winds. steve: according to fox weather graphic right here 310,000 people don t have electricity in georgia, florida and carolinas. take a look at this brief tornado in the distance there. it flipped over a car in front of that vehicle in south carolina. rachel: before and after satellite images show the extent of the flooding in florida. the governor will hold a press conference at 9:15 this morning. steve: the press conferences that ron desantis has been having over the last 72 hours was to make sure everybody in the cone of uncertainty was prepared in case they had to go to higher ground. this particular hurricane, when it cake ashore and you can see the track right now of the tropical storm, it was in along florida so-called nature coast, known as big guy area. it was for the most part, rural area, not widely populated, which was good news because they didn t have to have that many people moved. i was listening from somebody from cedar key and she said she wished she
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 clearwa
turned roads to rivers after idalia rolled ashore as a category 3 storm. water reaching four feet high in some spots. we await high tide. governor kemp is holding a press briefing, let s listen in. your honor itting us loose to do the job we are trained to do, we appreciate that. that quick response allows us to fill a room with state assets to do the job we need to do. we have prepositioned assets all over the state, patrol, dnr, forestry commission, air asset, drone, search and rescue teams, tarps, mre s, water, things needed we have prepositioned and down range. we have our staff inside local management centers to get response quickly and in a timely manner. something we want to remind everybody, trees that are down, it will take a while. we remind you, 72 hours is time frame you need to be thinking before you can expect a true power response. if before that, we are very pleased, ittic tas time to get back into the area. we have to clear right-of-ways and assess transfor
key from florida. we got the updates, welcome to fox weather. the reason we re here is because this is a dangerous storm. still intensifying on way to becoming a category 4 storm hours out from landfall on florida nature coast. you saw the stinger and jane, we got new information, on the door sdlt step of category 4 storm. winds up to 120 miles per hour. hurricane hunters getting back data has been critical in looking at the last couple hours. we were anticipating directional shift north, northeast andic approximating up speed 17 miles per hour. this forward jolt to the northeast is expected to happen before landfall. pressure down to 941 millibars, max winds 125 any upgrade and we are talking about a category 4 hurricane idalia. there is the change in the past hour, pressure dropped three millibars, measured by hurricane hunters, national guard and noaa, over the last 24 hours. wind is up five miles per hour, pressure is down and forward motion north, northeast 17 miles pe
area, on top of that destructive winds, torrential rain, and tornado warnings. scenes like this one close to where the storm made landfall. rushing water risking away the boat house here. we could hear from florida governor ron desantis again today. his message this morning. wherever you are, hunker down and don t take anything for granted here. this is a very, very powerful storm. there will be impacts far beyond the eyewall. those will extend to places like tallahassee as well as places like northeast florida. we have already had 11 tornado warnings and there are more tornadoes possible even and especially in the very outer bands of the storms. julie: we have team fox coverage across the state. fox news weather and fox news with all angles of the storm. meteorologist adam is monitoring the path and who may be in harm s way as it barrels across florida. adam has breaking news for us. the update coming in from the national hurricane center just in the last two minutes,