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of the florida coast of that this is sanibel island, an island decimated by hurricane ian. right now there's no way to get help in to sanibel. the only bridge that connected the island to the mainland, it's a long causeway, it's caved in. so there's no way to get on or off the island unless you travel by boat. and that's been incredibly difficult for anyone to do. and that loss right now spans the florida coast. i'll show you cape coral. our bill weir was here today. this is a picture he took. you can see home after home totally destroyed and flooded. the ones that are still standing...

like a freight train. we're seeing record-breaking and terrifying storm surges throughout florida and ft. myers, the water is so high pickup trucks are almost completely submerged. water levels have risen more than 6 feet in the last switch ho -- seven hours. let's get to tom sater in the cnn weather center. an updated forecast should come any minute now. what should we expect? >> it was just handed to me. forgive me for reading off. we still have a category 4 hurricane and five miles east of punta gorda. it will stay at hurricane strength through orlando. this will rake the entire p...

Tomorrow, anyway, so they're really hoping people stay off the road. and really the big message we're getting from folks is stay home and cheer on the steelers rather than brave this weather. >> that's a good reason to stay home, right? polo, thank you very much. now our meteorologist tom seder joins me now. we're so glad to have you on a night like this. what is in store? >> in some cases, poppy, it's just really ramping up. other areas it's improving and things are going quite well. when you look at these warnings, though, we've been showing you, just yesterday the warnings looked just like ...

To louisiana and mississippi this week to survey the damage left behind from ida, which is now pushing out of louisiana and dumping heavy rains on alabama and mississippi. flooding, even tornados in some area, are still a big concern. >> tom seder is tracking ida for it, what's left of it. tom, where is the storm now and what can be expected? >> the center still a tropical storm. later tonight most likely a depression. it'll take the rest of the evening and overnight to leave the state. but a much different picture, more of a comma shape, not the large red buzzsaw we saw yesterday after stayin...

That may not be the enlgd. not the first hurricane to make landfall for 2021 but goes in the record books as the earliest the fifth storm named. it was the farthest east to become a hurricane this early in the season. a fingerprint of climate change. three fatalities in the caribbean. flooding in cuba. at 8:00 p.m. a hurricane and only for a few hours and then making landfall at 11:00 a.m. look at the rainfall amounts expected to be higher than 4 to 6 and ft. myers 8 to 10. punta gorda with 11. more than that north of port charlotte but we have a tornado watch until 8:00 p.m. extended most lik...