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this is don lemon tonight, you re watching our coverage of in, making its way up the florida peninsula. we have all the news coverage this evening, it is dumping rain on this entire area. lots of water. but also the wind, pushing the wind all across the state of florida. our crews are out in the field, we re covering it all for you. we ve got bill weir, bill is joining us from punta gorda florida, also brian todd is in is in derek van damme is in breaking tin for us. i want to other meteorologist, our expert, mr. tom seders in the weather center. tom, i am getting so much rain, lots of rain that have been dumped on me for the last hour. and it seemed to come in on cue, we re watching the radar, the rain came right in. it s just sitting on top of us, not going anywhere. in fact that northern periphery of the storm system in the last couple of model runs in the last couple of days really has been showing that that northern periphery is where we re gonna have that heav ....
it s the top of the hour on cnn newsroom. i m alisyn camerota in new york. hurricane ian has killed at least 13 people. it s the strongest storm to hit the west coast of florida in nearly 20 years. local officials say we should brace for that number of victims to rise. the life and death danger from ian continues as it pushes northeast, still pummelling florida. rescuers were pulling people from high water all day and night. survivors describe no time to wait as people had to carry children, as you can see, through chest-high waters. ian made landfall just west of cape coral. our cnn drone shows the devastation there. i mean obviously you can just see these are supposed to be streets, but they are completely flooded. nearby ft. myers and naples further south are both decimated. countless neighborhoods are still submerged in the floodwaters at this hour. the communities of sanibel and pine island are now cut off from the mainland after ian washed away parts of this c ....
In the last couple of model runs in the last couple of days really has been showing that that northern periphery is where we re gonna have that heavy rainfall. already, we have seen as much as 12 to even 19 inches of rain. that s 2 to 3 months worth of rain that is falling. we ve got flash flood emergency across the area from arcadia up toward orlando, it won t be long we re gonna be in the clearing back in areas of fort myers, dry air to the south, rain totals will be much less. but again, look at the loop we re gonna find out better about the totals of the surge, how high did it get, we know close to a foot in some areas. the gauge broke, in naples after hit seven feet. but again, the storm continues to move up now passing just north of sebring. but again, the winds were so strong it knocked out a lot of our weather instruments in this area. again, we re not exactly gonna know how strong the winds are in every area, but cape coral 140 miles per hour, sustained winds were quite strong ....
Wait till the sun comes up in the morning and they start to see crews are able to go out an emergency officials out there. standby, i want to go to tom. tom this had been downgraded to category one, that doesn t mean the danger is over? oh no, not at all. in fact, the entire peninsula of florida right now is experiencing tropical storm force winds. and with that, the brain that comes with it. in fact, it s going to continue to be a hurricane up near orlando where you are. and maybe just kind of fall off and that hurricane status in tropical storm as it exits the other end of the state. you know, i wanna show you don, when we re talking about areas, of course, that we re talking about the surge this is a map that we were talking about earlier to give you an indication, here is cape coral. you can see fort myers here. the surge map projected in blue you can just see how many miles the system went inland. we don t know the exact total sometimes, in some areas, we only have so many gauge ....