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
air we are looking at key west. this is a live look you the entire state is bracing for potentially catastrophic the say s response 90 minutes from now. pete: we have live fox team coverage janice dean standing by with the latest storm track. nicole valdez live in florida. we start with multi media journalist robert ray live in fort myers. robert? good morning to you here in fort myers beach. a key inlet to the gulf of mexico and, guys, the storm is starting to come in. we are seeing the deterioration of this island. take a look. if rick can look up here into the palm trees and you see they are starting to sway. we get these heavy rain bands that come in from time to time. i have to say the big issue here is the storm surge. where i m standing right now
freezing, and more like six or seven the further north you are. as we go into tuesday, we are in between these frontal system, notice the isobars are closer together so a windier day. heavy rain in the morning across scotland. a few showers pushing southwards, that rain bands intensify, pushing heavy rain bands intensify, pushing heavy rain into northern ireland, western scotland and northern england, further south it is likely to stay drier with bright or sunny spells but look at the temperature, 11 or 12 on tuesday. doesn t last long because as that front moves across the uk, tuesday night into wednesday, it returns to cold air, across the uk, so feeling colder by wednesday and thursday, and we see a return of the biting north westerly winds, also bringing showers along so milder on tuesday but turning colder through wednesday and thursday. goodbye.
but looking at new orleans now, you are starting to see some of these really heavy rain bands begin to push in with even additional lightning, too. we showed the storm surge numbers of where they are now. this is where they are expected to peak. this pink area 12 to 16 feet, here 8 to 12. some of these numbers have gone up one to two feet from a few hours ago because the storm is stronger. c some of these numbers may have changed from what they were when you went to bed last night. the other thing, too, phil and christi, those winds. it s not just the storm surge, but the winds. which is why power outages are expected to be such a widespread concern as well. allison, thank you so much for the update. let s go to cnn s derek van dam live in louisiana. help us understand what it s like there because according to the radar it looked like you would be feeling this right now. i think i hear some rain behind you. what do you see? reporter: definitely the
so today, because the ground is so saturated, we ve had so much rain, central park up to 8 inches of rain in the last three days. we still have 30 million people under flash flood watches. the rain will be from new york city shifting to massachusetts and connecticut during the day. we could see heavy rain bands, harder than when the storm made landfall later today. here s the track of the storm. near boston late tonight into early tomorrow morning and we re done with the storm as henri is a tropical depression. noon today, 1:00, moving through central connecticut and the evening rush hour, the mass pike and i-95 from providence to boston dealing with heavy rainfall. we could see some additional flash flooding from henri today, the majority of the damage is over with. for the clean up efforts in tennessee, the weather is fine, it was okay yesterday, too. but, you know, looking at that