phil keating and chad pergram from the white house. let s start with alex and roy hoff live from cape corral, florida. hi, alex. alex: we are in an area called matt lachet and the coast guard is leading major effort to rescue people who have been stranded on the pine island ever since the storm, this is a major operation, we have probably seen at least a hundred people in this location coming in by boat. those residents had been on the island since the storm including even volunteers who showed up just after it. some really have arrived here in terrible condition. ems personnel have been on hand assisting several people who have returned by boat. one man said he had been suffering with a broken hip for days and laura was very emotional. she told me that she lost her entire home and spoke with gratitude for those who came to save her especially after the effort she made to make sure that she needed help. it s very devastating. we are just great to have our lives. the water a
on up to the big ben area, that is when the surge will be from crystal city, possibly in two appalachia cola. where most of the surge will likely be. this is what we are talking about. the very flat piece of land. why does that matter? when the water goes up a foot, literally your shoreline can lose 3 to 400 feet. and if it goes defeat, all the sudden you have lost 1000 feet. if it goes up what they re forecasting, 10 to 15 feet. oh my gosh, how far inland will that go? that will likely be miles. likely miles inland that this will push the water. this is an area, very fragile, it s wildlife, they will have to try to get out of the. people have to get out of the way. this surge is a very dangerous thing. seeing it visually in front of us is something that is so stunning. chad myers, thank you so much. and thank you everyone for watching. don t go anywhere.
the storm does take a current track that the forecasts say, on up toward appalachia cola and you will still have significant rain and gusts that will bring down power lines and just a slight turn to the right will make this a very impressive storm for the villages, new port ridge and tampa, st. pete and this is a big storm headed to the north and if it slightly turns to the east which a lot of models are doing you have a lot bigger problem and we ll keep watching it for you. there s franklin out in the atlantic as well and it will bring major swells for the atlantic east coast. all right. chad myers, we ll have to practice saying idalia. idalia. we ll also work on that over the coming day, chad, thanks very much. brace yourselves, everybody. we appreciate it. for the second week in a row the nfl called off the rest of the game because of an injury.
so major effort. 10,000 floridans remain in shelters, mike. mike: phil, you re a veteran correspondent, give us context in terms of how bad hurricane ian is compared to other storms that you ve covered over the years? phil: the one i compared to most quickly would be a couple of years ago hurricane michael which came up to west coast appalachia cola, panamá city, cat 4, upgraded to 5. that was powerful and destruction there. this one also produced a lot of destruction. this hurricane was simply huge, the size of hurricane charley which hit the same area back in 2004, well, that entire hurricane could fit into the eye of ian, that s how huge it was. a lot of rain, 15 to 20 inches.
hour. i know that s frightening in parts of pennsylvania and new york. so when this line moves through it s going to move through rather quickly, but because we have thunderstorms embedded in it we can easily see 1 to 3 inches. we re not talking 10, not talking 15 inches but the severe weather threat is real. we ve already had a few systems to the south. so that s there as well. the watches in effect does not include new york city but you re just on the line. if you want to play it safe just tell everyone just postpone your travel out this evening. this will be out of this area by 3:00 in the morning. we re also monitoring a new tropical storm in the gulf of mexico. this one spun up quickly. it s very disorganized. more of a nuisance storm. we ve been watch ing it for day, sliding northward. it s about 60 miles southwest of appalachia cola but it s moving at 21 miles an hour and this will make landfall this evening.