this is by far the worst storm i ve ever witnessed. there s just debris everywhere. my yard looks like a war zone. this was a bad. one ian was bad, so if it was tough on our region, will be actually looking at this for many years to come. good evening once again. i m stephanie ruhle. hurricane ian is now threatening georgia and the carolinas and it s expected to make landfall just a few hours from now. this is what eon did to southwest florida after it slammed into the coast over 24 hours ago, totaling 115 miles per hour winds and catastrophic storm surge. at least one many people have been reported killed, and brought epic rain and flooding to the central part of the state. hundreds of people have been rescued, that work continues overnight. over 2 million homes and businesses are without power. today president biden visited fema s headquarters in washington, d.c. and said federal aid is on its way to florida. this could be the deadliest hurricane in florida s histor
at least 12 people have been reported killed, and it brought epic rain and flooding to the central part of the state. hundreds of people have been rescued, that work continues overnight. over 2 million homes and businesses are without power. today president biden visited fema s headquarters in washington, d. c. and said federal aid is on its way to florida. this could be the deadliest hurricane in florida s history. when conditions allow it, i ll gonna be going to florida. will you be talking to florida ron desantis when you re down there? the answer is yes if he wants to see. let s go right to nbc meteorologist, michelle grossman. i know michelle, that we got the 11 pm update from the national weather center just moments ago. what did you learn? hi there stephanie great to see you. well it s strengthened even further, so back to a category one storm. we re looking at 80 mile per hour winds. it did weaken earlier this morning to a tropical storm, dropped into the at
today president biden visited fema s headquarters in washington, d.c. and said federal aid is on its way to florida. this could be the deadliest hurricane in florida s history. when conditions allowed, are gonna be going to florida. will you be talking to florida ron desantis when you re down? there the answer is yes if he wants to see. let s go right to nbc meteorologist, michelle grossman. i know michelle, that we got the 11 pm update from the national weather center just moments ago. what did you learn? hi there stephanie great to see you. well it s strengthened even further, so back to a category one storm. we re looking at 80 mile per hour winds. it did weaken earlier this morning to a tropical storm, dropped into the atlantic, and gain some strength. it will make landfall as a category one storm sometime tomorrow afternoon. we are looking at a camera at a hurricane once again. we had a little break, but once again the chance for
category one storm sometime tomorrow afternoon. we are looking at a camera at a hurricane once again. we had a little break, but once again the chance for life-threatening storm surge, life-threatening flash flooding, , winds that could cause power outages. it s moving northeast to ten miles per hour and we do expect it to pick up some speed as it goes to the next 12 hours. we do have so many tropical alerts. 12 million people under some sort of tropical alert. where you see the red that s a hurricane warning, because we are expecting hurricane conditions sometime tomorrow along the south carolina coast. flood alerts, we saw all that water in florida. this is a different system than it was in florida, but we re still looking at some chance
life-threatening storm surge, life-threatening flash funneling, wind down as a could cause power outages. it s moving northeast to ten miles per hour and we do expect it to pick up some speed as it goes to the next 12 hours. we do have some many tropical alert. 12 million people under some sort of tropical alert. where you see the red that s a hurricane warning, because we are expecting hurricane conditions sometime tomorrow along the south carolina coast. flood alerts, we saw all that water and are. this is a different system than it was in florida, but we re still looking at some chance for flash flooding. let s took a look at the tract because, it did come in at 11 pm as well. category one storm. notice it does make landfall as a category one storm sometime tomorrow. it s gonna weaken as it makes landfall. we could see tornadoes as it does make landfall. that could be some concern into