hello, and welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m john vause, at the cnn center in atlanta. as we head into the midnight hour on the u.s. east coast, almost the entire state of florida is bracing for the impact of hurricane ian, a monster storm stressing 500 miles across. which earlier made landfall on cuba, blocking out the eyelids electricity grid and causing a nationwide blackout. 11 million people right now are in the dark, waiting for morning to assess the damage. as of, now there are no reports of fatalities. since leaving cuba, ian has grown in strength, fueled by the warm waters of the gulf of mexico, as it heads towards florida, now category 3, with sustained winds of 135 miles per hour. along with life-threatening storm surge, florida is facing catastrophic flooding and strong powerful winds. all they, long tuesday, residents across the state braced for the hurricane to make landfall. now expected the first forecast, and further south.
hello, and welcome to our viewers joining us from the united states and all over the world. you re watching cnn newsroom. i m kristie lu stout. it is now 2 am on the u.s. east coast. almost the entire state of florida is bracing for the impact of hurricane ian, a monster storm stretching 700 miles across and getting stronger. causing a nationwide blackout in cuba, ian is turning in the gulf of mexico as a category three hurricane with sustained winds just shy of a category four. and along with life-threatening storm surge, florida is facing catastrophic flooding and powerful winds. now, conditions will deteriorate throughout the night ahead of the expected landfall in the coming hours. more than two and a half million people are under some form of evacuation warning. state authorities say the time to leave is quickly running out. people in southwest florida, this is going to likely make landfall as a category 4 hurricane. there will be catastrophic flooding, and life-threat
around the eye some distance away, what happens is once it goes through the eye wall replacement cycle, the eye collapses and we ll watch the convection around it tighten back up like getting strong again. each time it goes through one of these and it can take several hours to do so, it gets stronger and it gets larger. this has enough time unfortunately to go through this cycle before it makes landfall so on a grander scale we re already starting to see some tornado warnings in the everglades right now. they have now posted a tornado watch that will be in effect until 5:00 a.m. that s an extraordinary amount of space and time to deal with that and the problems with the tornados, they re not like in the midwest and plains, they spin without notice, usually ef 1st and ef-2s. there is significant differences, jake, as we mentioned from where it would stall off the coast of the bay and turning to the right and we still could see that happen. there is plenty of time for this to h
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