, a las 6:00 de la tarde hora local para el condado de pinellas, uno de los dos condados en el Área derÍa ser una zona impactada por este huracÁn ian, que no es solo un huracÁn, estÁ en pleno crecimiento cobrando fuerza, y siendo una amenaza para millones de personas. >> m(musica). m(musica). >> ian dejÓ de ser inquietud. es una gran preocupaciÓn para residentes del Área de tampa. >> viendo lo que estÁ pasando, si serÁ fuerte voy a evacuar. >> se ha ordenado la evacuaciÓn de 300,000 personas de las zonas mÁs vulnerables. la orden es efectiva en el condado pinellas donde el riesgo es mayor y autoridades advierten. >> es importante saber que a cierta cantidad de viento aquellas personas que trabajan en seguridad pÚblica, sean policÍas, bomberos, quien sea miembro de la seguridad pÚblica no puede responder. estarÍa a la suerte de lo que pueda conseguir. y podrÍa perder la vida. >> en el centro de operaciones de emergencias, se procesan las llamadas. >> preguntando donde estÁn los albergues. >> ian podrÍa provocar inundaciones severas. >> hace mÁs de 100 aÑos que no enfrentamos un riesgo c

what is the situation in pinellas county right now? >> good morning. pinellas we have saint pete in clearwater are two big cities, tap days across a day in hillsboro but we're trying to balance everyone's thoughts because we really have dodged the catastrophic event are using in south florida down and charlotte and the county. it is an event but it is not anything like the catastrophic event like we thought it might be just 48 hours ago. so we've got folks telling them to shelter in place still, we have 184,000 residences without power, we still have about 5500 folks in shelters, so we've got an impact, we've got a saturated ground, about heavy winds, gusts 40 50 60 miles per hour, knocking over some trees and power lines, that kind of thing. again, we had an event, and people should be very cautious and shelter in place, it's nothing like what it could mean and what our neighbors said to the south are seeing. >> that's the tough part for some of these residents. even though you telling them to shelter in place. i'm sure the desire for so many these pe

we are taking this seriously at pinellas county. and we need the residents to do the same because we can get the information out, we can do everything to preserve the infrastructure, the storm water systems to move water out of the way but we can't force anyone to leave and unfortunately when the wind speeds and the first tropical storm winds pick up at 40 and 50 miles per hour we have to su spend the ability to offer emergency services because we don't want our ambulance going out to run a call to become another casualty of storm surge or storm force winds and need to restore the capability to respond until after the acute storm threat passed. >> yeah, of course. as you look at the map and you watch it heading toward the county what part worries you most? >> you know, one thing that's easy to be misled looking at the forecasts from the national hurricane center is how small that tone is compared to the real thing this storm is more than 300 miles wide. from the county to mobile, alabama. no matter how this storm runs we experience

i was in pinellas county yesterday. it's street level to begin with. they flood, jose, when there are normal rainstorms. forget about what we're about to see over the course of the next day. this is terrifying from that standpoint. the projections right now, 12 to 18 feet where i am. the winds have not yet arrived. we're starting to get a taste of it. 12 to 18 feet of storm surge, that is double what this area has ever seen. so we're entering unchattered territory right now. there's a big footprint for health care here. i asked them if they're evacuating patients. there's a building that was built decades ago, moving members of the behavioral health department, inpatients there, out right now as we speak. they may be moving the icu in one of their buildings as well. they have staff that is dedicated to getting this accomplished. they're camping out overnight there. there's a small sample from our conversation. >> i have a lot of families that are here that -- whose houses were in evacuation areas and had to leave everything they know and are bunked dow

pinellas county is surrounded by water on both sides. and so the folks we caught up with here said they're trying to get preparations done, they're trying to get everything ready and they just want their homes to be safe. all right. so folks out here, it seems, they're going to try to get to -- >> carl loss, we're going to go to governor ron desantis to listen to this update. here he is. >> really big hurricane at this point. the diameter is about 500 miles wide. so if you look at the cone and if you look at where they have the landfall going, i think the landfall is still levi county. the impacts are much broader than that. of course that track is still uncertain. it could absolutely wobble further into the peninsula or even further away from the peninsula. you will see storm surge in places like southwest florida, even though the storm is projected to be 100 to 150 miles off the coast of southwest florida. and so you look in collier county, they've issued volunteer evacuations for some of the coastal communities because the storm surge

i'm in a typical neighborhood pinellas park, a suburb of st. pe petersburg.seeing. a big oak tree came down. florida had a lot of rain before hurricane ian turned up on the scene. the root system has been saturated. so it didn't take much as far as winds to topple these things over. that's exactly what happened here. thankfully it fell toward the street and not the home behind me. it also gives you a sense of 70 miles-an-hour winds can do this. i can't imagine 155 miles-per-hour. it boggles the mind. the weather will improve as the day goes on. further to the north and east orlando suffering with heavy rain just coming to an end there. the water rescues are going on. i think it's the water and flooding that is proving to be something very devastating. something that the governor ron desantis said is something we haven't seen in a long time. take a listen. >> the amount of water that has been rising and likely continue to rise today even as the storm is passing is basically a 500-year flood event. the storm is having broad impacts across the state and some of

