like a freight train. we re seeing record-breaking and terrifying storm surges throughout florida and ft. myers, the water is so high pickup trucks are almost completely submerged. water levels have risen more than 6 feet in the last switch ho seven hours. let s get to tom sater in the cnn weather center. an updated forecast should come any minute now. what should we expect? it was just handed to me. forgive me for reading off. we still have a category 4 hurricane and five miles east of punta gorda. it will stay at hurricane strength through orlando. this will rake the entire peninsula. we had grove city a gust of 128. when we talk about the southern kind here, a better picture on radar will give an indication what we re looking at. here is the new track. keeps it as a 4 of course now moving inland but notice it s a category one. it will lose strength now that it s interacting with a land mass. that s typical. however, the winds have expanded now as these storms do. in fa
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as the governor said, hurricane ian has made landfall this afternoon as a category 4. winds of 155 miles per hour. i am not going to read all the statistics that the governor mentioned. i will bring a couple new ones here. 1,100 resource requests have been we have received 1,100 resource requests. we have fulfilled 900 of those. the difference of the 200 is stuff we cannot get out on the road right now. we are working as quickly as possible to address those needs. we have well over 200 shelters open. we have 42,000 restoration personnel. we literally have with first responders across the state and additional ones coming in, there is well over 10,000 responders statewide ready to do stuff. as the storm makes its way across florida i remind floridians to stay indoors if you are in the path of the
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1100 resource requests have been we received 1100 resource requests. we have fulfilled 900 of those. again, the difference of the # hundred is stuff that we cannot just can t get out on the road right now. we are working as quickly as possible to address those needs. we have well over 200 shelters open. we have 42,000 restoration personnel. we literally have with first responders across the state and additional ones coming in, there is well over 10,000 responders statewide ready to do stuff. as the storm makes its way across florida. i remind floridians to stay indoors if you are in the path of the storm. if you are sheltering in place and the path of the storm and you still have power and wifi, please visit florida disaster.org/info to fill out our shelter in place survey. we have had a really we have
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