this afternoon it came ashore as near category 5 strength, as a high category 4 after bidding for hours as it approached. oh, you got to be kidding me! you got to be kidding me right now! right now it is still a category 3 storm, still a major hurricane with damaging winds spanning out 175 miles from the center. oh, my god. no less troubling than the winds tonight, potentially even worse hurricane ian is still pushing a massive storm surge onshore. forecasts as high as 18 feet in places where buildings living close to the water was why so many people moved there. take a look. this is fort meyers beach, and that is a community outreach center knocked off its foundation and floating down the street. making matters worse, the flood waters affecting residents who are doing the same to rescuers. a fire station here in naples is what first responders are up against along with anyone needing emergency help. and again, these conditions are not expected to improve throughout t
by us previously, boats, docks, houses, everything is flowing down the river, but the debris is a lot. the debris through the air is much more manageable right now than it has been. yeah, and you have supplies on the second floor? we do, yeah. i feel like we have our situation under control. very concerned about people in the one-story houses here. yeah, you re a good neighbor to call and be concerned. thomas, appreciate it. and thank you so much for the video you took. it really helps us get a sense of, you know, of each of these spots. thank you, thomas. yeah. much worse than expected. i mean, you know, irma hit here without anything quite like this. this is much more than we expected. were you there for charlie? no, my parents were here for charlie. charlie was very bad.
water i have on my bottom floor. how deep do you think that water is in the video. i think by 6 feet. my thing is i think these people could be rushed in before. these people are on this street are in dire straits. have you been able to contact emergency officials? obviously my family has, you know, but the story is when it s when it all calms down. sure. but, you know, we ve been through the worst of it. we re on the back end of it now. i would love to see these people in these first floor houses rescued tonight. these people are in trouble. let me ask you, thomas, we ve frozen the image now looking out one of your windows and you see water in the distance. how deep is that water? that water is maybe 5 feet, 6
they were hunkered down in the shower forever. but irma was a cat 5 basically direct hit on this same house, and this is much was much, much worse. wow. thomas you take care of yourself. okay. cnn s brian todd in largo, florida, for us tonight. brian, what s the situation there? reporter: well, anderson, the danger still not past here. we re still getting pounded with wind and rain, but we have been able to fan out and come across some areas of real devastation. this town of largo just northwest of st. petersburg. this house completely burned out. this was a large fire that started in this house this afternoon when a power line snapped off of a transformer in the front, and our photo journalist is going to take you to peer into the windows here of what s left of this house. now, some of the structure is still standing, as you can see. but just about every room room after room here just burned out, debris everywhere. we spoke to a neighbor who
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