on the sympathy game as well. hedge fund manager bill ackman tweeted called me crazy but i think spf is telling the truth. shark tank tanks kevin o leary agreed saying i lost millions a an investor and got sandblasted as a paid spokesperson for the firm but i meant the camp about the kid. so it is here that you have start asking yourself why are all these people working overtime to provide this kid ki with a soft pr landing? i have an easy answer here he has part of their brand. hears their investment. think about it. he is the son of liberal professors who give generously to the democrats. he goes down in a blaze of glor so too do they pay joy to me no is crisp bedford, executor of commonsense society. seeing all this to be almost ar to get the feeling that the sandbank meant freedom freak is going to get away with it do you
a big chunk of the west coast of florida. 1.75 million people forced evacuation, a lot of them did not go, and a lot of them are without power and just hoping the hours pass until help can arrive. sandra: i would say watching you over the past five minutes we have been talking, steve, feel like it s worsening there? wow. i can t i can hear what you are saying but i ll just tell you, this is just a sheet of water now coming in sideways here. john: you lost your hat, steve. sandra: steve, be safe. thank you so much. john: again, i remarked let s go to jonathan, he s there on the beach where he s getting sandblasted. jonathan, that s a particularly uncomfortable feeling there, given that sand spit in your face. what s the situation there?
0 from the shoreline to the back bays and also to rivers inland. so, know your high tides. we are looking at the images, increasingly dire. stay inside as the storm approaches and wreaks havoc, pray for the charlotte county community and the rest of florida as we toss it over to america reports. john: any moment now we are expecting an update from florida governor ron desantis as the eyewall of hurricane ian begins to move on shore bringing with it the potential for catastrophic damage. hello, john roberts in washington. sandra, welcome back. sandra: good to be with you, sandra smith in new york. america reports, a quickly developing situation, ian expected to make landfall between 2 and 4:00 p.m. right now packing top winds of 155 miles an hour. that is just a couple miles shy of a category 5 hurricane. john: when you get that high it does not make much of a difference. forecasters warning of the storm surge could be as high as 18 feet as the eyewall comes on shore. sand
winds at 45 to 50 miles per hour. they re legs are getting sandblasted, i guarantee you, at that kind of wind speed. but just down the beach, a little bit closer to the eye, this is what our surfchecks.com camera looks like. just shaking winds, 65 or 70 miles per hour, literally why conditions at time. this is the beach right there. hard to distinguish the water from the sand. someone trying to get out of the way of that wind right there, the waves just absolute foam. and all we re talking about is ten miles. the the difference between that point there and that point there on our map. here is the story with the hurricane right now. a visible eye. the best eye we ve seen all day, meteorologically, the worst eye for the people that live there or that are vacationing there. because that means the storm is still getting stronger. still breathing, still bringing in air at the surface, releasing it up through the eye wall and blowing it out as cirrus clouds across the storm itself.