Landfall about three and a half hours north of us just minutes ago as janice pointed out. but, i mean, you can just tell that this is not it is very unusual scene here. especially police officers who tell me they have worked in this city for 20 years and they have never seen water this deep. and i m not going to step in the road because we recognize that only how deep it is but how strong the waves that are being pushed in from the bay are continuing to push inland onto the road here even this median that s a little bit higher ground here you can watch as it hits my boots here. a very unreal situation here as we now start to see the sunshine for the first time in over 12 hours, if not more here in tampa bay. you mentioned those bridges. those were closed by florida highway patrol several hours ago. we re also hearing several of the barrier islands in pinellas county have also been shut down. the winds just too strong for those people to feel confident that they re safe to drive