eye of the storm and those conditions will change very, very quickly. florida governor ron desantis a short time ago giving a briefing issuing that warning at this point it s time to stay inside and hunker down. joining us now live from tampa is nbc news correspondent marissa parra. good morning. what are you seeing there? reporter: willie, good morning. so, we are currently in what s called zone a, the mandatory evacuation area in tampa and you ll see why in just a moment because if you look over there, this is what happens when a car tries to drive through the evacuated zone. you can see tampa bay has completely washed over onto the road. this is a main road that we saw cars driving through even last night with ease. there were many cars that were driving through here, but obviously this is now the water is taking over a lot of the roads and this is something we have seen throughout the morning as we ourselves have been trying to assess the situation. if you look further down ove