City had to free a woman trapped in her car by rushing floodwaters. They say that was just one of dozens of rescue calls they answered during a relentless rainstorm. Forecasters say the storm that sparked all that flooding is moving away from kansas city toward the great lakes. Now to social distancing rules changing, as much of the country slowly reopens. Gmas Michael Strahan had a few questions for dr. Jen ashton about staying safe this summer. You know everybodys eager to get out and enjoy the summer weather. How does being indoors versus outdoors impact the spread of the virus . According to a top epidemiologist from ohio state university, think of four elements. Time, space, people, and place. And let me show you what i mean. If you look at just the dynamics of a sneeze, indoors, under experimental conditions, you can see these particles have been found to travel up to at least 26 feet. Then if you take a situation indoors, based on a real case report from china, like a restaurant
You can see rolling in on the stiff breeze and 33mileperhour wind in fairfield. That is when you know the may gray is here to stay. Mostly cloudy afternoon even when your area gets rid of the low clouds which are mainly inland and stick around the bay for a while longer. High clouds will roll in and thats why you need the sunglasses on a limited basis today. And stay near 60 at the coast and only 71 to 76 at noon and 75 to 80 at 4 00 and a brisk temperature in the upper 60s. Grab a coat if youre heading out this evening. Kumasi, back to you. Thank you, mike. We have breaking news that we have been following all morning as protests continue in the twin cities. Minnesotas governor will hold a press Conference Today to discuss the response to the civil unrest that has been happening since the death of george floyd since he was in police custody. Violent protests and fires continued overnight and the minnesota governor says he expect charges to be filed soon against the Minneapolis Police
it will severely impact millions of people and put the barrier island communities completely under water. joining me this hour, the acting director of the national hurricane center to update the track of the storm. i will talk to mayors up and down the coast as ian comes onshore. let s go to our meteorologist with the latest on the hurricane s path. what are you seeing from the latest updates? with each update, the conditions continue to grow dire. right now, we are seeing lots of rain and strong winds moving into ft. myers. if you look at the latest trajectory, we have this making landfall as a mjor hurricane, a strong category 4, 155 miles per hour winds. once you are in 157, you are in cat 5. they are seeing strong winds move into areas. streets are under water. i want to note that it s not until the center of the eye makes landfall that we call it a landfall. we are anticipating within the next three to four hours this will make landfall just outside of ft. myers and so
from the national hurricane center, but first live in tampa, nicole valdez. hey, nicole. ainsley, brian, steve, good morning. florida attorney general saying this is the storm we all have feared. she called the chance of us seeing anywhere from 5 to 15 feet of storm surge, detrimental for the tampa bay area. and unfortunately we are seeing the impacts of hurricane ian across florida. brand-new video from the florida keys, you are already seeing flooding beginning in portions of monroe county. it s part of one of the reasons why we already know hundreds of thousands of people are under mandatory evacuations right now. here is a look at all six counties that those people are living in. really all along florida s gulf coast and we are already hearing reports that the number of counties issuing the mandatory evacuations are expanding. it s why people are boarding up their homes, getting all the resources, going to the grocery stores, packing up their cars, getting ready to driv
Week. Heres a look. [background sounds] [background sounds] [background sounds] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] im surprised you didnt have a greater again, sustained for over seven hours and then category four. The high category four. 130150. I was with the captain at the marriott. We shared a room that night and we ar were watching was going on and we watched power poles come down, trees come down. I dont know what we were doing. So this was completely evacuated. And this that took the brunt of it. The wind damage to the facilities here, worse than other places. So you kept the 35 people here, down there. This is done in key west area here. Right. We dont have any category five facilities here. We were going to go to the prison and we decided to ship to the marriott. This city at Key West Police were at the marriott as well with 30 personal. I thought that would be best for networking and 1 14 medication o we went there. Thats something w