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about potentially shutting off power when there s high wind incidents. i m wondering if this deserves an appropriate response from the power companies or do you think they should be working to the power structure rather than just ending the power? i think both. it s very expensive to secure these power lines. both in terms of actual structure, you know, we look out there and we see large towers carrying multiple wires, and the wires are like that thick, and you know, they re carrying an awful lot of energy. sometimes those entire towers come down. i am not expert enough to know when it s appropriate to shut down that line. that s one of the reasons why i think having the technology to have these meters on each of these facilities tells you where the danger is. so i can picture, i m getting beyond my expertise here. reporter: you re talking about huge numbers of americans suddenly not having power because the company makes the determination that well, we also k ....
record-breaking storm surge of 12 to 16 feet in the landfill zone. florida officials warning the surge could impact areas up to 200 miles south into the tampa area and may leave areas uninhabitable for an extended period of time. several areas expected to be higher even than hurricane ian s last year which devastated the fort myers area and killed 149 people. in addition, hurricane-force winds will extend 25 miles outward from wherever the storm makes landfill. the tallahassee national weather service says wind likely will cause significant damage there too. as idalia tracks inland, officials are warning of major coastal flooding between savannah, georgia, up into charleston, south carolina, due to a tide already expected to be higher than normal due to the occurrence of a rare blue supermoon. let s go right to bill karins for the latest on what is shaping up, bill, to be a very, very serious storm. yeah, good morning, willy. idalia has intensified for the last 24 hou ....
to a category 4 storm before it makes landfall in just hours on florida s big bend. you are looking at live pictures from cedar key where the rain is whipping sideways and whipping hard. idalia is less than a 100 miles away from the chore churning with 120-mile-per-hour winds. forecasters are not mincing words. they describe it as dangerous, life threatening oig and a once in a lifetime storm that could bring catastrophic storm surge of up to 16 feet in some places. we got new forecasts from the national hurricane center and we have team coverage from the florida gulf coast. sara sidner is down by the water in crystal river. and it is a very different pibt from what we saw yesterday. what are you seeing on the the ground right now? reporter: we are starting to feel some of those bands. we are getting the wind now. we have also seen the rain as well. and of course the water extremely choppy and rising. now, i want to get straight over to derek van dam. he is joining us ....
miles of that, 20 miles north, a woman in the town of perry, florida, captured a tree falling right on her home as idalia moved through, take a look. oh my gosh no ! it s okay. it s okay. it s okay. the woman told cnn thankfully she and her family are okay. the tree damaged part of her roof. florida governor desantis surveyed parts of the small town not long ago, desantis itself has a bit of storm damage because idalia knocked over a large old tree at the florida governor s mansion in tallahassee. the governor s wife posted this picture on social media. cnn is covering this from florida to georgia where the storm is right now. let s start with meteorologist chad myers, chad, the storm seems to be moving pretty quickly? it is, and that may reduce the amount of flooding because one storm stall, that s when the heavy rainfall comes in and it last for a long time. as long as this keeps on moving, we are in good shape. i just saw a live shot from tallahassee, and it wa ....
good afternoon. people in florida are bracing themselves for a hurricane which the authorities say could be catastrophic . these are some of the latest pictures of hurricane idalia, with possible winds of 130 miles an hour and the danger of a storm surge of sea water overwhelming low lying areas. pilots on an evacuation mission filmed these pictures of the rare electrical weather phenomenon known as st elmo s fire. more than a million residents have been told to leave their homes and the hurricane is making landfall about now in northwest florida. our correspondentjon sudworth has the latest from tampa. as you can say, the straits of tampa are pretty quiet this morning for a city of 400,000 people but the hurricane has largely passed by this stretch of coastline is now coming ashore in an area of the state known ashore in an area of the state known as big bend. the realfear is the storm surge, with warnings it could bring waves as high as 16 feet. the unusually warm co ....