bringing with a at least 134 mile per hour wind gusts. authorities are warning of, quote, catastrophic storm surge and destructive winds when the hurricane moves ashore the next couple of hours. most of florida s the washington post coast is at risk of severe flooding and storm surges with some forecasted to reach as high as 16 feet in some areas. the national weather service is calling idalia is an unprecedented event. and here s governor desantis late yesterday on the storm. you ve really got to go back to the late 1800s to find a storm of this magnitude that will enter where this one looks like it s going to enter tomorrow. so we don t really have a historical analog in anybody s memory, so it s likely to cause a lot of damage. let s turn to nbc news correspondent jay gray in florida with more. talk about what the conditions are now and what the biggest concern has been. reporter: yeah, and i think the governor there makes a good point. this is not an area used to
louisiana. hurricane laura could spring the storm surge that has not affected the gulf coast since hurricane katrina in 05. let s get to katie beck, who is live in lake charles, louisiana, in the direct path of this storm. we were talking about 45 minutes ago, and it was really starting to ramp up. bill cairns was just telling us in your area, amazing wind gusts of over 130 miles an hour. you are certainly seeing that. reporter: absolutely. that explains why several of the windows have blown out in our hotel. we ve seen street signs just tossed down the road. if you hear those loud noises, that s likely what it is. there s lots of signage flying around at this point. we are under cover, so i do have some safety, but i m keeping an eye on what s going on behind me, because there are objects flying around. we have been told within minutes, the eye will be coming over us. we have been experiencing the impacts as that eyewall came ashore earlier tonight. and they have intensif
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