hello. live in atlanta, 3:00 a.m. in florida. we continue to follow the path of hurricane ian. now, weaker, but still a major worry. that hurricane has finally been downgraded to a category-1 storm, but it s still moving menacingly right above the state of florida and heading northeast winds, approximately 75 miles or 125 kilometers per hour, still lashing large sections of the state.just 12 hours after it crashed in southwest florida as an almost category-5 hurricane. as you can imagine, there have been power outages with more than 2 million homes and businesses in the dark. that s about 20% of customers throughout the state the mayor of fort myers, meantime, saying, 96% of his entire city has lapsed with electricity. meanwhile, charlotte county, florida, telling cnn, rescuers can only do so much during the height of the storm. unfortunately, our dispatch continues to receive calls from the 911 center, and just like every other county, the emergency response, they get up a
and tempo was spared, not the worst, but what does tampa look like at this hour? reporter: that s right. the worst of the storm was expected to hit this area of tampa, where we are right now, but the reality is that, over the last few hours, the situation here has been very lenient, and very windy. things are slowing up a bit right now.the worst of hurricane ian happened about 90 miles to the south you were describing the conditions there, fort myers, 90 miles away from here.fort meyers, the area of naples. releasing historic flooding, massive destruction, as hurricane ian rolled into its path. hurricane ian, slamming the florida gulf coast with near category-5 strength, with life-