they shouldn t power it up until after the storm is passed. there are a lot of different hazards that we are geared up and pushing that information out to the community to be aware of. dana: that s important information to have about the generators. thank you for that. bill: chief, saw a tweet from the florida division of emergency management saying the following. stop, do not walk out into receding water in tampa bay or charlotte harbor. the water will return through the storm surge and poses a life threatening risk. have you gotten any reports about people wandering out there? so far the roads have been pretty clear. with law enforcement we ve made barricades where we tell individuals they can t travel. we have road closures in certain areas. and that is true, we ve been looking at the coastline down by one particular area bay shore and notice the water has receded. we are telling everybody don t go out there. it will be coming back. dana: all right. chief, thank you so much
you can see on screen right as the hurricane swirls and it is just devastated cuba. all 11 million people there without power. some of the video from over the top of the hurricane. i was surprised at how much lightning was. bill: look at the rotation of the storm. the eye is easy to spot. the very little breakdown in the wall of that eye and that s not what you want to see this close to land. dana: joining is now is tampa fire rescue chief. how do you assess the situation as we re at 9:45 today? the current conditions in tampa is a little rain. overcast. we re experiencing a little wind. probably 15, 20 miles per hour. we know it will pick up later. we are prepared. with the shift of the hurricane, we are are still keeping our
a cat five. so please stay indoors, stay away from windows, get to an interior location of your house. the worst of this storm started hitting the keys and dade and miami counties yesterday. perry airport flipping over small private planes among the damage. terrified residents were hiding in bathrooms in the nearby area. when ian was a cat three a plane through the eye. this is what it looked like as a cat three. now potentially it could become a cat five today before making landfall. dana. dana: all right. thank you so much, phil. bill: thank you. let s go down the coast now. robert ray watching the storm in fort myers, florida. we ve been watching you for hours. how are things now? yeah, bill, they are progressing very dangerously.
moving into the west coast of florida. tornado watch we were talking about that in the orlando region. several tornado-warned storms. that s an added danger. look at the peak storm surge for the vulnerable coastlines. if you haven t gotten out of this region i m concerned. they upped it to 12 to 18 feet and when you talk about high tide an additional two feet because of the high tied moving in this afternoon, we ll have water overtopping homes in this region. the coastline will be changed forever. a lot compared it to charley in 2004. this storm is three times the size of charley. it is going to devastate these areas. we re expecting a landfall sometime this afternoon between 4:00 and 6:00 p.m.enter if the storm slows down that will change the trajectory a little bit. 5 to 8 inches of rain in fort
category 5. that s, of course, the worst of the worst. it does appear most people in the region have sheltered in place. this is a busy street in downtown tampa on a wednesday morning. we have hardly seen any traffic all day. it will make emergency measures easier. the storm is 55 miles west of naples. from there it will make landfall somewhere on florida s west coast later today. with charlotte county looking like the spot at this moment, punta gorda, port charlotte where hurricane charley hit causing massive destruction in 2004. an hour ago florida s governor addressed the new developments. i know all of the emergency management directors in southwest florida very well. combined they have over 200 years of experience. they are preparing and expecting