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certain, ian poised to rapidly intensify. be prepared now. take a look at your plans. know where you re going to go and how to keep your family safe. ian expected to become a major hurricane as soon as tuesday morning. jose lugo filling sandbags. he was in puerto rico helping his parents before fiona. now i m here helping myself and everybody else that i can. families already making a run on sheets of wood to board up their homes. this is tampa bay, a massive body of water that spans 30 miles to the gulf of mexico. only 11 feet deep with the right wind, that water gets pushed up the bay, piling up until it reaches downtown and has nowhere else to go. flooding the core of the city. nasa watching closely too. weighing whether to roll back artemis one s $4 billion rocket from the launch pad. this as fiona struck canada as the most powerful storm on record. a terrifying nighttime landfall hitting early saturday.
of emergency and calling up 2500 members of the national guard. ian is now churning in the warm waters of the caribbean and gaining strength by the hour as it impacts the cayman islands. before closing in on western cuba. from there, the models with a large amount of uncertainty, ian could move up east with tampa taking a direct hit or move closer to the florida panhandle later this week. many residents taking the time to prepare, filling sandbags and stocking up on supplies, including bottled water and wood to board up windows. meantime, along canada s atlantic coast, the massive cleanup under way after fiona slammed into the region. and in puerto rico where fiona first came ashore as a hurricane, hundreds of thousands are still without power. also tonight, there s another severe weather threat in the northeast. abc s senior meteorologist rob marciano leading us off from tampa. tonight, all of florida is under a state of emergency. with a track that s far from