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types 6 storms since he was in high school. ben mcmillen joins "primetime" now. so, ben, you are chasing this bad boy. what do you see? jesse, though the is third hurricane that has covered the area punta gorda on the west part of florida. and this town is a tragic story. they had 11,000 homes, damaged or destroyed in 2004 for hurricane charlie and 300 businesses and then in 2017 they were exacted by hurricane erma and then on top of those two as i mentioned the third storm in 25 years today hurricane ian a major hurricane shutting down the town once again. wigging out. palm trees and night fall sits. in power sought across the city. i think it's going to be a large effort for all the emergency responders to get into this area of florida and start to help these folks pick up the pieces. >> they're saying at sunrise tomorrow they will be able to

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>> jesse: that makes sense for me thank you for dumbing it down. i really appreciate it. anything else we can expect from this thing? we are not looking at another one forming south of this? is this all you are seeing on your radar? >> so far this is all we are seeing in the short-term. but, as we know, the hurricane season, at least we should know, goes through november 30th and frskt florida, believe it or not -- more major hurricanes, those are category 3 or higher strike the coast of florida in october vs. september only by a little bit. buff it does matter. for example, just four years ago coming off on the four year anniversary here of category 5 hurricane michael making landfall near the mexico beach area. so we still have a ways to go even after ian exits the stage here unfortunately. >> jesse: oh so we are really in the heart of the order when it comes to hurricane season? unbelievable. let's just pray that does not happen. thank you so much for explaining that to all of us.

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ahead and what daylight is going to reveal here in terms of not only, of course, of the tremendous loss to infrastructure, buildings and homes but possibly human life as well. we are beginning to really lose cell phone service in this area. power is out with many areas in the millions of customers without posh. for a us, we still do have a streetlight or two and that's amazing because so many of the businesses around us in fort myers don't. 10 minutes outside of downtown because it is still too dangerous for us to move and get you those pictures out of downtown. getting emergency alert tonight on our phones with rescue workers saying we cannot perform rescues right now. shelter in place, stay where you are, because we are still dealing with tremendous went gusts. can you imagine the feeling tonight of people that are trapped in their homes with water rising around them that are wanting to be rescued and there is no help immediately available because we are essentially still in the height of this storm.

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however, in a lot of places right now, it is simply too dangerous for first responders to get out and help people especially for those who decided to ride out the storm in some of the hardest hit places in florida. >> >> as night call come it's going to be a rough one. >> where are you in old tampa bay and it's kind of dark in your back drop. rough right on the coast. >> yeah. we are right on the water right now. we are sort of on a dlofsway. we are in a verify exposed area here. cuff feel the power of this storm as it most across the behave. according to our meteorologist we are going to get very heavy bands of rain. some estimates show up to 2 feet of rain falling in this area. once this storm is all said and done. so flooding is going to be a major concern as we look to the hours ahead. >> jesse: all right. max.

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so, that was about 3 feet at the time. then it rose 5 feet. that's when we were up at the second balcony watching everything. i think all in all came up 6 feet here. >> jesse: 6 feet. thank you graham. maybe i will run knew over the holidays. >> thanks, jesse. >> jesse: head back to jonathan serrie in atlanta beach. >> hi there, jesse. incredibly blustery palm trees blowing around. the winds in the 30 mile-per-hour range. may not sound like much. consider the center of the storm is in southwest, florida. we are in the northeastern corridor of the state and so this hurricane is really announcing its arrival well in advance in this area. the main concerns here are flooding. both from storm surge but also from the heavy rains. people here remember hurricane erma back in 2017.

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expect to get power back for along time. 16,000 people right now in orange county where we are are out of power. so, the real issue in this part of the state is the rain fall. so we are already seeing hurricane ian lose a bit of steam right now, a category 3. and it slows down also as it moves across the land of florida. now, you would think that's a good thing but the slower that the hurricane moves the more rain is dropped on this community. so, people here are trying to clear their yards of any debris because the window picks it up and it can clog a storm drain and becomes an even bigger issue. disney world is closed for the next two days. as of 10:30 today the airport is close to the commercial flights. still operating for any emergency relief that knees to come into the area. as we see the effects of this storm over the next 24 hours. tomorrow is the real day we will be of course live in orlando bringing you all the latest.

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congressman, that looks pretty rough back there are you sure this was a good idea? >> yeah, it's actually worse than what you see behind me right now because i'm in northeast sarasota county. so the eye is starting to make its way into this area of the state. but my heart goes out to my district. southwest florida and charlotte county because it is not going to look the same after this storm. we have people on little gas parrillo island. we have 16-foot storm surge. we have winds of 155 miles per hour. things i haven't seen i have been in this area my entire life. my family has been here for generations. i certainly haven't seen the devastation that we are seeing now. certainly in charlotte county and north fort myers which will be the epicenter of the hit. so when we come back tomorrow and the suspect comes up you on the great district of florida a lot of exasperation. >> jesse: are you satisfied with

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first light in the morning, so long as the window cooperate with us. the first aircraft into the area will be the coast guard's aircraft because they have lower minimums than what the regular dod military and national guard have. so that's how we are going to attack it. we are prepared. there is a lot of people that doesn't leave we are founding out. hundreds of people calling into # 121 call centers asking for assistance that we can't get in there and help out. >> jesse: if floridians are flooding the 911, are there other ways to contact your emergency rescue teams? how do floridians do that? >> right now, if it truly is an emergency, then we want them to call 911. if they are just trying to tell us that they are okay but they want us to know where they are at. they can go to our website at florida disaster.org/info and fill in a survey that actually gives their address and demographic information where they're at and they need help. we can actually do that if they have internet and wifi. we can actually take that via

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nearly decembnear ly destroyed by hurricane michael. residents will be allowed back, though a curfew will continue. authorities have a much better handle on the number of people still missing. that estimate thankfully down to three. scott mclene joins us now. scott, really just beginning to pull themselves out of this. what is the latest today? >> reporter: hey, jim. so the president was able to see the destruction here for himself. he flew over the mexico beach area and the panama city area and was able to get on the ground not far from where i am right now. he said it was tough to see the devastation because literally you can look in any different direction and see damage and destruction. i spoke to one gentleman yesterday in mexico beach who had actually evacuated prior to the hurricane hitting. he drove more than 50 miles

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will stay and rebuild. >> i thought i had. all of this stuff going in here, it's hard no talk about i-- to about it. >> reporter: all over the area, we heard this high pitching beeping. they are fire alarms, buried in the rubble, warnings that perhaps came too late. again and again i heard from survives here who told me they're simply grateful to be alive. these three friends were searching for one of their homes. it was hard for them to even recognize the street. >> wow, no -- there are just no -- there are no words. >> no, there's not. there's so many memories here. >> reporter: this woman named sherry says she didn't have time to grab anything but some

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