the storm right now packing maximum sustained winds of 125 miles per hour. it is expected to strengthen further over the next 24 hours, and that s alarming to hear. ian is expected to hit florida s west coast late wednesday into thursday, and nearly 7 million people along the coast, including really all of tampa bay, a facing the risk of a life-threatening storm surge there. and people, they are all being urged to get out of harm s way and to do it now. tampa s mayor warning residents, if you can leave, just leave now. those are his words. florida s governor, ron desantis, announcing that the tampa bay airport will be closed starting tonight at 5:00 eastern time. he also expect he has also expected, desantis to speak at any moment from tallahassee. we ll give you detainee on those preparations from the storm and bring you his update live in just moment. we are covering this dangerous storm. the only way cnn can. let s go first to our carlos flores, who joins us in tampa
population, 7,000, they have the best chance of going through this eye and whoever goes through it, even 20 to 30 miles inland is where the wind destruction will be. to the right of this, the whole area from cedar key to horseshoe beach, water is coming up dramatically where the storm surge will be. not a lot of population centers in here. not a lot of town, swampland, fishing village, cedar key as 800 residents, the biggest of any coastal region and that s why there was a lot of concern there is in the last couple of days. a look at the potential storm surge flooding and this area in red is the area i just showed you, this horseshoe beach, the cedar key and this high tide we experienced as we go during the day, 1:45 so almost at low tide right now so it s actually helping us a little bit. the tides are not extreme in the gulf coast, only a difference of like maybe two or three feet. on the east coast the difference is like eight feet so not quite
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