city are you okay? rescuers, helping guide residents through submerged intersection, since, having been turned into a lake. then, there is this. the electricity crisis. the storm, knocking out power lines, in more than 2 million homes, and businesses, which have been plunged into darkness, across the state. meteorologist, pedram javaheri, tracking ian. he joins me. pedram, ian may have weekend, but is unleashing very dangerous conditions. where does it stand right now? kristie, we ve got the latest update from the national hurricane center. 11 hours overland, since it made landfall. you will notice, still, a category one. a drop from 90 miles per hour, to 75 miles per hour, leaving this as a low-end, category one hurricane. notice, on the back side of the storm system, the cloud field, beginning to break. as far as clearing skies, around portions of marco island, around areas up towards tampa. all of these areas, finally, seeing drier weather persist. just east of i
those crews may have a hard time reaching them. not just because of dangerous conditions, but, because they, also, have been affected by the floodwaters. waiting for daybreak, to get that full damage assessment. gloria palomino, we thank you, indeed, for your reporting. take care, stay well. let s head back to cnn s world weather center, to our meteorologist, pedram javaheri. pedram, hurricane ian, so destructive. it is a superlative storm, in size, and strength. why is it so intense? the intensity here, really, ramping up in the span of 12 hours. when we saw these ocean temperatures, among the highest oceanic heat content in the atlantic ocean, advance of the storm system. the florida shelf, a shallow area, where they allow the storm system to flourish, and create monstrous storm surges that were forecast, and observed, across the area. they came ashore with 150 mile per hour winds, to give you a sense of scale of the dozens, and dozens of hurricanes,