Hello. Lauren taylor in london, the top stories on al jazeera, a powerful category for storm has made landfall in the us state of florida. Or i can ian is on the threshold of the most dangerous category. 5 status and more than 2 and a half 1000000 people are under mandatory evacuation orders and b. C. News correspondent, crisp alone has more from tampa, florida. Its focus mostly around the fort Myers Sanibel island area. That area is really getting pounded right now with high storm surge. Also high winds heavy rain. Theyre seeing cars floating in the street. Buildings are being over top by waves as they storm and pushes the water on shore. Here in tampa for most of the day the wind has been blowing off shore and thats been actually pushing water out of tampa bay. Coinciding with low tide, meaning that the bay was emptying out of water. So no flooding here, no storm surge here just yet. But they know that this is really the beginning of this storm in the tampa area. Iran president says