of the pressure, winds go up, pressure goes down, that is a strengthening hurricane. 70 mile-per-hour sustained winds or, rather, these are wind reports. so gusts in sarasota florida of 70 mile-per-hour, almost hurricane force winds. and i just got an update from sarasota, basically sorry, tallahassee, florida, saying be prepared for a duration of hours of 100 mile-per-hour sustained winds. so, hide from the winds. you have to run from the water and, unfortunately, people who stayed in place, you are going to be there for the next several days because it s going to be very hard for emergency vehicles to get out. looks like we have a couple tornado warn storms just south and east of the tampa area. so we could see the potential for structural damage with these three-point line tornadoes. and we are looking at landfall within the next couple of hours. but the core of the strongest winds now scraping the big bend of florida. we have been telling you this is the most vulnerable coast l
possible mud slides, debris flows. us and the citizens. steve: before you go, if people would like to donate when it team ruble con how can they do that art? take a look at team rubicon.org. we appreciate the monetary support and could always use more volunteers. thank you. steve: we appreciate the help. ainsley: we do. thank you and thank you for those individuals. thanks for having me. check in with janice dean where the storm is headed next. that s a near and dear organization to you too. i went out with hurricane harvey in texas. speaking of texas we do have a tropical storm making landfall. got named overnight last night. this is ultimately a good news situation because it s not a very strong system. it is going to bring some impacts. maybe some flash flooding, some three-point line tornadoes. there is mike huckabee on my weather map. this is category 5. brian: i m going to be interviewing him in a little
it looked clear as a bell. ian january the tropical storm force winds expand over 400 miles from the center of the storm. you are going to get impacts across the peninsula if you are close to the center of circulation where we are getting hurricane force gusts in and around the cape canaveral area we felt gusts over 85 miles per hour. and heavily populated neighborhoods, right? this is the only second hurricane that has made landfall in november for the state of florida. so it made landfall earlier this morning. south of vero beach. 75 mile-per-hour sustained winds and the storm is three-point line right now. tropical storm 75 mile-per-hour sustained winds. still seeing the impacts of hurricane force gusts. heavy rainfall on the order of 3 to 5 inches. we also could see some three-point line tornadoes with the storm system as it pushes across land and natural rotation from the area of low pressure. so, the wind gusts, latest wind speed for west palm beach close to 30 miles per hour. fr
this as it sort of developed into an extra tropical system and brings heavy rainfall across the northeast and heavily populated neighborhoods along the i-95 corridor. so we will be talking about this friday to saturday. behind it, cold enough for snow. there s the rain forecast as we come up towards the northeast friday, saturday, through sunday. so several inches of rainfall going back to florida where we have the power outages. i think 180,000 already without power. and we still think widespread power outages for much of the sunshine state or the possibility as we head up towards the carolinas and georgia. then we have the tornado risk as well with these land falling three-point line systems. three-point line tornadoes not really powerful ones but one that could cause structural damage and bring power lines down. we will continue to monitor this. pretty incredible. steve, ainsley, brian, another. steve: king tide down there beach erosion. janice: yes, very concerning. steve: me
there. anywhere in the yellow all e way up into places like chicag and madison and green bay and minneapolis under the at for monday. tuesday, i think we are going toe talking about ind e instead ofht line tornadoes because still seeing isolated too in the though. s from san antonino all the way up towards green bay. a big system, gys that is going to contin to effect us. we certainly this afternoon and tonight e some more tornadoes across eastern oklahoma and kansas. guys? alisyn: scary stuff. thanks so much for the update, rick. here is topic that we have been talking about for months on this program. and now new york city mayor michael bloomberg has picked up on this thread. is it still the american dream, in this day and age, with this economy for all kids to shoot for going to college? or is it time for some kids to say, you kn what? i may not have aptitude for college. i should take up a trade and i would make lot more moneactually doin that? well, it s as been