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and it might strike hard there tomorrow. not only is this a life-threatening category 3 hurricane getting stronger, packing winds of 120 miles an hour, it s also getting larger in its size. ian s wind field is expanding, which can potentially expose more of florida to destruction. the storm s exact landfall tomorrow does remain uncertain, but it could be between tampa and ft. myers. now, one of the greatest threats is the storm surge and it could reach up to even 12 feet in some areas, which could bring, as you can imagine, pretty catastrophic flooding. floridians are being urged by officials not to underestimate this storm and nearly 2 million people are already under mandatory evacuation orders all across florida. and more are at least urged to leave. police in tampa are now going door to door warning people they got to get out. 5,000 national guard members are now even activated in florida and another 2,000 guard troops are from other states to help them out. we re a ....
2s, but they re harder to detect when they occur. these bright green, those are flooding areas on rivers. this is peace river. for the last two weeks they have had more than double their average rainfall, and many locations, river gauges on the peace river are already at flood stage. that s the last thing you want when you re going to have water get shoved up in charlotte harbor that runs into the peace river. it s going to back it up. we re going to have numerous problems on area rivers. now we got our category 4, might be a strong category 3 at landfall because of the restructuring, but don t pay attention to the number. it s going to affect someone. notice the span in our track. it has been trending to the south and to the east and almost every track advisory we have received. now, if there s going to be a movement, again, it might be just slight, but it s going to be south again. i think there s a little low possibility of it moving back to the west. but what that track change ....
bill: a dangerous winter storm sweeping across much of the country. people in southern states seeing tornado warnings as the system makes its way east. we re in tennessee with the latest. this is one of those regions seeing wave after wave of rain, freezing rain and snow. the buffalo river behind me, one of the middle tennessee rivers trying its best to keep up with all the water. it is under a flood advisory like several area rivers. what it was like to try to navigate through nashville yesterday. the music city seeing an onslaught of rain. during most of the afternoon several lanes of the interstate i-24 and 440 had to be closed to traffic because the water was rushing into the interstate and storm drains couldn t catch ....