ainsley: janice dean is tracking ian. she is downstairs. i just saw her. she has been watching this all morning. we start with fox weather. correspondent nicole valdez is she is in tampa bay. steve, ainsley, brian, good morning. every single county in the state of florida now under a state of emergency that includes right here in the city of tampa where hillsborough county schools are officially closed as emergency responders pre prepare nearly 5f those public school buildings into shelters if needed as we look at potential impact from hurricane ian. you mentioned the response and people are doing what they can, which is planning and preparing for what could be some severe impacts as now hurricane ian approaches the gulf coast of florida. and we have already seen some empty store shelves. we have seen water going fast. fuel running low in some areas across the west coast of florida and cars lining the streets. sunday morning was absolutely chaos across some areas of tampa
florida on this monday. we have fox team coverage. senior meteorologist janice dean is tracking ian but we start with nicole, standing by in tampa. behind you, the sun is out, it s the calm before the storm, but i know that there is sandbagging going on throughout the tampa bay area because of a potential storm surge. steve, ainsley, brian, good morning. absolutely. many trying to take advantage of these next few days as the weather is absolutely going to be better than what we could see later on this week, as hurricane ian approaches the gulf coast of florida. already, hillsborough county we are in tampa right now moving to close schools. they are preparing to use more than 50 of their public school buildings to potentially become shelters if needed, as many tampa bay residents gear up for what could be, again, a couple scary days ahead. we are already seeing lots of people out making lines, some waiting three hours if not longer for sandbags to try to protect their ho