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expecting water to come in, but if you notice where the water is right now, it s over that small embankment there, that s going to be a business at some point, they are planning to put a business in there, but let me give you a look at how choppy things are here, and how high the water has gotten. this was well below this area here, well below, you had to really lean down to get close to the water. now it s coming up and it s almost completely onto that. this is nothing compared to what is being expected here. the highest the water has ever gotten here in crystal river is about four feet above the flood zone. the entire community is a flood zone. it s in a flood zone, why they have told people to evacuate. at this point in time this is a wind event right now. it has been raining as well as the bands come in, but the real fear is the water, and what do officials always say? you run from the water, you hide from the wind. hopefully people have heeded the warnings, as this ....
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 ....
Warns about over the course of the last 24 hours, it is here, it is looming, it is approaching florida s gulf coast, it s big ben region, where the peninsula and the panhandle come together. to brian todd s point there is not precedent for a storm of this size hitting the region. we re getting more details on the preparation and what to expect from florida governor ron desantis in about 15 minutes f from tallahassee, we re talking to federal officials, local officials, res dens in the coming minutes and hours. we will keep you updated on the very latest as this storm continues to intensify from a category 3 to a category 4, now over 130 mile an hour winds as it heads and continuing to strengthen as it heads towards the gulf coast of florida. stay with us. for moms, from centrum. this new mom here i go i am strong and brave i know with a littlele time for me n no doubt i will get through ....
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 ....
And power lines that it became hard to navigate around this city. we expect that to be the case again now because a lot of these, of course the ground underneath the trees getting saturated, that means these trees are going to be vulnerable. when the wind starts to kick up, we know it s coming here in tallahassee soon, when that kicks up everybody here has to be very careful. nobody should be out trying to navigate these roads. we did hear, our team about an hour and 15 minutes ago, we heard first responders and sirens, that s not the case in the next couple of hours. as we ve been told up and down this region, once the winds get to roughly a little over 50 miles an hour, the first responders, as much as they want to and they may try to are not going to be able to move around to try to rescue you. but they do have rescue teams at the ready here in tallahassee and elsewhere. we pulled in late last night from the sount of st. marks, about 20 miles south of here, right here the apppalache ....