trolley or a train at the airport that wobbles a lot, you have to catch your balance. it s the real deal. and social media does not like this sometimes, but this is the way you have to do it, a human tripod i would describe it. john: my first hurricane was hugo, a little bit less wind speed than this one, but i know what you are going through right now, standing out there against this. i hear some yelling in the background, hopefully not yelling at you. but just looking at the looking at the satellite picture of ian coming ashore, and looks like you are either going to get you are right in the eyewall there, and that s where the wind as we know is the highest. looks like you may get the edge of the eye or you may stay in the eyewall, but describe for folks at home what s going to happen when the eye comes ashore in the fort myers, punta gorda, port charlotte area. yeah, well here s the thing. remember, for everybody at home,
anticipate major structural damage in those areas. individual you don t have a take on evacuations for cape coral, just, if you look at the storm surge diagrams, looks like there is a lot of, a lot of storm surges in that area, sanibel, captiva are getting hammered, as they embrace the eye. all of those individuals were under evacuation orders. we don t have the numbers of how many, what the percent was that evacuated versus those that didn t. i would imagine since most of that same area went through charlie, they probably evacuated. again, charlie was a fraction of the size of this storm. i would imagine most people that lived through that went ahead and evacuated. i think another issue is
0 from the shoreline to the back bays and also to rivers inland. so, know your high tides. we are looking at the images, increasingly dire. stay inside as the storm approaches and wreaks havoc, pray for the charlotte county community and the rest of florida as we toss it over to america reports. john: any moment now we are expecting an update from florida governor ron desantis as the eyewall of hurricane ian begins to move on shore bringing with it the potential for catastrophic damage. hello, john roberts in washington. sandra, welcome back. sandra: good to be with you, sandra smith in new york. america reports, a quickly developing situation, ian expected to make landfall between 2 and 4:00 p.m. right now packing top winds of 155 miles an hour. that is just a couple miles shy of a category 5 hurricane. john: when you get that high it does not make much of a difference. forecasters warning of the storm surge could be as high as 18 feet as the eyewall comes on shore. sand