Damage Storm News Today

hello, and welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. im john vause, at the cnn center in atlanta. as we head into the midnight hour on the u.s. east coast, almost the entire state of florida is bracing for the impact of hurricane ian, a monster storm stressing 500 miles across. which earlier made landfall on cuba, blocking out the eyelids electricity grid and causing a nationwide blackout. 11 million people right now are in the dark, waiting for morning to asses...

Montgomery and Miami counties were under Tornado Warnings Sunday afternoon.

That will allow for an earlier arrival of the strongest winds. and its going to give last time for major hurricane eta to weaken. so, we are anticipating a powerful, using the words for the national hurricane center, catastrophic wind damage storm. and the potential for incredible amounts of storm surge along the coastline of where we are located, john? >> derek, thank you, we appreciate that update there from bradenton, florida. lets go to pedram javaheri, falling all this at the cnn weather ce...

Storm gets there a little bit sooner than even expected. we have to keep in mind, as derrick noted, this is a massive storm system. cloud field 700 miles across. these tropical storm force winds 140 miles away from the center. so, even if you are not near the system, 40 miles away from, you are going to feel tropical conditions. and thats the concern. and thats why our friends across orlando, disney world shutting down operations over the next 24 hours because of the system. and the impact will ...

Direct hit is not necessarily going to cause flooding. a slow-moving storms predicted stall just off the coast of tampa bay starting wednesday evening. >> going to be in our rivers, so to be in our streams, its gonna be in our canals. its going to be in our storm water drains and ditches. >> sandbag locations around tampa closed today at 2:00. residents doing what they can before heading out. >> i would say were light. but we are -- we think that if it is a storm surge issue, we will try to seal...

Florida. >> lets bring in anna j., jack an extreme storm chaser, who right now is in -- beach florida. erin, thank you for being with us. >> yeah, thank you very much for having. me >> okay, so to make it more extreme in size, possible storm surge, and even. it seems florida has never seen a storm like this before. >> you know, florida, it gets quite a few cat three and above storms. i think one in every three storms is rated cap. three you know, a couple years, ago in 2018 i was in a cat five h...

About a storm that is a strong category 3, forecast to get up to possibly a category 4 here. maybe 12, 14 hours before landfall. 100 miles or so south of naples at. this hour but the concern is that this comes a short far earlier, far stronger than what was initially estimated here. possibly as early as 1 pm on wednesday afternoon, as maybe late as five or 6 pm. as you notice, the guidance on the models shifting for the south as well. john, your talk about seeing these initial models keep this o...

And thats one of the biggest concerns weve got right now. and its a little bit south of fort myers, and im watching this path of the storm. and it looks like it could potentially, worst-case scenario, for the fort myers cape coral area with a massive storm like that being able to push that, that water up into the coast >> emergency officials seem the slow-moving nature of the storm and how long florida will be delimit. listen to fema. >> by the time it reaches the shores of florida, the storm is...

Report. good, hey, were coming by and letting everyone know were in a mandatory evacuation situation. >> the tampa bay area, in its final hours of hurricane preparations. tampa bay police making last-ditch efforts to warn residents to leave flood zones. now >> were reinforcing the idea that youre in an area that you need to evacuate. >> this is not a drill. >> this is not the time to stay. >> serious warnings to residents here. this vulnerable area expected be the crosshairs of hurricane ian as ...

Make landfall, seems like a moving target. so, youre in the path of the hurricane, what you expect right now, when expect worse to? come >> yeah, unfortunately, john, all of the ingredients are coming together for the perfect storm here, really the worst-case scenario for so many locations across the southwestern peninsula of florida. weve got tampa, about 150 kilometers to my north. and also the fort myers region, about 200 kilometers to my south and west. and if its anything like the national ...