parts of the state getting hit with wind gusts up to 126 miles per hour. this report coming out of redfish pass, a sform surge up to 18 feet is threatening important charlotte and the fort myers area. we have fox team coverage with steve harrigan where ian is making the direct hit. robert ray is in fort myers on how folks are dealing with this and rick reichmuth is in the fox weather center on how long the heat could last. given the slow movement, quit awhile. welcome. i m neil cavuto. a busy day right now and a monster of a hurricane that is big and also slow. that is the problem. it hangs around awhile. steve harrigan with more. steve? neil, we had the illusion for the last 15 or 20 minutes that things might be dying down. that was the eye of the storm. part of that eye passed over us. the skies got lighter, the heavy rain which has lashed for hours stopped completely. the winds died down. now the tail end of that storm is beginning to hit us, the back side of it. we ll s
turbulence. the lightning, the hail. the hail itself was unbelievable. to me sounded like rocks being poured out of a dump truck. we had paint peeling off the aircraft. it was intense. neil: that s right? wow. the media folks on board, the strongest storm s been in congratulations. neil: i m having trouble holding items in their stomach down. kendall, a lot of people want to get and idea what the path is. it s veered very little. a few miles can change everything. what is the latest on that path that you at least have seen? yeah, yes, sir. for us, you know, i flew it about five or six days back when it was in the caribbean. the hurricane center did a great job predicting the path. don t wobble too much. five, six days out if you can predict it within a couple hundred miles, that s pretty good. as it approaches a mile or two