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pictures of and the storm is still going strong. chad meyers is standing by with the latest on the track but we begin with laila santd ysantiag on the scene for us. >> reporter: on the southwest part of the island hurricane fiona made landfall. we are dealing with rains and wind gusts and flash flooding right now on the ground. but the big story in terms of impacts to the u.s. citizens on the island is there is an island wide power outage going on for an hour and they don't expect that -- power as this natural disaster comes in. the timing here is part of the story. remember nearly f...

total blackout right now, after the power grid failed a few hours ago. that means torrential rain, catastrophic flooding, mud slides and days of power outages are expected in the day ahead. cnn's chad myers is tracking fiona in the weather center right now, but first, let's go to leyla santiago in san juan, puerto rico. leyla, i know you have a lot of experience covering storms in puerto rico. how are things looking right now and do we have any sense as to when the power might come back on? >> reporter: well w, we're bein told it could be days before power is fully restored. i want t...

it is just shy of that now. we won't get ahead of the news on this. we are expecting an official storm update at any moment. i'm harris faulkner and you are in "the faulkner focus." hurricane ian is now carrying sustained kinds of 155 miles per hour. if they gain to 157 it's a category 5. the biggest threats facing floridians are massive storm surge, raging winds, inland flooding, tornadoes, experts already using words like catastrophic to describe hurricane ian's potential. 21/2 million people are under evacuation orders. for those people in the storm's path directly, that swath tha...

swift boats, all ready to move in and begin to go door-to-door when it is clear enough to be able to do so. power outages have slammed half a million. that is the latest number that we have over the course of this hour that we're now in. floridians on the ground as ian barrels towards their homes, their businesses. we have people all across the state with updates about different sections of the state, what it feels like, what's going on there. fox team coverage with all of our great weather team out there spread across the state as well. we begin with katie burn who is in orlando. ka...

it's now too late. hello, everyone. this is "outnumbered." i'm kayleigh mcenany here with my cohosts, emily compagno and harris faulkner. also joining us, fox news meteorologist amy freeze, and todd piro. we are tracking hurricane speed 11 to make them x11 paid its tracking winds with a just shy of a category 510 hurricane, making it one of the most powerful storms to hit this country. it's expected to make landfall in the next few hours and forecasters are warning a life threatening storm surge, devastating wind damage, and massive flooding. there are more than a quarter of a millio...