0 and i just want to send a quick thank you to our first responders. i mean, you see these images of them cutting down trees, trying to remove the debris so that we can get our days back to normal. but we still have quite some time to get through. and we re going to do, you know, it is the firefighters, it s the police officers. it is just everyone working behind the scenes. and hurricane ian water in parts of southwest florida, streets and buildings completely flooded, power knocked out at one point over two million people. and one of the most powerful hurricanes ever to hit the united states . the hurricane making landfall wednesday afternoon near costa protected barrier island, just west of fort myers. the hours since landfall and has moved inland. but hurricane force winds are likely to be felt well into central florida. thank you so much for sticking with us right here on fox weather three a.m. on the east coast of mcalester. and i m jim and i thank so much for joining u
0 our growing family. i need a home office and i needed us to not have a roommate anymore. and real time alerts made sure i never missed out on the listing. it makes home buying so much easier. start saturday, strong saturday on fox .com. we called michigan s dominant ground game in a tough protest against dial. a lot of big names saturday on fox. this is fox, whether on fox news and we re tracking hurricane in a powerful and dangerous storm making landfall as a cat for her game this afternoon in southwest florida, just west of fort myers. yeah, incredible video out of the bay. and i m sure it s only going to continue to, well, stream in this in all the video. let s just say that an overall slow moving, bringing those catastrophic winds, as you see, playing the video, as well as that life threatening storm surge, widespread flooding, power knocked out to more than two million across florida. the devastating winds, all of this is heading north northeast. so we ll talk about the flood
0 with first cause of this surge right now. reporting in fort myers, robert ray fox. whether. all right. thank you so much for sticking with us. right here on fox weather. a hurricane in a water log in southwest florida. streets and buildings completely flooded, as you can see here. power knocked out to two million people. and one of the most powerful storms ever recorded in the united states . the hurricane making landfall wednesday afternoon near jocasta. a protected barrier island just west of fort myers in the hours since landfall in have moved inland, hurricane force winds likely to be felt well into central florida. yeah, thanks again for sticking with us right here on fox. whether i m local customer. and i m jim enah. thank you for joining us and a special welcome to those watching on fox news channel. well, the 2:00 a.m. advisory is in mike lindell, still a category one hurricane. so no major changes there, although and continues to shift and land continues to weaken just a
it always is. it s not the wind that killed more. people it s the storm surge and the freshwater flooding. 8 to 12 feet. we do not know exactly where that s gonna occur. it s gonna be south by about 10 to 20 miles. of wherever the i-makes landfall. if it goes up like, this areas from sarasota you have a blowout wind. that wind will be clearing out to sea on the north side. but if that southern onshore wind. i m very concerned with the storm surge from naples and again, sanibel, captiva, fort myers, even parts of charlotte in charlotte bay. that s an area with high tide tomorrow as we go throughout 6 pm. that s right when the highest water levels could be surging. we re gonna add and another to high tide. so that s way up there. that s what we don t want to deal with. and i mentioned some storm surge even on the jacksonville coastline. the other problem with water is the high risk of flash flooding in central florida. someone s gonna get two feet of rain in that i-four corrido
a tropical storm. but regardless, it s gonna cost. problems it s at least three days in a row we re gonna have to deal with the storm. the worst thing as far as life-threatening is water. it always is. it s not the wind that killed more. people it s the storm surge and the freshwater flooding. 8 to 12 feet. we do not know exactly where that s gonna occur. it s gonna be south about 10 to 20 miles. of wherever the i-makes landfall. if it goes up like, this areas from sarasota you have a blowout win. that wind will be clearing out to sea on the north side. but if that southern onshore i m very concerned with the storm surge from naples and again, sanibel, captiva, fort myers, even parts of charlotte in charlotte bay. that s an area we have high tide tomorrow as we go throughout 6 pm. that s right when the highest water levels could be surging. we re gonna add and another to high tide. so that s way up there. that s what we don t want to deal with. and i mentioned some storm su