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Staged. we re also arranging more fuel to come in by truck, just to make up for whatever may not be coming in through the normal course of business with things like the port of tampa being closed. and so there s a lot of fuel that has been arranged to be here and our goal is to not have any major fuel interruptions. terms of communications, there s 500 plus star link internets ready for deployment to places that need to be. there s already been almost 250 that have been deployed so as affected areas need that connectivity, florida division of emergency management is going to work to provide that. we just lost the feed of governor ron desantis, he s giving updates on what is now a category 4 storm from tallahassee. we ll take you bake to him as
Sara sidner is standing by live in crystal river, florida, part of team coverage, bill weir in steinhatchee, derek van dam, brian todd and john berman are in hall tallahassee where we just saw desantis and the power go out as the outer bands of the storm hit that city. and starting with sara sidner in crystal river, it s been intensifying all morning. what are you seeing right now? reporter: we are seeing a lot of wind and we re seeing that wind push the water onto shore. it has now come up. it was way back, see where that let s walk over with adolfo here, let s walk over to this little sign here, so that area right there that has those pipes sticking out of it, that was completely dry about two hours ago, the house that is next to it, and, yes, that is an occupied building is built so that there is a whole floor that has nothing in it, that they are
Becomes a closer reality for this storm. reporter: the timing of you tossing to us and the show starting right now, at least for the intensification of the storm here in tallahassee, the timing was pretty much perfect. just a couple of minutes before the show started we started getting some really intense bands of wind and rain, mostly right now it is a rain event. when the rain starts to blow sideways you know it s pretty much game on for the intensity of the storm and we know it s coming here to tallahassee. this city is known for its trees, lots of palm trees here, these palm fronds, maybe not so much the issue, it s the oak trees this town is known for, the old oak trees with the spanish moss hanging from them, pine trees behind me, this city is known for its trees, makes the city beautiful but on the other hand it just leads to more, you know, vulnerability for trees coming down. i covered a hurricane here in tallahassee a few years ago and the aftermath of it, what struck our t
Into lee county there caught so many folks by surprise, that fingers, toes, everything crossed we don t see that catastrophic loss of life here this morning. yeah, no question about that. obviously there have been some people, as you note, we ve spoken to some of them who have decided to stay, because they don t believe it can be as bad as people are saying, or they believe they can ride it out out. you hope for the best for them. you hope everybody has heeded the request of state and local officials who have asked for evacuations, bill, it s picking up where you are. we re going to continue to check back in with you. and to brian todd, in tallahassee, the state capital, up from the big bend region where landfall is expected right now. brian, looks calmer where you are, but this is a key caveat, as we ve been speaking to reporters throughout the course of the morning, a, it comes in waves, and b, it is certainly picking up as landfall