of this hurricane. it could make landfall the next several hours and then work its way up the peninsula slowly, very slowly, bringing hurricane force winds here to tampa, to orlando before it heads out over the atlantic on the other side maybe sometime later tomorrow. obviously millions of people feeling the impact of this, a life threatening storm in some ways a near worst case scenario for some of the people south of here. there was an 8 a.m. update just in from the national hurricane center. i believe we have michael brennan at the national hurricane center to give us a sense of the very latest. sir, if you can hear me, where is ian, where is it going? it s located about 55 miles west of naples, we re expecting catastrophic impacts along the southwest border coast later today. the storm surge could be as high as 16 feet above ground level in the area near port charlotte, from inglewood down to the beach. can you walk me through the timeline from now over the next 24 ho
thank you for being with us this morning. my pleasure, john. thanks for helping us get the message out. the rain bands passing through but you keep hearing these warnings and the superlatives now, the agreement superlatives as the storm approaches with winds of 155 mimes. miles per hour. hurricane ian barrelling towards florida. st. petersburg one of the many cities in its path. we ll be speaking to the mayor next. plus this as russians are trying to escape the country to avoid vadladimir putin s draft, there is an urgent warning to americans in russia, leave immediately. this is cnn s special live
evacuation orders but it s your decision to leave. a lot of people have heeded those warnings but we ll see how it will affect people who have stayed. officials telling people in the area during the height of the storm, they ve got to conserve water, asking you not to run your dishwasher, your laundry machine, limit flushing and showering if you can because they had issues with the sewage system here in st. petersburg. in 2015, 2016 they had some 200 million gallons of sewage water pour into aquifers and other ware spaces because the system couldn t hold up. this will be a test as to whether the system can hold up. we re expecting pretty significant flooding in the area in the coming hours.
you expecting? reporter: well, brianna, the last hour we had a good visual barometer, the palm trees. they start to sway a little bit as we get hit with the bands of rain, when these things start to bend a little more, you know they re in some distress and you better take cover. a big test in the coming hours is whether these jetties, that s breakwaters can protect the coast by st. petersburg. you see the white caps slapping against the jetties over there. as we pan to our right, the water from the storm surge, which could hit seven feet could push this water past and you can
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