millions of floridians in this storm s path. those who have not evacuated are urged to shelter in place immediately. almost 800,000 people are already without power. that s according to florida utilities. the director of fema has warned that recovery from hurricane ian will be a very long road. that agency has already begun to pour resources into the state. in an event earlier today, president joe biden said he spoke with florida governor ron desantis and added he already requested aid saying, quote, the federal government is ready to help in every single way possible. ali velshi who has been doing the heroic job of bringing the story to all of us from naples, florida, is our first guest. ali, tell me what you re seeing. i ve been watching all day long. please tell me how you re staying safe. reporter: we always appreciate that. what did we just lose there, peter? something has come off the building that we re in. in fact, we re seeing a lot of that. moments ago we saw a fr
Busy roads, combined with impaired and wrong-way drivers, had law enforcement across the Bay Area working around the clock to keep the roads safe, resulting in dozens of arrests.
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And saw reverse storm surge happen. really it is how quickly this happened. this water came over the road, over the last three or four hours, this was not a story and scene we saw earlier in the night tuesday night. this happened quickly and started when wind became stronger and was less about rainfall and more about strong wind gust going to push the water aaccumulating in the bay on to the shore temperature is not just bayshore, tampa general hospital and all the islands, howard franklin bridge and sunshine skyway bridge, the two major bridges in tampa and st. petersburg and bridgewater, that bridge is closed by florida
Guys to get more people aware of what is happening with idalia, too. steve: ultimately, a public service we are able to warn people when things are coming. brian: thanks, brandy. another live look at 275 over in tampa. it is nearly underwater as we switch shots to that. and that s the one that we saw about an hour ago. we saw some waves hitting it. now it s transcended it. so, and i will tell you, i am always struck by how low those bridges are to begin with. steve: you can see this is like let s see like an 8-lane highway. the four lanes on the left of the screen and that is, according to kurt the cyberguy that is the howard franklin bridge and causeway. it looks as if there is a little there was traffic moving very slowly to the screen left. but the four lanes on the right side of your screen are completely inundated with water. ainsley: one guy is trying to get through it. that left hand lane looks like it s kind of clear on the other side you can see it looks like a