and sheriff, tell us about what the conditions are like in volusia county. i know the southern part of the county is under a flash flood warning right now. are you getting reports of some roadways that are impassable right now? you know, our big concern is nothing's been impassable, but we're going when this is over, trying to get over 30 inches, that's going to be a rain that's going to be devastating to this county, in particular, to the little towns like ashtar and lake harney that sit on the st. john's river and lake monroe. they are going to be absolutely inundated and flooded out. winds gust right now around fifty two miles an hour. orlando is only 60 miles down the road from us and they're getting hit with a huge impact right now. >> and we're going to we're going to follow with that probably around that 2:00 afternoon, i think is our big window from to a to to piece where we're looking at the biggest impact from this storm to us . >> absolutely. after seeing hurricane and did to the southwest coast as it's made its way through central florida, what's

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 300 plus miles to the northeast. as the governor has already mentioned, this will be a statewide event.

. >> there concerned about frenetic activity in orange county and volusia county's, although central ida counties. i noticed on the screen earlier the speed of ian looks like it hits 8 miles per hour now. watching most of the day, it was 9 miles per hour, now it's 8. you think it'll be slowing further? >> it should remain steady at this pace to the north, northeast. i will see if we can get this to progress and show you the anticipated path. the top wind reports incredibly impressive but what the track shows is that we will be watching tomorrow morning and it'll still be a category one strength. then it will emerge back into the atlantic and potentially gaining a bit of strength as it makes its third and final landfall sometime on friday. this is what i wanted to get to and notice where it's going to set up shop in between savannah and carlson's where we are anticipating the third landfall to come and the tropical storm at that time but nonetheless look at all the locations that are going to be feeling the impact and all of the state of south carolina, north carolina, southwestern vir

today we will come out with estimated times of restoration for our hardest hit areas, which are volusia county, highlands, and polk county. and then a third set of restoration times for other counties such as orange and seminole. >> and just really quickly, for that third set, what's the time line for that? >> for the hardest hit areas, we will know by this evening what the estimated time of restoration is. we are still completing our damage assessment, but the teams are moving rapidly and safely through that process because we want to expedite getting information to our customers so they can plan around getting service back to their homes. >> okay. looking for answers, then, at least in the next 24 hours. president of duke energy florida, melissa seixas. thank you very much. willie? >>> we've been talking a lot about the hospitals in southwest florida as well, working to restore services, protect their patients amid those power outages and critical disruptions to water supplies as well. joining us now is president and ceo of sarasota memorial health care system, david beringer. thanks for bei

in volusia county, a photo of one detective carrying a little girl to safety outside a low-lying apartment complex that has become surrounded by floodwaters. flagler county is asking all residents to limit their use of water to reduce the strain on the sewer system which is already handling huge amounts of rain. and as the projected path carries the storm up the atlantic coast, the u.s. geological survey predicts that ian could have a significant effect on the dunes and sandy beaches of georgia and south carolina. bret? >> bret: jonathan serrie in atlantic beach, thank you. let's find out where ian is and where it is going. chief meteorologist rick reichmuth at the fox weather center in new york. hey, rick. >> hi, bret, as a 5:00 the storm is back to hurricane strength, overwater that is really warmed in the gulf stream off the coast of florida allowing chance to get its act back together, does not have a lot of time however which is good news, we don't think it will have any kind of a major hurricane coming, i am sure. take a look at rainfall yet to come, almost none, the rain for the mos

and today in volusia county, florida, local sheriffs conducted severad high water rescues in heavy duty bear cat vehicles. local officials urging people to stay off the roads too. avoid plowing flood waters into people's homes. chief meteorologist lawrence karno he's been tracking this storm. it's not over yet. he joins us now with an update so hard to see those images coming out of florida. now we know the hurricanes not done yet. in fact. >> it is really intensified after moving out the open waters now and getting ready to make landfall yet again. the disaster likely to continue maybe not as a category 4, but any hurricane of any strain can be extremely dangerous and well, this one has a history already coming across florida, making its way back out open water is dumped just tons of rain near daytona beach this afternoon. some places dan, 13 inches of rain. you can see it's really not well organized. don't see that typical line. looking back at you here. but still, it's maintaining significant strength. in fact, it is intensify. we're talking about sustained winds of 85 miles per hour

and so this water level is high and dangerous right along the coast from volusia county, and what you're looking at here in downtown jacksonville. the camera is obviously bouncing around with the 50-mile-per-hour winds. but that water you see there, that's not supposed to be there. that's coming in from the ocean. when the camera was tilted a little higher up, that has water on it further north. there's still water damage occurring. this is not where it made landfall. this is northeast florida. this is the opposite side of the state now. we were showing you pictures earlier, the devastation that we were so afraid that we would see that we saw after ike, that we saw in mexico beach when michael was a category five where there's not a lot left. sadly, those are the pictures we're getting from sanibel island. only thing that's remaining are areas that were concrete and, like, steel. that was it. and it makes sense. these are the pictures that we were talking to you about. that was a barrier road there. i can't tell if there are supposed to be houses to the left or not. but these structures

