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At that point emergency response teams cannot go out. from this point here in pinellas county, every other county, officials are saying it across the state do not expect first responders to be able to get to you anytime soon if you are in distress. if you have elected to stay you have to get your family into a safe place and where that is in the given home of course it varies, but you've got to start to hunker down right now. you can see just the intensity of what -- >> i think we just lost brian todd. we lost brian todd in st. petersburg. one thing to point out about where brian is right now,...

Have evacuated or were told to evacuate in this county. that's about two thirds of the county, so they are certainly taking it seriously and the county officials are telling me they are not afraid to increase those evacuations before it gets too late. john? >> randi kaye in punta gorda. i'm so glad they made that decision to evacuate. 155 mile per hour winds, almost no one has experienced that type of hurricane. it could be and will be one of the most powerful storms ever to make landfall in the united states over the next few hours. jim and poppy, starting to pick up and rain here. all of flo...

He's director of management -- emergency my management. given that it turned to the south, with tampa no longer being a direct hit, did the evacuation orders get out early enough to the areas most likely to feel the brunt of this. >> we've had the evacuation orders in place for almost two days. that provided time for our residents to take heed. our hope is that our residents listened and took the lesson of hurricane charley from 2004, where early on that was just set to make landfall at tampa bay as well, but that also took a turn into charlotte county. sure enough we are see the same with hur...

And denmark will wear "toned down" jerseys for the world cup as a form of protest against qatar's human rights record — not the only team prepared to take a stand. welcome back. hurricane ian is making landfall this hour, with the eye passing close to fort myers, south of tampa, and punta gorda. meteorologists says it could be the strongest storm to ever make landfall on the west coast of the peninsula, with wind speeds over 150 mph — plenty strong enough to move suspension bridges like this one. but it's the storm surge and the flooding that worries them most. this is key west, at the tip...

But they will find some comfort in the huge efforts made by those who had never met rayan to try to save him. simon jones, bbc news. at least six people have been killed and fifty—thousand displaced by a tropical storm that is crossing madagascar. a minister told the bbc at least 35 thousand people have been forced to leave their homes and move to safety. lucy grey reports. cyclone batsirai making landfall, heavy rain and winds of more than 180 kilometres an hour batter madagascar, the island still reeling from a storm less than a fortnight ago. they've been preparing, reinforcing their roof...