0 maybe it knocks something else loose that had been hanging on. that s what we re encountering a lot here on the ground. neil: hang in there. just incredible. so the storm rages on, and will, we re told, for at least another 24 hours, as it continues to slowly, and i mean slowly make its way north. that will do it here. the five is now. hello, everyone. it s 5:00 in new york city. this is the five. the worst case scenario is unfolding for millions of americans. hurricane ian making landfall about two hours ago in southwestern florida, with ferocious wind speeds clocking in at nearly 155 miles an hour, just shy of a category five. at least 2.5 million people were ordered to evacuate. more than 1 million floridaians are sitting without power. that s going to grow every second. florida governor ron desantis will bring a storm update later in this hour. we will bring it to you when this happens. rick reichmuth is in florida. how you doing down there? we re feeling the winds st
case. this hurricane is going to have some kind of impact on cuba. just remains to be seen how badly. but certainly in terms of the economy, it will make a bad situation that much worse. yeah, life has been difficult for cubans for so long. and obviously this could just make things so much more troublesome. patrick, thank you. thanks for all our correspondents. and ken graham is joining me, assistant administrator for weather services with tnoaa. are we seeing some of the bigger st storms now because of the climate crisis? yeah, big picture, you look at these storms and a changing climate, one of the biggest indicators that we see is high rainfall rates. and so the actual rainfall is a leading cause of fatalities in these systems, the rain. and so you have to remember, you know, we think about the wind. when you close your eyes and think of a hurricane, you think about the wind, but it is the water that really is hurting people and that is what we
you can see hear eats radar there, and these rainfall rates are about two to three inches an hour so even though the storm is well away from the island we re still seeing very heavy rainfall. we ve had areas that received more than two feet of rain and more is to come so there are flash flood watches and warnings in effect. some areas received 27 inches or 30 inches of rain in just 24 hours and we could see an additional closer to the dominican republic. we still have watches and warnings in effect. now turks and caicos sunday a hurricane warning. the bahamas really is the next area to watch. this will be tomorrow morning just on the east side of the turks and caicos with 105 mitch winds, so the storm is set to strengthen and could become a major storm by the time we get into wednesday morning and then making a very close pass with
this is a very slow-moving storm so tomorrow, northern louisiana especially and mississippi will see most of the flooding rains again, we could see rainfall rates of two and a half to three inches per hour. even going into wednesday the rain is slowly going to move eastward and we could see an additional four to six inches of rain especially in the gulf coast areas of louisiana and mississippi. lester thank you let s turn to the fallout of the fbi search at mar-a-lago former president trump filing a lawsuit to block the review of materials from what he calls an unnecessary and unwarranted raid until a special watchdog is appointed. kelly o donnell reports. reporter: after two weeks of trump-style message bluster, outside of court, tonight this 27-page motion is his first legal action pushing back against the unprecedented search of his mar-a-lago home the former president is requesting what s known as a special master to review the seized documents the filing reveals new
and also so far we made almost 50 sandbags. we have some that we made last year, but we re making more to prepare for that rain. and in utah, extreme weather forced a search and rescue mission at zion national park saturday. several hikers were swept off their feet by a flash flood. parts of the park are closed while officials continue the search. let s talk more about this with cnn meteorologist derek van dam. a potentially dangerous situation for many americans. what more can you tell us? the weather prediction center actually just coming out with this information, they anticipate from tonight and into monday morning portions of central and northern texas, including dallas, fort worth metroplex could see rainfall rates between 2 to 3 inches per hour. some locations could get 8 to 10 inches in total from this event. that means flash flooding is certainly a possibility. just to give you a broad