we have about 60,000 people in pinellas county without power.e what services need when we contact them on the street. >> were you able to get out and see an assessment of the flooding? >> we do have some units as of 10:00 today. we haven't had any flooding. we have a couple more bands so first thing in the morning we may so more flooding but right now we haven't seen serious flooding in our city. >> as you can understand i'm standing in the wind and rain. it's hard to hear you sometimes. you mentioned power outages. can you tell us how many people in your area are without power if you know? >> sure. from pinellas county we have about 60,000 people without power. at 10:00 we received those numbers so again as the next bank comes through we may lose more power. as people call we will get those numbers and first thing in the morning assess the damage throughout the city. >> i imagine you don't know how long it will take to restore until you figure out the damage and what you need to do to get power back. >> that's correct. we know there are traffic

there are two mandatory evacuations already in effect in pinellas county. folks have until tonight to get out of here. businesses along gulfport, they've done a pretty good job of getting ready ahead of the storm. the restaurant behind me, they're still in the process of pushing stand bags up to the entrance. they have plywood already up. the neighbors have done a pretty good job of making sure they've got everything set up here. this one shop this morning didn't have a single sheet of bly wood up. as you see, they have the door covered and the windows covered. these folks have been ready since we got here early this morning. they've got their sandbags, the tarp out in front of the main door. everyone here really is trying to take the necessary preparations ahead of whatever we may get when it comes to hurricane ian. over in hillsborough county where tampa is, that part of the tampa bay area, folks there have also issued a second mandatory evacuation. those two evacuation orders bring the total number of folks in hillsborough county being told they need to

pwe expect two more zones to be announced in pinellas county tomorrow. they want people to get out sooner rather than later. david? >> of course, they want people to heed these warnings. rob, ginger, thank you both. we will stay on this as the hurricane approaches. much more on "gma" first thing in the morning. >>> we move onto the other news this monday night, the dramatic images coming out of russia tonight. the line of cars at the russian border with georgia, take a look, several miles long. the wait, up to 50 hours amid fears there could soon be a crackdown on those border crossings. and violence tonight at recruitment centers. a gunman opening fire at this military recruitment center in russia. others firebombed. in fact, there are reports nearly 20 recruitment offices across russia have now been attacked. our chief foreign correspondent ian pannell from inside ukraine tonight. >> reporter: tonight, anger at vladimir putin's military draft descending into violence. a gunman today attacking a recruitment office in siberia. an officer wounded, as the

again, from officials from pinellas county, from emergency management, from the mayor who we talked to, they're saying hunker down. that's a common phrase, but you really do have to get yourself and your family in a safe area. again, they cannot physically uproot you and pull you out of your home. you're not allowed to do that. that's your call. if you stay in, you've got to get yourself and your family to a safe place. that's the refrain here. don't come out in this stuff. it's about to get very dangerous, guys. >>> brian todd, thank you very much. >>> let's bring in timothy dudley, the emergency management dire director. your county and a number of counties are in a zone where the governor has said it's too late to evacuate. if you didn't heed our warning, or order to evacuate, you have to stay. for people who chose to stay, what is the safest part of their home or apartment where they can be, where they can take their kids? >> well, for those who chose to stay, hopefully they are out of the impact areas. we could be experiencic some tornadic activity. we ask you to go to the interio

mandatory evacuation orders in place in pinellas county and people in zones a, b and c and people inhomes told to get out. right where we're standing is evacuation zone a, the most susceptible to the storm surge and we're expecting the scene behind us to change drastically in the next day or so. all 67 can wants here in florida under a state of emergency and thousands of national guard troops have been mobilized to help out when the storm makes landfall here in florida. 36 school districts announcing school closures across the state and in some cases schools used as shelters. in the tampa area, food, water, pumps being staged before landfall power outages likely when the storm hits and governor desantis says restoring power will be a top requirety. here in pinellas county, duke energy is staging crews and upgraded power grid with technology and rerouting power around problem areas to prevent mass outages and trees falling into lines and high winds and flood waters are all big concerns. >> we serve approximately 500,000+ customers in pinellas county and everything from the storm surge

where we are in pinellas county, there aren't any evacuation orders just yet though they are expectedch is where tampa is located, there are mandatory evacuation orders in places closest to the water with voluntary evacuations in other places. 5,000 national garden troops have been mobilized here in florida with 2,000 from other states. schools here in pinellas county will be closed starting tomorrow, some schools used as shelters as the storm bears down. folks are getting their boats out of the water, filling up sandbags and boarding up windows. we talked to one couple who were applying protective sheets, and they said they've lived in the house for decades but have never had a hurricane hit before, and they don't know where they're going yet but told us they'll likely be getting out. >> where are we going to go and what are we going to do, big question mark. never have we had the idea of what are we going to do. so i'm a planner. i taught 38 years, so i plan. >> reporter: emergency officials are also telling folks that they need to heed evacuation orders because first responders are

