have our fox news chief meteorologist rick reichmuth with us. rick this has been rough so far. really has. three things, the storm surge that broke records in fort myers and naples as well by a lot by the way, three feet higher than we had ever seen from any kind of storm surge in the past. that obviously causing all that flooding right along the immediate coast. then we have the winds, actual verified winds of 140 miles an hour in cape corral. a lot of this wind was really prolonged because it s such a slow-moving storm and then you have the rainfall. because it s so slow we get rainfall that just continues to batter the state and we ll see big time inland flooding concerns. this made land fall in the exact same space that hurricane charlie came on shore in 2004 which is amazing to have two massive hurricanes or two strong hurricanes like this come on shore in the exact same spot, hard to imagine, because it came on so strong, it s still a category 2 hurricane after having
sarasota, and now people that are living in tampa, saint pete, that area, you are being told at this hour to shelter in place, those of you that were not evacuated joining us now with much more on what his state is now facing is florida senator marco rubio is with us. senator first our prayers, our thoughts are with our fellow americans, our floridian friends, sorry you re all going through this. this is a rough one. what do you know especially about southwest florida, what happened naples, fort myers, et cetera, sarasota? well, i think the reporting that preceded me on the air kind of describes the images we re going to begin to see tomorrow. we know that the storm surge is very significant, historic really and i think we re all going to be shocked by some of the images that are going to emerge. one of the water gauges that measures in fort myers was high an hour ago and rapidly rising so there s still a threat there and even as we re dealing with that, we recognize this storm is