this is don lemon tonight, you re watching our coverage of in, making its way up the florida peninsula. we have all the news coverage this evening, it is dumping rain on this entire area. lots of water. but also the wind, pushing the wind all across the state of florida. our crews are out in the field, we re covering it all for you. we ve got bill weir, bill is joining us from punta gorda florida, also brian todd is in is in derek van damme is in breaking tin for us. i want to other meteorologist, our expert, mr. tom seders in the weather center. tom, i am getting so much rain, lots of rain that have been dumped on me for the last hour. and it seemed to come in on cue, we re watching the radar, the rain came right in. it s just sitting on top of us, not going anywhere. in fact that northern periphery of the storm system in the last couple of model runs in the last couple of days really has been showing that that northern periphery is where we re gonna have that heavy rain
20 foot storm surge is possible. the idea of 130 plus mile per hour winds in the location that you are. for people who think they know with these storms might be like, does this compare to anything you have been chasing before? no. we are going to have to record breaks. a category three we have never had a hurricane up in this area, the highest has been cat to. so, category three is uncharted territory. category four we are now talking, so we are breaking to records, the first a cat three hurricane in this area of the big bend, now we are forecasting cat four. so, those are going to be to record-breaking, historic we have never had happened since we know of in the mid 1800s, late 1800s. the third category is going to be possibly the highest storm surge ever recorded, in this part of florida. so, we will break the records tonight. we will see what the pressure gets down to, that could be the fourth record we are going to pick tonight. we could break at least four records that have
Correspondent bill weir in steinhatchee when we come back. also checking in a little bit more inland in tallahassee. we have reporters up and down the west coast of florida telling you all about what is happening as this category 3 storm, hurricane idalia, which made landfall about an hour ago, and now when you listen to local officials like the tampa mayor that sara was just talking to, very real concern about the surge, flooding, winds, about the aftermath of what will be moving through and is expected to move through as a hurricane up into georgia overcoming hours. stay with us. pano ai chooses t-mobile for business for 5g solutions.
Wait till the sun comes up in the morning and they start to see crews are able to go out an emergency officials out there. standby, i want to go to tom. tom this had been downgraded to category one, that doesn t mean the danger is over? oh no, not at all. in fact, the entire peninsula of florida right now is experiencing tropical storm force winds. and with that, the brain that comes with it. in fact, it s going to continue to be a hurricane up near orlando where you are. and maybe just kind of fall off and that hurricane status in tropical storm as it exits the other end of the state. you know, i wanna show you don, when we re talking about areas, of course, that we re talking about the surge this is a map that we were talking about earlier to give you an indication, here is cape coral. you can see fort myers here. the surge map projected in blue you can just see how many miles the system went inland. we don t know the exact total sometimes, in some areas, we only have so many gauge
And the sean hannity. sean: i will be in the credit section somewhere. and former secret service agent has a book out as well. do you agree with my senate predictions? i think they are spot on. i think rick scott takes it in florida. nobody knows who is bill nelson is. i said last night, i live in florida. i spend all of my time here. people think he is ben nelson from nebraska. nobody has any idea who he is. rick scott did a job with the hurricane up in the panhandle. i think ron desantis pulls it out. a massive under vote in the polls. sean: i agree. this tape was devastating on