climb along with the flood waters. we re learning at this hour that sheriff offices across the coast getting a number of calls from people trapped in their homes they didn t evacuate but as the lead county sheriff s office said winds need to drop to 45 miles per hour for them to safely attempt these rescues. we re going to have every corner of this disaster covered from reporters on the ground to residents in its path. but we begin in an area where residents have been advised to shelter in place, the tampa saint pete region and that s where we find fax weather s max gordon who is standing by. max what are folks bracing for there tonight? p pfrjts hey there, laura. well, this is an area where folks here were expecting the storm to make a direct hit and although it moved further to the south we aren t necessarily out of the woods just yet. some areas here are expecting around 20 inches of rain, and we are experiencing some of those heavy bands of rain right now as well as those
have our fox news chief meteorologist rick reichmuth with us. rick this has been rough so far. really has. three things, the storm surge that broke records in fort myers and naples as well by a lot by the way, three feet higher than we had ever seen from any kind of storm surge in the past. that obviously causing all that flooding right along the immediate coast. then we have the winds, actual verified winds of 140 miles an hour in cape corral. a lot of this wind was really prolonged because it s such a slow-moving storm and then you have the rainfall. because it s so slow we get rainfall that just continues to batter the state and we ll see big time inland flooding concerns. this made land fall in the exact same space that hurricane charlie came on shore in 2004 which is amazing to have two massive hurricanes or two strong hurricanes like this come on shore in the exact same spot, hard to imagine, because it came on so strong, it s still a category 2 hurricane after having
welcome to westminster, where people continue to queue to pay their respects to her majesty the queen. the queue is now officially closed and no more people are now allowed to join the end of the queue, so the people who are now filing past me are some of the last who will have that moment in westminster hall in that historic building, nearly 1000 years old, that has witnessed so much history, witnessing it once again, these are some of the last people to be able to file past her majesty the queen, the late queen who has been lying in state for nearly four and a half days. that will then end at 6:30am many of these people behind me, they have started at 4pm and they continue to file past and this is we are right in the middle of the snake, that moment where people have do zigzag very compressed in order to facilitate so many people, thousands of people, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, hundreds of thousands of people. we believe at least half a million people will ma
of this hurricane. it could make landfall the next several hours and then work its way up the peninsula slowly, very slowly, bringing hurricane force winds here to tampa, to orlando before it heads out over the atlantic on the other side maybe sometime later tomorrow. obviously millions of people feeling the impact of this, a life threatening storm in some ways a near worst case scenario for some of the people south of here. there was an 8 a.m. update just in from the national hurricane center. i believe we have michael brennan at the national hurricane center to give us a sense of the very latest. sir, if you can hear me, where is ian, where is it going? it s located about 55 miles west of naples, we re expecting catastrophic impacts along the southwest border coast later today. the storm surge could be as high as 16 feet above ground level in the area near port charlotte, from inglewood down to the beach. can you walk me through the timeline from now over the next 24 ho
the queue for people waiting to pay their respects and file past the queen s coffin lying in state has reached capacity and no more are allowed to join. and i m lewis vaughan jones. in other news. act swiftly to save your lives the warning ofjapan s prime minister to people living in the path of a huge typhoon making landfall in the south. one of russia s most famous singing stars strongly criticises the war in ukraine, saying russian young men are dying for illusory aims. we are at westminster, where just within the past few minutes the queue for people joining to pay tribute to the queen has been closed. so the people behind me will be able to see and pay tribute to the queen lying in state at westminster hall, but, well, the people who have potentiallyjoined within the last few moments, they will not be able to make this journey that others have spent hours and hours attending, waiting to pay their respects. earlier on today. a minute s silence was held across the unit