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hurricane ian is making its way northeast across florida. the mayor of orange county, florida, which includes orlando, is warning the area could see up to two feet of rain. don, what s it looking like right now? it s starting to really come down just really about over the last hour or so. we ve been getting probably the biggest band of wind and rain we ve seen, anderson. this is hunker down time. the mayor is saying that as well. it s time to hunker down. if you haven t left your home yet, you have to stay where you are. the problem is going to be this inland flooding. this thing is moving, sadly, slowly. you would think if it s moving slowly that that wouldn t be a problem. but the problem is, when it s moving slowly, it s dumping all this water, just sitting here, sitting here dumping water and
rest of the state. by this time tomorrow, the mayor is saying they don t believe they ll have power and they believe the flooding will be a huge, huge problem by then. is there a sense of when the storm will be closest to orlando? it ll be here it s coming overnight. it should be here by the time my show comes on in an hour or so in 30 minutes or so. you ll probably start to get more of this wind from the bands. but probably 2:00 or 3:00 in the morning is when it s going to get worse, when we expect not to have power. hopefully that won t happen, but it should happen overnight, sometime around 2:00 or 3:00 in the morning. appreciate you being there. we ll see you in about 30 minutes from now. i want to go to the national hurricane center in miami and jamie rhome. i appreciate you joining us. what s the forecast showing at this point? you can see, anderson, that the center has unfortunately
wind on the area. and as you know, the problem is going to be debris. we have been standing here for a couple of hours and things have been falling off the building, as these bands pick up the siding and drainpipes of the building. that is a big concern. we ve also been witnessing members of the fire department going around orlando, checking on people, and especially the 79 mobile home parks here, trailer parks where people live. and they have been going to those trailer parks checking on people, making sure they re okay, and earlier today trying to get them to leave, according to the mayor. i m not sure how successful they were in that. that s the issue here. they re concerned about the flooding here. they could get up to 2 foot of rain here. and they re concerned about the wind and debris and everything that s going to blow around. it s about 15,000 people in orange county without power. it pales come inin comparison t
rain moves kind of slowly. this system is just crawling across the state. moves slowly up, impacts orlando. and then all that rain on saturated soil, we re at the end of the wet season here in florida, the rainy season here in florida. that s going to topple trees, take out power. it s just going to be a long, long night for people here in central florida. it s also the end of the rainy season for florida. how does that complicate things? it does because the soil is already saturated. if you re not familiar with florida and our rainy season, it basically rains daily, afternoon thunderstorms, for about six months. so, we re at the tail end of the rainy season, which means the soil is saturated. there s water everywhere. i go home and my yard is just saturated because therere s jus water everywhere. jamie rhohome, appreciate wh you re doing. i know it s going to be a longn night for you. thank you. cocoming up, we ll get the newest information fwrun of the hafrdest hit counties.