hurricane. this storm will only continue to intensify. if you want to leave, now is your last chance. the entire state is going to be touched by this storm. it s going to be in our stream. it s going to be in our canals. it s going to be in our stormwater drains and dishes. i m not scared. i m prepared though. you can already start to see what it is doing to the waters in the gulf just slamming these waves up against the sea wall right here. it is wednesday, september 28th. 4 a.m. here on the u.s. east coast where a monster category 3 hurricane is at this hour churning towards florida and parts of the state are already feeling the effects. now these are images from key west where major flooding is being reported and hurricane force winds and strong storm surge warnings are already out there on the coast. now right now it s all hands on deck. thousands of national guard members as well as urban search and rescue teams are mobilized ahead of the hurricane s expected
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
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path of the center, that doesn t mean you re out of harm s way. we have to go back to will ma to see that type of storm surge. certainly didn t happen in charlie. charlie was a very small system. so i definitely want people in the port charlotte area to not fall victim to that comparison. charlie was a very small and compact system. the storm surge wasn t that deep as what we re projecting here. look at the size of this storm. this is the wind field here in the orange. it s just a very big system. so earlier forecasts had ian making landfall a bit farther north. that would have been around the city of tampa. we have a reporter there covering the storm. floor yeah? reporter: the rain has already started falling here in tampa. 2 1/2 million people across the entire state of florida are under an evacuation order. officials asking people to take that warning seriously. the storm is approaching. it will make a direct hit here