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Forecasters are warning this will be a catastrophiclevel storm when it makes landfall overnight along floridas west coast. Welcome to a new hour of americas newsroom, im dana perino and hi to you, bill. Bill: good morning to you. Bill hemmer live in orlando 100 miles due east of tampa, florida. The entire part of this state will get whacked starting later tonight. As we track this storm, right now 155 mileperhour winds, category 4 storm. A track were watching between clear water near tampa and d...

Hurried preparations, theres also a new worry. Limited resources. Gas stations literally running on empty, and grocery store shelves picked clean. Nbcs marisa is joining us from tampa. Jay gray is standing by in ft. Myers. And meteorologist michelle grossman is tracking the storm for us. The track of this storm has shifted slightly since yesterday. Where do we expect landfall now? yeah, this has kind of wobbled back and forth, ten miles north or south. As we go throughout time, we are anticipati...

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...

theyre great people, beautiful state. you know about their football team? >> bill: a little bit. >> dana: governor desantis will give a update any moment now and bring it live. florida is bracing for what could be a once in a century storm. >> bill: the current storm track shows landfall sometime on thursday, maybe in tampa. if that were a direct hit, it would be the first major storm to hit tampa in more than 100 years. >> dana: forecasters are predicting storm sturge. people are boar...

State. you dont need to drive hundreds of miles. you dont have to try to outrun the storm. if you are in those low lying areas the reason why they are advising you to evacuate because you are going to be susceptible to storm surge. if you get to a place thats higher ground and a safe structure, can you ride out the storm there and then go back to your home once the storm passes and all is clear. shelters, all these places that do this are opening shelters. i think most of the shelters will proba...

Maybe they dont have family. maybe they want to do a hotel room. visit florida has partnered with expedia to launch an emergency page. anyone used who has to evacuat can use this page. go to expedia.com/florida, expedia.com/florida. we have probably more than 2.5 million people right now that are under some form of an evacuation order. we understand theres going to be a need to use everything at our disposal, not just shelter, not just friends and family, but also available hotel rooms. know you...

To sign up. we cannot thank the ones that have signed up enough, but we are going to need more. there is absolutely no reason for anyone not to evacuate if you are ordered to do so. shelters are available around the state, and you should follow the direction of local officials to go to the shelter that fits your needs. you can go to florida disaster.org to find a shelter in your county or neighboring county. if you need a hotel, you can go to expedia.com/florida. trying to help us on real time h...

Right now, floridians must have access to every shelter. over 17,000 people have volunteered and that is great but we have also could use more volunteers. i want to thank everyone who is open their hearts to those and the staff. we cannot thank you enough, but we can always use more. floridians can go do volunteerflorida.workvolunteerf oropportunities. thereisnoreason shelters are available and you can follow locations. you can visit floridadisaster.org/shelters to find shelters in your county. ...

Volunteerflorida.org to sign up. we cant thank those who have signed up enough. but were going to need more. theres absolutely no reason for anyone not to evacuate. if youre ordered to do so. shelters are available around the state. and you should follow the directions of the local officials to go to the shelter that fits your needs. you can go to florida disaster.org/shelter to find a shelter in your county or neighboring county. if you need a hotel, you can go to expedia.com/florida. expedia i...

Today through monday. to ensure we have every space available for sheltering and staging. right now, flo florida -- we ca always use more volunteers. i want to thank everyone who has opened their heart to help those in irmas path. we cannot thank you enough. we can always use more. go to volunteerflorida.org to sign up for volunteer opportunities. theres no reason not to evacuate if you are ordered to do so. shelters are available. follow the directions of local officials for your needs. visit f...