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welcome back to our viewers and united states and around the world. i'm john, those cnn center in atlanta. it is now 1 am on the u.s. u.s. east coast. the entire state of florida, embarrassing for the hurricane in. a massive storm stretching 100 miles across, which early made landfall on western cuba. knocking out the islands electricity grid causing a nationwide blackout. 11 million people right now in the dark waiting for more process to damage. as of this hour, no reports of any fatalities. since leaving cuba, it has gone in strength fueled by the warm waters of the gulf of mexico...

Landfall somewhere south of the port charlotte area, not form from put the cone up. a little farther towards the north, but at this, point it is such a broad feature, the impacts certainly gonna be felt wide reaching across the state of florida. and you'll notice, say the major hurricane, shortly after landfall, continues as a tropical storm through this part of central florida. we merging back over to the eastern area of the state, there before possibly making another landfall across parts of the state of georgia. but notice, the model guidance, really getting tight here as far as the confide...

Event. isolated cases of flash flooding yesterday. that will happen again today. the storm itself is drifting along the louisiana coast. it's about a tenth of what it used to be, even less than wait used to be, 100th less of what it used to be. because the ground is so saturated, they have flash flood watches up through friday evening. 5 million people are included that. it's not going to to be a sunny nice day. on and off periods of heavy rain bush not like the crazy rainfall totals you get with a landfall system. widespread along the coast. isolated totals may be up to four inches. we're sti...

Relative to the location. right around that eye some of the greatest damage. there's still going to be structural damage. but with time you start seeing the damage with some of those rain bands as well. some of those rain bands can produce hurricane force winds as well. >> reporter: where is the center of the storm, the eye wall, the most damaging part of the storm? where at this point do you think it's headed? >> john, when we look at that, this isn't just a coastal situation, you're going to have prolonged power outages associated with that eye wall. you have an expansive area of winds. this...

Ainsley and brian mentioned. carpet 3 storms. so major hurricane. we are seeing strength right now. the new advisory coming out at 8:00 a.m. that's going to give us great information. is the storm strength? where it is right now. and will the track stay the same. the message is still the same. we're going to see a very strong hurricane making landfall. the eye of the storm looking like corpus christi is the bulls eye here. the worst part of the storm is the north and east quadrant where you get the worst of the winds and storm surge 9 feet of storm surge. water moving over the land and also po...