Here is a live look at cedar key, florida. fox weather has prepositioned a bunch of cameras in different locations. this is one of theirs. this is exactly where robert was talking about, the big bend area. and janice dean janice, how many miles away from the coast is the eye wall or rather the center of the storm? janice: the actual eye is about 7 miles away from the coast line. steve: so we re going to make landfall. janice: within the hour. ainsley: janice was thinking 8:00. janice: the national weather service has to make that call, not myself. brian: janice, we will get to you in just one minute because. ainsley: first go to fox news senior correspondent steve harrigan he is live in tar pen springs, florida slightly north of clearwater. steve, what are you seeing there? good morning, take a look at look at what downtown tar pin springs looks like right now. we are not seeing the dramatic wind yet. we have had steady rain overnight. gives you a sense of just how bi
And don t take anything for granted here. we have already had 11 tornado warnings, and there are more tornadoes possible. even and especially in the very outer bands of the storm. steve and it s just getting started. even the governor s command center lost power twice during the press conference, but they have got generators. listen, we have got live fox team coverage all morning long. senior meteorologist janice dean is here in the studio m. tracking the storm. steve harrigan is in participaten springs. brandy campbell live in tallahassee. start in clearwater where robert ray is standing by and in coronado street, right, robert? cared in a dough drive to be exact. off the gulf of mexico, clearwater beach. what we are seeing and experiencing as a team myself and two photographers, fox news photographers is a very heavy
Little bit. you start to see some of the 35u78 trees coming apart and some of the debris starting to wash through. yeah, we are being very careful. i m probably 15 feet from the ability to cut into that garage and out of this if i have to. the winds have calmed a little bit since i have been speaking, believe it or not, and the rain just down a notch. but this is what we re going to see. as the imminent landfall, again, in the next hour or less, this hurricane will make landfall in the big bend as a major cat 4. ainsley: robert, be careful you don t know what is underneath the water when you are walking. i heard pam bondi say on fox & friends first she was hearing reports of big dumpsters barreling down streets because the wind was so bad. so just be careful. we will. for sure. head on a swivel. steve: there you go. you got your cameraman looking out for you. ainsley: thanks for showing us what it looks like down there. steve: he is in clearwater.
Some people can be caught in the middle of this storm. steve: that s the worry. steve, thank you for the live report from tarpon springs, in florida. ainsley: here is a live look at i-275. steve: look at that. ainsley: which is in tampa, florida. it looks like some people are on the road the waiter is not going over the road on the left-hand side it is on the right-hand side. this is tampa. steve: a lot of bridges. ainsley: clearwater. saint pete in that area. some of those bridges that take you to those areas have closed down the department of transportation made that decision to close them down because winds were so strong they didn t want people to get in their cars and be blown over. brian: drive over those bridges without a storm wow it wouldn t take much for these bridges to flood. i almost feel like it s at water level so it s already happening.