Recordbreaking storm surge of 12 to 16 feet in the landfill zone. Florida officials warning the surge could impact areas up to 200 miles south into the tampa area and may leave areas uninhabitable for an extended period of time. Several areas expected to be higher even than Hurricane Ians last year which devastated the fort myers area and killed 149 people. In addition, hurricaneforce winds will extend 25 miles outward from wherever the storm makes landfill. The Tallahassee National Weather Service says wind likely will cause significant damage there too. As Idalia Tracks Inland, officials are warning of major coastal flooding between savannah, georgia, up into charleston, South Carolina, due to a tide already expected to be higher than normal due to the occurrence of a rare blue supermoon. Lets go right to bill karins for the latest on what is shaping up, bill, to be a very, very serious storm. Yeah, good morning, willy. Idalia has intensified for the last 24 hours. This is tampa. Tam
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Hurricaneidalia. It is 10 00 a. M. Eastern here in Crystal River, florida, thank you for joining us for a special twohour edition of jose diazbalart reports. Floridas big bend is right in the thick of it as we come on the air this morning. Hurricane idalia now a cat 3 making landfall just a short time ago. It has actually now been downgraded to a 2, but it hit the coast of florida as a cat 3, a very high cat 3. Joining us now, telemundos Julio Varcado with me here in Crystal River, nbcs maggie vespa and meteorologist bill karins standing by with our forecast. Maggie, whats the situation where you are . Reporter thankfully things have started to lighten up in the last hour or so. Were still getting really intense bands of wind and rain as well coming through. The big concern here in tallahassee in the States Capital is the Power Outages. Thousands across this metro area without power, somewhat miraculously weve already seen Utility Crews across the area driving around restoring power we