rising causing residents to track towards higher ground. absolutely nuts. brian: more than 70,000 floridians are without power this morning. governor ron desantis urging residents to get out. time to evacuate is come to an end. you need to evacuate now. the governor will give another update in just about 30 minutes. we will bring that to you live. first, we have live fox team coverage janice dean tracking the storm s latest path. fox news weather we start with robert ray in fort myers. robert? good morning. you know, as light is about to come up here and these rain bands and window really intensify, conditions are deteriorating here in fort myers beach. the gulf of mexico, just a football field over there. churning up. i was just over there. when it gets light, we will show you that. you can see right now, these heavy bands as hurricane ian is right out there. the eye center is about 70 miles from where i m standing it s 30 miles wide and the window fell well over 300
training for their life for this mission. stay safe. as the governor said hunker down. now is not the time to hit the roads. so we ll be, of course, monitoring the impacts as soon as those as soon as the storm moves its way in any given part of the state. the priority is going to get need to get personnel in there to be able to launch rescue efforts and then, obviously, pave the way so that we can wring in more supplies to the airports. clearing roads, so that you are olinemen can get in there and restore power. so all of that is standing by. but, this is going to be a major, major storm. you have been following the tracks and seeing, obviously we knew for quite some time that it would be a major hurricane. some of those tracks a couple days ago showed maybe it would weaken as it reached landfall further north. this one has just strengthened and strengthened and it is the real deal. so it is going to do a lot of damage. so people should be prepared for that as kevin said, there is
warnings in your area, remember, it is never safe to walk or drive through flooded areas. we continue to coordinate with all of our electrical partners as the governor has mentioned there are over 30,000 linemen staged throughout the city from north central florida all the way down to the all the way down to miami. as areas in south florida and the keys begin to experience power outages, remember to contact your service provider, not 911 for power restoration. you can also keep your refrigerators shut. open them as little as possible to help reserve your perishable items. if you are using a generator as we have been saying now for days, remember to keep it elevated on a hard surface. away from doors and windows outside of garages. this will help you stay safe. if residents have any questions about resources for hurricane ian, i urge them to reach out to their local emergency management
the storm surge or the storm surge on top of high tide, we could be dealing with over 15 feet. and that will go over homes. that will go over homes and you can t get away from that. so, over the next couple of hours, we think a landfall later on this afternoon. there is a good chance this will be our fifth category 5 storm that has ever hit the u.s. coast line. hurricane warnings all the way inland to orlando where we are going to feel hurricane force winds for duration in some of these areas for 12 to 24 hours. also had storm surge warnings on the atlantic side of florida as well as that storm exits the coast line. so, both coasts now are vulnerable. but the worst of the storm surge, which is the deadly part r. part of a hurricane, is in the area shaded in red. all these vulnerable coast lines and, again, the high tide and low tied, this is coming during high tide. and that s going to be, you know, high tide storm surge, waves on top. catastrophic, potentially deadly
because of disruptions of ian or if they were trying to get out earlier. fly to different parts of the state. just to get to safety. and just to give you guy withs an idea of what we are getting here right now. we know ian hasn t even made landfall right now. we are getting some light rain here in the orlando area. and every now and then, you know, little breeze, so he would just going to be waiting for the impact to reach us because we do know that we are in its path once it makes its way across florida. back to you all here in orlando. ainsley: thank you so much, brandy. also orlando universal, orlando, sea world and lego land closed today and also closed tomorrow. hotels they are saying are still open except for the ones at universal those are at full capacity. disney going to stop accepting new guests tomorrow. they are saying anyone who checked in before 3:00 is being asked to hunker down. 3:00 yesterday just to stay in your hotel room. there is a shortage of bottled water and d