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this storm will only continue to intensify. if you want to leave, as the governor has said, now is your last chance. we cannot send first responders into harm's way because you decided not to leave. >> 155 mile per hour winds. that is what hurricane ian is now producing as it bears down on florida's coast. i'm john berman live in tampa this morning. brianna keilar is in washington. this is cnn's special live coverage of a storm that is getting more powerful by the minute. the national hurricane center just reported it had a plane flying through the center of this storm measuring sust...

rising causing residents to track towards higher ground. >> absolutely nuts. >> brian: more than 70,000 floridians are without power this morning. governor ron desantis urging residents to get out. time to evacuate is come to an end. you need to evacuate now. >> the governor will give another update in just about 30 minutes. we will bring that to you live. first, we have live fox team coverage janice dean tracking the storm's latest path. fox news weather we start with robert ray in fort myers. robert? >> good morning. you know, as light is about to come up here and these rain bands ...

In place so that they will be able to get the runways in good shape once the storm has passed. we have 5,000 florida guardsmen activated, 2,000 from neighboring states. we have air assets, urban search and rescue teams stationed now in miami that, both vehicle assets, water assets and the u.s. coast guard has staged four cutters. they have shallow draft vessels ready to provide search and a systems of linemen across all of our major utilities and a lot of these linemen are coming from out of state. this is a major, major effort. of course, the storm has to pass. there needs to be the ability t...

>> i'm going to let thad allen, who is the national incident coordinator address this very quickly because we talked about it during our meeting. >> first of all, we have a number of different types of skimming equipment. some are offshore deep draft vessels. the skimming equipment is organically built into it. we have others with boom systems. we have shallow water skimmers inshore. they become the major resource of effectiveness to try to fight this battle offshore. we know what we're doing near the well head. we have to push the enemy f you will, back 20 or 30 miles off shore. we have over ...