millions of floridians in this storm s path. those who have not evacuated are urged to shelter in place immediately. almost 800,000 people are already without power. that s according to florida utilities. the director of fema has warned that recovery from hurricane ian will be a very long road. that agency has already begun to pour resources into the state. in an event earlier today, president joe biden said he spoke with florida governor ron desantis and added he already requested aid saying, quote, the federal government is ready to help in every single way possible. ali velshi who has been doing the heroic job of bringing the story to all of us from naples, florida, is our first guest. ali, tell me what you re seeing. i ve been watching all day long. please tell me how you re staying safe. reporter: we always appreciate that. what did we just lose there, peter? something has come off the building that we re in. in fact, we re seeing a lot of that. moments ago we saw a fr
water coming in. but i want to ask randy to just show you what the ocean looks like at this point. that s we re facing southwest at this point into the gulf of mexico. the water direction has completely changed. it s not moving from the right of your screen to the left. all day, it s been moving toward us from the left to the right. so, we re on the other side of the storm. i m going to ask randy to tilt down here and look at this waterway that we looked at earlier. i was just water going from the right, you can see a little of it, it s about to come in now, that s the surge, over to the left. now, you ll see it comes in and within a few seconds, it will just start to recede. it will start to go back. it doesn t reach all the way up. that was the same water that was moving all those cars that you can see now piled up at the entrance to the parking lot of the hotel. you can see this was actually a parking lott it looked like a river when we were talking earlier. so, that s the nature