life-threatening storm surge and plenty of tornado warnings on this wednesday morning. right now our greatest area of concern is that big bend area where we had landfall, 947 pressure with 130 mile per hour wind is a dangerous cat 3 hurricane. brian: climbing to 138s,000. senior meteorologist janice dean is in the studio tracking the storm, we have matt finn and steve harrigan. robert ray is in clearwater. when we tossed to you last water was up to your calf and now it looks like it is up to your knees. yeah, close to it. it changes as the surge comes in, it can be calf or knee. up and down the street, i m looking as far as my eye can see, it appears to be a river from the gulf of mexico surge coming in. same that way. you see that hotel, sunrise resort, there is a gentleman standing on high ground. he is smart. that vehicle probably should move thchl is what we ve been experiencing all morning. the outure bands are creating surge and pushing across the beach in clearwa