southwest florida area, came toward orlando to seek shelter, to seek a safe haven to ride the storm out, but last night the hurricane warnings expanded inland, encompassing orlando, so people have to ride out the storm here too. hotels are sold out. disney parks are closed today and tomorrow. disney resorts are actually asking guests to shelter in place. whale we re dealing with orlando, over a hundred miles away from where hurricane ian is right now, just hovering over the florida peninsula, we re still seeing conditions like this. what s interesting about being inland is we know that even when you have category one strength hurricane winds in a city, they can have catastrophic major damage. we re dealing with a category four storm today. guys? thank you so much, katie. and let s bring in tampa police chief mary o connor. chief o connor. hi. i m here. thanks for inviting me. to have you on, chief.
areas. let s go to brian todd who is across tampa bay from me live in st. petersburg. brian, what are you seeing? reporter: john, i can tell you that the energy and the voracity of this storm has really picked up. as you can see we re getting hit with rain and wind hitting us sideways, when it starts to hit you sideways when you know you re starting to get into the dicey parts of the storm. this was not like this about a that are hour ago. we are really getting pounded here at this pier in st. petersburg. you talk about storm surge, we are not going to get it as bad here as port charlotte and areas like that. look how bad the storm surge is getting here. you see the waves slapping up against the jetty here, we ve been hit by waves a couple times already. we will start to stroll this way as i point to where this jetty is basically tasked with protecting the city of st. petersburg from this storm surge. you can see it is slamming up against these jetties, slamming up over the jetties a
today, we can pan to your right, my left, mike love, pan into where you can see the city of st. petersburg under threat from this storm surge as it gets intense pushing in. the big question, are these jetties and break waters going to be able to protect the city from the storm surge. we ve been on the phone with pinellas county emergency management officials in the last couple of minutes. they ve told us they re worried about the saturated ground, trees getting uprooted and then slamming into houses and other things. that s a danger. also there are a lot of houses on canals in this area and if storm surge is timed to high tide, which is going to be in the late afternoon, they are going to have a problem and they are going to go around and start to check on houses when they can, but, john, that s not going to be for many, many hours because the winds have really picked up here, they re really over, you know, the gusts are well over 40 miles per hour and
evacuations. st. johns county is evacuating coastal low-lying areas, including the city of augustine, as well as the city of st. augustine beach. putnam has issued evacuations for low-lying counties. and sumpter county is advising evacuating mobile homes. they re having to evacuate folks that are living in vulnerable areas. we have over 1.1 million reported power outages. now, there are crews that are still working outside of southwest florida, but just understand that number is going to grow. you re going to see more power outages as this storm moves through the center part of our state, and before it exits into
something that they feel is safe and familiar, being called something it is realistically produced, made to look like a medication, but it s laced with sentinel and it s taking these kids it is laced with that is murder. we saw that on saturday, doing the exact same thing. it killed them. that is a story that so many americans so who is doing this to mark the special head of the city of st. louis joins us tonight. we know i know someone personally who just died of this. why is no one stopping this? that s a great question. thank you for having me. first of all, the mexican