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this afternoon it came ashore as near category 5 strength, as a high category 4 after bidding for hours as it approached. oh, you got to be kidding me! you got to be kidding me right now! right now it is still a category 3 storm, still a major hurricane with damaging winds spanning out 175 miles from the center. oh, my god. no less troubling than the winds tonight, potentially even worse hurricane ian is still pushing a massive storm surge onshore. forecasts as high as 18 feet in places where buildings living close to the water was why so many people moved there. take a look. this is fort meyers beach, and that is a community outreach center knocked off its foundation and floating down the street. making matters worse, the flood waters affecting residents who are doing the same to rescuers. a fire station here in naples is what first responders are up against along with anyone needing emergency help. and again, these conditions are not expected to improve throug ....
in the united states and all around the world. i m john vause at the cnn center in atlanta. i knelt when i am in florida where hurricane ian bringing record storm surges, flash flooding in an unknown amount of destruction. it made landfall with winds just under category five, now it s a category one slowly moving into central florida with winds around 145 kilometers an hour. millions of homes and businesses have been left in the dark. some so badly damaged by ian that there is concerns that they may not be able to be rebuilt. the governor of florida warns about the dangers that lie ahead. overwhelmingly it s been that surge the biggest issue and the flooding that as resulted of that in some areas we think it s hit 12 feet. this is been a big storm and it s done a lot of damage as it is. it s gonna continue to move through the state of florida. you are gonna see hurricane-force winds in places in central florida perhaps. it s clearly a very strong tropical storm. a s ....
city are you okay? rescuers, helping guide residents through submerged intersection, since, having been turned into a lake. then, there is this. the electricity crisis. the storm, knocking out power lines, in more than 2 million homes, and businesses, which have been plunged into darkness, across the state. meteorologist, pedram javaheri, tracking ian. he joins me. pedram, ian may have weekend, but is unleashing very dangerous conditions. where does it stand right now? kristie, we ve got the latest update from the national hurricane center. 11 hours overland, since it made landfall. you will notice, still, a category one. a drop from 90 miles per hour, to 75 miles per hour, leaving this as a low-end, category one hurricane. notice, on the back side of the storm system, the cloud field, beginning to break. as far as clearing skies, around portions of marco island, around areas up towards tampa. all of these areas, finally, seeing drier weather persist. just eas ....
Right now i think it s gone further north. probably i d say 30, 40 miles, 50 miles north of us. we think we re on the better side, un, you know, the good side. belinda, i understand part of your roof was ripped off. yes. my husband was sitting he was sitting with his phone just doing nothing in the dark, and i came out, and he said there s something dripping on me. he got up, and the ceiling the family room ceiling came down. and we have solar panels but we live in florida. we have a cage around our pool, and we think we know it s gone, and we think it just slipped up and it took a piece with it and then the water sat down for a while and finally came in. so how high did the water get or how high is it? we re 2 1/2 feet above sea level right now, and the water is coming in through our house right now, so i m going to say ....
Power, they just don t know it here yet, because they ve evacuated. we ll bring power back to places that are priority. hospitals, places where we have a high population of people, we really won t know the extent of the number and the time it s going to take to probably tomorrow or maybe in a couple of days. thanks to the county commissioner rick telecast from speaking to us just a short time ago. despite mandatory evacuation orders from florida s governor, many of state in their own right at the storm. don collins spoke to anderson cooper s the floodwaters started to fill their home. my husband was sitting with his phone, doing nothing in the dark and i came out and he said something is drink dripping on me and he got up. the ceiling the, family room ceiling caved in. ....