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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 the coast, from inglewood to benin a beach. you can see here in the purple section on this map. you have seen waters rise to record-breaking levels throughout the day. that s naples. naples, florida, the water road six feet above the normal high tide, nearly submerging cars. in fort myers beach the storm surge has driven the water 8 to 20 feet, flooding homes, leaving some residents trapped. o ....
off of the gulf coast there. we re not going to get a sense of it until tomorrow. but yes, it looks pretty path down in. and we ll be talking about this later in the hour. thanks, chris. and thank you for joining us. hurricane ian continues to create a swath of in made landfall just after 3:00 this afternoon in southwestern florida, near k o connor, a island off of the coast of fort myers. ian came ashore as a category four hurricane with 150 mile per hour winds. just a few miles per hour shy of a category five. only for hurricane stronger than that have made landfall in the united states ever. but it is not just the strength of the storm, it is the size. this is the view of hurricane in from the international space station this afternoon. just showing how massive the storm is. the national river describes in as battering the florida peninsula with tied and winds, and flooding. ian has just now weakened to a category two storm with maximum sustained winds of 105 ....
I am so glad that we were able to pass the inflation reduction act, which a large portion of that will go to addressing a climate change. we have to come together, as i said, at the local and state level. we ve got to join the federal partners, and deal with this issue, particularly in the state of florida. congresswoman val demings, whose district includes parts of our, which is about to get the worst part of the storm, particular for the rainstorm perspective. thank you so much, stay safe. thank, you take care. that is all in tonight, hurricane in continues right now with alex wagner. good evening, alex. good evening, chris, as spectacularly destructive as the images have been, it s so abundantly clear that we have no conception of the true toll of this natural disaster, by a long shot. and particularly in that area right down there by fort myers beach, and the islands ....