zone, particularly in the southwest florida counties, your time to evacuate is coming to an end. you need to evacuate now. a life threatening category 4 storm headed right towards florida. i m john berman live in tampa this morning. brianna keilar is in washington and that is the news from overnight. hurricane ian strength jentd to a category 4 storm with sustained winds of 140 miles per hour. wind gusts of 165 miles per hour. the storm forecast has adjusted somewhat south of where i am in tampa headed right towards the fort myers area in florida about 100 miles south of here, but the threat to florida is enormous. more than 2 1/2 million people under some sort of evacuation order. yes, the wind speed is a serious threat now, a category 4 storm. storm surge where i am in tampa, they could see storm surge of 6 feet which would put the water pretty much right where i m stand going it hit the maximum levels down towards where the storm is expected to make landfall. they could
like a freight train. we re seeing record-breaking and terrifying storm surges throughout florida and ft. myers, the water is so high pickup trucks are almost completely submerged. water levels have risen more than 6 feet in the last switch ho seven hours. let s get to tom sater in the cnn weather center. an updated forecast should come any minute now. what should we expect? it was just handed to me. forgive me for reading off. we still have a category 4 hurricane and five miles east of punta gorda. it will stay at hurricane strength through orlando. this will rake the entire peninsula. we had grove city a gust of 128. when we talk about the southern kind here, a better picture on radar will give an indication what we re looking at. here is the new track. keeps it as a 4 of course now moving inland but notice it s a category one. it will lose strength now that it s interacting with a land mass. that s typical. however, the winds have expanded now as these storms do. in fa
hello and thank you for being with us. i m ana cabrera in new york. hurricane ian is taking aim and florida is bracing. the powerful storm is expected to get stronger over the next few hours. a cat 4 before the end of the day. the track is shifting a bit, but it is still expected to be a major hurricane when it slams into florida tomorrow night. tampa s mayor says that area is expecting a, quote, devastating amount of water. evacuations are under way. people are boarding up homes and businesses. schools are closing, flights canceled. let s begin our coverage with john cangelosi from the national hurricane center in miami. thanks so much for joining us. update us on where the storm is right now and the latest forecast? sure, ana, here is the latest. hurricane ian starting to pull away from western cuba, max mim winds 115 miles an hour. the storm is wobbling around but generally moving to the north-northeast at about 10 miles an hour. let me show you the latest forecast. as y
supplies. and today governor desantis activated 2500 members of the national guard and cnn correspondents are every angle. let s get started with tom sater. this looks like a very powerful storm that could unleash a lot of fury on the gulf coast, something we haven t seen so far during this hurricane season. and it sounds like people need to wake up and pay attention. everywhere from pensacola to ft. myers. we didn t haven would named storm for the entire month of august and now we have four of them. if it wasn t for ian, we d be talking about fiona, massive damage up in canada. notice how wide it is, the sun is out here and getting the reflection, but you can see the circulation. there is the yucatan. but the infrared satellite imagery is a mess. it doesn t look impressive at all. at 8:00 a.m. this morning, hurricane hunters had a hard time finding the center. they did find it. it can jump around a little bit. and if that center jumps around, it will change the track. and
whether to become part of russia. ahead a warning president biden has for moscow. and later, why all los angeles schools will be stocked with the drug naloxone. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom. we begin in the north atlantic where a deadly storm that caused massive destruction across several caribbean islands is now battering the canadian east coast. hurricane warnings are in place as damaging winds and heavy rain pound the region. in a tweet sent late friday night, justin trudeau urged those in the path of the storm to listen to authorities, reassuring him that his team is ready to provide support if needed. residents from across eastern canada did do what they could before the sun went down to prepare, including in nova scotia, where people waited in long lines to stock up supplies like food and water. and now that the storm has arrived in earnest, hundreds of thousands are without power across eastern canada. nova scotia power says it activated an emergenc