todd: hurricane ian plowing through western cuba yesterday knocking out power to the entire country and devastating the most important tobacco farms in the country used to produce cuba s iconic cigars. you are watching fox and friends first, i m todd piro. carley: i m carley shimkus, our reporters are live across florida this morning, we begin with senior meteorologist, janice dean who is tracking it from our studio. janice: they just upped the winds, that is a strong category four storm, the pressure has dropped by 10 millibars. it is strengthen as it approaches the coast, we r expecting landfall this afternoon. heightened awareness to the storm surge and for hours it will batter the coast and interior sections of florida. rain and wind and storm surge will impact coast of florida and inland will flood two-story homes at the coast. you don t have time, you can hide from the wind, you have to run from the storm surge. wind gusts in excess of 100 mile per hour for dura
amini died after being in police custody, and to me this uprising, i see you know, i don t think these are women and it is a women-led activist, but it s not that women are protesting the hijab law, this mandatory law where you have to cover. they re protesting this way of life. they are saying enough is enough. and so this idea of being in the streets you know, i remember being a teenaged girl, having to worry about the religious beliefs, seeing if i was covered enough, ensuring that my legs were covered and my hair was covered. the fact that these teenage girls when you re raised consciously and subconsciously in this world where you think you have to cover yourself, to free yourself, to me the courage that takes but how fed up they are. iranian women have been protesting the hijab law in one way or another for the last 43 years. but think about the fact that 65% of university graduates are women in iran, 70% of subgraduates are women. if these women had the freedom t
and running but we also understand the severity of the storm and the really, really catastrophic damage that it can inflict on thes southwest coast of florida. you re starting to see power outages, but you ll see way more over the next 48 hours. you ll have millions of people without power in the state within the next 48 hours. no question. this morning kevin guthrie, our team management has asked for additional high water vehicles from the department of defense and coordination of fema. they have approved the request for dual status of the national guard forces under title 10 to provide additional resources and additional forces and we re really thankful for the fulfillment of that request. we have about 1,200 personnel for the department of transportation that are on standby to perform operations. these guys can t work if they can t get to where they are going. so that s the top priority for the department of transportation and highway patrol. to clear these roads torks mak
sounding the alarm along florida s west coast. people are urged to get out of florida s way. tampa s mayor tells residents if you can leave, just leave now. officials say the tampa region could see a storm of a lifetime. more than 15 million people are expected to feel the impact of ewh e ian when it arrives. 115 hour with the winds and could cause life-threatening storm surge, and storm surge is the biggest concern right now. so far ahead of the storm, the hospital in st. petersburg suspended service, transported patients, schooled and universities closed, at least three cruise lines re-routed passengers. the tampa bay airport will suspend operations at 5:00 p.m. today and nasa moved the artemis rocket back to the hangar for trekz. look at this video showing a steady stream of traffic leaving the tampa bay area monday night heading inland to safety. people hunkering down as well, though. the storm perhaps testing their patience. one tampa resident waited three hours to get
stream of traffic, a scene leaving the tampa area. this happened overnight. people trying to get inland from the coast taking cover. the storm, perhaps, testing their patience. one tampa resident waited three hours to get free sandbags. a u.s. military insulation, moving aircraft can and naval ships out of the tampa and jacksonville areas. an idea how big the storm is, nasa released this video of hurricane ian from the international space station. all right. i want to bring in michael brennan, acting deputy brechter of the noaa. the national oceanic and atmospheric administration. michael, thanks, again, for joining us today as well. so tell us, obviously tampa low-liaring. what is the greatest threat? along much of the west central florida coast from tampa down to the fort myers area. since yesterday seen the track shift farther to the south or to the east. expecting the center of the end to cross the coast of west central florida near the south of the region increases r