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this update just moments ago. hurricane ian is a storm moving closer to floor at thats west coast bringing high winds, extremely heavy rain and life threatening storm surge flooding. already ian hitting key west with major storm surge flooding. more than 2 1/2 million people now under some level of evacuation warnings. officials escalating their urgent appeals to evacuate. >> if you are in an evacuation zone, your time to evacuate is coming to an end. you need to evacuate now. >> meteo...

zone, particularly in the southwest florida counties, your time to evacuate is coming to an end. you need to evacuate now. a life threatening category 4 storm headed right towards florida. im john berman live in tampa this morning. brianna keilar is in washington and that is the news from overnight. hurricane ian strength jentd to a category 4 storm with sustained winds of 140 miles per hour. wind gusts of 165 miles per hour. the storm forecast has adjusted somewhat south of where i ...

Seconds ago, really bad surge. that area is really prone to bad surge. the worgs case scenario with the right side coming up into fort myers is going to bring some really bad surge problems today. >> youve got water, all this water, storm surge, where is it all going to go? you still have damaging winds to worry about, right? >> oh, yeah. absolutely. thats whats going to hamper people, anybody who needs rescues. if you are in an evacuation zone, it is important to get out of there. you might not...

Today. what are you preparing for? >> at this time i would say most preparations are completed and its a matter of hunkering down and waiting for the storm to pass. weve made evacuation notices, weve done the best we could educations and weve got a great city staff. we have public safety on stand by. its kind of like weve been referencing with hurricane charlie, were just going to have to hunker down, wait and pray. >> charlie is your reference point here, but what are you expecting compared to ...

When youre stuck on one of these eye lands, you are stuck unless you can fly out or you have a boat. youre there. once that storm made its way inland it broke down. because the elevation is so low and surrounded by water, it did not lose its strength. it was a bulldozer of wind and high water across the entire region. something we just havent seen the likes of something like this. >> when we talk about storm surge, and you see a catamaran in the middle of the highway. you see how massive it was....

Nominee, mitt romney, appeared on fox news to reiterate his campaigns core message of hope. >> i made a lot of money. >> now im going to tell ya, yeah. that is a guy i would like to have a beer company with. santorum is not riding off the eye lands. yesterday he went down to puerto rico to pick up some delegates or delgatos and rick did not pander, especially when the subject turned to what puerto rico would have to do to become a state saying english needs to be the principle language. folks, f...