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ashore as a category 3 in the big bend region which hadn t seen anything like this ever. dana: even before i think in the 1800s is when governor ron desantis said might have been the last time this area saw one. not the most populated area but people are in the evacuation zone there. many people left. some were left behind. you have to imagine they are undergoing quite a bit of impact right now. bret: the hurricane is lashing the coast near keaton beach bringing with it the potential for catastrophic storm surge. forecasters are calling this storm nothing short of unprecedented because since 1851 as far back as weather records go, the state s gulf coast has never seen anything like this. dana: right now the life threatening storm is packing winds near 125 miles-per-hour prompting tornado warnings and alarms and impacting millions of people trying to cope with imminent danger. florida governor ron desantis warning earlier saying it will be felt far and wide. wher ....
and don t take anything for granted here. we have already had 11 tornado warnings, and there are more tornadoes possible. even and especially in the very outer bands of the storm. steve and it s just getting started. even the governor s command center lost power twice during the press conference, but they have got generators. listen, we have got live fox team coverage all morning long. senior meteorologist janice dean is here in the studio m. tracking the storm. steve harrigan is in participaten springs. brandy campbell live in tallahassee. start in clearwater where robert ray is standing by and in coronado street, right, robert? cared in a dough drive to be exact. off the gulf of mexico, clearwater beach. what we are seeing and experiencing as a team myself and two photographers, fox news photographers is a very heavy band that has just come in. one of our meteorologist at fox weather in new york alerted me that this was coming and, boy, was he right. because this is ....
storm has turned deadly. the florida highway patrol says that one person was killed in a weather-related accident on interstate 75 in pacifico county. the national hurricane center just put out its latest update on the storm. and right now it is a category 1 storm with maximum sustained winds of 90 miles per hour. idalia made landfall around keaton beach, florida, around 7:45 a.m. eastern time as a category 3 storm. the strongest to hit florida s big bend region in more than 125 years. idalia s biggest impact appears to be storm surge, which topped eight feet in some places. and in cedar key, florida, part of a bed and breakfast collapsed and washed away. nearly 300,000 homes and businesses are now without power in florida and georgia. florida governor ron desantis urged people not to go out if they don t have to. please hunker down, wherever you are, don t mess with this storm. don t do anything that is going to put yourself in jeopardy. and there will be a lot of he ....
source, a federal judge denying donald trump s long bid for a trial after the election, instead scheduling it two years sooner than the former president wanted and on the eve of one of the biggest dates on the political calendar. plus mark meadows taking the stand for hours in his own defense, offering his explanation of that phone call now at the center of the georgia case. and prosecutors in spain tonight launching a criminal investigation after that unwanted kiss at the world cup. and a strange new development. i m kaitlan collins, and this is the source. donald trump s attorneys today in court in both georgia and washington, a marathon hearing in fulton county ending without a ruling from the judge after hours of surprising testimony from his former chief of staff, mark meadows, who of course is fighting to get his case moved from federal court and potentially ultimately dismissed. meadows was questioned on the stand about the former president s infamous phone ....
florida is already feeling hurricane idalia s impacts. squalling coming ashore in the keys, deadly storm surge of up to 15 feet is expected. winds stronger than 100 miles per hour. maybe much stronger. officials warning residents to get out now. and a federal judge set to rule on whether mark meadows can move his case in georgia from state to federal court. but not before he asks for additional arguments from both the prosecution and the defense. ahead, what this could signal for the meadows case and that of former president trump. a father s desperate 911 call, new audio and video from the jacksonville shooting. authorities are continuing to piece together what happened as the community mourns the victims of a racist attack. we are following these major developing stories and many on more all coming in right here to cnn news central. right now parts of south florida are already feeling hurricane idalia. its outer most bands are bringing heavy rain to the florid ....