around high tide will make it even worse. so, if you have a high tide of 1 to 2 feet. 14, we could be talking 14, 15, feet of storm surge that will overtop some of these homes. hurricane warnings for all of these areas for millions of folks including the orlando area. it s going to take at least 24 hours for this hurricane to move across the state. it s so powerful it s going to take time to start to weaken and strengthening hurricane making landfall is probably one of the most dangerous things mother nature can throw at you. so this is a big deal. probably historic what we re talking about right now. all right. we are going over to ainsley. ainsley: it is a big deal. thank you so much, janice. we will hear from the governor, ron desantis in about 30, 35 minutes. president biden s $400 billion student loan handout facing its first major legal challenge. a lawsuit filed in indiana calling it flagrantly illegal with a tax penalty that will
it should intensify to a category four late tuesday or earl wednesday. there s going to be large waves, but it will not be a direct hit or a lot of damage in the keys. and then we got this forecast that includes the cone. as i mentioned, almost fort myers, all the way over to panama city. this red line is what the forecast is. it could really there s a forecast error built in. that s why we have this cone. we could see a landfall of sarasota or could have it up here towards the big bend and maybe a big wind storm up towards tallahassee. the one thing we do know is it s going to peak in intensify as we go throughout wednesday morning, and then it s going to start to weaken. the further off the coast it is, the better. then it will weaken more and more by the time it makes landfall. that s bad for people in the panhandle. that s better than having a major hurricane making landfall.
a lot of rain over the last couple months. the ground is saturated. it willed flood very easily. there s the center of the storm, to the south of jamaica. it will continue to pull off to the northwest throughout the afternoon. it s just about to go over the area in atlantic with the most heat potential for storm development. we think it will rapidly develop throughout the afternoon and by tomorrow morning. hurricane warning in effect for grand cayman, a little cayman, a tropical storm watch. here s the storm mo models, a lot of disagreements in days four and five on this. if you are anywhere from around fort myers over to about biloxi, you need to be watching for this. we ve seen this track move. we ll continue to see it move. so a lot of uncertainty still with this. want to show you what a forecast at the depick picks depictiof what the clouds look like, the storm. by the time we get to tomorrow afternoon, according to this model, we have a significant hurricane making landfall in
line, is it a course is sneaking towards the tampa area, a high population area of sarasota storm surge, that could be the worst-case scenario for a major hurricane making landfall. that is not, you know, we are not saying it is going to go there because we can still have four days to go. right now we are seeing the whole area florida can see some tropical storm for us, but it depends where the center goes where we get the instructive winds. the new american model just came in, that is at the central gulf, five days from now. that has made a big shift, it was just off of the coast of tampa, it shifted about 100 to 200 miles west. the european model which will be updated in the next hour or two is centered over central florida last night, we are going to see that model trend west. just about every other computer model, you see a lot of them with the lines here, have been trending west. you have one, two, three, four, five that are pointing towards the big bend area south of tallahassee.
the entire island losing all electricity. more than 3 million residents face a dark and dangerous night ahead. the island s governor says it s all hands on deck, telling abc news the island is better prepared now than five years ago for hurricane maria, but it remains to be seen if the preparations were enough. victor is in puerto rico and leads us off tonight. reporter: tonight, hurricane fiona slamming puerto rico with powerful winds and flooding rain, knocking out the fragile power grid. now, an island-wide blackout. 1.5 million customers without electricity. the category 1 hurricane making landfall with sustained winds of 85 miles per hour, knocking down trees and power lines, expected to dump up to two feet of rain. hgh winds ripping the roof off this structure, tearing it to shreds. julito cirino says he was sleeping when the winds tore the roof off his house.