chief meteorologist, pedro again. pedro, seems like daybreak is a few hours now. when people assess the damage, it s clear this will be one of the costliest storms in u.s. history. yeah. look at storms that were similar, ian, as a made landfall, leading by $10-$17 billion in losses. dozens of lives, and unfortunately, certainly rivals that storm those storms that we alluded to, pushing towards the east, near melbourne, daytona beach. i want to show you a live look your across daytona beach, with the system that closes in on this region. current observation with wind gusts and 15 to 55 miles per hour across the region. gusty winds continue. of course, the storm begins to really intensify as it moves closer and closer to daytona beach. there, on the eastern shores, really, we haven t touched on it until this point. all eyes were on the southwest for the major hurricane approach. but now, towards sure, this area of concern has power outages growing, with flooding and storm surge also
across the state of florida. again, there it goes. pushing across the areas of eastern florida in a couple hours. 150 mile parel winds speeds at landfall, the significant storm surge as a result of it. the highest ever observed in fort myers for hurricane ian. one element i want to show you, because looking into the data sets around the screen, try different in the current windspeed shifted towards the east. look at it here. all of the weather instruments, with the power outages in the dark, and the storm system, couldn t find too many in the way of current wind gusts. even orlando s airport wasn t giving me the system update from south of orlando pushing to the east. the latest numbers, 2.3 million customers in the dark in a large area of florida. the system is beginning to make a push towards the eastern shoreline, near the east coast again, and we expect a sharp right turn. if it maintains intensity in the coming hours, doesn t drop back down to a tropical system, i wouldn t be surp
neil? neil: ian made landfall just west of fort myers, florida, coming at more than 150, category four storm. again, that is gone down a little bit. will n unley is there with the latest. will, how are things there now? neil, because of the relentless power of the storm, this is part of a building that we re under taking shelter falling down around us. these are concrete or terracotta pieces of the roof that are meant to hold up under severe weather. even hurricane force weather, but it s no match for what we re seeing under the power of this storm. numerous trees down, just being ripped out of the ground, of
considers that extremely monstrously cowardly if we were to do that. thank you for being being here. we ll get the word out about the bill sitting on governor newsom s desk right now. hurricane alert. hurricane ian is intensifying moving toward florida. residents are preparing for the storm of the century. welcome to a new hour of america s newsroom, i m dana perino. bill: good morning and welcome back. i like the sunshine yellow, he said. yellow he said. bill: i m bill hemmer, good morning. you ll be on the story for days now. ian made landfall. category 3 storm slamming the island with heavy wind, rain and high storm surge. it could arrive in florida as early as tomorrow. dana: tampa is bracing for its first direct hit from a hurricane in 100 years. here is governor desantis last