the trees and almost immediately swept up and blown away. be careful. we know you have your helmet on. run for cover if you need to. give us a sense what it s like to stand in that sort of wind. you have reported through many hurricanes, robert, we have known you a long time, what that feels like to try to bear the winds. yeah, i know to viewers when p they see someone like myself they think no, no, that person is exaggerating, but it s not. you have to make yourself a human tripod so you can pivot depending on the wind and move wherever. it s like being in a sport, essentially. you have to do that, otherwise you are going to get knocked over and up need to be in position where you can come down when the wind comes up or up, or side to side, or you can get out of here. it really is important to stand like this and maneuver. kind of like if you are on a
0 from the shoreline to the back bays and also to rivers inland. so, know your high tides. we are looking at the images, increasingly dire. stay inside as the storm approaches and wreaks havoc, pray for the charlotte county community and the rest of florida as we toss it over to america reports. john: any moment now we are expecting an update from florida governor ron desantis as the eyewall of hurricane ian begins to move on shore bringing with it the potential for catastrophic damage. hello, john roberts in washington. sandra, welcome back. sandra: good to be with you, sandra smith in new york. america reports, a quickly developing situation, ian expected to make landfall between 2 and 4:00 p.m. right now packing top winds of 155 miles an hour. that is just a couple miles shy of a category 5 hurricane. john: when you get that high it does not make much of a difference. forecasters warning of the storm surge could be as high as 18 feet as the eyewall comes on shore. sand