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Gov. Ron DeSantis and the state Cabinet on Monday quickly approved $141 million in deals that will help preserve land from the Panhandle to Southwest Florida.

DeSantis and Cabinet members supported three land purchases under the Florida Forever program that totaled $141 million in conservation.

TALLAHASSEE — Gov. Ron DeSantis and the state Cabinet on Monday quickly approved $141 million in deals that will help preserve land from the Panhandle to Southwest Florida.

The proposal would protect land in multiple counties from development.

Gov. Ron DeSantis and the Florida Cabinet next week could approve spending more than $141 million to conserve 42,000 acres of land from .....

Tallahassee has had a mostly charmed history with hurricanes, though thats changed a bit over recent years.

As the pressure goes down, the winds go up. it is going to make landfall likely as a category 3 hurricane. not that far from steinhatchee. probably to the north of crystal river. and then even make significant wind all the way into georgia. were not going to see any storm surge from st. pete in tampa until the storm gets due west of you and the winds come from this direction. because right now theyre pushing offshore. pushing that water away. but thats going to change because of the circulation ...

Make sure you have provisions for about three or four days because you could be isolated. i will show you a little bit why. this is a low-lying area, even the -- you can see behind, me this is the st. marks river. starting seal a lit of rain, raindrops from the initial bands of the hurricane coming this way. if we are lucky, during this live shot, you might see flashes of lightning on the horizon, which are really cold look at at night. its not cool, of course, if you are being pounded by 80 mil...

Six and nine feet, possibly of storm surge and local officials did tell us that they do expect this area, this town, st. marks to be completely flooded at least for a few hours because, again, this water from the st. marks river already pretty high is going to be kind of washed up here like a snowplow, just pushing all that water with a storm surge. 6 to 9, feet into the town to my right and a lot of low-lying houses and other buildings here are going to be completely inundated with water. so, a...

Sometime tomorrow morning into the early afternoon. laura? >> anywhere from 2 to 6 feet of storm surge. carlos suarez, thank you so much. brian todd is here with us in st. marks florida, where the national weather service is warning that hurricane idalia is an unprecedented event, like no storm ever seen before in that area. brian? >> laura, in just a matter of hours from now this place where im standing is not expected to be very safe. we are in st. marks florida, and local emergency management...