in pinellas, 150,000. manatee 129,000. charlotte and lee reconnects are really going to likely have to be rebuilding of that infrastructure. so there are linemen, there are crews on the way down right now but that's going to be more than just connecting a powerline back to a poll. the other counties likely are not going to require the extent of the structural rebuild but, of course, that's going to be assessed as the day goes on but we do have huge amounts of resources that are in route and are going to work to get people's power on as quickly as possible. we've also at interruptions in communications as a result of the storm particularly in southwest florida. we have 100 portable cell towers being deployed into the area, and those will be put up once it's fully safe to do so. at the dot is on the ground working on making sure that the rosen interstates are open. alligator alley on 75 across into colyer and into lee county is open. traffic is flowing. i 75 south through charlotte county is open and flowing. portions of lee

>> neil, mandatory evacuations are underway in pinellas county. we're talking about zones a, b and c and for folks in mobile homes. all of those people need to get out as soon as they can. right now we're standing in evacuation zone a. so the scene behind us is expected to change very drastically the next day or so. now, all of florida is under a state of emergency. all 67 counties and thousands of national guard members are here in the state ready to respond when the storm makes landfall. school districts have announced closures across the state. some cases schools will be used as shelters. in tampa, food, water, generateders and pumps will be staged. governor desantis says restoring power will be a top priority. here in pinellas county has up greated the power grid with new technology that reroutes power around problem areas to prevent mass outages. trees falling into lines and high flood waters and winds will be big concerns. people have been scrambling for supplies. gas stations have run out of fuel and drinking water has been snatched off of

charlotte, pasco, manatee, pinellas, sarasota. those counties under mandatory evacuations. this area un voluntary but we expect that to change. 14 different schools locations. we are expecting storm surge here 5 to 8 feet. a lot of rain, 12 inches or more potential. and the winds, 75 to 90 miles per hour, some time late tomorrow evening and into thurebsz morning. more a water story than a window story. as they say you can hide from the window but you have to run from the water. one last note, guys, very quickly. the tampa bay buccaneers they have now moved their practices to miami because of the storm. they are set to face the kansas which i chiefs in tampa. based on what i know about ian there are doubts that game will go go ahead but we shall see. back to you. >> steve: thank you very much from the live report from the gas station where someone got 18 cents worth of gas. desperate. >> ainsley: they're. we are praying for all those people down here. >> brian: check in with senior meteorologist janice dean for fox weather forecast. take a bigger picture, janice. >> janice:

the clock is ticking for folks that live in pinellas county to get out. a second mandatory evacuation order went into effect this morning. we're in gulfport, that's about a 20 to 25-minute drive from tampa, where a number of businesses out here, they have already got their plywood ahead of a possible impact with ian. the folks here kept a sense of humor, spray painting "good vibe." they've got several sandbags set up, as well as a plastic tarp at the entrance to their business. this goes all the way out to the p marina. on the other side of this marina, we're being told that the sheriff's office is now a asking folks for a driver's license if they're trying to get out on the barrier islands. if you don't have a home there, have an apartment there, have a business there, they're saying you need to get out and get out now. the evacuation order for that part of the barrier island went into effect yesterday. over in hillsborough county, that evacuation order for the coastal communities there went into effect at 2:00 in the afternoon. around that same time, do

, pinellas county sheriff's office already started to restrict some access to the barrier islands. later this morning they're going to need to show some sort of i.d. and a reason why you're trying to get this far out west, because if you don't have a reason to be there there is already an evacuation order in place for those barrier island. in hillsborough, 43 hurricane shelters opened yesterday and thousands, tens of thousands of sandbags were handed out at three locations that were opened by the city of tampa, and you mentioned in the lead-in out here, traffic cameras showing interstate 4, which connects the tampa bay area out into the central part of florida, the orlando area, that showed cars bumper-to-bumper at around tern a 10:00 and 11:00 at night. one woman at a sandbag distribution site said she made reservations for her family, going to orlando. a lot of emergency officials telling folks, look. just because there's an evacuation order doesn't mean you have to leave the state. just get to safer ground, higher ground. so they want folks to either head to one of these emergen

let's bring in david connor, lead information officer for pinellas county.hat is the most important thing you want the public to know? >> the most important thing we want the public to know. this is the time to stop thinking about acting and it's time to act. we have ordered evacuations for residents in our zones a, b, c and all mobile home and trailer parks. that's because like your meteorologist talked about we're anticipating life-threatening storm surge. a wall of water affecting those areas and people don't have to go far. they don't have to drive to georgia. they just need to get out of an evacuation zone. we anticipate experiencing the first storm-force winds tomorrow morning around 2:00 a.m. it might change by an hour or two. at this point if someone is in an evacuation zone and haven't left or have a loved one there and they haven't left that's a conversation and action that needs to take place. >> dana: how do you encourage the complacent to get going? >> here in tampa bay, we had a pretty devastating near miss back with hurricane irma. it hit a hu

