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reporter: i talked to state fire marshal about this. he put it like this, he says the entire pile of rubble is divided into a grid so the piece of the building that you see behind me because this is a partial collapse, that s considered the alpha section. that was evacuated on thursday. 35 people were removed from that building. then there s other sections of this grid and it includes bravo, charlie, delta. what these rescuers are doing, they are tunnelling. some of them are under that rubble suring up areas and r risking their lives to go under there looking for voids and signs of life. there are other rescuers on top of that mound and they are delayering. they are peeling pieces, debris, con concrete, some of it is pulverized. some of it is very large pieces of concrete that is very dangerous. you are talking about the weather moments ago. that s one of the biggest issues baisz because rain makes the services very, very slippery. if you look at the actual alpha port ....
record-breaking storm surge of 12 to 16 feet in the landfill zone. florida officials warning the surge could impact areas up to 200 miles south into the tampa area and may leave areas uninhabitable for an extended period of time. several areas expected to be higher even than hurricane ian s last year which devastated the fort myers area and killed 149 people. in addition, hurricane-force winds will extend 25 miles outward from wherever the storm makes landfill. the tallahassee national weather service says wind likely will cause significant damage there too. as idalia tracks inland, officials are warning of major coastal flooding between savannah, georgia, up into charleston, south carolina, due to a tide already expected to be higher than normal due to the occurrence of a rare blue supermoon. let s go right to bill karins for the latest on what is shaping up, bill, to be a very, very serious storm. yeah, good morning, willy. idalia has intensified for the last 24 hou ....
good wednesday morning and the breaking news we are following this morning, a significant storm, now a category 4 storm, hurricane idalia now in the extremely dangerous category, that category 4 storm designation is intensified over the hours from a category 3 now to a category 4, it is expected to make landfall onto florida s gulf coast in just hours. forecasters are calling the storm dangerous, life threatening, a once in a lifetime storm that could bring catastrophic storm surge of up to 16 feet in florida s big bend region. at 6:30, just about a half hour from now, florida governor ron desantis will be giving an update from tallahassee. we will bring you that live. desantis says if you wanted to see a press can he not. analog for a storm hitting this place at this scale, go back more than a century. sarah sanders has been there live, part of team coverage, bill weir, in florida, derek van dam in tampa. and brian todd. and we ll be speaking with local officials and t ....
residents. people need to get ready for life-threatening storm surge that could be up to 16 feet that officials are now calling non-survivable. brian: all right. we have fox team coverage all morning long. senior meteorologist janice dean has been all morning long. tracking the storm on the ground. fox weather multi journalist brady campbell. nicole valdes in tampa and we begin in clearwater beach with robert ray. hey, robert. yeah. good morning, guys, from clearwater beach we have experienced what we expected and that is the storm surge that is coming in to clearwater beach here this morning. this is coronado street here and right off of the gulf of mexico. what do we see? we see at least a foot of water here come in. many of these roads are inundated around clearwater beach. this is what the anticipation was of this storm as overnight it just actually in the past hour kicked up to a category 4 major hurricane as it s making its way to the southeast of tallahassee ....
west more toward jefferson county and potentially into leon. what i would ask people to do now especially if they live on the river, its tributaries and the swanee river valley in columbia as well, please heed the warnings if shane or any local emergency managers ask for evacuation, please do that. you are going to lose power. if you are power dependent. if you are power dependent, you have to have that. you re going to lose power. we are going to lose power. so please make sure you go some place that has power. that can help you out. i m not going to talk about how columbia handles that. we have on our website at floridadisaster.org, that s our special needs registration but we are getting into a window where we re going to have to go direct with counties versus us getting that information and making sure it gets done on a county level. i ll let shane talk about that in columbia again, but again, if there s a doubt, call your local emergency management agency and liste ....