between 5 to 8 inches of rain. and when you are talking about that much rainfall in such a short amount of time, you have to think about the saturated ground. and system of these large trees that i have mentioned possibly toppling over. certainly concerning when you are talking about homes being here. those trees possibly toppling over on homes. bringing down power lines. and that could be dangerous for folks who have decided to stick around and ride this storm out. so far, we know 22,000 people in the city of sarasota alone are without power. when you talk about sarasota county, that number is probably up into 100,000 at this point. as hurricane ian just is just relentless throughout the state of florida right now. so far, folks seem to be heeding warnings, the streets right now are pretty dead. folks seem to be inside and heeding those warnings to just
outages, over 1.5 million house noldz florida last check without power. hopefully they will get that going especially later tonight if they can start to get on some of these roads. take a look at this. this is hurricane warnings. this purple and that is hurricane warnings all across the eastern side of florida. so, because the storm came on shore so strong, it s going to take a while for those winds to relax enough to get below hurricane status. that s why we even have hurricane force warnings in places like c daytona beach. once this storm pulls offshore we are going to see it again make secondary landfall here. take a look at this. go saturday into sunday, we are also looking very likely chance in the southern appalachians there of some significant flooding. all of this is going to be still from ian. center of the storm pulls back over water. get back into landfall some time friday night into saturday morning and we are going to be watching some big storm there take a look at this th
clears that group says it is prepared to serve food in hard to reach locates, shelters or people in need as they have around the world. tomorrow on special report extensive coverage of hurricane and aftermath. thanks for inviting us into your home tonight. a little different this special report but still, fair, balanced and unafraid. jesse watters continues our coverage and it starts right now. hey, jesse. jesse: hey, bret. thank you so much. boats. no, it s four boats. four of them. [winds] jesse: we start with a fox news alert. hurricane ian has made landfall in florida, pummeling the sunshine state rain and window
of biblical proportions. ian is a cat 4 storm bringing 140 mile-per-hour winds and leaving a wake of destruction in its path. the national hurricane center is warning of catastrophic window damage with an unsuburb viable storm surge of up to 18 feet. it is expected to dump 2 feet of rain across the state bringing unprecedented flooding and destruction. entire neighborhoods are now undersea as water levels continue to rise. homes are floating down the middle of the street and people are swimming in their living rooms. by the way authorities say it s a very bad idea. who knows what s in that water. and first responders rescue services can t escape the flooding either. this fire department in naples is completely under water. leaving the city s residents on their own. and things are even worse in the air where hurricane hunters are flying into the heart of the storm. watch.
and water available. within a couple months, actually within a couple weeks, we will be getting back to normal. jesse: sound like help is on the way. mayor of fort myers, thank you so much. really glad you are okay and your people are hanging in there. thank you, jesse. jesse: hurricane ian absolutely pummeled naples, florida earlier today the worst may not be over. peterson is a yacht captain in naples and he joins us now. i don t know if you heard i go down to naples almost every christmas. i got married in naples. my heart is aching for that town tell us what you know and how are people doing? hey, jesse. we are a big fan of you and, yeah, do i hear that you frequent fort myers and naples quite often. it s been quite a day today. weren t quite sure of which way the storm was going to go or how much the surge was going to come up. we were all here for you are