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
and do the right thing. we just have to keep everybody safe and our rescuers will get to you. sean: senator rick scott thank you. joining us in sarasota charles watson is with us. charles what s going on there? sarasota got hit pretty hard today. yeah, sean. you know, i was going to tell you that conditions seemed to be getting favorable as ian is moving more north and east, but, that said, we are still seeing some pretty gusty wind here, that s certainly contributing to a lot of debris that s being blown around and power outages. and speaking of power, fortunately we are near hospitals. so we believe we re on the same grid. so we haven t had the misfortune of losing power today, but that is certainly not the case for most people in sarasota county. as we p, three-quarters of the county are without power right now. and that s something that folks are probably going to have to