Good to be with you. Im katy tur. We have Breaking News out of lebanon. Any moment from now, Vice President , you know what, thats the wrong script. We do have Breaking News out of lebanon where israel just struck the headquarters of hezbollah. U. S. Designated terror group. You can see this in video that the strike was big, hitting a building in southern beirut. An israeli official tells Nbc News that the target was the iranbacked leader, Hassan Nasrallah. It wasnt clear whether he had been killed. The strike had interesting timing, launched just an hour after prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said this to the United Nations. They endanger their own people. They put a missile in every kitchen, a rocket in every garage. I said to the people of lebanon this week, get out of the Death Trap that hezbollah has put you in. Dont let Nasrallah Drag Lebanon into the abyss. Were not at war with you. Were at war with hezbollah, which has hijacked your country and threatens to destroy ours. As lo
threat across the state. residents are urged to stay inside. our team is on the ground and crews mobilize and janice dean is tracking ian in new york city. todd: lauren, we begin our coverage with you in st. pete. in st. pete beach, they were prepping for the worst, but it struck more southeast. let me show you what is looked like yesterday in the naples, fort myers area. ian came with category four, wind speeds 155 miles per hour, dropped a foot of rain and life-threatening storm surge turned roads into rivers and left homes on the other hand water. take a look at the radar, ian has weakened since making landfall as it moves to florida. latest update has it 75 miles per hour, making it a category one hurricane, officials warn communitiess in central and northern florida, they are still in danger from flooding and hard to process amounts of water. central and northeast florida, 12 to 20 inches of rain possible, some areas according to national hurricane center, looking at
life-threatening storm surge. we just learned the updated storm surge projections for those areas is now staggers. it is now 12 to 18 feet. that is the warning. already more than 16 on,000 customers are without power across the state of florida. more than 2.5 million people are under an erag ways order or warning. governor desantis said residents in the cross hairs need to shelter in place, because it is too late to leave. if you are in any of those counties, it s no longer possible to safely evacuate. it s time to hunker down and prepare for this storm. this is a powerful storm that should be treated like you would treat if a tornado was approaching your home. we are covering all angles up and down the western coast of florida. let s begin with john berman. he s in tampa. what can you tell us? reporter: good morning poppy and jim. this storm is bringing three interrelated threats. the winds, an historic storm, one of the most powerful projected, particularly about in
coast of florida. 155-mile-per-hour wind speeds. that s just two miles short of a category 5 hurricane. it s expected to make landfall about 100 miles south of here in the port charlotte area. rain 12 to 24 inches across much of the florida peninsula, challenge create freshwater flooding. the impact of this will be felt by millions in florida. already 200,000 people without power. that s before the storm even makes landfall. this will uproot people s lives. its a life-threatening storm. this is the sunshine skyway bridge that we have pictures of. you can see the winds kicking up. it will have an enormous impact. let s go to chad myers first at the weather center. the 11:00 a.m. advisory out now. what do you see? still see the 155-mile-per-hour eyewall winds. inside the eye it could be down to 5 or 10 in the middle, but we re working our way onshore. the eye is not onshore. the eyewall is coming onshore. this is what it looks like from space, this is called the visible image
Over the weekend. The Tipping Point for them, learning portable toilets had been closed after some began overflowing. She blames the organizer, others for not doing more to ensure an orderly exit as conditions worsened, we got stuck multiple times and my partner was raking at the mud and digging us out with his bare hands. We should have evacuated people by priority, similar to a Natural Disaster or hurricane if based on, you know, who had disabilities, who had children who were older, who had disabilities, who had life threatening life or medical conditions, not everyone suffered the same fate. Some attendees say there were adequate notifications. We knew that we would get out and then after that it was just a matter of keeping our spirits up and using what we had to stay warm and stay dry and stay fed. And water officials with the burning man project havent commented on allegations they may have dropped the ball well. A statement tuesday says in part, the playa is drivable in some pl