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
because the friction pulled it in. so what happens is, this is going to get to the atlantic coast and it s going to get there, i think tomorrow afternoon. it looks like it s coming quicker, a little bit quicker to movement all right? once it gets there it s all bets off off for north. the national hurricane center has issued the hurricane watch from northeast florida to south carolina. remember we were on last night saying i m really concerned about this. sean: let me get your focus for one second here if i can. all right. sean: so it comes in from naples, north of naples pretty much the ground zero where this landed, which is fort myers, north of that sarasota then tampa. okay. so it s coming in from the west coast of florida. it then is slightly turning left headed right up to orlando, as we mentioned earlier, and it s picking up steam the whole time, still category, hurricane category winds with it. so strong winds, still dangerous for people. then it makes its way more