of biblical proportions. ian is a cat 4 storm bringing 140 mile-per-hour winds and leaving a wake of destruction in its path. the national hurricane center is warning of catastrophic window damage with an unsuburb viable storm surge of up to 18 feet. it is expected to dump 2 feet of rain across the state bringing unprecedented flooding and destruction. entire neighborhoods are now undersea as water levels continue to rise. homes are floating down the middle of the street and people are swimming in their living rooms. by the way authorities say it s a very bad idea. who knows what s in that water. and first responders rescue services can t escape the flooding either. this fire department in naples is completely under water. leaving the city s residents on their own. and things are even worse in the air where hurricane hunters are flying into the heart of the storm. watch. oh [bleep] jesse: more than 2 million people in the state were told to evacuate, with thousands more h
A very high level. Some are saying its one of the biggest storms ever to hit our country. It built very rapidly,ed a briefing with secretary of Homeland Security and the administrator of fema and we are watching Hurricane Michael. Its just hitting shore now. Winds are going up to close to 200 miles an hour. Category 4. You dont hear about that. Its the most powerful recorded storm to strike the Florida Panhandle ever. It will bring with it anywhere from 150 mile to almost 200 mile an hour winds. The storm surges could be up to 15 feet. Additional rainfall could also produce Flash Flooding at the highest levels. We have been in constant communications with governor rick scott of florida. With all the authorities in the various states. Were very well prepared for massive amounts of food and we have First Responders all over, the Electrical Companies are staged and ready to go in after the storm. Over a thousands trucks. We have large amounts of food and water and Everything Else that you
types 6 storms since he was in high school. ben mcmillen joins primetime now. so, ben, you are chasing this bad boy. what do you see? jesse, though the is third hurricane that has covered the area punta gorda on the west part of florida. and this town is a tragic story. they had 11,000 homes, damaged or destroyed in 2004 for hurricane charlie and 300 businesses and then in 2017 they were exacted by hurricane erma and then on top of those two as i mentioned the third storm in 25 years today hurricane ian a major hurricane shutting down the town once again. wigging out. palm trees and night fall sits. in power sought across the city. i think it s going to be a large effort for all the emergency responders to get into this area of florida and start to help these folks pick up the pieces. they re saying at sunrise tomorrow they will be able to
expect to get power back for along time. 16,000 people right now in orange county where we are are out of power. so, the real issue in this part of the state is the rain fall. so we are already seeing hurricane ian lose a bit of steam right now, a category 3. and it slows down also as it moves across the land of florida. now, you would think that s a good thing but the slower that the hurricane moves the more rain is dropped on this community. so, people here are trying to clear their yards of any debris because the window picks it up and it can clog a storm drain and becomes an even bigger issue. disney world is closed for the next two days. as of 10:30 today the airport is close to the commercial flights. still operating for any emergency relief that knees to come into the area. as we see the effects of this storm over the next 24 hours. tomorrow is the real day we will be of course live in orlando bringing you all the latest.
first light in the morning, so long as the window cooperate with us. the first aircraft into the area will be the coast guard s aircraft because they have lower minimums than what the regular dod military and national guard have. so that s how we are going to attack it. we are prepared. there is a lot of people that doesn t leave we are founding out. hundreds of people calling into # 121 call centers asking for assistance that we can t get in there and help out. jesse: if floridians are flooding the 911, are there other ways to contact your emergency rescue teams? how do floridians do that? right now, if it truly is an emergency, then we want them to call 911. if they are just trying to tell us that they are okay but they want us to know where they are at. they can go to our website at florida disaster.org/info and fill in a survey that actually gives their address and demographic information where they re at and they need help. we can actually do that if they have internet and wif