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top of the hour, this busy thursday morning, i'm jim sciutto. >> i'm poppy harlow. welcome to our viewers. the breaking news we are following this morning, hurricane ian leaving just stunning devastating destruction in florida as a hurricane then a tropical storm. still pummeling the state though. 14 million people in florida are currently under flood alerts. 2.5 million businesses without power along with homes. they're rescuing people trapped inside flooded homes. governor ron desantis spoke about the devastation so many are waking up to this morning. >> there's 1.5 million outages...

guys are pushing out of the bay. >> see if it can catch on fire, it's on fire and we didn't want the station to go down. of >> trace: water kills, whether it's flooding, whether it's driving into it. whether it's storm surge, that's what kills you. >> one of the top five hurricanes to ever hit the florida peninsula, but the fact is there's going to be damage throughout the whole state and people and other parts of the state be prepared for some impacts. >> top five hurricanes, could be top three hurricanes and more than 2 million people are without access to power as hurricane ian ba...

and georgia. major cities prepare for a direct hit from the dangerous hurricane. we have the stories. >> this is the cbs evening news. >> the winds. for power is fully restored. tonight the state's of georgia, the carolinas and virginia will all have de claired a state of emergency ahead of ian's expected landfall tomorrow. we have team coverage tonight. all throughout florida andpbeyoe will start us off north northed for meyers. i know the damage where you are is quite extensive. >> norah, for this home, the damage is total, completely destroyed this home. now if you go downt the bl...

cuba saw significant flooding and, is just now getting power back in some areas after nearly the entire island was plunged into darkness. now this morning, is ethan's world toward tampa, residents woke up to this eerie sight. nearly all the water had receded out of tampa bay. the storm pulled all the water from the shore as it's winds whipped around, counterclockwise, before shoving it back towards land hours later. around the same time, the natural hurricane center increased their predictions for how much storm surge ian will bring. the revised estimates stand 12 to 18 feet along th...

ian now setting its sites on the south carolina coast, as we come on the air, with the tropical storm expected to strengthen back into a hurricane as it moves, look at it there, very slowly across the atlantic and back towards the east coast, after a trail of destruction in florida. people there are reeling now from one of the worst storms that has ever hit them, and doing what they can to start picking up the pieces. sanibel island, captiva island, a storm surge, with a huge chunk of the causeway there, that is the only way in or out, in a state overall, more than two and a half mil...