it s now too late. hello, everyone. this is outnumbered. i m kayleigh mcenany here with my cohosts, emily compagno and harris faulkner. also joining us, fox news meteorologist amy freeze, and todd piro. we are tracking hurricane speed 11 to make them x11 paid its tracking winds with a just shy of a category 510 hurricane, making it one of the most powerful storms to hit this country. it s expected to make landfall in the next few hours and forecasters are warning a life threatening storm surge, devastating wind damage, and massive flooding. there are more than a quarter of a million now in florida without power. the international airport has stopped passenger frights. let s go to nicole valdes, the hurricane headquarters. nicole? good afternoon. winds are strengthening. we are seeing more rainfall. you mentioned this, conditions are quickly deteriorating across the tampa bay area. i want to show you a quick image as we look over the bay. you will see the ripples in the wa
insurance crisis that is crushing on people who live off the water, live near the water. explain all that. we got to see the destruction hurricane ian did down in fort myers. we took a crew, a team down to fort myers last year. we took a big barge down and craned boats out of people s yards, on top of people s houses. and we ve seen stuff that i didn t know a storm could do. and so it was a real big eye-opener to my whole family. i think my dad is worryied wors case scenario he doesn t want to be like what happened in fort myers. with insurance stuff going on, we re all worried. that s why we re staying here to see if there is anything that we can do to protect what we have. chase, hurricane hermine which was a hurricane 1 storm, it did pass through here. it had a 6-foot storm surge. now we re standing down by the water. there is a bar area up here in
live pictures from indian rocks beach in florida, well south of where i am. people checking out the waves and the wind and seeing how hurricane idalia is affecting things. now, never a good idea, by the way, to go that close to the water when a hurricane is bearing down. needless to say where i m standing in steinhatchee, all along the steinhatchee river, you will not be able to stand here a few hours from now. where i am will be covered in water. if the forecasts are correct the water would be well over where my head is right now. we ve seen the effects of storm surge in florida. last year hurricane ian, the storm surge devastated fort myers beach in punta gorda. not too far from there is clearwater beach which is where gloria pazmino is tonight. gloria, what are you seeing? john, i was speaking to people who were walking along the beach just about two hours ago as the sun was coming down,
so 4 to 7 feet. if it does reach those higher levels, what would that do? where would the water go? it would go all over the street. the street would be bayshore boulevard would be covered. i tell you, have i my entire police department in working, and, you know, the community has done nothing but praise our officers efforts that are out there. they re humans too. they have family, they have lives, and they ve sacrificed that to make tampa safer together. and the praise and outpouring of support for law enforcement in this area just unbelievable. it s heartwarming. and i m glad to see that the community comes together with their law enforcement to make tampa safer together. do you get the sense obviously, i was down there a year ago for hurricane ian. and people often think hey, we ve been through this before. it wasn t as bad as they said then. it won t be so bad now. to what extent are people heeding your warnings? well, it s a great point. and last year, if you recall,