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Coastguard. they say it is believed to be a ballistic missile and this projectile has already fallen. a tiny bit more detail and we are keeping a close watch on the situation. cuba is completely without power after hurricane ian pummelled the western end of the island. categori5ed a5 category 4, meaning "extremely dangerous", the hurricane has wind speeds of up to 195 kilometres an hour. it hit the island, killing at least two people. after leaving cuba, the hurricane has been gathering force in...

Populations. >> mayor, tampa and st. petersburg seem to be the most likely targets. bear areas around there, but the most likely targets for the first direct hit by a major hurricane since 1921. classes have been canceled at the st. petersburg college as well as -- mandatory evacuation orders have been issued in hillsboro county. where will those people go and are their resources to help tant resources schoour local fol bu get? here are countthere stay behind. i think we can reduce be safe. ost ...

Already. that interaction with land means nothing, other rapid intensification process keeps it as a four. thats a lot of water, again, as a major hurricane carrying all that water welling underneath it. even though were still at a three, notice how close these are. it doesnt have to make landfall. this could be the worst thing theyve seen since 1921. >> even if it doesnt makelandfall, it could have that effect. there could be a chance where ian could slow down and sit for 47 hours, 47 hours. wh...

Area. that would be historic. >> it would. they are talking about this, comparing to the 1921 hurricane that did not have a name that brought devastating damage to the tampa bay area and they are fearing this could be very similar to that, and we are talking about four times the amount of population in the tampa bay area from 100 years ago. this is the latest for hurricane ian, still a category 3 storm, even though it lost its water source for several hours, still looking very intact and that is...

The water has nowhere to go. storm surge right now certainly the biggest concern as the projections are between 5 and ten feet. for historical context, the last time a major hurricane struck tampa directly, 1921, 11 feet of storm surge. the speed at which this storm is traveling is perhaps the biggest problem. it is projected to go 3 to 4 miles per hour, the pace we would walk at, so it would be sitting on water and on land dumping rain for hours. if youre look for a historical precedent, hurric...

Could raise the water level by 14 feet above normal tide level. authorities in cuba evacuated about 50,000 people from the capital. ian expected to become a category 4 hurricane before making landfall in florida with wind speeds forecasted at more than 130 miles per hour. tampa, st. petersburg are projected in most models here to take a direct hit as ian is expected to be the first major hurricane to hit the two cities since 1921. florida governor ron desantis has declared a statewide emergency ...

Naples, all the way up to sarasota, tampa, st. pete, youre having this hurricane, it might be a category 4 hurricane, which is just devastating. we had that in pensacola with ivan in back in 2004. just completely wrecks the town. again, the problem with tampa and st. pete, the area has not had a direct hit since 1921, if youve been there, you know everything is so low. it is at sea level. a ton of water around throughout that very populated area. and theres just not -- if the tide rises and wate...

Surge would have nowhere to go. that could be life-threatening. the last time we saw a merger hurricane directly strictest strike the city was 1921, a century ago. as far as statewide goes, governor ron desantis declared a state of emergency. now the entire state he has mobilized some 2500 national guardsmen, as individual counties like this when in hillsboro, pasco county and others have declared their own states of emergency if. youre looking at people right now, theyre going to gassed asians,...

With the models. which is to say any wobble left or right could make a massive difference for communities all over the state. so, im in tampa, which particularly vulnerable for a number of reasons. one, is a massive population boom here. perhaps more acutely, its the tampa bay, the topography here, as beautiful as that looks, the deeper that you get into the bay, the more narrow and shallow it is. which is to say that a massive storm surge, or a significant storm surge, would have nowhere to go....

Major category 3, wednesday morning up to a category 4, and thats when the storm gets extremely dangerous because forecast guidance has brought this a little closer to western florida. and the last time a major hurricane directly impacted the tampa bay area was back in 1921. so 101 years since theyve been impacted. seeing quite a bit of activity, of course, across the state of florida in recent day decades. but a storm of this magnitude impacting that region would be significant. just to show yo...