off of the gulf coast there. we re not going to get a sense of it until tomorrow. but yes, it looks pretty path down in. and we ll be talking about this later in the hour. thanks, chris. and thank you for joining us. hurricane ian continues to create a swath of in made landfall just after 3:00 this afternoon in southwestern florida, near k o connor, a island off of the coast of fort myers. ian came ashore as a category four hurricane with 150 mile per hour winds. just a few miles per hour shy of a category five. only for hurricane stronger than that have made landfall in the united states ever. but it is not just the strength of the storm, it is the size. this is the view of hurricane in from the international space station this afternoon. just showing how massive the storm is. the national river describes in as battering the florida peninsula with tied and winds, and flooding. ian has just now weakened to a category two storm with maximum sustained winds of 105 miles
and there is probably other power work that they are doing. they re trying to clear the roads, because this situation has happened all over the city, where cars have been piling up, flooded, and getting next to those roads, access points to hospitals, and things like that. that s what they re doing tonight. they are saying stay off the roads please, they will get a better sense to more of what is going on. we re getting some reports from collier county, from the county, that they are having incidents of looting. we don t know much about that, we just know that lead county is inundated with a whole lot of problems that kollie county doesn t have. everyone s busy tonight trying to get a handle on what the situation is. flooding continues to be a problem, even here in naples where the storm is on its last legs. the system is operating at full throttle, and that s an nbc thank you so much for the great reporting, please stay safe. ian made landfall this afternoon as a catastrophic cate