It s the slow, steady moving but most serious threat from the storm. the surge we expect to see across the southeast threatens lives and will potentially put communities in billion-dollar holes they will be forced to pay back for years. let s go to meteorologist allison chinchar, who is live in the cnn weather center. what are you seeing now? i think the biggest threat is going forward that a lot of these communities, even the inland wones are going to be dealing with is rainfall. you have a lot of that inland flooding potential not only in the state of georgia, but also south carolina and north carolina. and still the winds we re seeing those power outage numbers continue to tick up. sustained winds are 85 miles per hour. the forward movement to the northeast at just about 20 miles per hour. so it s expect 20d remain a hurricane as it crosses over georgia before finally pushing into south carolina and then out over open waters once again. but in that time period, you re talking a tr
These assets are in motion. so you re going to see a lot of efforts at power restoration. you re going to see the roads cleared and the really significantly affect ed areas. that s going to increasingly happen. we re going to do whatever we need to do to help these local communities get back on their feet. any questions? what time did the eye cross into georgia? ville to look that up. i think it was probably within the hour, within the last 30 or 40 minutes. at what time is it too dangerous for people to evacuate? what would you say? probably the last evacuations happened between midnight and 2:00 a.m. any idea how many people might have stayed in the house? there was a form families filled out. so on this particular one, we did door to door because it was just a little bit different
For some of the recovery teams to get where they need to go. at least in the short-term, but in this area, the wind, the rain, that s the major concern. the real fears where bill is along the coast where the storm surge could just be life threatening in the threat not over for several hours. john, thank you so much. appreciate that. you are in the state capitol of tallahassee. we are hoping to hear from the governor of the state of florida this hour. the center of the storm has crossed from florida into georgia. i want to go to georgia. that s where ryan young is. you are in savannah. that city is directly in i- idalia s projected path. what s going on there? reporter: so far, it s pretty dry, as of right now. what we have been told is the big bridge will be closed today at 2:00 for all precautions. we have been watching this river for most of the day as well. we have seen the water drop from
Assessments have been completed. we have about 50 locations left to complete. we will be deploying generators for those traffic signals that need power. as we continue to respond to the storm, all 13 of our traffic management centers across the state will continue their 24/7 operations, inputting realtime traffic data into florida 511. that s the most accurate and timely information you can get for traffic at florida511.com. we have road rangers that are continuing to patrol our interstate system and responding to motorists as needed. one thing to remember, there s still high water in a lot of areas to have the state. if you see water over topping a road, do not drive through it. if you see water, stop, turn around, go a different way. it can be really dangerous to drive through flooded roadways. thank you, again, for your leadership and support as we respond to this event. so we re going to have all
Tornado strength gusts and it pounding georgia with historic rains. its trail started this morning in keton beach. can residents go home again? i i don t know if it s there or not, but this right here, i don t know if i m going to have a house to go home. it s horrible. we have never seen this before. usually we come here and ride it out. this right here is bad. at this hour x hurricane idalia is barrelling through georgia. a flash flood emergency is in effect for the city. join ing me now is the public information officer, which includes the area, thank you for join ing me. you are inside the emergency