cuba saw significant flooding and, is just now getting power back in some areas after nearly the entire island was plunged into darkness. now this morning, is ethan s world toward tampa, residents woke up to this eerie sight. nearly all the water had receded out of tampa bay. the storm pulled all the water from the shore as it s winds whipped around, counterclockwise, before shoving it back towards land hours later. around the same time, the natural hurricane center increased their predictions for how much storm surge ian will bring. the revised estimates stand 12 to 18 feet along the coast, from inglewood to benin a beach. you can see here in the purple section on this map. you have seen waters rise to record-breaking levels throughout the day. that s naples. naples, florida, the water road six feet above the normal high tide, nearly submerging cars. in fort myers beach the storm surge has driven the water 8 to 20 feet, flooding homes, leaving some residents trapped. one fam
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
wow, this is some known i can relate to because they re doing the same thing about me. and as hurricane in approaches landfall, the nightmare scenario for flooding, the west coast of florida. get ready and do not underestimate the potential that this storm can bring. all in starts right now. good evening from new york and chris hazy maeve heard this, a final hearing of the january six committee has been postponed due to the intimate landfall of hurricane ian in fort s gulf coast. we ll be covering that in just a bit. but today the biggest criminal trial related to the insurrection actually began in washington. members of the far-right gang the oath keepers including its founder this man, stewart rhodes the third are on trial for seditious conspiracy for what cause prosecutors say was accorded and premeditated effort to disrupt the peaceful plant transfer of power in the senate. all five members, and roads in particular has quite a colorful history. you notice for instan
worried about being life-threatening, the storm surge, now beginning to recede, and we still don t know exactly how bad. we know it was worse and for myers, vinita beach, down to naples. that was where the peak storm surge was. we don t know how high, possibly 10 to 12 feet in fort myers. if so, that was catastrophic. we will see those pictures tomorrow. the water will be gone but you ll see how high the water goes and the damage did. they just issued a flash flood emergency. this goes from sarasota to sebring. this is on the north and west side. this is the rain portion of the forecast that is very concerning, what they are calling widespread life-threatening flash floods. this is why we have a flash flood emergency. they re telling people in this area to get to higher ground because the water is rising quickly. already reports of 17 to 20 inches of rain, and it s still pouring in that region. that s what happens when you have a slow-moving hurricane. it s only moving at eight miles a
throughout the next couple of days. go to the carolinas, as well. when you go through stages of the storms, there are different threats and different portions. during landfall, we are very concerned with that storm surge. the forecast next, worst-case an area was 12 to 18 feet. we know that we have had a water level somewhere around 10 to 12 feet, in the fort myers area, and naples was officially about six feet or so. we had a catastrophic storm surge in those areas, that s where we heard reports of people on roofs, addicts, calling for attic those water levels are starting to recede, so hopefully those people that were very scared, obviously, in the attics or the roofs, wherever they had to seek shelter, with how high the water levels were going to go. that water is receding now, and so hopefully those people can come back down and they don t need to be rescued anymore before has the winds are still too high for yet rescue crews to go to get them. that s that situation, where was hi