Stay updated with breaking news from Hurricane packing. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
to be seen. there are programs that fema has. but it is not going to be commensurate to having had a policy. this is an issue we will have to d deal with. we deal with this. when you have this about the homeowners policy will cover certain things, but the flood policy covers probably the most significant risk for most homeowners in florida given the risk of flooding that we have in so many parts of our state. so we re sensitive to that. there is, obviously, going to be some folks that are going to be in need of support and relief and we are, obviously, going to work as best we can. i will say that people have been asking about some of the overall homeowners insurance with like citizens. citizens i think right now between 6 and 7 billion of surplus. their modelling for this was that they would still have between 4 and 5 billion in surplus. so they view themselves as being able to weather this. individual carriers have to go through a stress test to be able to have their ....
is only beginning. sandra: for those of us who have lived through hurricanes we know how scary they can be. chief meteorologist is with us tracking the storm and the latest tally on some of the winds that are being reported across that state. what are we seeing, rick? so far, john, i m glad we had the video that popped up from 2017 up in jacksonville, because jacksonville is going to get storm surge again from this storm, which is pretty hard to imagine. this is a look at the winds recorded so far, verified naples, 112 miles an hour, still with kinds of the worst of the wind offshore, it has not made its way there just yet. so we have a long road ahead. all right, every hour now we are getting an update here, so this is the 2:00 p.m. update. no changes in the last three hours, pressure still at 937 millibars, moving north/northeast at nine miles an hour. we are looking at that every hour. often times when you have a storm making landfall it starts to weaken a bit, i ....
Able to weather this. individual carriers have to go through a stress test to be able to have their policies approved. so this year they had tested under a direct impact on tampa bay and what would happen. and so they have policies. they have reinsurance. we have our wrap i m wolf blitzer in the situation room. we have been listening to the florida governor ron desantis warning ian would cause damage throughout the state. the storm making landfall as a very powerful category 4 hurricane packing 150-mile-per-hour winds. let s get right to the hurricane disaster zone right now. cnn s bill weir is on the phone joining us from punta gorda. not far from where ian made a second landfall a while ago. what are you experiencing now? what are you seeing there? wolf, it s the back end, ....
Party? they said they hid in a closet and screamed all night long, the most stupid thing we have ever done, never do it again. for people riding out the hurricane in the teeth of the storm, a life changing experience. sandra: and people decide to ride it out, possibly staff at the hotel, brand-new video in, sanibel, florida there, but going back to the point that this is a category 4 hurricane packing sustained winds, 155 miles an hour. that is just two miles per hour shy of a category 5 in ten at this, what we are dealing with. robert ray is in the middle of it. fort myers balancingsing out the winds there. robert. yeah, sandra. it has gotten more intense since i spoke to you, 20 or so minutes ago. t two separate transformers have blown down the block. rick, potentially go as far as you can, just to take a look at ....
Morgan, southwest of new orleans. give me a sense of how things are there. reporter: to hear bill say the eye may not arrive for another three or four hours, the winds significantly stronger, the gusts feel like they re tropical storm status and we know it s only going to get stronger in the hours ahead. right now a mandatory evacuation that went into effect about 48 hours ago. i spoke to the fire chief. he tells me he believes about 60% of the people got out of town, but that still leaves an awful lot of folks about to ride out this potentially category 4 hurricane packing incredibly powerful winds, and that s what they re most concerned about here. they say obviously there are some low lying areas that may ....