and even with the projected exit of the state in volusia county because of what it is going to do when. you will see impacts all the way up to nassau county and duval county, absolutely. in terms of some of the flooding and some of the other things that you will see because of the effects of this. so they there will be significant effects and you will absolutely see trees. you will see power interruptions. and you will see a lot, a lot of rain and water. >> with the sunshine skyline closing in. i'm sure you will see many more closures similar to that. is there opening back up for first responders, that kind of stuff. >> basically what happens on the bridges. once it reaches a certain sustained window, it's no longer safe to go over. that's when they close it. of course, as soon as the storm passes, and those winds go down, they immediately will go out and inspect the bridge to make sure there is not structural damage and to make sure it's safe and then the minute it's safe, of course, for first responders but also we want to get people back into their homes. and so if people evacuated

currently have now about 15,000 homes that are without power, which is low compared to other counties like volusia. we were prepared for this as a county. we were prepared for this so we got everything down pat. we did all that we could but this is what we are doing with the, we this is what we have. we will get through this, we will get through this. >> angela like you said, your community has gone through this before. would you say -- first of all we appreciate you joining us and we're so glad you are safe this morning. >> thank you. >> city commissioner, thank you for your time. >> special coverage of hurricane ian will continue throughout the morning. and another check and what else is happening, including vice president harris's trip is to korea. korea. plan a didn't work out? get plan b one-step. plan b helps prevent pregnancy before it starts, and it won't impact your ability to get pregnant in the future. find it yourself in the family planning aisle no prescription, no id. i've got this. ♪♪ i'm jonathan lawson here to tell you about life insurance i've got this. through the colonial penn

and then right there volusia county. that's where the center would be.inds north of this. enough for power outages, definitely possible. so, from orlando northwards, power outages, tree damage is your biggest threats and also, however how much rain we get. how about in? because it is going back over the water, we have hurricane watches that are up for south carolina through georgia and into north florida. we could be watching this make a second landfall as either a strong tropical storm of hurricane as we go through friday. charleston to savannah, to brunswick, georgia, they're like, all right, we need this thing to weaken as quickly as possible. we're going to have some problems right through friday, all the way through the coast. there's the hurricane watches i was mentioning just north of charleston, all the way down through daytona beach. we don't have confirmation yet, if we did get into this 12 to 18-foot. i saw, i know from one of the storm chasers, on a pole on a road, they attached a camera so, they could get video and they knew it would be safe

even with the projected exit of the state in volusia county, because of what is going to do when he gets into the atlantic you are going to see impacts although it up to nassau county and you've all-county absolutely in terms of some of the flooding in some of the other things that you will see because of the effects of this. there will be significant effects and you absolutely see trees. you'll see power interruptions and you will see a lot of rain and water. >> is there any time of opening back up? >> basically what happens on the bridges is once it reaches a certain sustained winds it's a longer safe to go over so that's when they close up. of course as soon as the storm passes and those winds go down they immediately will go out and inspect the bridge to make sure there's not structural damage and to make sure it is safe and the men it is safe of course for first responders but also we want to get people back into their homes. if people is accurate and pinellas county there's a lot of bridges you need to take to get back to that peninsula. we want people to be able to do that. the fu

widespread obviously where the landfall is and right up through i-4 heading into volusia, flag beach county back down towards the space coast. guys, bad as it gets. been through a lot of these big, huge, devastating storms. try to save lives today, but this is going to take weeks to recover from. >> whew. you know, bill, we have, we've done this, i think, together for about 20 years now. back to 2004 in my hometown. you and i reporting on hurricane ivan. another category 4 storm, and it -- it made a tick right at the last minute and obviously put pensacola right in its target. this storm, though, it really does seem to be a bit more consistent. doesn't it? chances are really they are slight it's going to hit anywhere other than that fort myers area? >> yes. i know everyone in tampa. still watching this closely. a couple days ago thinking into tampa. insteadable to a wobble to the east, our computer models shifted a little. you can see a line here shows how these hurricanes wobble, and if we get a wobble last minute, we may get, you know, a hurricane landfall into fort myers directly instead

volusia is about 50% out. flagler is about 40% to 50% out. then it gets much better as you get to st. johns and jacksonville and nassau county. there's over 42,000 folks staged. they went in immediately. they went in immediately to try to minimize those disruptions and, really, they're adding more customers back online every hour. i think it's probably -- what would you say, about 100,000 every hour or two? so we feel -- we feel good about most of that. i would say the biggest challenge of power restoration will be in those areas that bore the brunt of the category 4-plus, almost category 5 impact where it may have uprooted some of the existing infrastructure. now, that will be mixed. it's just -- fixed. it's just not something that will get fixed in 24 or 48 hours. there has been some damage in lee. some damage in charlotte counties. but there's been a lot of the infrastructure that was able to make it through. i think now actually, lee, they got about 20% back with power which is quite frankly more than i would have anticipated this soon after such a major impact. we were able to go just kind of look around. we flew. we did

counties that have been added. right now it's southwest florida into central florida. it stops before you get up into st. johns. i don't think flagler or volusiaare in it, either. they've had some big impacts, too. so that's something we're going to be working with them on. we think that will be something that will be helpful for the residents of this area. fuel, by and large, has done really well, even with the ports having to shut down because of the storm. you have fuel flowing in. it was good to see these gas stations open in southwest florida. we've had storms in the past where people were without fuel for weeks or a long time, and that's a pain. it makes it harder for people to get back. so we appreciate the taken that's been paid on that. and then in terms of telecom service, it is getting better in southwest florida. they are putting more towers in because of the towers that have been destroyed. but i would say that all the companies, i think, now are allowing the other consumers, other customers, to roam on their network, so that makes it very helpful. if you're down there, don't try to do wi-fi calling. that's not up where it needs t