hello, and welcome to our viewers in the united states. and around the. world i m john. vause with the cnn center in atlanta. almost nine hours now since hurricane eta made landfall in southwest florida. and this monster storm continues to cause widespread flooding. and storm surges in 12 feet high in places. tonight, statewide. like trustees outed more than 2 million homes and businesses, and the power grid so badly damaged parts there are concerns it may need to be rebuilt. ian arrived at the state went just shy of a category five. it s since been downgraded to a category 1, but still remains very dangerous. authorities warning the worst may yet be to come. ian is now slowly moving into central florida, with winds around 90 miles or 145 kilometers per hour. time lapse video shows water levels rising on the streets of fort myers, south of where it made landfall. the national hurricane center said the storm surge on florida s west coast has likely peaked, and is now startin
city are you okay? rescuers, helping guide residents through submerged intersection, since, having been turned into a lake. then, there is this. the electricity crisis. the storm, knocking out power lines, in more than 2 million homes, and businesses, which have been plunged into darkness, across the state. meteorologist, pedram javaheri, tracking ian. he joins me. pedram, ian may have weekend, but is unleashing very dangerous conditions. where does it stand right now? kristie, we ve got the latest update from the national hurricane center. 11 hours overland, since it made landfall. you will notice, still, a category one. a drop from 90 miles per hour, to 75 miles per hour, leaving this as a low-end, category one hurricane. notice, on the back side of the storm system, the cloud field, beginning to break. as far as clearing skies, around portions of marco island, around areas up towards tampa. all of these areas, finally, seeing drier weather persist. just east of i
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people are traveling for the thanksgiving holiday. we have a team of correspondents and meteorologists covering this for us today. gloria palomino is at laguardia in new york, nadia romero is in atlanta. let s begin with tom sater in the cnn weather center. okay, tom, walk us through these weather trouble spots today. paula, in the last hour the delays are really starting to pile up now. we had the one hour delays at newark for the winds, a widespread weather went for the east coast. laguardia, 30 to 45 minutes for the winds. now we can add boston into this because of rainfall. they are 30 to 45-minute delays. a grand stoppage at reagan international in d.c. because of the low ceiling and we could put delays in orlando because of volume. we have to punch here, everyone trying to travel in the afternoon and evening period, you throw the worst weather of the week into the largest cities. in it s nice, detroit get ready. you have heavy weather moving
i think it is better and we hope to not have a lot of cancellations because we make it home. the color of mexico tomorrow. there are a couple of delays, i believe mostly weather related, i m not sure. there were a couple of delays. it wasn t going to get too bad, thank goodness, it has been pretty smooth so far. all, right so, paula wherever you go you will have a line. whether this is the aging assist, line special priority, i don t want to person say i am priority, i should have to wait in line. everyone is waiting in line today. we spoke with one woman who is a nurse and she says she s just happy to be back traveling since the pandemic. she says that the mood is just better everywhere she has went. paula? well, way to look on the upside. all right nadia, gloria, and tom thank you so much for the reports. still ahead, new reporting from inside russia. a group of mothers is demanding that putin withdraw troops from ukrainian to bring their