Per hour. And its barreling straight toward florida as a Cat Category four storm. People have across the state are trying to evacuate before it makes Landfall Tomorrow Night the city of tampa is in the storms bull bullseye. And later this hour we will get an update from the mayor. Shes already issued a blunt warning. If you stay in the Evacuation Zones, you who are going to die President Biden echoed that sentiment from the White House moments ago a potential for this storm to both enter florida as hurricane and leave Florida Hurricane on the atlantic coast this could be the worst Storm Hit Florida in over a century. And god willing, it wont be, but thats what its looking like right now. If youre under Evacuation Orders, you should evacuated. Now. Now now i should have already evacuated. Its a matter of Life And Death, and thats not hyperbole. Its a matter Life And Death the president just canceled his planned foreign trip this week so he can oversee the response to the second hurrican
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stand by throughout the state of florida. we have 5500 national guardsmen that have been activated. you still have time this morning to be able to make your final preparations. if you are in one of those areas that is in line for some of the major storm surge and you are told to evacuate. bret: florida desantis giving the status as the hurricane moves to the gulf coast. it is expected to strengthen to a major hurricane before making landfall tomorrow morning. new this hour florida state university in tallahassee canceling classes and the governor of north carolina declaring a state of emergency ahead of the storm reaching his state. britta joins us from tampa to tell us what s happening there. it s hard to imagine that there is a monster storm that is strengthening in the gulf of mexico. this is old tampa bay behind me,
is in tampa, florida. the eye of the storm is still a few hundred miles off of the gulf of mexico and moving pretty slowly and that in itself is a concern because the slower the hurricane moves, the more sustained the damage is likely to be. authorities predicting landfall sometime tomorrow morning local time and it is notjust the speed of the winds but the storm expected to intensify to a category three, when of well over 100 miles an hour in the storm surge that they re most concerned with the wind speeds that will push water from the gulf of mexico along florida s gulf coast along the area that you mentioned, the big bend area of the state for the panhandle meets the gulf coast and focusing on the warnings to residents in the part of