we had some of the strongest winds here so far. good evening, once again, i am stephanie ruhle. we are continuing live coverage of hurricane in, the category four storm made landfall on florida s west coast this afternoon, and it is still battering the state with heavy rain and hurricane-force winds. right now, more than 2 million homes and businesses in the state of florida are without power. let s get right to nbc meteorologist michelle grossman for the latest. michelle, i know you just got the 11 pm update for the national hurricane center. what have you learned? i will look at it with you, because it s right at the presses. we re still looking at a strong storm. we re looking at heavy rainfall, gusty winds, and we will look at what we are seeing in terms of wednesday, because we are holding on to the strength. let s hold back for a second because you saw wind speeds up to 135 miles per hour. this was a historical storm, if it is the big historical, catastrophic. we ll
that s located at 30 rock, when there is a natural disaster anywhere, it rings, and ali is there. i want to thank you for being there, i m so glad that you are safe. what s it like there right now? i have been watching you all day. it has been mind blowing. i ve been covering hurricanes for a long, time and this was really a different thing than i have ever seen before, in part because where we are in naples, most of it as passed. i winds are about 40 miles per hour now. the flooding is all gone, but i saw the storm surge. we always talk about storm surge, we talk about how water is more dangerous than wind in a hurricane, even though when you are a kid, you think of a hurricane as a wind thing. but we watched the gulf of mexico encroach on naples beach into this the gulf of mexico s 25 feet that way. it all came over here, and it started to engulf these cars. there are cars parked on the left and right here. it took them up, floated him away. we watched the whole thing.