eight miles per hour. that s a snowstorm. we thought it would slow down the 3 to 4 miles per hour, that walking pace. but it s a little bit faster than that. still crawling, though, across the state of florida. the reason that the problem is because it is dropping a lot of rain and will continue to drop a lot of rain. so we are concerned for flash flooding as we go throughout the night. when you think of hurricanes, water is the deadliest region reason why both people die in hurricanes. looking at radar, we are seeing some heavy rainfall, and when you see this yellows, reds, origins, that s where we are seeing the heaviest rain. falling and this is just a huge swath. it s all the way through portions of southern and central florida into northern florida, to daytona beach, i-four, i-five, i-75, hopefully you are not out and about on the roadways. what we are gonna see some flooding as we go tonight. and also florida thursday. tons of rainfall right now. and that s going to be the bi
under evacuation orders. thousands in south florida have already lost power, and we are beginning to see flooding from storm surge in the florida keys. let s go straight to meteorologist michelle grossman for where everything stands right now. michelle? reporter: hey there, mika. unfortunately received a special update from hurricane hunters and saw the storm strengthen further. 155 mile-per-hour winds. geez. 2 miles away from a category 5 storm and hours away from a landfall. the latest with ian, a huge storm. not just in size but in power. again, we expect a landfall right around 2:00, 3:00 this afternoon. it s so close to the west coast of florida. 65 miles west-southwest of naples, florida, moving northeast at 9 miles per hour. starting to slow down. the forward speed as expected will slow down. we expect to do slow down three to four miles an hour. a walking pace.
jose diaz-balart, thank you very much. we ll, of course, be handing off coverage to you at 10:00 a.m. eastern. we ll see you then. all right. let s get the storm s current track from meteorologist michelle grossman. michelle, what do you have? hi, there. we are looking, as jose said, at a very, very strong storm. whether it makes to it a category 5 or not, we re still looking at an upper tier of a category 4 storm with 155-mile-per-hour winds. it could reach category 5 status, but it really doesn t matter at this point, because we are looking at really catastrophic conditions as we head throughout the next couple of days. here is the latest. again, we are looking at 155-mile-per-hour winds. it s moving northeast at 10 miles per hour. it s going to start to slow in speed. jose mentioned that, too. once it makes that landfall in the next hours, we only have a few hours left before it makes that landfall, we ll see it slow down drastically to a walking pace. that s why we re going to
that means a lot more water just sitting there in certain places. what will happen as in inside iran? don, on wednesday into thursday, the storm is expected to go from 13 mile an hour movement to about three mile an hour movement. essentially, the average watching walking pace. it s a very slow movement. the motion could remain in place for about 48 hours at true versus the region. it ll essentially funnel more water. storm surge threat is exacerbated over a multi day period. you ve got to keep in mind this county is home to about 30 billion dollars of built property. no county in florida, miami bay included, has that much value in that many properties at risk
the latest. what it is looking like? it s looking concerning. we re looking at major category three storm. i ll show you the stats ichlt show it track and what we expect over the next couple days. that will happen today. we re look teg movement of 12 murpz. that s going to slow down a walking pace. that is concerning. we re going to see days and days of really heavy rainfall. up to 20 inches in some spots and catastrophic storm surge. 19 million at risk whether it is a tropical storm warning, hurricane warning, that is in red. that includes western florida, also the keys. the cuba, you re being pounded right now. we re looking at hef yan. we re looking at 16 inches of