still about 170,000 people without power in pinellas county alone. but you have to account for the fact that there are still wind gusts in this area, we're seeing 30-mile-per-hour wind gusts. remember, 40,000 line workers in the state of florida, a lot of them trying to get to some of these scenes. because the winds are so strong, more than 30 miles per hour, they can't go up in those buckets. so a lot of people are still going to have to kind of wait it out as they can kind of do their work. but the word from the mayor, from the city, from the county, from people who are in this area is to try to stay indoors. not because there's a massive storm brewing on the other side of this, but because there's essentially a storm of crews that are going street by street, trying to assess the damage, trying to do the work of cleaning up scenes like this and we're seeing it happen all over the county. jose? >> steve patterson, blayne alexander, and bill karins, thank you so much. it looks like it was leveled in many parts. as i mentioned, urgent rescue efforts a

we have some other updates for you. 78,000 customers in pinellas county without power.sanagement. we're bracing for the worst of this because we still could get some really strong wind and rain in the next few minutes to an hour as more of these bands come through here but this whole area in pinellas county got slammed just a short time ago as you can see some of the damage here, our photo journalists mike love can pan around this area with the debris and everything. again, we've been sweeping around the neighborhoods trying to ask people how they have been holding up. a lot of people have evacuated this area because we've found a lot of homes are not occupied right now and we were told by pinellas county that at least one of these houses that had the roof ripped off, nobody was here and no one was injured. not sure if it was this one or the other one. we got word of a home burned down completely but no injuries in that. this area we're kind of now starting to be able to get out and sweep some of these areas around st. petersburg but they've got all sorts of issues ther

the mandatory evacuation for pinellas county is already in effect.olks have to leave here by tonight. over in hillsborough county, those evacuation orders are also in effect. folks right now are being told you've got to pack up and get to higher ground. >> wishing safety and the best for all of those, mike, and his neighbors in pinellas county and beyond. thank you carlos suarez and patricking ottoman. >>> joining us is fema administrator keith tory. ian expected to dump two to three months' worth of rainfall by friday with record storm surge. how is fema getting ready for this? >> thanks for having me to talk about fema's preparations along with our interagency partners. as we've all mentioned, a very serious storm. you can see behind me our national response kbcoordinatio center is stood up. we have staff in the emergency operations center with the state officials preparing. we are pre positioning equipment and supplies to be ready to move into the area as needed. most importantly, we're really trying to get the word out on evacuations and followin

from this point here in pinellas county, every other county, officials are saying it across the state you are in distress. if you have elected to stay you have to get your family into a safe place and where that is in the given home of course it varies, but you've got to start to hunker down right now. you can see just the intensity of what -- >> i think we just lost brian todd. we lost brian todd in st. petersburg. one thing to point out about where brian is right now, it's just the beginning and could last there for a day, for nearly a full day as the storm moves up the peninsula because it's going to make landfall well south of here. i want to go now where they do expect the worst of this and pretty soon, our bill weir is live in punta gorda, florida. bill, give us a sense of what you're seeing. >> reporter: good morning, john. waking up in this town today for so many people was just an ice batting of dread. when they see those predictions now, 15 to 17 foot storm surges, that's if you look at these canal houses, that's well up into the eaves, into the attic spaces of these houses.

let me start you with, steve patterson, because you have seen some of the destruction in pinellas county where you are. and as we've seen newspapers across florida today reporting on what is one of the worst storms in the state's history and look at low fast it made landfall, just 24 hours ago, we watched it here on this show, and talk me through what you're seeing. >> how fast, and the amount of rain, halle, just devastated and that is miles south of where we are. this area dodged a bullet, all of the models a few days ago, had this in the bull's eye, this making landfall here in pinellas in, hillsborough, the bay area, that doesn't mean there wasn't significant storm damage. here is a tree behind me, down into the road, and cutting across this power line and the line is live by the way, into the house behind me. it seems like it scattered across this area. this area, about half a million people without power. and power companies, you know, the line operators, they're going house to house, and street by street, assessors trying to figure out how much damage has actually been done on the

some folks here in pinellas county made the decision to pack up the things and go. if you're a business owner that's decided to stay put and maybe finish boarding up the business you may have run out of time. a business owner told us they went to pick up plywood and told they were out and pick up sandbags and told they were out. a majority of the stores are boarded up and have been for a day now and got the sandbags out and plywood up and moved the items to higher ground. all in anticipation of whatever might come our way with hurricane ian. there are two mandatory evacuations for pinellas county and the last one this morning. officials told people in this area of the tampa bay area you have until tonight to get out. a few folks we talked to said they are taking some precautions. they have the hurricane supplies in order but going to stay put because they feel it is a high enough area to make this through. >> biggest worry? flooding maybe. i hope it doesn't come up further than it normally does. that's the biggest worry, flooding. >> reporter: over in hillsborough c

