it is just shy of that now. we won t get ahead of the news on this. we are expecting an official storm update at any moment. i m harris faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. hurricane ian is now carrying sustained kinds of 155 miles per hour. if they gain to 157 it s a category 5. the biggest threats facing floridians are massive storm surge, raging winds, inland flooding, tornadoes, experts already using words like catastrophic to describe hurricane ian s potential. 21/2 million people are under evacuation orders. for those people in the storm s path directly, that swath that i just told you to the south, cape coral and to the north sarasota. it s too late to evacuate if you re still there according to the governor. governor desantis also saying it is time just to hunker down for you. he spoke last hour. this amount of storm surge. it will have very ferocious winds and it will be life threatening. people are taking a risk with their health, safety and lives by bein
Have been very strong and dire. this will be catastrophic for the state of florida. we will be with you all day long. we have great resources in order to keep you updated on what s happening. bill: okay. so for dana and me, we ll check out for now. harris is going to take over and take you throughout the day. dana: here is harris. harris: fox news weather hurricane alert now. hurricane ian is holding together and that is a problem especially for the southern gulf coast of florida. right now the update, as you just learned, 2 to 4:00 p.m. eastern for landfall is now predicted with a direct hit ranging between cape corral to the south and sarasota to the north. when it does hit, wherever exactly that is, the united states national hurricane center could put hurricane ian in the rare form of a category 5.