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of this hurricane. it could make landfall the next several hours and then work its way up the peninsula slowly, very slowly, bringing hurricane force winds here to tampa, to orlando before it heads out over the atlantic on the other side maybe sometime later tomorrow. obviously millions of people feeling the impact of this, a life threatening storm in some ways a near worst case scenario for some of the people south of here. there was an 8 a.m. update just in from the national hurricane center. i believe we have michael brennan at the national hurricane center to give us a sense of the very latest. sir, if you can hear me, where is ian, where is it going? it s located about 55 miles west of naples, we re expecting catastrophic impacts along the southwest border coast later today. the storm surge could be as high as 16 feet above ground level in the area near port charlotte, from inglewood down to the beach. can you walk me through the timeline from now over the next ....
Storm surge and certainly the wind could take them down. the charlotte harbor is where this peace river feeds into and that is where hurricane charlie hit right at the charlotte harbor. i don t know, what would you expect would be happening in the harbor if we re seeing this kind of a storm of this magnitude. when the wind is going to be blowing from the west from 140 to 155 possibly, all of that water will get pushed up into that river. you can get a funnel effect where some of those numbers could be higher right up the river, right up the stream. that s what i m concerned about, especially if there s someone actually staying on those boats out there. that s something that you need to be gone. but the whole idea here is that charlie, every talks about charlie. this isn t charlie. this is closer to katrina. this is a storm surge of ....