we were spared in pinellas county. as you know a couple of days ago we were the target of this hurricane, and we were expecting a storm surge from 10 to 15 feet, and 10 to 15 inches of rain which would have been overwhelming. i think what this storm showed us again is that these storms are very powerful, but actually the track was actually accurate, if you looked at the entire potential track and not just the single point of the forecast, and these storms are known to take a turn as charlie did in 2004. that's exactly what happened here. we were spared. we have about 190,000 power outages and our focus at 7:20, at sunrise is to get our teams out for a first push to clear our roadways and allow duke energy to come in and start restoring power. certainly to our neighbors in lee county and charlotte, they bore the brunt of this storm. >> yeah, what are you hearing in terms of how bad that was, the brunt of this storm, and in terms of your conversation with president biden, water damage, getting the power back online, do y

pinellas county emergency management director cathy perkins joins us now. cathy , thank you for being with us so early in the morning. i know these overnight hours, but they're also very important hours because you've gone all day feeling the impacts of hurricane ian . talk us through how things are in these overnight hours and what your plan is for the day ahead. so we've been monitoring any impacts we hear. we certainly have about two hundred thousand people without power right now. we're not seeing major damages here, but it will be felt like before we really get to see that, we're very fortunate we didn't get the rains that we thought we were going to get . i mean, two days ago, we thought we were going to be ground zero for this storm . so this is a very different scenario for us . we have our damage assessment crews ready to go out and just look at the county and see if there's any areas of concern. we have debris crews. they'll on the roads, just make sure that everything is good. we need to just check our bridges that come into the county, just make

pinellas, right on the coast, areas like st. petersburg, they are carefully watching this situation. you would have to imagine the nearly million people in that county maybe looking at evacuations as soon as tonight depending upon the trajectory. i was talking to a geophysical hazards expert. what he's seeing now, $30 billion worth of damage should these conditions, this trajectory, maintain where it is. 120 mile an hour winds near st. petersburg, 10, 12, 14 feet of storm surge in tampa. the governor of the state telling people don't bank on a wobble. make sure you're prepared. here's the governor earlier today. >> folks should be prepared if you're in this region that there is going to be an interruption of power so just plan on that. understand that that will happen. even if the storm, the eye of the storm doesn't hit your region, you're going to have really significant winds. it's going to knock over trees. it's going to cause interruptions. that's just the name of the game. make sure you have your plan in place. finish whate

on our drive from pinellas county yes, sir on my way in, i was able to see one hurricane shelter and it was pretty busy. and a drive around town showed a lot of businesses closed, a lot of them boarded up. gas stations were still open. there was a couple of them that had run out of gas but a number of them just had a short line. it seems like folks did get prepared ahead of whatever impact we were going to get from hurricane ian. over in pinellas county in the gulfport area, barrier islands to the west of where we are, we're told the county sheriff was out there making sure businesses were closed and that folks got out in time. john? >> reporter: yeah, carlos. the same thing here in tampa. it does appear people heeded the warnings, at least on the storm surge front. people getting away from the rivers and streams just in case it rises above where it's safe. i'm not sure the flooding in the other direction people are ready. thank you so much. >> let's go right to the weather center. chad myers standing by with the latest forecast. chad, what are you seeing? >> john, the 140 mile an ho

one went into effect at 2:00 this afternoon in hillsboro county, the other in pinellas. folks have been lining up for several hours to pick up ten sandbags they're being allowed to work on themselves. they've got to come up, get their bags, fill them up and figure out how to get them back to their car. we've got two lines going on at this hour. one, folks that showed up by car, and the line you're looking at there, those are walk-offs, folks that most likely ditched their cars because it's taken them that long to get in. the sandbagging effort should continue throughout the rest of tonight, hopefully tomorrow. but of course all of this depends on ian's track and just how bad the weather gets. i can tell you right now, not related to the storm, but because we are in florida, the rain is about to move in. the folks that are in line waiting to get the sandbags, they're about to get wet. >> a lot more water coming that way very soon. thank you so much. best of luck to you and your team. please stay safe. >>> i want to bring in the mayor of tampa, florida. thank you so much f

there's also another mandatory evacuation in neighboring pinellas county. all of those folks being ask wanted to get to higher ground considering their homes are right along the water. the work out here, the storm preps, are well under way. folks have been here the entire day at this sandbag distribution site. they've been working, helping each other, trying to get as many bags done as possible, all in hopes of getting their homes ready for whatever impact we may get when it comes to hurricane ian. folks have been in line here for several hours, and they're grabbing whatever they can. in some cases they're walking them to their car just because the wait to get into the parking lot is between two to three hours. one of the folks out here that has to leave her home because of this storm is charlene. you are in zone a. you're one of about the 300,000 folks being told to get out. how's your day so far today? >> a little crazy. kind of we're used to it now being floridian. we have our protocol in place. we know to get non-perishables, water, get our sandbags whi

