they re great people, beautiful state. you know about their football team? bill: a little bit. dana: governor desantis will give a update any moment now and bring it live. florida is bracing for what could be a once in a century storm. bill: the current storm track shows landfall sometime on thursday, maybe in tampa. if that were a direct hit, it would be the first major storm to hit tampa in more than 100 years. dana: forecasters are predicting storm sturge. people are boarding up homes and businesses. the amount of water may simply be too much to overcome. bill: here is what we know. governor desantis declared a state of emergency. tampa s international airport will shut down at 5:00 east coast time. dana: evacuation orders affecting hundreds of thousands of people. folks there say supplies are running low. shelves are totally empty. people are starting to panic. it is crazy now. people are crazy, all the flights are insane. there is no flights. i would ho
counties who worked very hard to execute their plans. kevin will talk a little bit more from the de mperspective but we have had 500 requests for assistance from our counties. the state has fulfilled 466. some others are on the way and some will be fulfilled. they just can t be fulfilled until the storm actually hits. we mentioned sending medical professionals to hillsborough county special needs shelters and another 120 to surrounding counties. we do have our logistical staging area in polk county and we ll have additional staging later today. 300 ambulances supporting special needs evacuations have been deployed. hundreds of generators and pumps staged in the tampa area and pre-landfall food and water has been stageed for tampa bay region. now as the track has moved a little bit more to where you have potentially greater