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this update just moments ago. hurricane ian is a storm moving closer to floor at thats west coast bringing high winds, extremely heavy rain and life threatening storm surge flooding. already ian hitting key west with major storm surge flooding. more than 2 1/2 million people now under some level of evacuation warnings. officials escalating their urgent appeals to evacuate. >> if you are in an evacuation zone, your time to evacuate is coming to an end. you need to evacuate now. >> meteo...

Seconds ago, really bad surge. that area is really prone to bad surge. the worgs case scenario with the right side coming up into fort myers is going to bring some really bad surge problems today. >> youve got water, all this water, storm surge, where is it all going to go? you still have damaging winds to worry about, right? >> oh, yeah. absolutely. thats whats going to hamper people, anybody who needs rescues. if you are in an evacuation zone, it is important to get out of there. you might not...

Heres where the center of the eye is. not far from the atlantic here, we may get a warning over oco coke or cape hatteras. maybe some minor surge problems, we could get some isolated tornados. we have to watch out around the virginia beach/norfolk area. numerous areas, everyone in maroon is under a flash flood warning and well take the storm out in the open atlantic and eventually it will head towards nova scotia. likely as a category 1 hurricane and just enough of the storm is going to clip sou...

High tide. we are not getting surge problems here. it is a serious storm that will affect people in terms of flooding. we saw some trees down but ultimately, winds are not particularly heavy here. every now and then you get a wind gust here. it looks like the events has been better for north carolina than expected. >> we had a chance to speak to officials as well as those involved in the rescue operations. have you seen anyone venturing out? what has the response been whether the local city offi...

Incredible. usually at this point the storm goes inland, now were like, okay, what happened? how bad was this? we have done it with the surge and the wind. now we have to get through the water issues with the rainfall, with this storm and theyre going to last into the middle of next week in some cases. there will be flu homes going under water on tuesday of next week as the rivers continue to rise and that water flows down towards the coast. there are some of the pictures from when we had the su...

Sadly, the death toll from the storm has risen to five as of our air time tonight. morehead city, north carolina is on track tonight to break the all-time record for hurricane rainfall at 24 inches. two feet of water on top of what they already had. and back with us tonight as he was for our live coverage last night, meteorologist bill karins. hey, bill. >> good evening, brian. were maybe halfway through this story. its absolutely incredible. usually at this point the storm goes inland and we ar...

Moorehead city is on track to beat record rainfall at 24 inches. back with us tonight as he was last night, meteorologist bill karens. >> we are maybe half way through the story. its absolutely incredible. usually at this point the storm goes inland and we are like how bad was it. we are starting to see the pictures of damage from the surge and the winds. now we have to get through water issues with the rainfall. they will last until the middle of next week. there will be new homes going underwa...

Able the release it, so it is still staying high. that water level should be even higher at the next high tide throughout the morning hours. thats kind of some of the stories we are watching there. we have avoided a lot of the horrendous surge problems. remember we were saying seven to 13 feet and the hurricane center went down to seven to 11 feet. we havent seen those values yet. the surge in areas where it broke the gauge is right to the four to five-foot range. again, this is the fatalities, ...

The dirty side of the storm. new orleans has, by far, seen the worst of this storm along with their friends all the way down here along the plaquemines parish, the pretty rural areas down there. so far about 4 1/2 inches of rain to as much as 7 1/2 inches of rain. so those pumps are working overtime. this is a big test for them. so far, so good, but they still have to go probably another 12 to 24 hours of all of this rain. flash flood warnings, thats whos been hit the hardest. surge problems in ...