In storms where it gets so intense that the first responders say we can t get to you if something goes wrong that s a good sign where we are in old town. steve: grady, thank you very much. we are coming up on 7:00 east coast. our coverage of hurricane idalia continues right now. ainsley: this is a fox weather alert. hurricane idalia is set for imminent landfall as a category 4 storm. 85,000 are now without power already as dangerous winds and flooding are shutting down roads and some of the bridges. brian: that last hour governor ron desantis urged florida toreach possible tornad. do not go outside in the midst of this storm. wherever you are, hunker down
Team has been doing up and down the guslf coast of florida. we want to get to cnn meteorologist allison chinchar, tracking idalia s every move from the cnn weather center. walk me through. what are we expecting going forward? now that we have had official landfall at 7:45 eastern time this morning, just near keaton beach, now that we have had that, the focus begins to shift. now we are looking at an inland threat for a lot of these communities. along the coast you are still going to have storm surge concerns, still going to have dangerously high winds. now we are also going to start to see some of those communities inland dealing with some of these extremely high winds. this is an extreme wind warning to 10:15 a.m. expands farther inland. as the storm works across florida, it will bring the high winds with it. you have the outer bands that could produce tornado warnings throughout the day. we have had already had a dozen of them. the amount of rain.
Down. if you re outside, you are in the line of fire. there you have it from perry. again, that s about 20 minutes from where hurricane idalia made landfall. that s why you are hearing that roar of wind and seeing all of that rain. i will tell you, we are outside of the most dangerous part of this storm. we are just getting basically tropical-force winds here where i am standing in crystal river, but the storm storm surge definitely, look at, it is coming up further. when we first started, you go to basically where that boat slip is, the dock is. the water was there. it was far back from where we are. now it is all the way up. it has definitely come up about 3 feet now. it was about one when we started this morning, and it was dry just before that. all right. i want to go to the mayor of tampa, mayor jane castor, who is standing by live for us. we appreciate, ma am, your time
Will spread inland with the center of idalia and not to mention the flooding, heavy rainfall, especially to the left of the track, areas farther inland like augusta, columbia, south carolina, fayetteville, substantial risk the next 24, 36 hours. you will be keeping us updated. appreciate it. thank you. thank you. now to cnn s brian todd. i was talking about tallahassee. he is in tallahassee. we heard from governor ron desantis, the florida governor, in tallahassee earlier this morning. the power went out. brian e what are you seeing inland from where landfall took place? reporter: right, phil. interesting that you saw the power go out when governor desantis was addressing people because a few minutes ago we heard a loud boom down the street from us. we believe that was a transformer blowing. of course, it that will be repeated throughout the region. already has been. here is what we can show you in
Into south georgia as a hurricane. we don t know how the strength is going to continue. we don t know how hard that s going to be. but they are going to get walloped moving into the south carolina area. we are continuing to stay out here and monitor this as the haymakers are being thrown by idalia. back to you. ainsley: robert when you started this morning it was up to your calf, now it s almost up to your knees. janice telling us information this morning stay with us because we want your reaction to this. janice? janice: hi, robert. so we re getting information that the eye is clearly moving on shore near fish creek. it s not confirmed by the new york city but national hurricae center. near fish creek we are getting the lowest pressure point that doesn t mean anything except that the -the lowest pressure point is now moving on shore. we will definitely get an official landfall from the new national hurricanecenter.