major hurricane. any upgrade from here and we re talking about a category 3. the issue is that the storm has really got its structure together over the last several hours which is allowing it to continue to rapidly intensify. so welcome into fox weather. we d like to offer a special welcome here at the top of the hour to our viewers on fox news channel. i m ian oliver and i m jane minar fox news is your hurricane head coaches and so many of you watching the development of idalia fox weather with you have every step of the way on every connected tv device, also on your phone 24/7 with the free fox weather app. again idalia to reach category 4 intensity at land fall. we have you covered with our extensive team coverage on the ground tonight folks in place across the southeast as the faster forward motion of this storm is expected to bring hurricane conditions well inland but as we mentioned, idalia is expected to reach major hurricane status tonight. it could be at any minute at
we re back here on fox weather. near hurricane head quarts and a live look in cedar key, florida, as waves continue to batter the road here, this where manned tore evacuations have been ordered anding right now the center of hurricane i tal yeah about 100 miles off the coast of cedar key 100 or so in change but that s going to change as this storm comes in and these waves are just incredible to watch on this camera, which going to consistently get worse as the hours open up. we do have did work oh, we lost power. we go .