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What our neighbors and friends to the south of us are going through right now. >> so how are hospitals and other key areas of your city handling it? are patients being moved? what are the concerns that you have for places like hospitals and nursing homes? >> any nursing home that didnt have a generator or was in a -- an evacuation zone, like where it floods in "a," "b," or "c" zone, they had to move their patients. and they did. they accomplished that by yesterday. those folks are, you know, bat...

All the way up to nearly the top of your roof. that is a scenario that theyre trying to prepare themselves for here. traditionally, southwest florida, which has dodged some bullets in the past and certainly has been hit by hurricanes like irma, but has never seen storm surge above 6 to 7 feet. youre talking more than double that. theres also record-shattering rainfall thats projected between tampa and orlando. 15 to 20 inches of rain. you might see that over the course of two to three months, we...

Outages. its likely going to take days to get that, if not much longer in our area. again, our hearts go out to our neighbors to the south where the recovery process is going to be a lot more significant. >> florida is known not just for being in the path of hurricanes every hurricane season, but for, as many people have already noted this hour, its ability to withstand and to rebuild stronger. just tell me how pin nellis county was prepared and how it might be different from past hurricane seas...

>> that is an ominous forecast. chad myers, please stand by and keep us posted. >> youre welcome. im here in tampa. as you just heard from chad, may not get the worse of it, they are trying to see the hurricane winds. with me now i want to bring in the sheriff. youre an important person, you are smart enough to bring an umbrella. farther south is the immediate area. there is a lot to happen here. how have you prepared? >> this storms 90 miles away and were already starting to feel the effect...

Closed its airport. orlando, meantime, officials say it will stop commercial operations after about 10:30 eastern. one thing theyre not expecting a major impact to is the price of oil and gas. thats simply because florida, john, is not a major producer or refiner of oil and gas. the impacts of this could be quite significant. still too early to know but certainly a lot of questions moving ahead, john. >> yeah. wont be good. rahel solomon, thank you for that. i want to go to brian gleeson, offi...

Stayed. >> bill karins, i thank you so much. i want to take a closer look at the situation in tampa right now. with us now is the citys police chief. chief, thank you for being with us. what are things like in tampa? ? >> we are obviously not letting our guard down at all here in tampa. we obviously are not taking a direct hit, but as you guys just mentioned, the storm is a massive storm. and we are not letting our guard down whatsoever. were still enforcing our mandatory evacuations in zone "a"...

Of what we see in this video here looking down will be a city inundated by water. residents who live in those zones that were evacuated, the "a" zone and the peace river, the "b" zone which is the orange area, those were, please get out, mandatory evacuation. although, they cant physically remove somebody. when you hear the word mandatory evacuation. some people stayed behind. you get into the yellow zone where it was not a mandatory evacuation, now with a storm surge that could go as high as, s...

Im karishma vaswani in singapore. 0ur headlines. millions of residents have been told to evacuate florida as hurricane ian brings dangerous winds and rain. the us vice president has to south korea as the north has more missiles harris will visit the demilitarised zone at the border. now to the uk and faced with growing alarm on the financial markets — about the governments economic strategy the bank of england has been forced to take emergency action to try to stabilise things. last weeks wide...

Tensions as russians cut gas supplies to europe. it means the pipelines are unlikely to cut any gas, even if they did want them back online. >> and two ballistic missile have been fired toward pyongyang toward its eastern waters. this is a couple of days before vice president kamala harris is scheduled to visit the demilitarized zone. > coming up, were following breaking news from the u.s. ebs in moscow. officials there warning americans do not travel to russia and asking americans in russia t...