low income areas, there is even the u.s. department of agriculture for all of our farmers. many of our crops have been flooded and destroyed. so there are other aspects to this than just fema. these people are going to need help. we need that major disaster declaration for my counties in the east and northeast of florida as well. >> dana: congressman, thank you so much. we'll stay in touch with you. there is a long road back but back you all will be indeed. thank you for joining us today. >> bill: these disaster response teams across the country rushing into florida to help. there are a lot of them, too. one is called team rubicon, a veteran-led nonprofit out of

and ia are individual assistance with those counties are orange, osceola, seminole, and polk. again these counties are available for 30 days at a one 100% federal assistance from going to turn and ask what is that website when need to direct everyone to for mobile intake? for registration? >> disaster assistance.org. >> disaster assistance.org. again were proud 87 people who went continue to do as much as we can via web registration governor, first lady, thank you so much for your leadership today but. >> okay first lady. >> alright, flying over the devastation and destruction firsthand all i can say is our hearts and our prayers are with so many people who are suffering. which is why about 24 hours ago we launched the disaster relief fund. i am happy to say after 24 hours we have raised more than $10 million into that fund. if you remember that 8:00 o'clock a.m., we came on here and talked with you. think of us at 1.6 million were over $10 million. i just want to say thank you to all the great floridians who stepped up to support our efforts put all people across the country f

and what's your best guess that's going to have on the people of central florida, orange, osceola, seminole counties a charliesque feel. i think one of the things that's a little bit different with charlie, again, on the prediction models, it may go central florida at a less intensity than what we had for hurricane charlie. dumping more rain as the governor mentioned earlier today. possibly speeding unjust a little bit to getting out of here in 24 hours vest success 36 hours. that will happen on the rainfall side of the house. again, it does have a charlie-esque feel but it should not be nearly as catastrophic on the window like we saw with hurricane charlie all the way into central florida. we do expect rapid weakening, but, again, there will be tropical storm force winds, strong tropical storm force winds felt all the way central part and northeast florida as a part of this storm. >> we saw a lot of trees get plowed down during charlie, obviously. >> i think one thing for central florida is because we have had a lot of saturation, you know, those trees are vulnerable. so you are going to see trees

counties have been added to the recovery. expedited, and individual assistance, those townies are, orange, osceola, seminole, and polk. ain, those counties are available for 30 days at 100% federal assistance. i'm going to ask what the website is that we're going to direct everyone to. for registration for survivors it is, disaster assistance.org. again, approximately on hundred and 70 people have done that, we want to do as much as you can, thank you so much for your leadership today. >> a first lady. >> flying over the devastation firsthand, all i can say is that our hearts and prayers are with so many people who are suffering which is why about 24 hours ago we launched the disaster relief fund, and i'm happy to say that after 24 hours we have raised more than $10 million into that fund, if you remember this morning at 6:00 a.m., we talked to you, we were at six million dollars now we are at $10 million. so i want to say thank you to all the floridians who stepped up to support our efforts and those across the country who are helping floridians, thank you, we will -- you are making a big difference so we can get reso