coast of florida. 155-mile-per-hour wind speeds. that s just two miles short of a category 5 hurricane. it s expected to make landfall about 100 miles south of here in the port charlotte area. rain 12 to 24 inches across much of the florida peninsula, challenge create freshwater flooding. the impact of this will be felt by millions in florida. already 200,000 people without power. that s before the storm even makes landfall. this will uproot people s lives. its a life-threatening storm. this is the sunshine skyway bridge that we have pictures of. you can see the winds kicking up. it will have an enormous impact. let s go to chad myers first at the weather center. the 11:00 a.m. advisory out now. what do you see? still see the 155-mile-per-hour eyewall winds. inside the eye it could be down to 5 or 10 in the middle, but we re working our way onshore. the eye is not onshore. the eyewall is coming onshore. this is what it looks like from space, this is called the visible image
out of fuel and go dead like they did in carina. we have a far better smart phone net wrork where we have so many ways to communicate and see what s going on. yeah. i think we re better off in terms of preparation and in terms of being able to cover this and to know, at least as best as we can in realtime, what s happening. one bit of good news. 911 service had been interrupted in new orleans parish. we re now told service has been restored in orleans parish. let s show the northern eyewall. as we approach 11:00 a.m. central, noon eastern, you can see grand isle is getting smacked by the worst of it. let me show you a tweet from a jefferson parish official a few minutes ago. grand isle lost connection of our weather station from the outer eyewall. the last measurement of the winds was 136 miles per hour. that is a unsurvivable sustained wind speed. if you re in a home built out of
close to landfall, and you ll see the northern eyewall now approaching grand isle. grand isle is going to be in that northern eyewall in the next couple hours. there are, i believe, a couple dozen residents who have stayed on grand isle. for more on that, let s bring in cynthia lee shang. the eyewall reaches into grand isle. cynthia, what do you know? we had a camera on them but we lost it. we know they lost electricity, so we hope to be in communication with them. i spoke to the mayor of grand isle yesterday evening and he thought there was about 40 people left on the island. our concern is with them. they re going to start really getting hit hard. we re okay here.
still on the island. all right. viewers on the screen on the left, you ll see the close-up radar. that northern eyewall, the most ferocious catastrophic winds just offshore, the greater eyewall to the north, and then there is port pashon appears to be directly in the eyewall. you ll see to the left, cocodrie, and people are left in that area. but you can see the eyewall is about to sweep the louisiana coastline. we ll go back and forth between the hurricane and the media headlines of the week. the first of these headlines is bad news at abc news. the boss of good morning
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