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life-threatening storm surge and plenty of tornado warnings on this wednesday morning. right now our greatest area of concern is that big bend area where we had landfall, 947 pressure with 130 mile per hour wind is a dangerous cat 3 hurricane. brian: climbing to 138s,000. senior meteorologist janice dean is in the studio tracking the storm, we have matt finn and steve harrigan. robert ray is in clearwater. when we tossed to you last water was up to your calf and now it looks like it is up to your knees. yeah, close to it. it changes as the surge comes in, it can be calf or knee. up and down the street, i m looking as far as my eye can see, it appears to be a river from the gulf of mexico surge coming in. same that way. you see that hotel, sunrise resort, there is a gentleman standing on high ground. he is smart. that vehicle probably should move thchl is what we ve been experiencing all morning. the outure bands are creating surge and pushing across the beach in c ....
were spared. the tampa bay area, i think things are good. leon county is doing well. we re still assessing what is all going on on the ground in the places that had the initial impact. as i mentioned, the storm is now into georgia bearing down on savannah, which is under both a hurricane warning and a tornado watch. after that, it s expected to push into south carolina, slamming the area between columbia and charleston. this is what idalia looks like when it came ashore along keaton beach. that s one of several coastal florida towns that got the worst of it. areas that have never seen a hurricane like this. the town of perry is another, and that is where this unbelievable video was shot. 100 miles per hour winds flipping a gas station awning right onto its side. right now roughly 275,000 people are without power across florida, more than 90,000 already in georgia, and that s where we begin in georgia. nbc s lindsey reiser joins me now from savannah, lindsey, what s ....
it is just shy of that now. we won t get ahead of the news on this. we are expecting an official storm update at any moment. i m harris faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. hurricane ian is now carrying sustained kinds of 155 miles per hour. if they gain to 157 it s a category 5. the biggest threats facing floridians are massive storm surge, raging winds, inland flooding, tornadoes, experts already using words like catastrophic to describe hurricane ian s potential. 21/2 million people are under evacuation orders. for those people in the storm s path directly, that swath that i just told you to the south, cape coral and to the north sarasota. it s too late to evacuate if you re still there according to the governor. governor desantis also saying it is time just to hunker down for you. he spoke last hour. this amount of storm surge. it will have very ferocious winds and it will be life threatening. people are taking a risk with their health, safety and lives b ....
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