Biggest storm of the century could make landfall within the hour. Live images from st. Petersburg on your screen right now, you see our Bill Weir there in that picture. Hell be with us in a Moment Hurricane Milton now on a much faster track toward land, expected to hit florida with 150 mile an Hour Wind gusts and a destructive Storm Surge. Conditions deteriorating by the minute officials now saying it is no longer safe to be outside. And lets show you what it looks like On The Roads already flooded right now, the Monster Storm, one of the most powerful on records still growing after nearly doubling in size in just 24 hours absolutely incredible new Satellite Images here on your screen. The Lightning Strikes from a storm that officials warn james the coastline of florida forever. And right now, Tropical Storm Winds now stretch its more than 300 miles from that. I and lets just show you some of the pictures of what it looks like about 40 miles from the eye in the gulf. Some of these wave
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city are you okay? rescuers, helping guide residents through submerged intersection, since, having been turned into a lake. then, there is this. the electricity crisis. the storm, knocking out power lines, in more than 2 million homes, and businesses, which have been plunged into darkness, across the state. meteorologist, pedram javaheri, tracking ian. he joins me. pedram, ian may have weekend, but is unleashing very dangerous conditions. where does it stand right now? kristie, we ve got the latest update from the national hurricane center. 11 hours overland, since it made landfall. you will notice, still, a category one. a drop from 90 miles per hour, to 75 miles per hour, leaving this as a low-end, category one hurricane. notice, on the back side of the storm system, the cloud field, beginning to break. as far as clearing skies, around portions of marco island, around areas up towards tampa. all of these areas, finally, seeing drier weather persist. just east of i
where dangerous hurricane ian is heading next. classrooms turned into bedrooms. we visit shelters and speak to families riding out the storm together. my main focus was getting them to safety. o donnell: and remembering legendary cbs newsman, bill plante, who covered more than half a century of history. this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting tonight from tampa, florida. o donnell: good evening, and thank you for joining us. as we come on the air tonight, the state of florida is being pummeled by hurricane ian. the massive category 4 storm made landfall just hours ago with winds of 150 miles per h hour. ian slammed ashore north of fort myers with dangerous winds and catastrophic storm surge. the storm is moving inland and dumping tremendous amounts of rain along the i-4 corridor. and to get a better understanding of just how big ian is, this is what the storm looks like from space, the powerful hurricane covering almost the entire state of flori
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