ian will go down as one of the most powerful hurricanes to ever hit the u.s. the storm turning coastal communities into open ocean winds as high as 150 miles per hour shredding everything in their path. fema says 1500 people have been rescued since ian came to shore, the worst natural disaster in state history. fox team coverage start right now. steve harrigan is near sarasota county, chad pergram at the white house on federal response but first to alexandria hoff to pine island, florida. alexandria. reporter: arthel, we are in an area that s called mat lachet, it s complicated what s happening behind me. rescue effort being led by the u.s. coast guard to rescue people who will be stranded on pine island ever since this storm hit and this has been a large-scale operation. what ends up happening here those stranded on pine island have to get on boat to mount lachet and plenty of people have been rescued by helicopter as well. a couple of minutes we know that ems personnel was
Central. Lets look at the latest information on michael. Made landfall. Winds 155 miles an hour. Really pretty strong system continuing. Lot of damaging winds associated. You can see that eye mall making landfall, issued by our Weather Forecast off tallahassee. Just incredibly dangerous situation associated with the winds right around that eye. We got a look at different areas as well. Rain bands coming out, some of the Hurricane Force gusts with those as well. Its not just the center. Its well out from the center. Something else i want to mention. If you didnt leave and the eye comes through, it could momentarily get called, but remember you have the other side of the eye coming through. Stay safe. Stay sheltered. You can see the sheer size. Where is it going . You look at the size of it and where this system is headed. Look at the Tropical Storm force winds extending away from the center. Even around the center Hurricane Force winds 45 miles away. We need to not just focus on the cen
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than 2 feet of rain in some areas, storm surge really which has more than 75 houses here, 2 and a half feet under water and it s not just adults and homeowners who have been hit hard by the storm, it s young people as well. levy zipper next to me and is 10 year s old and i asked levy what have you lost in the flood? i lost my stuffed animal bears and my tvs. steve: how are you feeling about things? pretty devastating but i think we will get through it. steve: note of optimism from a 10-year-old, he feels like they are going to get through it and we have drone footage from pilot lance craig, they can show you extent of the damage here over the past 48 hours. initially we saw a lot of rescues here, not just people but farm animals as well. people going through their water locked homes trying to pull out what they can still save. eric, back to you. eric: that s the optimism of the