n ordered to evacuate as hurricane rita now is bearing down on the state shr gulf coast in just a moment.t. florida governor rhonda santos will join us first herest with the very latest from thisrs category three storm weather. in meteorologist ian oliver is with us in thisoliver. looks like it s going to be a direct hit right over. looks like somewhereoks li nortr fort myers, right towards tampa. yeah, anywhere from naples. igto the southern part of tampa bay, the mouth of tampa bay: stl still a reasonable scenaril o ao here. this is a monster of a storm, still a category three , as your mentioned,ee max, winds at 120we miles per hour. we actually had this inner eye wall that s been degrading, but there s an outer one that s forming. what that does is it spreads out the wind field overh a much larger area. we ve seen these impacts starttw already. tornado warnings throughouarnint the afternoon and evening across much of south florida. we ve got some active onesh flom right
strewed, may be upset some of the australian fans, they took down sam kerr there a few times early in the contest, there were some professional fouls, contest, there were some professionalfouls, and it was contest, there were some professional fouls, and it was time wasting later on. i don t have any complaints with that, i think you need to do that on a big stage in order to upset the opposition and try and get through to the finale. i think the experience of the lionesses, having been to a couple of world cup semifinals and won the european championships, was on show. maybe the matildas were a bit green in that sense on such a big stage. but in saying that, that did upset some of the australian fans. with that in mind i think the sentiment will probably be skewed towards spain. will probably be skewed towards sain. , ., will probably be skewed towards sain. ., will probably be skewed towards s.ain. ., ., will probably be skewed towards sain. i. ., ., ., will probably be skewed toward
the peninsula, that starts to bring in more major impacts for places like fortr im myers and naples and those communities. anotheher thing i think it s going to be challenging is itg o is going to hit and it s basically going to go across the state and likely exit on the atlantic coast sometime someplace in central or i northeastern florida. and that s going tosicall be basically a tropical storm going across the entire state of florida. so you re going to talk abou ttk power outage s. ain an you re going to talk about a lot of rain and flooding. so thiuss is not just going to be limited to wherever the storm makes landfall. governor , let me ask you this.y and i think you re sympathetic like i am. nobodymp wants tot i th be inconvenienced like this.inu i think you agree with me.agree wily don tpeople generally don o be told what to do. the worst thing, though, thathi could happen is if you try toano ride this thing out and you re not able to, the last thing we want at the end of the d