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We want to extends a special welcome to our Fox News viewers. Im meteorologist are arti from our studios here in new York City and weve been covering helene over the last several hours over the last several days. This has been an extremely well forecast storm, before it even formed down in the western caribbean. It looked like something like this was going to happen, so again, we still have technically a Hurricane Storm and Hurricane Center will probably see it downgraded slowly throughout the night, but one unique thing about helene, this particular storm is that it was very large, right . So large storms take a longer time to lose their strength as they move inland so you look up here to the north. Not only do we have a long Wind Damage to get, were going to s ....
strong winds and heavy rain are battering the orlando area as the storm moves its way toward the atlantic ocean. the storm created catastrophic flooding that left entire communities under several feet of water and sent cars and debris floating down streets. take a look at these images. the water was just relentless. crews are still carrying out emergency rescues on land, air and sea. in bonita springs, a group of good samaritans rescued an elderly man stranded in his car in surging flood waters, dragging him through waist-high water to safety. ian s strong winds brought down trees, power lines, knocked out power to more than two and a half million homes and businesses. the winds also literally ripped off roofs from a number of homes, including this mobile home. a short time ago, governor ron desantis call canned the impact historic ask also addressed comments from the lee county sheriff that there may be hundreds of fatalities, something that s not been confirmed. we ....
Ahead of time. i know things are going to continue to pick up. it s going to be quite active in the coming day. and so thank you for all the hard work you do, putting yourselves in harm s way to keep us all safe . we re going to continue to keep volusia county and our prayers that they are anticipating to see. quite a disruptive day ahead of us . thank you very well say. all right. well, let s take a look at the wind aspect of hurricane ian . this is new video coming in from naples, florida. this is brad adair. he is a storm chaser and a meteorologist. and my goodness, does he bring in some really enticing videos that just show you what s happening on the ground? of course, staying safe out there, brad , of course, if you re watching this, thank you for all of the hard work that you do. but just showing you the power of hurricane ian on the southwest side of florida, we saw intense winds. gorda, one hundred and twenty four mile per hour winds, fort myers, one hundred mile per hour ....
0 and i just want to send a quick thank you to our first responders. i mean, you see these images of them cutting down trees, trying to remove the debris so that we can get our days back to normal. but we still have quite some time to get through. and we re going to do, you know, it is the firefighters, it s the police officers. it is just everyone working behind the scenes. and hurricane ian water in parts of southwest florida, streets and buildings completely flooded, power knocked out at one point over two million people. and one of the most powerful hurricanes ever to hit the united states . the hurricane making landfall wednesday afternoon near costa protected barrier island, just west of fort myers. the hours since landfall and has moved inland. but hurricane force winds are likely to be felt well into central florida. thank you so much for sticking with us right here on fox weather three a.m. on the east coast of mcalester. and i m jim and i thank so much for joining u ....
For us. it has slowed, but it is not less dangerous. that means it is more dangerous. they think it is a category two. i can ride it out. a lot less of a concern. it is in motion for multiple days. all of that waeter that has bee pushed up ahead of the system, up to 83 feet, all of this is a concern. that translates closer to land and it will not be 83 feet. the storm surge is the biggest concern. the clouds from west to east is from san francisco to colorado. that is one thing worth noting. when it comes to cyclones, 30% of deaths are storm surge and 8% related to the wind. the wind aspect does not take ....