a little early. so i love it. and , you know, speaking about working nonstop, obviously the next our next area of focus is really going to be parts of central, but more so northeast florida. looking forward, what are our greatest concerns? i mean, the storm obviously has been disintegrating a little bit as it s moved across land, but that doesn t mean that the risk is over. so you start to think about northeast florida or even running north up the coast of georgia. and south carolina. the way the winds wrap around a system like this, when you get up along the coast there, then suddenly now the winds are moving just over the atlantic ocean. so there s no barriers. so the winds coming right off can be strong once again. so we could be talking about strong tropical storm winds and that s going to push up storm surge. so this story has been storm surge or was storm for so long on the west coast of florida that maybe gets out of your mind that that s something that could pop its head
0 with first cause of this surge right now. reporting in fort myers, robert ray fox. whether. all right. thank you so much for sticking with us. right here on fox weather. a hurricane in a water log in southwest florida. streets and buildings completely flooded, as you can see here. power knocked out to two million people. and one of the most powerful storms ever recorded in the united states . the hurricane making landfall wednesday afternoon near jocasta. a protected barrier island just west of fort myers in the hours since landfall in have moved inland, hurricane force winds likely to be felt well into central florida. yeah, thanks again for sticking with us right here on fox. whether i m local customer. and i m jim enah. thank you for joining us and a special welcome to those watching on fox news channel. well, the 2:00 a.m. advisory is in mike lindell, still a category one hurricane. so no major changes there, although and continues to shift and land continues to weaken just a
nbc s molly hunter joins us live from savannah. molly, what are you experiencing there on the ground? hey, morgan, good afternoon. we re getting a little dry cell right now. we re starting to feel the outer bands about a half hour ago, just getting pounded with rain but it s turning off the coast of georgia so we re just starting to feel it. this morning we were on the tybee island and getting hammered out there. strong tropical storm winds. mandatory evacuation, even building bigger dunes to protect the low-lying areas. we spoke to the manager who said everyone had to be out by noon or shelter in place. the biggest fear is the storm surge meets and coincides with really high tides. this afternoon we had one of the highest tides georgia had seen in months, coinciding with the