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We want to extends a special welcome to our Fox News viewers. Im meteorologist are arti from our studios here in new York City and weve been covering helene over the last several hours over the last several days. This has been an extremely well forecast storm, before it even formed down in the western caribbean. It looked like something like this was going to happen, so again, we still have technically a Hurricane Storm and Hurricane Center will probably see it downgraded slowly throughout the night, but one unique thing about helene, this particular storm is that it was very large, right . So...

Extremely dangerous four. It's more than 400 miles across, pushing a storm surge that officials are calling unsurvivable is now hitting florida's gulf coast as much as 20 feet of water what are forecast along the shore south of tallahassee, which itself is expected to take a direct blow. Some coastal areas already flooding. Take a look live pictures right now from gulfport in tampa on the right interstate to 70 prison biden this evening, urge anyone in the storm's path that take it extremely seriously. A lot of water there is certainly there graham gulfport, especially emergency managers and f...

miles an hour. it down trees and power lines, even -- without power. created storm surge in areas like fort myers and naples, florida. officials are warning residents about potential for flash flooding overnight, some areas inland could see over two feet of rain. let's go now to nbc news meteorologist michelle gross. michelle, you have been following the storm all day. what is the latest? >> i, there we are looking at really strong storm still. it is moving inland but we are still seeing winds at 90 miles an hour. so it's still moving on to his strength. it was a very -- storm strong...

So i think for some people, the worst is yet to come. but i think in totality, yeah, we have seen the greatest damage we were going to see. a category four storm, 155 miles an hour, almost a category five. and some of these hurricanes are wind events and some of them water events and some are really both. if you are in fort myers or those areas, this was a big wind hurricane. if you are here in naples where we had record setting flooding and storm surge, we see more of a flooding event, a storm surge, a water event, then it was a wind event. but to your point about 2 million people being out o...