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weather center with the very latest. the new advisory, what does it say tom? >> well john, we dont have much the way changes except the pressure is dropping. i usually takes a while, when the pressure drops the storm get stronger. so were gonna notice areas even though the winds have not changed, still 100 miles per hour sustained winds. they will start to increase. now when the pressure drops, the equivalent to a stronger wind pattern. in fact, these are just heat engines. they feed o...

weather center and patrick oppmann is in cuba for us. good evening to both of you. petra, ill start with. you are looking at pictures released today by nasa, a live view of hurricane ian that can be seen from the international space station as it fights over the storm. that is massive. where is hurricane ian right now? what can we expect? >> don, we just got the advisory here. its about 1100 miles south of the western tip of cuba. crew the brunt of the storm system is gonna be felt ini...

>> this could be the storm that we have hoped would never come to our shores. >> the one thing i hear most common after these disasters is if i had only known it would be this bad. and so i think thats my message to them is were trying to communicate to you that it can be that bad. >> okay. many in florida are heeding those warnings with long lines for water, fuel, sand bags and other supplies. schools and parks are closing and tampas international airport is set to suspend operations...

just moments ago making landfall in cuba. the storm is over the islands western tip as a major category 3 hurricane with a storm surge that had been forecast up to 14 feet. within hours ian will bear down on floridas west coast with high winds, heavy rains. what really has officials worried in florida and urgently calling for mass evacuations is a huge storm surge expected to peak tomorrow. >> tampa bay is pretty shallow and is going to be pushing a phenomenal amount of rain up into ou...

sounding the alarm along floridas west coast. people are urged to get out of floridas way. tampas mayor tells residents if you can leave, just leave now. officials say the tampa region could see a storm of a lifetime. more than 15 million people are expected to feel the impact of ewh e ian when it arrives. 115 hour with the winds and could cause life-threatening storm surge, and storm surge is the biggest concern right now. so far ahead of the storm, the hospital in st. petersburg susp...

stream of traffic, a scene leaving the tampa area. this happened overnight. people trying to get inland from the coast taking cover. the storm, perhaps, testing their patience. one tampa resident waited three hours to get free sandbags. a u.s. military insulation, moving aircraft can and naval ships out of the tampa and jacksonville areas. an idea how big the storm is, nasa released this video of hurricane ian from the international space station. >> all right. i want to bring in micha...

they have four shelters opening this morning at this hour here. they can hold about 4,000 people. but the evacuation order right now under way for zone a is about 40,000 people. so theyre hoping that they will use those shelters as a last resort and go find family or friends on the east coast of florida or just get out of town. i spoke with the spokesperson for the emergency operations center here in punta gorda and he told me that their motto is hide from wind and run from water. he s...

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 thats alarming to hear. >> ian is expected to hit floridas 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 harms way and to do it now. tampas mayor warning residents, ...

we have teams on the ground as we prepare for the eventual landfall. we are in florida, and carlos suarez is in tampa in gulfport, and carlos, as weve been discussing, tampa, that is where the real worry is because theyre worried about storm surge and a lot of the residential areas there are vulnerable. >> reporter: that is exactly right, jim and poppy. the concern is the forecasted five to ten foot storm surge with hurricane ian. we are in gulfport. that is about a half hour drive out...

now hitting south florida and the storms eye is off of cubas coast moving into the warm waters which means the storm could grow and get for powerful. it hit werp cuba hard overnight with winds and heavy rain just at-battering the island. the forecast models have it projected to make landfall in tampa bay as a major hurricane. storm surge is one of the biggest threats from the storm. and as much as two feet of rain could be falling in some parts of florida from this. officials there say...