Fort myers beach, in florida. You can see those high winds and heavy rains beginning to lash the coast there in fort myers. You can see how much the camera is shaking with the wind there, and obviously large waves warned of Storm Surges and rising water levels, as you can see coming up over the beach and onto the barriers, and beyond. This is from a short time ago in fort myers. You can see the before and after of water coming up over this hotel pool. Quite dramatic there. And just to show how dangerous this storm is, even with the storm still offshore, it is already causing damage. It has spawned several tornadoes which have been reported in the state, including in Areas that are seeing flooding. This is a home in fort myers that was hit by one of those tornadoes. You can see the roof is ripped off and the interior already destroyed, and the hurricane itself hasnt even arrived. These pictures from space give you a sense of the size of the monster storm. Its bringing winds of up to 120
We want to extends a special welcome to our Fox News viewers. Im meteorologist are arti from our studios here in new York City and weve been covering helene over the last several hours over the last several days. This has been an extremely well forecast storm, before it even formed down in the western caribbean. It looked like something like this was going to happen, so again, we still have technically a Hurricane Storm and Hurricane Center will probably see it downgraded slowly throughout the night, but one unique thing about helene, this particular storm is that it was very large, right . So large storms take a longer time to lose their strength as they move inland so you look up here to the north. Not only do we have a long Wind Damage to get, were going to see some hikely catastrophic rain, and i want to bring Ian Oliver. He started out in st. Petersburg beach and hes now made the trek over to tampa, so kind of on the other side of town, and ian, whether you started on the of other
Alertmac now a category of four hurricane, boys to make landfall in florida and the next two hours. Things are getting very dicey, multiple states bracing for the worst, storm surge, heavy wind threatening the entire gulf coast and beyond. We will get to the monolog in moments but let s check in across city in florida, yeah, fox weather is robert rae, what is the latest? and things are deteriorating in a big way here, on the nature coast. And eminent landfall in the next two hours, the wind speeds just updated the national hurricane center to 140 miles per hour sustained. That is catastrophic, like you cannot even explain. It is coming in here in the dark night, we are beginning just the rain in the wind and it will just deteriorated more in the coming hours. Has already about 400,000 customers without power in the great state of florida, a state of emergency here across the entire peninsula, up into georgia. One of the biggest concerns after landfall is as a system tracks up into geor
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