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several inches making sure nobody is trying to drive through this. this is the evacuation area. there should not be anybody around. not just a couple of inches of water but quickly becoming feet of water all across the roadway. you can see it crashing onto the elevated area we are standing on to keep ourselves safe and to keep ourselves from falling over. just showing how strong these waves are becoming on land. this is a significant threat. if we see anymore rainfall for the remainder of the morning and tell the storm makes landfall, this will be a dangerous situation who think by worktime tomorrow it is over. absolutely not. very good chance this could be
back to our top story, hurricane idalia barreling down on flory florida projected to be a category 4 by landfall. that could be sometime in the next few hours. that s a powerful hurricane. meaning it is both the wind and a water event. we will keep our eye on that. box weather correspondent nicole valdes is live in tampa with the latest on the conditions there. how does it look? trace, a lot of wind and rain already. this is just the beginning. the storm surge threat is still top of mind for tampa bay officials. as i show you the tempo riverwalk you notice we are starting to see some standing water form on the low lying areas. we are in a zone a evacuation area. harbour island and davis island just beside me here have already been evacuated.
idalia dangerously close to being a major category 3. now within about 100 miles of the florida gulf coast where some areas of florida s big bend could get catastrophic 15-foot storm surge. matt finn is live in saint pete, florida as it idalia closes intricate is beginning to look bad where you are. trace, the wind and rain has been very consistent for several hours now. the beach where we are is a barrier island to the tampa bay area. only about a 20 minute drive rest up tampa bay. this is considered zoned a of evacuation area. this is under a mandatory evacuation because of how low-lying this area is. fema and the national weather service in pinellas county officials have been warning that this area could see a 7 to 10-foot storm surge. anybody who remains here at this hour now perhaps faces that storm surge. governor desantis has warned that if you have not evacuated
able to give better picture or understanding of the potential flooding in st. pete beach. this is zone a of evacuation, mandatory evacuation area because it is prone to flooding. early afternoon hours onshore flow. see what kind of shape the beaches are in, we are a few days out from the holiday weekend. that is matt finn. we re coming up, going to check in from fox weather a nicole valdes in the hillsboro side of tampa bay. that is cedar key, the exclusive storm tracker mark suduth. you have wind around 45 mile per hour. this pressure has been dropping every time we ve checked on this. that is a live picture from cedar key right now also, inland