even the middle keys could be 2 to 3 feet. you will certainly get some very fast water flowing through the cuts there, especially in the lower and the middle keys. but where it goes from there is the size of this cone getting bigger and bigger and it is because this is the average error times a little bit. so two-thirds of the storm should fall into this cone. this is a completely different storm if this side of the cone is involved. this is a different storm for tampa if this side of the cone is involved. i think everybody is kind of looking down the middle because the computer models are trying to figure it out. the gfs, the american model, was way out west, started charging to the east. the european model is way over here, started charging to the west and now they re literally only 50 to 75 miles apart. so that kind of gives you a good runway. it also gives us a good runway if that actually occurs what the storm surge threat might be. from tampa to inglewood, bonita spring
a pretty low lying area. that storm surge they re preparing for, what exactly might that look like when it comes to the businesses and the homes in that area? reporter: well, to give you a sense of howe things look where we are right now, we re at a park that s surrounded by three bays, the old tampa bay, the tampa bay and then that third bay. what they re worried about, especially the folks in pinellas county, that storm surge is going to flood things no matter what. even if that forecast track ends up having ian moving parallel to tampa bay and the tampa area, they still believe we re going to see a lot of that water making its way inland. so they want folks to go ahead and come out and get these sandbags. the lines at these three locations were pretty long. it s our understanding they re going to continue to do this today and tomorrow and most likely into wednesday. however, emergency officials again have been telling folks, try to get this done early because we could
to stock up on supplies while they can, they re also filling sandbags, prepping homes and businesses. florida governor ron desantis already has declared a state of emergency for the entire state. he s also activated the national guard. we are covering all the angles of this rapidly intensifying hurricane. we begin, though, with chad myers at the cnn weather center. he is tracking the storm. tell us what the latest is. 75 miles per hour, became a hurricane at 5:00 this morning. likely still gaining strength, i was just watching the hurricane hunter fly through it and the pressures are still going down. when the pressures go down the wind speeds come up, so there we are, moving to the northwest at 14 miles per hour. as you were saying we don t technically know where this thing is going after about two and a half or three days. we do know that this is a very small little cone coming across cuba and into very warm water to the west of the key west and, you know, that s what we re going t