pinellas county had some 700,000 people that were asked to leave.otice there's not a lot of people on the roadways or bridges trying to get out. this is an area that's a retirement community where you have about 4 out of 10 people over the age of 55. i went out with a senior care center director today. they were trying to get those individuals and bring them out, and i talked to a bunch of people in that age bracket and they said we don't want to go. we like it here. we're worried about our medications. we're worried about what the shelter situation would be like, the pets. they're not leaving. that's it concern from ron desantis all the way to washington and president biden that people aren't heeding warnings. and that's really the biggest red flag at this moment as we wait for hurricane ian to make landfall tomorrow. ari. >> important context, sam brock. thank you. reporting from florida. and we pass it on to "the reidout" with joy reid after this short break. so, it's not a problem at all. you guys aren't gonna give me the fake bill fight? c'mon,

the city revisits pinellas case, the community aerating division that followed.c at 10 pm eastern and will be streaming the next day on peacock. here's a clip. >> we got a call from a liquor store owner in team a coup was a friend of mine. he just called me screaming. they said there was a feuding, you know, teaneck believes just shot somebody. they saw a young kid. >> they shot a black head. >> in teaneck a white cop shot a black kid? i can't believe it. that's not supposed to happen. >> and remember to, but somebody said that they shot bill. i don't believe it, i don't think it was something that could happen to one of us. >> when i say amber, somebody asked jaime and telling me we need to go to mueller mother. >> i don't know how to gain contact with him but i know where they live, so continues in the house worst ride ever. >> all right after a quick break i'll be joined by phil pinellas wilder and sister to discuss the impact of his death and how he's reverberates to this day. stick around. stick around. wny unstopables in-wash keep your laundry smelling fres

individuals and families right now in charlotte, collier, desoto, hardy, hillsborough, lee, manatee, pinellas, and sarasota can register for assistance and begin their recovery process. you can register by visiting disasterassistance.gov through the fema app and calling 1800-621-fema. 1-800-621-3362. and now that the sun is up and we're continuing to do our assessments, we'll add more counties for individual assistance. the next few days will be difficult and like i said, we have the right teams in place who are ready to help those who need us most. fema and our partners across the federal, state, and local levels remain repaired to help the community in their greatest time of need. thank you. >> one more thing >> red cross is there and steps up and continues to step up. i want to thank them as well. >> describe your relationship and conversation with governor desantis. >> it's totally irrelevant but i'll answer it. he was fine and he complimented me and thanked me for the response and he was extremely happy with what's going on. this is not about with politics. this is about saving people's

. >> reporter: in pinellas, florida, saying this man's rent rose so much he had to give up his home and now lives in a tent set up as a temporary shelter. >> literally a short conversation sunday afternoon completely changed my life. >> reporter: the federal reserve hishged interest rates against this week in an effort to cut inflation by slowing the economy, but that also means higher credit card interest and mortgage rates. d.c. realtor tiffany renwick issing lowing income americans look for alternatives. >> looking at sharing homes. seen a lot of people go back to the roommate layout. sometimes that's exactly where you are. >> reporter: and holiday forecast is expected to cost more this year. even though it's early, experts say you may be better off booking now before prices rise even higher. adriana? >> michael george, thank you. >>> today buckingham palace released the first image of queen elizabeth's final resting place. the carved stone in the chapel at windsor castle shows the late monarch's name, her parents and her husband, prince philip. >>> straight hoed, bringing back memor

the landlocked county has become a haven for people evacuated from hillsboro, pinellas, and all other nearby counties. when i bring in pillbox, a commissioner for the, and polk county's largest city, appreciate your time being on the phone with us, because you're on the phone and anna skype, tell us about the conditions there, right now, that may affect all the residents and the people you've taken in. >> well good morning, and i'll tell you that we've had a rough kind of night, and this storm is heading into lakeland i am about maybe ten to, we went down to cabin one. we experienced quite a bit of gusts of wind and rain. and we have pretty much over 55,000 people, there's power outages. we could hear the wind gusting, outside against my home this. but thankfully, i did not lose power. we -- have in that, we've done very well here. >> best-case scenario, as you mentioned, 55,000 still without power, what can you tell us about how long they can expect to be there in the heat, it's almost 80 degrees there i believe they're in the day, and very muggy during all this. it's pretty unbearab

petersburg and pinellas in particular, some of the most susceptible areas in the nation to surge but also sea level rise. so i think most folks are getting the message if you're in that low lying area or a coastal area you, need to move now. >> because the potential of two feet of rain in 48 hours combined with the storm surge that bill weir was just laying out, what could it look like? what could that mean for your city? >> it means we'll see water in places we've never seen it before. when you talk about 10 or 15 inches of rain on top of the surge, that is unprecedented. no infrastructure is build for that. so we could be looking at impacts to our sewer system, to wastewater and so that is what folks need to understand. that we've never seen this level of surge threat before. and they need to respond to that in the way that -- that makes sense. >> so one of the concerns is -- one of the concerns with this one is just how slowly it seems to be moving or it is anticipating it will move over the area. could-t it sit on top of st. p, what does it mean? >> that is the worst case scenari

