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You have to know that. you don't want to go to the basement if you're in a low elevation. interior room, you want to be pillows, blankets, a mattress. you go into the bathroom and put a mattress on top of you and you wait and pray and hope for it to pass. that's the situation that many people are going through in this area right now. the wind gusts, they're going to pick up. a lot of our wind centers are going to break. they're going to stop working. we've had numerous gusts to 60 to 70 and we're not going to see many reports above 100. and as far as the hurricane goes, we just did get the new...

Over world series it could very well be at hurricane strength, but it's got a long way to go before that, including making landfall sometime in the next couple of hours south of here in the fort myers/punta gorda/port charlotte area with wind speeds now of 155 miles per hour. jim, poppy, that will be one of the moststunning to imagine the they could do. john, we'll get back to you soon. thanks a lot. this last-minute turn means the hurricane is expected to make landfall in charlotte county, florida, a little more than 100 miles south of where john is. >> the red and oranges zones on this map...

You can see here ripping trees from the ground. it also caused heavy damage to planes at the north carey airport in pembroke pines. it flipped planes there. a u.s. government plane is flying through the eye wall of this monster storm. these stunning visuals that show the hurricane full of lightning as it is sweeping over the gulf on its path to florida. john? >> reporter: we have team coverage. randi kaye south of here where the storm could be making landfall. carlos in tampa. chad myers standing by for us in the weather center. let's go to randi kaye down in punta gorda. what are you seeing s...

Miles south of here. let's go right to randi kaye who has been there all night, all morning long. okay, we lost randi kaye's signal. let's go to bill weir who is also in punta gorda. bill, i want to go to you because i know the situation there deteriorating. >> reporter: it is, john, we're staying mobile as long as we can here in the car before we hunker down for landfall later this afternoon. yes, you can feel it buffeting here as we start to feel it pick up. we want to give you a sense of where we are, this is the harbor, the peace river comes right around my shoulder and into the gulf of me...

More flying debris to your life there. so there's all these stacked concerns right now, but here at least in punta gorda we know they had the foresight, we know they've been working, preparing for days like this, now unfortunately for better or worse we're going to see if it meets hurricane ian. >> bill weir for us in punta gorda, florida. bill, that was not my voice, but were it to be my voice what i would have been saying to you and your team is please stay safe. stay safe down there over the next day because as we've been saying this is a historic storm about to make landfall there. the win...