this update just moments ago. hurricane ian is a storm moving closer to floor at that s west coast bringing high winds, extremely heavy rain and life threatening storm surge flooding. already ian hitting key west with major storm surge flooding. more than 2 1/2 million people now under some level of evacuation warnings. officials escalating their urgent appeals to evacuate. if you are in an evacuation zone, your time to evacuate is coming to an end. you need to evacuate now. meteorologist chad myers is in the cnn weather center. chad, what s the latest on the predicted storm track here? it is still forecast to put all of that water into charlotte harbor, christine. this is and has been kind of looked at as a charrincharlie, s is not charlie. this is florida s katrina. charlie could almost fit inside the eye. the wind speeds of charlie were so significant but only in a small place. this storm has wind, surge, flooding, waves and even rainfall inside of florida of almost
this update just moments ago. hurricane ian is a storm moving closer to floor at that s west coast bringing high winds, extremely heavy rain and life threatening storm surge flooding. already ian hitting key west with major storm surge flooding. more than 2 1/2 million people now under some level of evacuation warnings. officials escalating their urgent appeals to evacuate. if you are in an evacuation zone, your time to evacuate is coming to an end. you need to evacuate now. meteorologist chad myers is in the cnn weather center. chad, what s the latest on the predicted storm track here? it is still forecast to put all of that water into charlotte harbor, christine. this is and has been kind of looked at as a charrincharlie, s
we re closely monitoring the path of tropical storm isaac right now. that system is moving over the florida keys and now the other gulf states are in danger. new orleans in fact now under a hurricane watch. let s check in on the conditions in the keys. we have hank tester. he s been driving around key west. he s there live for us. hank, i m getting from bill karins that the heaviest squalls thus far are hitting key west. you re seeing thateri, right? if you can take a look out there right now, this is what is known as the garrison bite, and these are sail boats that have been tied off, and we re getting some wind and rain whipping in here. we re going to get you on the road here just as soon as we have an opportunity to pull out safely. and we re going to go into the garrison area. the cameraman has been doingi
towards the coastline not only of southeast louisiana but mississippi and alabama. from all the experts they eventually florida. you mentioned at the top here about the university of miami s estimate assessing the gulf current. it s arcing north at a higher latitude than normal. that has the promise as the oil slick gets larger to grab the oil and bring it all the way down the western coast of florida, hitting key west and hitting the keys between cuba and florida. that could potentially take it all the way of the eastern coast of florida which is where you have massive amounts of tourism and a lot in jeopardy. gregg: let s hope it doesn t come to that. phil, thanks very much juliet and the wildlife. gregg: venice is sorted of the fishermen s capital of the world. think about the livelihoods