zone, particularly in the southwest florida counties, your time to evacuate is coming to an end. you need to evacuate now. a life threatening category 4 storm headed right towards florida. i m john berman live in tampa this morning. brianna keilar is in washington and that is the news from overnight. hurricane ian strength jentd to a category 4 storm with sustained winds of 140 miles per hour. wind gusts of 165 miles per hour. the storm forecast has adjusted somewhat south of where i am in tampa headed right towards the fort myers area in florida about 100 miles south of here, but the threat to florida is enormous. more than 2 1/2 million people under some sort of evacuation order. yes, the wind speed is a serious threat now, a category 4 storm. storm surge where i am in tampa, they could see storm surge of 6 feet which would put the water pretty much right where i m stand going it hit the maximum levels down towards where the storm is expected to make landfall. they could
just after 3:00 p.m. east coast, the eye crossed over a barrier island near ft. myers, florida. this is a live look at the satellite right now. you can see the immense size and strength mof the hurricane. the winds are 150 miles an hour. that s just shy of making this a monstrous category 5. this was the scene just ahead of landfall captured by a storm chaser in pine island, florida. these conditions are expected to worsen in the coming hours, believe it or not. more than 850,000 customers are without power across the state of florida. another major concern today is the storm surge. the storm surge is the abnormal rise of ocean water that s generated by the storm. the lee county sheriff expects that to be, quote, life changing today. that area includes ft. myers and the city of cape coral where the emergency management manager tells cnn, hurricane ian will likely be one of the worst the region has ever seen. we are covering the storm as only cnn can with our team of journalis
went to the nursery looking for his 2-year-old stepson. he could not find him. he ended up opening fire, as well as stabbing children, stabbing people at this nursery. authorities tell cnn he then drove home, he took his own life. he then killed his 2-year-old stepson as well as his wife. we re still learning more details about the motive, this person. again, he is a former police officer who had been dismissed from the police officer, john. what an awful story. what an awful story. thinking about those families. 22 young children killed. keep us posted, thank you very much. we have new developments in recovery efforts in florida. the death toll after hurricane ian keeps climbing. at least 125 people now dead. but floridans are fighting back. the pine island bridge has now been made passable in a week. vehicles driving across now, including food trucks and emergency vehicles. president biden met with florida governor ron desantis. the two men set aside politics to foc
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