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Hurricane Idalia, the first major hurricane to hit Apalachee Bay in recorded history, will make landfall this morning along the Big Bend coast.

Idalia made landfall as a Category 3 hurricane and it’s now traveling through northern Florida and into Georgia as a Category 1 storm. Follow here for live updates.

Massive surge, wind, and rain impacts are spreading across North Florida and west-central Florida, and you should be sheltering in place in these areas into the afternoon.

Through we are 20, 25 minutes from the coast line where they are seriously concerned about that 12 to 16-foot storm surge. i want to set the storm where we are in dixie county, florida, which includes part of the coast line. this gas station where we are, the pumps are covered but, even if they wanted to be open, which they are not. but if they wanted to be, their power is out here. if you look across the street, you can see that the power is still on at that gas station for this county a quarte...

The impact. >> ian: looking in cedar key north of that is dixie county and then taylor county the reasonable best guest on —- guess. when we talk about reasonable worst-case scenario from the surge it was up at 16 feet that will occur. not with a whole swath but close to where the center moves on sure for the i wall and immediately displaced off to the right on the advancing side of the system. thats where we get the strongest push. look at those lines in the shape of the coastline. that geome...

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Idalia made landfall as a Category 3 hurricane and it's now traveling through northern Florida and into Georgia as a Category 1 storm. Follow here for live updates.

Officials and residents said the rural Big Bend region was wholly unprepared for the Category 3 storm.

The full toll of the storm will not be known for days. But residents are already at work on cleanup.

Floridians faced extreme flooding as Hurricane Idalia hit the state as a Category 3 storm on Wednesday.