they re great people, beautiful state. you know about their football team? bill: a little bit. dana: governor desantis will give a update any moment now and bring it live. florida is bracing for what could be a once in a century storm. bill: the current storm track shows landfall sometime on thursday, maybe in tampa. if that were a direct hit, it would be the first major storm to hit tampa in more than 100 years. dana: forecasters are predicting storm sturge. people are boarding up homes and businesses. the amount of water may simply be too much to overcome. bill: here is what we know. governor desantis declared a state of emergency. tampa s international airport will shut down at 5:00 east coast time. dana: evacuation orders affecting hundreds of thousands of people. folks there say supplies are running low. shelves are totally empty. people are starting to panic. it is crazy now. people are crazy, all the flights are insane. there is no flights. i would ho
hour. there will be catastrophic flooding and life threatening storm surge. if you are in tampa bay and counties north and south of that it could be something that happens. if you re under an evacuation order. evacuate to higher ground that will be safe from the type of surge and flooding. bill: our fox weather team coverage considers. adam klotz standing by to tell us the latest. dana: first we ll go to phil keating. he is in a beach community a half hour southwest of tampa. sounds like a good place. it is. it is old, classic florida. the time to get out of town is now. no joking around at this point. most of the people in this town have evacuated already leaving it a ghost town. there is hardly any humans within the eye can see. the brass monkey over here, a famous restaurant bar and grill boarded up yesterday and sandbags on the ground. across tampa bay mandatory evacuations began yesterday for all neighborhoods along the coast. the real issue is the bay itself and
Tremendously just over the last few years. in a sense, that s a good thing because those newer residents haven t been through a hurricane and haven t been threatened by this so they are the ones that typically do heed the warnings and evacuate as necessary. but like we said before and what the governor said now is the time to execute your plan. we are past making a plan. it is time to execute that plan. bill: he had mentioned that storm hurricane charley, it was 2004, 18 years ago. that storm was on a path to hit tampa or parts south of it and it took a right-hand turn and really the force of that storm and the upper right-hand quad rant is what socked i believe it was the town of punt yeah gored yeah and the devastation was enormous. you don t know where this storm could make a decision.
Speeds are at 40 miles per hour or less. so when that happens, they will make that call. people will be able to use those. but don t use it until then because that obviously carries some risk if people don t know that that s something that is going on. you also can use things like gas buddy to find gas stations in the area that have fuel. i would note if you look at these updated tracks that we ve been getting this morning i think you ll probably see that reflected in the 11:00 a.m. advisory from the national hurricane center, you have potential paths of the storm entering florida s gulf coast cutting across the state and exiting into the atlantic ocean. that means some of those counties that are more interior, you could absolutely see power outages. you could see inland flooding. you could see various types of tree and damage from wind. so just be prepared for that. we were here 48 hours ago and
And decision essential whether they will evacuate pretty soon. they won t have that opportunity as the storm quickly approaches later. guys. dana: charles watson in tampa. keep us posted. bill: from overseas there is more fallout now in iran. look at the pictures we picked up from over the weekend. there is fallout from the death of a woman in police custody. a stark warning over the protests. differing accounts of what happened when the f.b.i. raided the home of a pro-life activist. his wife accusing agents of arresting her husband in front of their children. a u.s. senator is calling for an investigation there. for appraisal or termite inspections. no upfront costs at all to get the cash you need. veterans get more at newday.