maps she is going to show us in four minutes. the governor made it very clear that the state of florida is prepared. he was talking about how they have got over a million gallons of fuel prepositioned. they have 3,000 generators. they needed it at the emergency headquarters because the lights went out twice during the press conference. so, once again, as janice has told us, we just heard from the governor the landfall of the hurricane is imminent. it s 8 miles away from the coast. right now though, let s go to check in with grady trimble. is he live in old town, florida, about 20 minutes from the gulf coast into the west of gainesville and, grady, it looks calm right now you are on the dirty side of the storm. what s going on? yeah. so what we re seeing is lulls in the bands. so about 20 minutes ago. if you had come to us you would have been seen whipping winds and very heavy rain. it just calmed down in the last couple of minutes and, of course, that s the nature of these storms as
others as he would have them treat him, since he couldn t help all living things, chose animals and did what he could for them. also, that he did audience participation shows for a long time on television. reporter: carter evans, cbs news, hollywood. tonight, cbs released a statement in part, saying, during his 35 years as h of the price is right, bob made countless dreams come true, and everyone feel like a winner when they were called to come on down. for more than 100 million americans in 17 states, it s yet another weekend of heat alerts. whipping winds are also fueling flames of nearly 0 80 wildfires including this blaze in louisiana. let s check in with paul goodoe from our partners at the weather channel. it is very, very hot, dangerously hot, but perhaps
really organically. reporter: jason carroll, cnn, new york. still ahead, record-setting heat, flash floods, whipping winds and storms. we ll take a closer look at when there might be a break from these extremes. first, today s impact your world. coral reefs are actually the center of marine biodiversity. a big part of that is sharks doing their job in the ecosystem. the reef sharks are probably keeping some of the prey species in check. corals need these nutrients that sharks are bringing in from other has bebitats.
california, they re seeing whipping winds and hail from the sky. in utah, a person tweeted a video of the scene there writing alaska or utah? i want to bring in bill karins who s tracking this monstrous storm, where is it and where is it going? we have blizzard warnings 10 miles from los angeles. erer we are going to see 1 to 2 feet of snow in minnesota, and 81 degrees in atlanta, the hottest temperature recorded in february. it s a pretty extreme weather pattern. no tornadoes reported yet. we don t expect a tornado outbreak. one or two is possible. that line of storms is coming through the area in st. louis. stay inside. let the line of storms go through and 15 minutes from now, you ll be all clear. then through illinois the rest of the afternoon. the st. louis area, the storms on the west side of town right now, sweeping over the
county officials as they will be out in these conditions going through hundreds of stranded cars inn erie county and rescuig people inside. officials said this is something they feared of happening so they implemented at 9:30 this morning a driving ban hoping people would stay home but sadly, we know there are many people out in these kinds of conditions, jim. i ll let you look at this for yourself. these whipping winds started early this morning and been relentless. they have not stopped and mark, the executive of erie county reporting it is very like ly these conditions will continue all night but the winds are likely to continue. earlier today wind gusts of 79 miles an hour confirmed by the national weather service in buffalo. that surpassed what they saw