in port charlotte is just north of where ian made land fall. they were hit from above and below. the storm surge flooded the emergency room and tore apart the fourth floor roof which is where theic intensive care unit is. doctors there forced to evacuate the hospital s sickest patients. the top of the hour, ian is posing a serious flash flooding risk. it movesin closer to orlando. the he feblgts are being felt along the west coast. this is video here from daytona beach. this morning we haveon an nbc tm covering it all over florida. standing by to give us live updates of the impact of ian. we re getting a clear look at just how hard hurricane ian hit cuba. let s bring in our reporter. what more can you tell us about the conditions on the island. good morning. what s going on in cuba is an unmitigated disaster. and as we remember that ian slammed into cuba, a cat 3 hurricane focusing primarily on this area. it is the center of cuban f cigars. it was devastating. as of t
and water is rising. were you looking at the screen? just some of the scenes as hurricane ian made a devastating land fall in southwestern florida. the category 4 storm left a large path of destruction and millions in the dark this morning. we ll have a live report for you. rescue crews are busy trying to get to people who decided to ride out the storm and were then stranded by rising floodwaters. and we re still tracking ian as it slowly makes its way across florida at this hour. welcome to way too early on this thursday, september 29th. thank for starting your day with us. it made land fall as a category storm. there is widespread flooding and damage as the powerful storm batters the state with torrential rain and wind. more than two million people are without power across florida. in naples, authorities said that more than half of the streets were not passable. this video released by the naples fire department shows a power line bursting into flames as the hurrican
angels. in mid-july, we learned senator john mccain hadund undergone a procedure to remove a blood clot over his eye. i spoke to his doctors. a pathology report revealed a primary brain tumor known as glioblastoma. it s the same type of tumor that beau biden and ted kennedy had. the median survive is 14 months. senator mccain recently spent time in the hospital for side effects for his ongoing cancer. but he s a fighter and lawmaker. we ll keep a close out out for him in 2018. and hurricane irma made land fall, the damage was quick and severe killing americans and leaving citizens without electricity and water. when i arrived on the island, i
now. tell us about this new track the latest information we got in the last hour or two and where it s headed. well, one thing you can say about irma, you can say about every hurricane, they re fickle. if you remember about a week ago we re looking at miami, miami seemed to be the focus of where the computer models, the european the north american model was kind of aiming it then as we went along it kept shifting. lot of dynamics take place with hurricanes and now an interesting dynamic has occurred. the latest information right here, the eye has really gone through an eye wall replacement cycle. it s looking tighter now that s pulled away from the coast of cuba. by the way, you can only imagine what happened when this was a category 4, made land fall as a 5. became a category 4. what kind of damage must be seen