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of this hurricane. it could make landfall the next several hours and then work its way up the peninsula slowly, very slowly, bringing hurricane force winds here to tampa, to orlando before it heads out over the atlantic on the other side maybe sometime later tomorrow. obviously millions of people feeling the impact of this, a life threatening storm in some ways a near worst case scenario for some of the people south of here. there was an 8 a.m. update just in from the national hurrican...

this storm will only continue to intensify. if you want to leave, as the governor has said, now is your last chance. we cannot send first responders into harms way because you decided not to leave. >> 155 mile per hour winds. that is what hurricane ian is now producing as it bears down on floridas coast. im john berman live in tampa this morning. brianna keilar is in washington. this is cnns special live coverage of a storm that is getting more powerful by the minute. the national hurr...

we have teams on the ground as we prepare for the eventual landfall. we are in florida, and carlos suarez is in tampa in gulfport, and carlos, as weve been discussing, tampa, that is where the real worry is because theyre worried about storm surge and a lot of the residential areas there are vulnerable. >> reporter: that is exactly right, jim and poppy. the concern is the forecasted five to ten foot storm surge with hurricane ian. we are in gulfport. that is about a half hour drive out...

lifetime. >> we made the decision we were going to get out and go take some -- somewhere else. >> we were going to go to a hotel, i dobt have the money to go to a hotel, this was our best bet. >> todd: tampa international airport will suspend all flights 5 eastern tonight in preparation for the storm. >> carley: janice dean is tracking the storm andin jos us now. >> janice: this is a strengthening storm, about to move over the western portion of cuba, strengtheneds to category three st...

and communities on the florida gulf coast are boarding up, stocking up and getting ready for impact and the possibility of a storm surge that could reach up to ten feet. >> people are taking it very seriously. >> were trying to be ready. who knows, may be real bad or not bad at all, but if it is, we want to make sure we are ready. now, nasa is sharing this stunning view of the storm from the international space station. we have the latest. >> details emerging ahead of the january 6th...

to get out. the red on this map shows the mandatory evacuations as of one hour ago. basically the low lying areas near the water. ian is getting strzokker. florida governor said it is 500 miles wide at the moment and he adds that the storm surge and heavy rains will impact the entire state. >> we will see on the gulf coast of florida heavy rains, strong winds, flash flooding, storm surge and perhaps isolated tornado activity and that is true regardless of the precise track that this ta...

the way through january 6th, 2021, they have hit that milestone, in terms of where they have finished leaving us off in the time line and now my information is that they will go further after that, potentially telling viewers about what was happening in the white house, after january 6th we know that they have been doing depositions in this downtime period, with people like mike pompeo, and others, who were serving at the highest echelons of power in t that is one of the things they mi...

For those surge concerns. but zone b, everyone i spoke to there was saying they were totally unbothered about weathering the storm from inside their mobile home, their apartment, wherever they might be. the thing to remember, we talked about the storm surge. were expecting about 4 to 7 feet. things can always change in the tampa area. we just got a round of rain, were seeing the outer bands in tampa. you look at the radar, youll probably notice were seeing those outer bounds here. were already s...

Level that even if we have a surge, we are safe. and its exactly what we did. anyone can go on the west side and check their elevation levels. and the news tells you that your home is going to be on elevation with a surge that you need to evacuate, then you need to do that. so, thats exactly what we did. we checked our level, and our home was safe. and thats why we stayed. so, for everybody in zone a, i believe that most people in sanibel got evacuate. and people in zone b also got evacuated. an...

Considering evacuations in zone c. zone a closest to the water, zone b next closest and now theyre considering evacuating zone c. i want to bring in chad myers. >> im looking at the boats behind you. those pilings are not 16 feet. if that water goes up 16 feet, theres not going to be anything for those boats to be tied to. why didnt more people get their boats somewhere else or out of the water? >>. >> t good question, chad. we spoke to a couple yesterday and they were planning to hunker down an...