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Val demings represents parts of orlando, which is where ian appears to be headed. she's a democratic nominee for the senate of florida. she joins me now. congresswoman, how are things holding up in the parts of the district that are out entering the zone of the storm. >> chris, in a land oh it's pretty dire. we have not seen the worst of hurricane ian yet. as you know, it's not really expected, the eye of the storm is not really expected to get to us until 2:00 in the morning, and some hours thereafter. the wind is about 55 to 77 miles per hour, wind gusts about 100 miles an hour. we are expec...

Steve patterson, thank you so much for being down there and reporting for us. please do stay safe. so this is a live look at orlando, florida. this is not on the coast at all, but where rain is absolutely pouring down as hurricane ian moves inland. i think we have maybe lost our orlando shot. we should note that the storm is moving across the peninsula, moving slowly. we are expecting that it will continue to dump a lot of water across the entire part of florida. then it's going to bank off into the atlantic, and as we said, we hit again. i don't think we have anyone to go to in orlando right ...

We should know about. joining us now is msnbc's ali bell she. ali, you have been giving us some gripping coverage today. i know the naples was hit with a storm, surge and quite a bit of flooding. what can you tell us about the conditions where you are? >> it's kind of remarkable, alex, before noon i was standing here, and there was nothing. this is a parking lot of the hotel we were actually staying at. this is facing east, that's not the water. the water is behind me. every time i've done a hurricane, we're on the water where we've got the water behind us. the story was here, because we were ...

The two hurricanes hit the mainland, following near identical spots near port charlotte. but comparisons between charlie and ian. here is hurricane ian as seen from space, the whole storm is 500 miles wide. the one we talk about hurricane, the part we are typically most concerned about is the section of the storm with hurricane-force winds. the yellow and red here, that stretches from tampa to naples, those winds are more than 100 miles wide. the eye of the storm alone is more than 30 miles wide. just gigantic. for comparison, here is how wide the hurricane-force winds were from hurricane char...

Course, in houston, the catastrophe was that the storm stuck around, move very slowly, dumped a lot of rain. it sounds like there is, like we are in the teeth of the risk for more rain perspective. >> it's just beginning. we are going through stages. it was the initial, what is the wind going to be when it makes landfall? how bad will that damage be? will it be adore nato? we'll still find out in the morning. i haven't seen any pictures of structures destroyed by the wind. the storm surge, i've seen many pictures. i saw pictures of storm searchers chasers hanging up a camera about eight feet h...