orlando where he could sit 24 hours. it will drop feet of rain. we ve got team coverage tonight and we begin with will nunley. here s where it landed in fort myers and it s been a long day for you. good evening, what s the latest? good evening. for so many struggling tonight without power and communication really in most cases trying to reach family and loved ones. we are talking about waves and storms are just so powerful it broke the gauges at the weather services to record the data. meanwhile, we ve got depree flying around where we are tonight and this is a sign from colonial boulevard in and out of town. the rain died down a little bit where we are. we re stranded to see more activity on the roadways and we ve seen our first two convoys of trucks trying to begin to stage. but the wind has not died down enough for the utility work to
dump copious amounts of reigns over the northern part of florida. i noticed were daytona beach and orlando are located. if they re located in the bull s-eye where some of the heaviest rain will fall. daytona beach, we are anticipating potentially 12-18 inches over the next three days in orlando a little less, but still a lot of rain 8-12 inches wealth all over the next of the two hours. much of the same around eye for and also to call out. a very serious situation and we don t want anyone to let their guards down because this system means business and it s going to be catastrophic for so many floridians. i m very interested to see what day brings, especially in terms of the devastation that we will be witnessing right along the coast of southwestern florida. trace, back to you will. there concerned about frenetic activity in orange county and
go. in addition to the power being out, so many in the area, now they sell phone service is starting to go out to. people are waiting to be rescued. we heard in a press conference earlier with governor ron desantis that there s hundreds of people waiting in a queue to try to get rescued with water coming into their homes. this is going to be a very long night for so many people waiting on word if they can reach rescue crews to get out. but again come a tremendous amount of water has fallen in fort myers and flooding have an income of storm surge is happening in the downtown area and we will have incredible pictures to bring you throughout the night. we are trying to move our location for the first time in 12 hours. we just have not been able to move from here. back to you. trace: we will get back to you as weather permits and weather breaks. thank you. in one area where many floridians hope to escape the worst of the storm is orlando. it s now getting pummeled by ian with a national