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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 ....
This moment a little bit of a lull. you can see through the lights how heavy the wind is pushing the rain, and in a distance, you might be able to see this fountain out there that we re seeing from our photographer tony. you might be able to see how the wind is blowing. that as well as these trees out here. i just saw another flash of lightning. this is mild compared to what we saw in the last 20 minutes or so, and this is also hours before we expect to see the worst of what is left of in here. this has been going on for hours now, and that gives you an idea of how powerful this storm is. hours before, it was still 100 miles away at this point, it might be closer than that. earlier, when it was more than 100 miles away, we were still seeing these powerful wind gusts, enough to make china few breeze wobble, and the rain is continuing to fall. we re starting to see the water pool up in this slipped down driveway that we re in. the water rising above some of the wheels here. ....