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torrential rain. hundreds of miles away from where ian first came ashore as a hurricane at this hour they are inundated by water. i'm harris faulkner and you are in "the faulkner focus." breaking news with new developments now. let's go to orlando. look at these pictures. tropical storm ian hitting that metro and already our reporters are showing us conditions where high water rescues are underway. some 127 so far. returning now to sanibel island. look at the left side of your screen. those were the moments just before hurricane ian hit. look at the right side of your screen. the hei...

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...

hour. >> there will be catastrophic flooding and life threatening storm surge. if you are in tampa bay and counties north and south of that it could be something that happens. if you're under an evacuation order. evacuate to higher ground that will be safe from the type of surge and flooding. >> bill: our fox weather team coverage considers. adam klotz standing by to tell us the latest. >> dana: first we'll go to phil keating. he is in a beach community a half hour southwest of tampa. sounds like a good place. >> it is. it is old, classic florida. the time to get out of town is now. ...

counties. he has also called up 7,000 national guard members. local officials have warned residents to get out now, and have ordered more than 300,000 people to evacuate their homes, including my home of tampa. my family has already evacuated. please listen to the warnings, especially if you're in an evacuation area. terrified residents have been boarding up windows and desperately digging huge trenches, while others have stripped supermarket shelves bare of water and essentials. tossing it over to max gorden, lives in st. petersburg, florida, reporting for fox weather, your hurrican...

it could cause catastrophic flooding. >> aishah: i'm in for sandra smith. state and local officials are telling more than 2 million to leave their homes and get out of the way of the massive storm. ian strengthening to a category 3, ripping through western cuba, 125 mile per hour winds and heavy rains slamming the island and causing heavy flooding. >> john: i said good wednesday, only tuesday, wednesday is when it's go time in florida, just hours to go now until the storm makes landfall, many are attempting to avoid the storm-packed highways, and those hunkering down have been cleari...