off of the gulf coast there. we re not going to get a sense of it until tomorrow. but yes, it looks pretty path down in. and we ll be talking about this later in the hour. thanks, chris. and thank you for joining us. hurricane ian continues to create a swath of in made landfall just after 3:00 this afternoon in southwestern florida, near k o connor, a island off of the coast of fort myers. ian came ashore as a category four hurricane with 150 mile per hour winds. just a few miles per hour shy of a category five. only for hurricane stronger than that have made landfall in the united states ever. but it is not just the strength of the storm, it is the size. this is the view of hurricane in from the international space station this afternoon. just showing how massive the storm is. the national river describes in as battering the florida peninsula with tied and winds, and flooding. ian has just now weakened to a category two storm with maximum sustained winds of 105 miles
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bill was talking about a six foot storm surge. here we saw every last foot of it. we actually saw at those buildings across their, where they have a second view of the second story. and the car port underneath. that s at least 12 feet there, and we saw those decks being over top. the idea that you think about a six or five foot storm surge as being five or six feet of water, it depends on where you are. over here on the beach, it was more than ten feet of water. great destruction all over here, into downtown naples. it s mostly behind us, and we probably are approaching 2 million people in the state without power, and as bill says, as it continues to go through, we are going to see water levels rise, and if you have gusts at 50 or 60 miles per hour, you will see power come down. what we have here is the power outage, it s completely dark behind us. the lies you are seeing are our lights that are generator powered. the city is saying, please don t go out. the water is not all receded. y
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who stayed behind, and who is trapped. we are getting a lot of calls. in fact, my last update said there are 30 rescues in this county, in the naples area of people trapped in their attics or on higher floors. we don t have a full situation report on that. we should by morning. and look, by that end, the sheriff s department said they re receiving a significant number of people trapped by water, but at the same time we re seeing first responders in videos that are struggling to deal with the flooding. can you tell us with the emergency response looks like on the ground where you are at this time, as some of that water is receded? what we know is that there are teams out there. they are starting to return power. the winds, i m in a protected area right, now but right over here, you will get some sense of the latter winds, and the fact that it is still too windy to take a bucket chop up
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