fort myers beach, florida, one of the cities that was hardest hit by hurricane ian, hurricane ian made landfall on wednesday afternoon in florida as a category four hurricane. it was just a few miles shy, two miles per hour shy of being a category five storm, the likes of which have only been experienced four times in u.s. history. at this hour, more than 1.2 million people across florida are still without power, and as of late yesterday parts of the county where i am now, where ian did make landfall, did not have access to clean drinking water. in fact, much of where i am now has no access to power either. hard to know exactly how many people are displaced this time, officials are estimating it is in the thousands, possibly tens of thousands, at least 34 people have been confirmed dead so far, 12 of them here in lee county. after hitting florida eons rain grain strength over the atlantic ocean. what across florida, went out in the atlantic, and made a second landfall as a ca
70 melbourne beach, closer to the water where that breezes coming in off the ocean. We will make it to the lower 80 s after our warmer start. A few scattered clouds. We will talk more about those breezes expected to keep the beaches cooler. Ted you will have to slow down on i4 eastbound if you re driving just before fairbanks until just before maitland boulevard. A left lane taken out of the lee road cameras. Construction spot on the turnpike northbound around the area of mile marker 251. Passing the 417 overpass could have to slow down a bit for construction. Jason let s get you to breaking news we are following right now on sunrise. Police are on the scene of a shooting in downtown orlando. Michelle this happened on west pine street outside of several busy bars over an hour ago. Alex villareal is live at the scene. Alex police tell us there was one victim in the shooting. A 26yearold man who were shot in both legs. Investigators are still out here right now, they are just wrapping up
Put the gun down to put the gun down and fired at deputies who feared for their lives. He died overnight in the hospital. Were working to learn the name of the deputies who shot him. All four now on administrative leave. An accused wrong way driver is behind bars after deputies used stop sticks and even a pit maneuver to stop him. They tell us this man here, derek hyde refused a sobriety test after he was stopped on u. S. 301 in riverview. We have a look at the scene now. A deputy spotted hyde driving northbound in the southbound lanes around 9 30 last night. At one point they say hyde crossed the median and started to throw things out of his car. As deputies tried to get him to stop were told hyde rammed a patrol car, tried to escape but authorities had him surrounded. 6 01. Breaking overnight in the race for the white house. A nail biting night for Bernie Sanders ends with him winning michigans crucial president ial primary in the upset of the year. No one was expecting him to best H
Got video in minutes ago of major damage in texas following a tornado. Dozens of homes are torn apart and two people are hurt. This is in hood county. Cell phone video shows this. More breaking news. A car mangled after firefighters say it slammed into a lynx bus. Sky 6 flew over the scene on curry ford road. Firefighters say they had to rip the roof off of the car to remove someone trapped inside. That person is expected to be okay. The investigation is ongoing tonight. Ginger also developing. I dont know if you were outside today. Its warm but the humidity is on the low side but the heat is definitely on in Central Florida. Julie yes, it is. Chief meteorologist tom sorrells is pinpointing the temperatures. Its getting warm out there. Much. Tomorrow. Wednesday afternoon it will be a different story. Youre right, its a Beautiful Day in the neighborhood. Take a look at this visible satellite image right now. Weve got a touch of cloud cover streaming in from the atlantic. Looking to the
Opportunity to thank the people of michigan who kind of repudiated the polls that had us 20, 25 points down a few days ago, repudiated the pundants who said that Bernie Sanders was not going anywhere and i want to thank the many thousands of volunteers that we had in the state of michigan. And polls really missed firing on this one, some with Hillary Clinton up by as many as 25 to 30 points in michigan. Hillary clinton did take the deep south state of mississippi with over 83 of the vote there going her way. In the gop race, donald trump won in mississippi, michigan and hawaii even though he has not even visited hawaii. It now appears trump could be unstoppable. I want to thank the public. I want to thank the people of michigan. I want to thank the people of mississippi. And it is such a great honor. Here is a very reserved tone from donald trump last night. Meanwhile, ted cruz also able to and second in the other races, at least almost all. But marco rubio, not a great night for him.