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Power now. The winds are extremely high. And water is rising. Just clinging to i dont know what that is. Theyre flying around the streets. A cinder block wall that was the entire width of this area came down. Theyre coming through. We had some of the strongest winds here so far. Good to be with you this morning. Im francis rivera. And im philip mena. It is 4 30 in the east. Thank you for joining us for this Special Edition of early today. The strong winds of ian already impacting Daytona Beach along the western coast as it slowly moves towards orlando. The storm has been downgraded to a category one. It is still packing a powerful punch. There are nearly 2 1 2 million power outage as cross the state. Ian made land fall in Southwest Florida in the ft. Myers area where the storm surge submerged buildings. It could take days or weeks to know the full impact. The County Manager tells nbc news overnight they are getting a sense that the community has been decimated. And in port charlotte, n

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