state of emergency tonight, it comes as florida is dealing with catastrophic damage from in, at least 17 people dead tonight. there are fears that that number will go up. cnn s chief climate correspondent is bill weir, and he joins me now. bill, hello once again to you. you say this is some of the worst damage you ve ever seen in your career. covering these disasters. tell us what you saw? well, by that i mean, don, there are certain sort of moments and scenes in storms that are just burned into your brain, katrina for a lot of the reasons that we all know. that was such a man made disaster in so many ways, same with maria in puerto rico. you think about those comedians. michael which took apart the panhandle. but i will always remember, i will equate even with what i saw today in st. james city. that s on pine island. and this is a tight little community, a lot of manufactured homes, mobile homes, people whose vote might be worth more than their home, and all of it complet
Take care, and once again we re story this is happening, but we re grateful to have folks like you who are doing such great work. thanks so much. appreciate you for the time, thank you very much. thank you. hurricane ian has strengthened to a category one hurricane again, and is now taking aim at the south carolina coast. low country. landfall expected there tomorrow afternoon, we re gonna go live there next. help comfort your loved ones. for chest, neck, and back. it goes on clear. nono mess. just soothing comfort. try vicks vapostick. tech: when you have auto glass damage, let safelite come to you. pop rock music tech: my customer enjoys time with her family. so when her windshield got a crack. she schedud with safelite in just a few clicks. we came to her house. .replaced the windshield. and installed new wipers. that s service on her time.
Entire center just yet, but here s what we have. hurricane warnings still in effect from the border of georgia, south carolina, all the way up to cape feared. and it goes into a couple of counties in south carolina. the tropical storm warnings are well inland. so a lot of people may be shocked that this wind field is 600 miles wide, and it s going to continue to hit with force, tropical storm force winds up into the carolinas. there will be heavy rainfall, and there will be a surge. here is what s different, however. let s start with the radar. the rain has left now the state of florida and the peninsula, it s a little bit up of course southeast areas of georgia, into the carolinas. but if we look at the center of this, all of that rain is still to the north. so they re starting to get into the rain. but let me take you to the track because this is significance. charleston, now not out of the woods. just yet. but it is improving for you, somewhat. here is the shift to the right, this p
However, surfside beach, myrtle beach now, you are into that dirty side instead of it s being to the south of the eye, on the other end of the coast, it s to the north. so myrtle beach now could really see some significant surge. the surge heights have not changed for charleston, but it will improve somewhat, still 4 to 7, but now we are seeing that shift a little bit for myrtle beach. that s going to be a problem still. we are looking at inundation across dawson and into the harvard, all the tributaries, but this is march lands. if we shifted up northward somewhat, don, and that trench continues eastward, it will be interesting the next couple of days. we are still looking for a landfall sometime mid afternoon tomorrow as a category one. with significant wind surge and heavy rainfall. we could have water rescues up here to the north as well in parts of south and north carolina. wow, not over yet, tom sater, thank you very, much appreciated. thank you so much don. first responder