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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 un...

Bill was talking about a six foot storm surge. here we saw every last foot of it. we actually saw at those buildings across their, where they have a second view of the second story. and the car port underneath. that's at least 12 feet there, and we saw those decks being over top. the idea that you think about a six or five foot storm surge as being five or six feet of water, it depends on where you are. over here on the beach, it was more than ten feet of water. great destruction all over here, into downtown naples. it's mostly behind us, and we probably are approaching 2 million people in the...

Who stayed behind, and who is trapped. we are getting a lot of calls. in fact, my last update said there are 30 rescues in this county, in the naples area of people trapped in their attics or on higher floors. we don't have a full situation report on that. we should by morning. >> and look, by that end, the sheriff's department said they're receiving a significant number of people trapped by water, but at the same time we're seeing first responders in videos that are struggling to deal with the flooding. can you tell us with the emergency response looks like on the ground where you are at this...

We've talked with tourists who are here to go to the, theme parks. they're obviously hunkering down in hotels. we talk to people who have gone to shelters who live here. the threat is for tornadoes. tornado watches in the area. all of this before and has even hit us, or iris, i should say, because we appear to be dodging the direct path of the storm at this point. but already outside of the direct path we see a dozen printed potential tornadoes touched down in florida. there have been small airplanes tossed around. all of that, again, i cannot stress it enough, outside of the direct path. obvi...