all covered for you. it is packing winds up to 115 miles per hour at this point and where i am now in central florida is expected to get worse overnight as we are on the air now so stay tuned, we have got it covered for you. you have to see this moment. this moment is from earlier. it is on the southern tip of pine island earlier today. check it out, if you will. whoo! whoo! you got to be kidding me! you got to be kidding me right now! and the threat is not over yet. there s still people who are out there sheltering in place. gaoept know their condition. we don t know if they re in a safe place now. there are power outages up to almost 2 million people across the statement we have our correspondents and our crews fanned out over the state of florida. bill is in punta gorda. brian todd is in largo. jerry is in bradenton and jeremy the weather center. bill, ace understand you re on lockdown tonight. you ever seen some of the biggest action with the wind and rain. what are
revised it to category 5. if you look at the core of the system the core of charlie would fit into the eye with room to spare. heavy rain bands have upon on the northern periphery. the winds are so strong it knock out our weather gauges from venice fort myers and naples many we fear the images that we will see from the air from charlotte harbor fort myers to naples, it could look like what we saw in mexico beach when michael moved in. that will be staggering. we don t know exactly how high the surge is in many locations because in naples it got up to 7 feet and the surge recorder broke to give us that height. there s only so many surge monitors along the coastline