st. pete as well. the wind component may still knock down trees and power lines. so currently winds in cocoa beach, a beautiful beach to go to, by the way, gusting over 50 miles per hour against storm surge along the east coast of florida. could be a very real and present danger. here s what we were talking about before that big green box indicating that flash flood warnings are still ongoing for not only parts of polk county until three 30. that does include the kissimmee ,but also orange county and orlando. titusville, this is also known as the space coast area, seeing heavy rainmakers produced in those flash flooding concerns along the i-95 corridor. let s hyper local, let s hyper localized the forecast for parts of orlando and the over dozen theme parks out that way. here s where celebration florida is , by the way. boy, not celebrating the weather over this past week, right? lots of rainfall is ongoing. it will persist through not only this morning to run the nine o clock hour,
0 with first cause of this surge right now. reporting in fort myers, robert ray fox. whether. all right. thank you so much for sticking with us. right here on fox weather. a hurricane in a water log in southwest florida. streets and buildings completely flooded, as you can see here. power knocked out to two million people. and one of the most powerful storms ever recorded in the united states . the hurricane making landfall wednesday afternoon near jocasta. a protected barrier island just west of fort myers in the hours since landfall in have moved inland, hurricane force winds likely to be felt well into central florida. yeah, thanks again for sticking with us right here on fox. whether i m local customer. and i m jim enah. thank you for joining us and a special welcome to those watching on fox news channel. well, the 2:00 a.m. advisory is in mike lindell, still a category one hurricane. so no major changes there, although and continues to shift and land continues to weaken just a
very, very dark behind me here. we still have that to go at the time i am filing this report. some debris around, nothing big, least yet. but that backside could really contain some winds, still gusting to 125 or more miles per hour. we ve had a little chunk of this wall that s been knocked out. there may have been water that s compromised some of the roof, some of the part building laying on the ground. and look at these palm fronds. this is like a palm free graveyard sitting in front of me here as those winds, again, as i mentioned, 124 miles per hour did their damage. so what is in store for punta gorda on the backside of this? two things the water from charlotte harbor comes this way. all right. it s going to come this way with a westerly and northerly wind component coming in. but also a chance to get flooding in this town. we may actually see our worst storm surge on the backside of ian as it moves to the northeast tonight. we ve still got a long way to go. norah, back to you.
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you have a wind component that will be hard on the trees and likely bringing some of those down. heavy rain to the south in florida and georgia, but the heaviest snowfall in the southeast is ll going to extend between nashville and charlotte, especially the southern appalachians when you start to get high into those allegations now you are talking 1 to 2 feet of accumulation there. on sunday the low begins to slide up the eastern seaboard, now we start to see impacts to the mid-atlantic by the later portion of the day sunday and eventually into the northeast by the time we get to monday. all right. a long 48 hours ahead. allison chinchar, thanks for the update. still to come, republican glenn youngkin was sworn in as governor of virginia today, the first gop governor in that state in nearly 12 years. why his campaign could prove a model for republicans as we head into the midterms. plan across your full financial picture. a plan with tax-smart investing strategies designed to help