address to respond at 8:45 this morning. we will bring it to you live when it happens. brian: just like we did yesterday live across the state with a firsthand look at the devastation and all seeing it for the first time because the sun is coming up. seen evermeteorologist is standing by our team fox coverage starts with robert ray live in fort myers. that s where it hit robert, right? did sure did good morning to you from the devastated streets from downtown fort myers. you see this debris field i m walking through with garbage cans, mud, palms that were literally projectiles when these hurricane force winds were coming through here yesterday and into the evening. this guys, if we look at the video was i am not even exaggerating and not to use a cliche a rushing river yesterday evening street after street here full of storm surge water that came up from the bay and the river about three blocks behind me made its way into streets here destroying businesses and now business
speigel rain bands from ian that are persistent along the i four corridor. again, katy mentioning the fact that this is nearly a historic rainfall for them. and unfortunately, it looks a whole lot more rainfall is on the way as well. quick look, live conditions in parts of orlando as we speak. temperatures in the 70s, rain still to come. as we mentioned. notice daytona beach. this is going to be over the next couple of days as ian works through central and eventually northeast florida, right along i-95. that is a bull s eye between 12 to 18 inches of additional rainfall on top of not what s already fallen. but as adam was sharing with those earlier, right along the coastline here, we re going to see storm surge that is going to enhance the rivers that flow out into the ocean. we re expecting more flooding in and around places like jacksonville. so this is really going to be almost a worst case scenario
for parts of northeast florida, much like what we saw with ida, especially along some of the rivers there in jacksonville. and it s the reason and one of the primary reasons why throughout the day today into early tomorrow, on friday, notice the thatched areas there of red , meaning extreme rainfall. this, my friends, a live look at daytona. look at this camera. it is shaking. we were saying before that orlando executive airport wind gusts well over 50 miles per hour. and if you look very carefully there, again, perhaps up toward the upper right hand corner, looks like that could be a parking lot. and quickly filling with water due to all of the tremendo rainfall that we re seeing smack dab there in the center of the state. temps outside, by the way, in the mid 70s. but as katie was saying, before ,there are power flickers that are going on , meaning that we are just moments away from losing power in places like
warning box live shortly. however, places like orlando, we are not out of the woods yet. daytona beach, absolutely not out of the woods. and you can see in red , those are tropical storm warnings that we re still seeing as well. no surprises here. one of the big hallmark of even moving forward is going to be that risk for flooding. flood watches posted from orlando to jacksonville and notice that savannah, georgia, and charleston, south carolina, also in that. here s the reason why, because category one storm, ian , currently going to be moving toward that north northeast northeasterly trajectory and through the day today and tomorrow, it s about 65 miles per hour. there is a slim chance we could see some strengthening as that head towards the southern eastern coastlines of georgia and south carolina. that would take place by friday morning into friday afternoon. and it is one of the reasons why along some of the coastal areas, we have tropical
away some of that rain that we have seen that has been impacting tampa, sarasota. so improving conditions on the west coast, but where things are going downhill, downhill quickly is through central florida, orlando, we have that center, that core of fon lifting up the i four corridor. and we are anticipating it to continue to impact places like jacksonville in the next twenty four hours, really expecting to see those rain bands. in fact, just beginning to wrap around and push on shore over the next several hours, opening up our day on thursday. so that s one thing that we will be watching for, no surprise, because we are still talking a hurricane in that hurricane warning stretch. both coasts from fort myers up through orlando to daytona beach. hurricane warning means that we are anticipating to see those hurricane force wind gusts impact these communities. heavy rain is going to continue. tropical storm warnings extend up through jacksonville, up the georgia coastline into south carol