florida. the exact point of landfall is still unclear. the storm is growing stronger and also wider. prompting hurricane warnings across the entire state of florida. bill: ian tore through cuba. it knocked out power to the entire country. left 11 million in the dark. look at the satellite images. it set off a series of lightning strikes, the wind speed intensifies. 155 miles per hour clocked right now knocking on the door of category 5. dana: mandatory evacuations are affect being millions of people. everyone else should be ready to leave at a moment s notice. ron desantis underscoring the extreme threat this storm presents. it is knocking on the door of a category 5 storm. a storm of this magnitude will produce catastrophic flooding and life threatening storm surge. time to hunker down and prepare for this storm. it is a powerful storm that should be treated like you would treat if a tornado was approaching your home. dana: fox news and whether have our resources cov
and find ourselves a place where we ll still experience heavy rain, winds and surge over there but nothing like this. we have to get out of here. it is just not safe for us. we ll lose vehicles and potentially other items unspeakable things. i hope most people here have evacuated and we are about to do the same as you see the water coming in right now, bill. bill: we ll be in contact with you and your crew. thank you for that in fort myers. more now with dana. dana: people in orlando are bracing to make their final preparations before the hurricane strikes. that s where we find fox weather correspondent brandi campbell. tell us what s going on there. good morning, dana. it s an interesting situation here. a lot of people have been retreating to orlando to get safe as ian will move across florida. this area will also see the impact from this hurricane. right now take a look behind me, it doesn t look like much is
grace. yeah, grace is the more immediate threat although it is a bit ominous to hear a potential tropical system making impacts at least to the northeastern united states. that in a moment. but first grace, which is only hours from making landfall across the yucatan peninsula, if you ve been to cozumel, you know these areas very well. very flat and also prone to hurricane strikes. just within the past year alone, less than a year in fact, they have had three named tropical systems, this will be the fourth named tropical system to make lawful within a 70 mile radius of cozumel. this hear as been rocked by tropical storms and hurricanes, strongest being a category 3 last year in october. they have hurricane warnings including cozumel at the moment just south of cancun. newly hoisted hurricane watches for the sa r varicus state.
the un released a report last night saying we have 12 years left to make drastic changes to prevent drought, flood and extreme poverty for hundreds and millions of people. the report was published at the paris climate talk. what is your take on how we should be thinking about these extreme weather events and how we should be discussing it? we have gone from theory to reality. we have had four category four or stronger hurricane strikes in the united states in the last fourteen months. 93% of the chemical blanket of additional warning, 93% of that is going into the world s oceans. it is not out of sight, out of mind. so when a hurricane does spin up naturally, and i should point out, we have had hurricanes