. >>> go to cnn's carlos suarez in gulfport, florida, on the west coast there in pinellas county. what are you seeing this morning? >> reporter: well, this morning we saw that second mandatory evacuation order just go into effect here in pinellas county. the other one went into effect yesterday and all of this impacts the barrier islands in the tampa bay area. we are in gulfport where a number of businesses have already started the process of boarding up. this one shop, one, two, three sheets of plywood up and also sandbags to a corner out here. i imagine going to move these a little later on to the entrance to this store and then just next door to me owner started the process getting plywood up on his business. he was telling us a few minutes ago the last time this area was hit by a storm, this part of gulfport saw about three to four inches of rain get into these shops. over in hillsborough county, the folks there, 43 hurricane shelters opened since the evacuation order went into effect at 2:00 yesterday. the emergency officials here are telling everyone to go ahead and just try

that process started last night, 2:00 for hillsborough, 6:00 for pinellas. but you'll see the biggest chunks of people fry trying to get out today. the topography of this area, there are bays and inlets, barrier reefs, the bay on one side, the gulf on the other. the water has nowhere to go. storm surge right now certainly the biggest concern as the projections are between 5 and ten feet. for historical context, the last time a major hurricane struck tampa directly, 1921, 11 feet of storm surge. the speed at which this storm is traveling is perhaps the biggest problem. it is projected to go 3 to 4 miles per hour, the pace we would walk at, so it would be sitting on water and on land dumping rain for hours. if you're look for a historical precedent, hurricane harvey would be the extreme example. it is in the window of possibility for what could happen here. officials on red alert. in addition to the evacuations, governor ron desantis has the national guard here. this entire area is on edge waiting to see what happens in the next several days. sam brock, nbc ne

. >> we're assessing the damage in seminole, which is in pinellas county right now. shopping plaza sign its massive. it collapsed on its side. this is on the corner of waltzing him and seminole roads. it looks like the tires. plus sign is the next to go. you can see and probably here through the microphone how this wind is whipping through. >> the microphone as well as the palm fronds. and the sign over here, the flag pole. we do know from pinellas county leaders that about 4500 people evacuated from their homes and took shelter after the county opened dozens of shelters at elementary schools, middle schools and high schools. this area has power, but we know from county leaders, thousands of people are without power. for now, i'm brittany mueller in seminole covering hurricane ian. >> and we'll continue to track that storm as well here on the kron. 4 morning news. also coming up, the east bay mud cracking down on people who use too much water. we'll have the latest on fines that of this been issued so far. and we continue to celebrate hispanic heritage month. coming

individuals and families right now in charlotte, collier, desoto, hardee, hillsborough, lee, manatee, pinellassarasota, they can now register for assistance and begin their recovery process. you can register by visiting disasterassistance.gov through our fema app or by calling 1-800-621-fema, or 1-800-621-3362. and now that the sun is up and we are continuing to do our assessments, we will add more counties for individual assistance. the next few days, they are going to be difficult. we have some very complex problems to solve. but like i said, we have the right teams in place who are ready to help those who need us most. and regardless of how bad it is, i commit to everyone here today that fema and our partners across the federal, state, and local levels remain ready and prepared to help these communities in their greatest time of need. thank you. >> let me add one more thing. we didn't mention the red cross. the red cross is there. and they're always there. they stepped up and they continue to step up, so i want to thank them as well. thank you. >> mr. president, how would you describe your

people are coming out with like 6, 7, cases getting prepared is the message from pinellas county emergency management. >> one big concern this season is all of florida's new residents who have never experienced a hurricane. it's a concern because they may not understand the risks of a hurricane. it's really important that. >> all of our residents, not just new ones, look at their evacuation zone to determine if they might have to evacuate. were. >> hoping for the have a kit prepared >> we've got some batteries and stuff today to kind of start one. but we have the essentials already pretty much. kevin cook in addi padgett just moved to the bay area from california a few weeks ago. >> they're taking the warning seriously, getting ready to potentially experience their first hurricane as it on right thing or anything like you know, it is a little nerve wracking, but i think coming from california, you know, we have earthquakes and you can't really predict those. and with this, you know, you have a little bit more predictability. so it's nice to at least have that kind of sense of. >> preparedn

elsewhere here in pinellas county we came across homes in a manufactured home park that had their roofswe are just fanning out now and seeing some of these scenes of devastation. first responders are just barely able to get out at this point. they said they were pulling them off the streets earlier because it was too dangerous. they are just starting to get to some of these areas right now. but, again, a lot of these areas they won't be able to get to until much later, wolf. >> what other kind of damage in the area? i know you've been traveling around as much as you can safely. what else have you seen as far as damage is concerned? >> well, we did, as i mentioned, we saw some houses, some manufactured homes not far from here in largo that had their roofs ripped off. we've seen debris and downed powerlines, downed trees all over the place. this is not necessarily a safe situation here. you just saw this thing, this slab of metal here blowing around. it's very dangerous to go into houses like this. we've been told this by first responders for years. when you've got a house like this, you

