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polluting vehicles will pay £12.50 to drive into london boroughs. good evening, this hour, florida s gulf coast is feeling the outer bands of hurricane idalia. evacuation orders are in place in ten counties north of tampa, in what we call the big bend area of florida. the system started as a tropical storm but it is rapidly intensifying over unsually warm waters in the gulf. through the day it has been moving north from west cuba growing from a categoryi hurricane, possibly to a category three with winds that could reach iiomph. but, as ever, it is the storm surge that has the authorities most concerned, particularly around cedar key and some of the very low lying areas. they are predicting the waters could rise by as much 8 12ft. here s our forecaster chris fawkes with more. western cuba has been hit with strong winds and some flooding rain as tropical storm dalia passed just to the west. and we can take a look at idalia on the satellite picture. since moving past western c
you have trees that are down, you have a lot of hazards right now. we do anticipate a lot of the water will subside in some of the barrier islands and some of the coasts but some of those inland places of rivers and these inlets, you are likely to have standing water there throughout all of today and even in the days ahead, so that is a hazard and just please be aware that that is something that if you have weathered the storm to this point, going on doing and getting involved in that is totally not worth it and we want to minimise any harm to anybody as a result of what we are seeing right now in the streets. it s gonna be put to use, i don t think we ve seen in effort mobilise for this minutes rate rescues this quickly, but we appreciate and we will make good use of it. we want people to be safe, those people who are in need of life supports, health is on the way help. they are able to see the areas that were hardest hit, and they are focusing assets there. obviously the
this hour, and on the ground frenzy in the state. millions under mandatory evacuation orders. the entire state faces flash flooding. and then record-shattering storm surge, water officials say as high as 18 feet. enough to swallow two suvs stacked one on the other. one official warning if you are caught in that surge, you simply will not survive. let s get straight to our correspondents on the ground binning with beginning with bill weir. what are you seeing and what are you told to expect? reporter: this whole community is really bracing for the worse. the new numbers this morning sunk the pit of the stomach everyone here, trying to think about a 17 foot storm surge. and we re on the back side of the storm and this is sort of the reverse storm surge. locals never see this exposed seabed here. we re looking at crab traps and oyster beds blowing around in the wind with the rest of us here. but of course the water as the storm comes ashore will fill in fast. and we re next
the storm. we re doing whatever we can to help. shepard: let s get to it. good friday afternoon from the fox news deck. we re tracking hurricane irma. florida s governor says the window to escape the path of the storm is closing. with each updated forecast, the chance of a direct hit on some part of south florida and then up the peninsula of florida are increasing. this as the head of fema says i don t know anybody in florida has experienced what we re about to get. the florida says we should expect life threatening conditions from coast-to-coast. he says this is a catastrophic storm like our state has never seen. over 500,000 people there from mandatory evacuation orders, including miami, miami beach, the keys. rick scott telling people to be
patient when dealing with crowded highways. he says more troopers are on the road to help with the flow of the traffic. he says the state has sent school buses to get residents out of dangerous areas. some gas stations have long lines. oth