Extremely dangerous four. It s more than 400 miles across, pushing a storm surge that officials are calling unsurvivable is now hitting florida s gulf coast as much as 20 feet of water what are forecast along the shore south of tallahassee, which itself is expected to take a direct blow. Some coastal areas already flooding. Take a look live pictures right now from gulfport in tampa on the right interstate to 70 prison biden this evening, urge anyone in the storm s path that take it extremely seriously. A lot of water there is certainly there graham gulfport, especially emergency managers and florida s taylor county are telling people choosing to stay and there are people choosing to stay to write her name and date of birth on a leg to help identify their bodies. Storm warnings are now in effect as far north as charlotte, north carolina. We ve got cnn correspondents all along the places now harm s way in chad myers in the cnn weather center, let s start with cnn meteorologist derek van
businessman and adventurer hey mish harden along with a pakistani father and son as well as others. brooke singman has the latest on the operationally. brooke, what do you know? brooke: hey guys that s right. a rescue mission is underway for the titanic tourist submersible that went mittsing in the atlantic ocean. the submersible similar to this opened by ocean gate expeditions was taking a crew of five people 12,000 feet under water as part of the tour of the 19 12 titanic ship wreck. the tour costs 250z thousand dollars per person. so far reported french navy veteran and crew member paul harvey is on board along with ceo and founder and his teen-age son. the family releasing a statement saying saying quote we are grateful for the concern being shown our colleagues and friends and would like to request everyone to pray for their safety. it s also believed uk billionaire hhammish harding is on the visit including his stepson tweeting my step dad hammish is on board the subm
dominican republic and cuba it will be a weaker storm. if it kind of moves a little bit more towards the north and east, then it will be a stronger storm but will probably curve away from land. so bottom line is, we re going to have to watch this. it will become our first hurricane of the season and it is very early. here is the seasonal forecast, take this with a grain of salt because although we re expecting an average season in terms of storm numbers, it takes one on your doorstep to make it a terrible year. looking at the forecast today, severe storms across the gulf coast, that heat remains for parts of texas and louisiana, and then we re going to see some storms for the mid atlantic as well as the rockies. so so much to talk about foxweather.com has you covered. but to see bret this early on so far out in the atlantic when we typically see these storms august, september, that might be . ashley: one to watch. todd: scary stuff. ashley: janice thank you so much you won t b
reporter: good morning. an atlantic beach we are experiencing strong winds and pouring rain. we have seen our first reports of sustained tropical storm force windss just to ourselves in saint augustine so it is only a matter of time before it works its way north here and into georgia. across the state of florida there are 6000 people in shelters, 115 are open but only one of them is fool. if you need a place to evacuate there is still space. based on the conditions we are experiencing that window to evacuate may be closing. emergency management officials admit after days of hearing warnings about this slow-moving storm numbers of the public are starting to feel impatient and fatigued but that doesn t mean the danger is over. there will be life-threatening winds. now is the time to shelter in place, stay off of the beach