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Storm surge, because the mayor here is saying we could get up to two feet of rain on a very short amount of time. we got the storm surge that happens close to the coast, we saw what happened to tampa bay, sucking the water right out of tampa bay. and then you had that inland flooding, as we get this barrage of rain on top of me right now. the storm is about inland flooding here. i would say a bigger water event, im not a meteorologist, obviously, that it is a wind event. theres certainly a compl...

Hurricane ian, it was going 25 miles per hour. ian is going about 10 miles an hour. it was also a much smaller storm and it was really a wind event. so it plowed right through punta go gorda, but there wasnt much of a storm surge. hurricane ian will be 10 to 12 feet. im okay now standing here, but this time tomorrow night, you can get this area will likely be under water. so a very different story from charley. >> randi, thank you. with us now is the mayor of marathon in the florida keys. mayor ...

Forever, which is a 200 million dollar resiliency program which is voter approved, right on the heels of hurricane irma in 2017. that is an infrastructure program where we are spending significant amount of money to make sure that we can be as water resilient and win resilient post hurricane andrew 1982 and we got 200 mile per hour wind event. so we have gotten some money from the state, weve gotten about $50 million in addition to the 200, and were obviously hoping to get some money from the fe...

Surge. it was very much a wind event. theyre very, very concerned about the level of water thats going to be rushing into these communities, including downtown and several other areas. there are barrier islands that had to evacuate. they were the first to go, but weve met people who were hunkering down on a boat nearby. there are boats out here in the harbor here behind me. we will see what happens as this increases in strength, john. >> randi, stand by for a minute. i want to bring in chief met...

It will pass over, punta gorda with 155-mile-per-hour winds. ranti, can you hear me? >> i hear you okay, john, for now. we are here in downtown punta gorda. we were just on the outskirts of downtown near the water, but we moved to higher and safer ground. its certainly getting windier. the storm is getting closer. out in the distance there is where we were. if you look beyond those buildings, thats where charlotte harbor is, and thats the real concern. the storm will push that ocean water into c...

Center, so were expecting a damaging wind event. were looking at widespread power outages, tree damage, damage to homes, mobile homes, so a very unsafe environment for the next 24 to 36 hours as ian moves across florida. >> we talk about the actual threat to the east coast of florida. i know a lot of people look at the map and like at lake okeechobee, and there are often concerns about that, are you concerned about the rivers and streams perhaps flooding? the potential for that will be max miede...

This area, the combination of no electricity and dangerous excessive heat, that is a recipe for disaster. it has made for an uncomfortable night here as well. remember record breaking triple digit heat easily grabs our headlines but when temperatures dont cool below 80 degrees in your own house that is the silent killer. we have excessive heat alerts for over 100 million americans including where im standing across central ohio. thousands of people facing days without the prospect of tooling the...

Some spots and thunderstorms and looking at heavy snow in some spots and freezing. where you see the blue is where the heavy snow is falling in the darker blues an pinks and purples is the ice and orange and yellow the heavy rain and lightning strikes on the tail end down in parts of florida. that is improving. i will show you that. as we go through our timeline we will see that low make a journey to the north and east and deepen tonight into tomorrow morning. were going to have a wind event ove...

Way if we are seeing stronger wind. we are expecting more rain, climate change lets the base layer of temperature, when it is hot it gets hotter and when it rains it rains harder. it will pack more of the punch in terms of rainfall, but there is no evidence at this stage for seeing more storms are more intense storms. climate change intensifies hurricanes more rapidly, but in terms of these kind of storms, there is not a great deal of evidence. we have seen stance before, we will continue to see...

Old Man Winter was late this time around, but he seems to be making up for lost time. Gusty winds will whip the snow around with the lowest visibility across the open fields of greater Minnesota. Travel will be slow with plowable snowfall amounts and winds gusting to near 40 mph. Be careful out there today.