threat across the state. residents are urged to stay inside. our team is on the ground and crews mobilize and janice dean is tracking ian in new york city. todd: lauren, we begin our coverage with you in st. pete. in st. pete beach, they were prepping for the worst, but it struck more southeast. let me show you what is looked like yesterday in the naples, fort myers area. ian came with category four, wind speeds 155 miles per hour, dropped a foot of rain and life-threatening storm surge turned roads into rivers and left homes on the other hand water. take a look at the radar, ian has weakened since making landfall as it moves to florida. latest update has it 75 miles per hour, making it a category one hurricane, officials warn communitiess in central and northern florida, they are still in danger from flooding and hard to process amounts of water. central and northeast florida, 12 to 20 inches of rain possible, some areas according to national hurricane center, looking at
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and many, many people are going to be tested in ways we can only imagine today. but i can also tell you as a state we ve never been more prepared. all the models we ve seen from our cpra show the hurricane risk reduction system will perform as intended. will it be tested? yes. but it was built for this moment. i have a tremendous amount of confidence in the team we ve assembled at the state level. all the local officials and first responders, and our federal partners, and by the way, i want to thank fema, the administrator for coming out of texas to embed with us here. i can tell you a short while ago i had a call with the administrator from fema in washington who is closely watching what s happening here. coordinating with us and already
we re staying safe. we re switched over to more appropriate gear for safety. we re wearing goggles. we switched over to ball caps that have a hard hat on the inside in case there s debris that may come our way. we re being as safe as possible as we re out in the streets. so we re seeing folks who have come in to help clean up after the storm. we re not seeing a lot of residents. most of them are inside their houses hunkering down. they have to have enough water and supplies for two weeks. that was the warning before the storm. in case they have to be in their house without power. jim? all right. nadia, great reporting there as the winds are picking up in new orleans. we ll get back to you. thank you so much. take cover and stay safe. let s get to fema head quarters in washington where we saw the president moments ago. we have the acting associate administrator for response and recovery. david, thank you for talking to us. from where you are at the command center, what s your
a state, we ve never been more prepared. again, all the models that we ve seen from the army corps of engineers and from our own cpra show that hurricane storm damage risk reduction system will hold and perform as intended. will it be tested? yes. but it was built for this moment. i have a tremendous amount of confidence in the team that we ve assembled at the state level, all the local officials and first responders and our federal partners and by the way, i want to thank fema regional administrator tony robinson for coming out of texas to embed with us here and i can tell you a short while ago i had a call with administrator criswell of fema in washington and she is very closely watching what s happening here, coordinating with us and already has various things en route so that we can employ them just as soon as possible. things like generators and so
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