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hillsborough and pinellas, 15 to 18 percent are without power and these crews have been on the ground since it was safe to do so and they're working 24 seven to restore power throughoutthe state of florida and that's over 42,000 lineman and associated personnel that are on the ground . fdot has had 1300 people on the ground, then cleared 1100 miles of roadway. i was happy to see the trafficflowing in southwest florida . there's structural problems on the bridges leading to sanibel and pine island but largely they were clearing operations. traffic is flowing in southwest floridaprobably better than would have been anticipated so soon after such major hurricanes . they've also inspected and reopened 100 bridges across the state and this includes 67 high priority bridges affected and reopened in lee, charlotte, sarasota and manatee counties . pine island, sanibel, those will be rebuild efforts. the sanibel bridge has breaks in multiple parts. most held up well. it was where you had it on some of the sandbars and those basically got washed out from underneath. in the meantime kevin can ta

we are already seeing bridge closures, the bridge is closed now from manatee to pinellas county.tages reported. outside of southwest florida crews are responding to those power outages. don't go outside in the eye of the storm. it's still dangerous. there's actually a calmness. if the center of the hurricane is right over you. you think maybe the storm has passed. that is not the case. it's still very discuss dangerous. there is possibility of tornadoes. it would also be very difficult to potentially get back into your home. so even if it seems calm, wait to make sure that the storm has actually passed. once the storm is passed and it's safe to go outside, i urge you to be cautious. avoid downed power lines. avoid standing water. stay clear of damaged trees. if you are using a generator for power, make sure that that is being operated outside your home. do not operate that indoors. and then don't drive in flooded streets. people will look and think they can drive through it. and it doesn't work out well for them. as the storm has approached. we have already had enough winds to ha

, ordering evacuations of nearly half a million residents in low-lying areas of hillsborough and pinellass. today, hurricane ian lashed the cayman islands with 85-mile-an-hour winds. it is expected to intensify rapidly over warm waters as it approaches the florida coast, bringing a storm surge of up to 10 feet. governor ron desantis has already declared a state of emergency. >> we will see on the gulf coast of florida heavy rain, strong winds, flash flooding, storm surge, and perhaps isolated tornado activity. >> reporter: in clearwater, residents are stocking up on plywood and water. at one of several sandbag sites, it was bring your own shovel. gabriel alley, who moved here from california, filled his allotment of 15 bags. >> we're going to get these sandbags in front of the garage, in front of the garage door, in front of the front door, you know, and pray we're good. >> reporter: farther north, a weakened fiona still packed a punch as extreme storm surge tore apart homes on canada's east coast on saturday. >> anyway, we survived i guess is all we can say. >> reporter: back in florida,

mandatory evacuations have been ordered for parts of hillsborough county and pinellas county, affecting hundreds of thousands of people and more mandatory evacuations are expected today. several hospitals and care facilities all already evacuating vulnerable patients. level one trauma hospital in the evacuation zone is scrambling to prepare. they're putting up their flood protection all around tampa general, this is their aqua fence. it only comes out during the hurricane. it's mobile. it's modular, and it's necessary. this trauma center sits in the evacuation zone. it will likely flood and this wall is designed to keep the water out. so they can keep the patients in the storm strikes a direct hit on tampa bay. it will be the first major storm to do so in more than 100 years. businesses are now boarding up and families are fueling up. we don't know. trust god. and do what we need to do to get sandbags stretching for hours. one family waited three hours in line just to get 10 sandbags. and tampa bay international airport now set to suspend operations beginning at five p.m. today before c

t the alarm, orderg evacuations for half a million areas of low lying areas in hillsborough and pinellas counties. today hurricane ian lashed the cayman islands with 85-mile an hour winds and expected to intensify rapidly over warm waters as it approaches the florida coast, bringing a storm surge of up to 10 feet. governor ron desantis has already declared a state of emergency. >> we will see on the gulf coast of florida, he have are yains -- heavy rains, strong winds, storm surge and perhaps tornado activity. >> reporter: in clearwater, residents are stocking up on plywood and water. at one of several sandbag sites, it was bring your own shovel. gabriel alley, who moved here from california, filled his allotment of 15 bags. >> we're going to get these sandbags in front of the garage, garage door, the front door and pray we're good. >> reporter: farther north, a weekend fiona packed a punch as extreme storm surge tore apart homes on canada's east coast saturday. >> anyways, we survived, i guess, is all we can say. >> reporter: back in florida, residents are already finding some essential

people are coming out with like 6, 7, cases getting prepared is the message from pinellas county emergency management. >> one big concern this season is all of florida's new residents who have never experienced a hurricane. it's a concern because they may not understand the risks of hurricane. it's really important that. >> all of our residents, not just new ones, look at their evacuation zone to determine if they might have to evacuate. were. >> hoping for the you have a kid prepared >> we've got some batteries and stuff today to kind of start one. but we have the essentials already pretty much. >> kevin cook a nadie padgett just moved to the bay area from california a few weeks ago. they're taking the warning seriously, getting ready to potentially experience their first hurricane as it on or anything like you know, it is a little nerve wracking, but i think coming from california, you know, we have earthquakes and you can't really predict those. and with this, you know, you have a little bit more predictability. so it's nice to at least have that kind of sense of. >> preparedness ahead