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>> janice: 947 is the pressure right now. >> steve: that is low. >> 947 the pressure. wow, that's low. that's the rapid inferenceification, right, janice? >> janice: absolutely. when you see the winds go up. 5:00 a.m. advisory they downgraded it to a category 3 i always say don't pay attention to the category because it's always been the storm surge. when you see the pressure dropping as it has dropped in the last six to 12 hours that was rapid intensification. this time yesterday we were at a category 1 storm. so the fact that we have got the warmest waters in the gulf of mexico off the coast of the big bend of florida has inenhanced that rapid intensification. >> steve: robert, out of curiosity, over the last couple of weeks we have been talking about how the waters off the
here is a live look at cedar key, florida. fox weather has prepositioned a bunch of cameras in different locations. this is one of theirs. this is exactly where robert was talking about, the big bend area. and janice dean -- janice, how many miles away from the coast is the eye wall or rather the center of the storm? >> janice: the actual eye is about 7 miles away from the coast line. >> steve: so we're going to make landfall. >> janice: within the hour. >> ainsley: janice was thinking 8:00. >> janice: the national weather service has to make that call, not myself. >> brian: janice, we will get to you in just one minute because. >> ainsley: first go to fox news senior correspondent steve harrigan he is live in tar pen springs, florida slightly north of clearwater. steve, what are you seeing there? >> good morning, take a look at look at what downtown tar pin springs looks like right now. we are not seeing the dramatic wind yet. we have had steady rain overnight. gives you a sense of just how big this storm is and how much
to the national guard. the aftermath of this is going to be hairy. moving into south georgia as a hurricane and into the carolinas. be careful. heed the warnings, stay in. find high ground. take care of your family. take care of your vehicles, guys. back to you. >> brian: robert, how long do you think you can stay there? it looks like it's getting higher while you are talking? >> well, i got to say, i mean, the water has been gradually increasing all morning. and this is about the highest i have seen it in this pocket. the good news for us is beyond the camera there is a garage that goes up many floors, in fact five floors up. so we could take shelter in that if this becomes inundated up to 7 feet. that's what the prediction was by the national weather service up to 7 feet of surge. whether we see that, i just don't know. it's too hard to tell. and especially with the sun not fully up right now it's hard to gauge how many of these roads are taking it in. if you look at this, let me back up, guys, i will council back a
and don't take anything for granted here. we have already had 11 tornado warnings, and there are more tornadoes possible. even and especially in the very outer bands of the storm. steve and it's just getting started. even the governor's command center lost power twice during the press conference, but they have got generators. listen, we have got live fox team coverage all morning long. senior meteorologist janice dean is here in the studio m. tracking the storm. steve harrigan is in participaten springs. brandy campbell live in tallahassee. start in clearwater where robert ray is standing by and in coronado street, right, robert? >> cared in a dough drive to be exact. off the gulf of mexico, clearwater beach. what we are seeing and experiencing as a team myself and two photographers, fox news photographers is a very heavy
we will get that information. overnight category 4 storm downgraded a little bit to a category 3. the results are still the same. the storm surge is still going to be catastrophic. 16 feet over this very vulnerable coast line is going to cause, you know, it's going to change the coast line of this area very rim reminiscent of iaf you went through michael across the panhandle a couple of years ago, it's going to be kind of the same catastrophic damage. this is the latest storm surge by the way. so look at cedar key approaching 6 feet right now. where i believe we have robert ray and we are looking at cedar key the florida storm surge trend it's obviously peaking right now and depends on when high tide is. some coming in now. then you have feet of storm surge on top of high tide and then the waves on top of that. that's why this is the most dangerous part of this ukraine hurricane. some of the wind gusts 81 miles
just tremendous amount of energy. i will say this and i have said it again. we need to fear these hurricanes. always have the fear of god in you. they have their own entity in mind. they will rip us apart. be careful. >> ainsley: robert. great advice. i have been hearing we can replace our homes and cars. we can't replace our family members and loved ones. definitely listen to all of these warnings, robert. great job. we will continue to check in with you throughout the morning. don't forget to download the fox weather app. that's been extremely helpful to all of us. it was great to watch our coverage last night. watch our coverage today. because we have a completely channel devoted to weather. so, fox news channel is working with fox weather channel and we're sharing information. sharing meteorologists and reporters that are on the ground. so it's just been a wealth of information. if you want to watch this morning and see how it's affecting these families, our loved ones down in florida. and then it's going to effect georgia and move on up to south carolina and then keep it right here on the fox news channel.
into south georgia as a hurricane. we don't know how the strength is going to continue. we don't know how hard that's going to be. but they are going to get walloped moving into the south carolina area. we are continuing to stay out here and monitor this as the haymakers are being thrown by idalia. back to you. >> ainsley: robert when you started this morning it was up to your calf, now it's almost up to your knees. janice telling us information this morning stay with us because we want your reaction to this. janice? >> janice: hi, robert. so we're getting information that the eye is clearly moving on shore near fish creek. it's not confirmed by the new york city but national hurricae center. near fish creek we are getting the lowest pressure point -- that doesn't mean anything except that the ---the lowest pressure point is now moving on shore. we will definitely get an official landfall from the new national hurricanecenter.
>> steve: how low is the pressure that's a good way to tell how strong the storm is. >> janice: that's good information i don't have that information in front of me yet. we will get that. when the national hurricane center makes their official call we will get the lowest pressure point as that eye makes its way on shore. but, remember, the strongest part of the storm, the core of hurricane force winds has already made landfall. they are already experiencing winds in excess of 100 miles per hour for a duration of time. >> steve: and when the eye makes landfall, it's quiet in the eye. >> janice: yes. >> steve: robert, obviously you are nowhere near the eye relatively speaking. you are on the dirty side of the storm. the wind is pummeling the palm trees there and the water is rising. we should point out, you mentioned a parking structure. any time we take pictures of a hurricane, we try to keep you guys out in the weather but as safe as possible. so, sometimes you are in the shadow of a great big building that's not going to blow over.
little bit. you start to see some of the 35u78 trees coming apart and some of the debris starting to wash through. yeah, we are being very careful. i'm probably 15 feet from the ability to cut into that garage and out of this if i have to. the winds have calmed a little bit since i have been speaking, believe it or not, and the rain just down a notch. but this is what we're going to see. as the imminent landfall, again, in the next hour or less, this hurricane will make landfall in the big bend as a major cat 4. >> ainsley: robert, be careful you don't know what is underneath the water when you are walking. i heard pam bondi say on "fox & friends first" she was hearing reports of big dumpsters barreling down streets because the wind was so bad. so just be careful. >> we will. for sure. head on a swivel. >> steve: there you go. you got your cameraman looking out for you. >> ainsley: thanks for showing us what it looks like down there. >> steve: he is in clearwater.
definitely pray for everyone affected by this, at least 70 people confirmed the dead in after the monstrous tornado tore a 200-mile path of destruction through the state. it was some 70 miles northeast of mayfield's dawson springs kentucky where box whether multimedia journalist robert ray is standing by live. robert, i can see there's just destruction all around you. reporter: good afternoon. it's undeniable, 360 degrees destruction here in this little town. i'm sandwiched between two neighborhoods. you see the trees behind me totally destroyed. those were the woods and then there's a neighborhood behind the camera and another neighborhood there. now, where i'm standing in the woods that separate the two neighborhoods is just a debris. people's pillowcases right here. you see the vehicle completely destroyed behind me. there are ladders,