Hours from now. they re warning the projected storm surges across the coastal regions could be, i m quoting now, non-survivable. for residents who are still in those evacuation zones authorities have said the time to go is now before it becomes impossible. florida senator rick scott knows what it s like to weather these storms. he s the former governor of the sunshine state. he joins us now. thank you for taking the time to join us. this hurricane and the forecast it s expected to make near florida s big bend which is where the panhandle turns into the peninsula, it has not experienced a storm of this magnitude in more than 150 years. what are you most worried about as of this moment? well, kaitlan, i worry about life. i want everybody to survive this. this is a this area of the state is a low-lying area. and people are just are not used to thinking about these storms are water events. so what i care about is i want every floridian to stay alive.
Residents. people need to get ready for life-threatening storm surge that could be up to 16 feet that officials are now calling non-survivable. brian: all right. we have fox team coverage all morning long. senior meteorologist janice dean has been all morning long. tracking the storm on the ground. fox weather multi journalist brady campbell. nicole valdes in tampa and we begin in clearwater beach with robert ray. hey, robert. yeah. good morning, guys, from clearwater beach we have experienced what we expected and that is the storm surge that is coming in to clearwater beach here this morning. this is coronado street here and right off of the gulf of mexico. what do we see? we see at least a foot of water here come in. many of these roads are inundated around clearwater beach. this is what the anticipation was of this storm as overnight it just actually in the past hour kicked up to a category 4