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Good evening everyone i'm laura coates. breaking news, hurricane idalia has intensified over the warm waters of the gulf of mexico and is now forecast to become an extremely dangerous category four storm, before it makes landfall in a matter of just hours. the storm is packing 110 miles per hour winds and is already causing flooding in some of the coastal areas. our teams are out across the entire storm zone, chad myers is in the cnn weather center with the very latest forecast. carlos suarez is in tampa, brian todd is in tallahassee, and gloria pazmino is in clearwater. let's go right now to ...

That rain is going to run off of these creeks, streams, down the hills, and we could see flash flooding from this just as another aspect of this storm. >> hurricane, tornado, storm surge. flash flooding. there is a lot to take in. chad myers, we'll keep following this. thank you so much. cnn's gloria pazmino is out in the storm tonight in clearwater. gloria, in the past hour you are experiencing some pretty strong winds. you are looking behind you right now and they seem to still be there. what are the conditions like? >> well, laura, as you said an hour ago i was explaining to you that this s...

Make landfall somewhere around the tampa bay area. of course, that storm ended up passing it to the south of hillsboro county. so, a lot of the folks that we came across, they said look. last year we get ready for a very powerful storm, we thought it was going to make a direct hit and it ended up really moving to the south of us. we saw some flooding, but it really wasn't that bad. so it seems like they're taking that kind of attitude with respect to this hurricane, though that is something that emergency officials wish was not the case. but, we will see how things shake out in the next couple...

Worsen significantly. the water really coming down now and we expect conditions to just continue to worsen with every passing hour as we await the arrival and landfall of this hurricane, as is said to cause historic damage to the western portion of the state. laura? >> gloria pazmino, thank you for keeping us so well informed. there's a lot more to take in. cnn's carlos suarez is in tampa for us tonight. carlos, what are the conditions like where you are in the ground in tampa? >> well, laura, we are to the east of gloria so we are in tampa bay where in hillsboro cof the tter part of the last ...