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Out of office, including campaigning with democrats. Youre live in the cnn newsroom. Hello, everyone. Thank you for joining us. Im fredricka whitfield. Welcome to a new 11 00 a. M. Eastern hour here on this sunday of the newsroom. Florida under a State Of Emergency this hour, as Tropical Storm ian gains strength. Ian is expected to become a hurricane today, and may peak as a category 4 storm before weakening and making a direct hit on florida as early as wednesday. Were expecting an update from Governor Ron Desantis minutes from now. Our reporter is in the weather center. Cnns Priscilla Alvare...

coast of florida. 155-mile-per-hour wind speeds. that's just two miles short of a category 5 hurricane. it's expected to make landfall about 100 miles south of here in the port charlotte area. rain 12 to 24 inches across much of the florida peninsula, challenge create freshwater flooding. the impact of this will be felt by millions in florida. already 200,000 people without power. that's before the storm even makes landfall. this will uproot people's lives. its a life-threatening storm. this is the sunshine skyway bridge that we have pictures of. you can see the winds kicking up. it ...

we have teams on the ground as we prepare for the eventual landfall. we are in florida, and carlos suarez is in tampa in gulfport, and carlos, as we've been discussing, tampa, that is where the real worry is because they're worried about storm surge and a lot of the residential areas there are vulnerable. >> reporter: that is exactly right, jim and poppy. the concern is the forecasted five to ten foot storm surge with hurricane ian. we are in gulfport. that is about a half hour drive outside of tampa where a number of businesses right before the barrier islands have already boarded u...

out of office, including campaigning with democrats. you're live in the cnn newsroom. hello, everyone. thank you for joining us. i'm fredricka whitfield. welcome to a new 11:00 a.m. eastern hour here on this sunday of the newsroom. florida under a state of emergency this hour, as tropical storm ian gains strength. ian is expected to become a hurricane today, and may peak as a category 4 storm before weakening and making a direct hit on florida as early as wednesday. we're expecting an update from governor ron desantis minutes from now. our reporter is in the weather center. cnn's p...

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