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155 miles an hour. that is just a couple miles shy of a category 5 hurricane. >> john: when you get that high it does not make much of a difference. forecasters warning of the storm surge could be as high as 18 feet as the eyewall comes on shore. >> sandra: an hour out from when it is expected to make landfall, 300,000 people are without power as the early stages of the storm rip away power lines. we have team coverage for you beginning now across florida for the next two hours. >> john: fox weather meteorologist jason frazier, what can you tell us right now about ian? >> john, bottom line, th...

Blowing toward the coastline, it drags the water towards shore and once the water gets to shore, it has no place to go up except to pile up on land. that's why we have the potential to get these massive storm surges. in tampa bay we're on the opposite side of the eye wall and we're getting actually lower than normal, probably by 10 to 12 feet lower than we would expect. >> well, again, that's good news for here. very dire news potentially south of here. and one of the concerns has been is had the storm surge concern been where i am here on the hillsborough river, initially they were 10 to 15 f...

Hours, and already you can see right there the defined eye and it's slowly moving right towards those of you in the fort myers area, just to the north of there, and once it crosses over on to land, half the eye, what we consider to be landfall, and that's expected to happen here within about the next two hours. so, what's next for hurricane ian? basically the entire state of florida is going to be impacted by this. so, we anticipate ian continuing to take a northeasterly track into the orlando area and in 24 hours, significant rain for the orlando area and then a northerly trend towards those ...

But we went into a neighborhood that we almost got stuck. the storm surge was coming in. i've never seen storm surge in person like this. i'm telling you when that storm surge was coming in, it came in quick. and there was a lot of -- i bet you every other house, they didn't evacuate. tons of homes are going to be flooded here. i saw water already at their doorsteps. it's going to be a big story just this surge and water. >> and obviously in tampa we haven't even see the surge come in as our john berman is reporting. the water is still out. so that is still to come that devastation. you took s...

And denmark will wear "toned down" jerseys for the world cup as a form of protest against qatar's human rights record — not the only team prepared to take a stand. welcome back. hurricane ian is making landfall this hour, with the eye passing close to fort myers, south of tampa, and punta gorda. meteorologists says it could be the strongest storm to ever make landfall on the west coast of the peninsula, with wind speeds over 150 mph — plenty strong enough to move suspension bridges like this one. but it's the storm surge and the flooding that worries them most. this is key west, at the tip...