idalia has intensified for the last 24 hours. this is tampa. tampa has not gotten the brunt of the storm. high tide at 4:00, the water is high, waves are splashing. you can see the causeway, that s the kind of things we re getting in tampa, more of the overwash, not hearing about destruction or anything like that. that s the good news for tampa. for you it s a glancing blow. for other areas it will be much worse. here s the latest from the hurricane center, 130-mile-per-hour maximum sustained winds. small eye. it is not widespread. it s about a 30-mile-wide eye where we ll have concentration of extreme winds, everywhere else like tallahassee, more tropical storm force winds and moving quickly, 17 miles per hour so moving onshore within the next two to three hours. the forecast, we have the landfill coming up and then we still think it s going to be a category 2 into southern georgia, even well after
i m sure we re going to find out more about this in the post-analysis of this storm. it is quite something. even the usgs put out a little bit of a forecast when it comes to the mississippi river. inundation for louisiana, 45% of the area. overwash for louisiana, 61% of the land. 41% in mississippi. then you look at dune erosion. again, that s all the force here. you re up to 67% of louisiana. 63% of mississippi. even 31% of alabama. so widespread effects with a circulation of ida moving in with the wind and the surge. inundation here but that negative flow in the mississippi river, that s very rare. very rare and just shows you just how powerful the storm has been. how dangerous would you say it still is at this hour for people who are in parts of louisiana, mississippi, and so forth? well, you ve still got winds at 120. those are sustained winds. you have to think that of course