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Barreling down the gulf coast straight into florida's west coast. 120mileanhour winds and violent water pummeling the bridge. And this is santa bell island where floodwaters appear to be swallowing a house. And in fort myers, a tornado rips through neighbourhoods, obliterating properties. The winds are ferocious, the storm churches unstoppable and floridians are worried. Let's go to her senior correspondent in tampa. Steve? jesse, we see rain come down in sheets. The wind is starting to pick up as well, we could see anywhere from 616 inches of rain here that has been going steady for the past ...

This is going to be a catastrophic storm, it is going to be a potentially deadly storm. Florida prepares for landfall. This is going to be a punch to the base. Face. The fema administrator will join me live. Then it they give the money to illegal immigrants. The expresident using the disaster to spread his lies. What are they talking about? stop it. The dangerous consequences of using a tragedy to get yourself elected. Don't listen to anything or anybody who is trying to make you more afraid than you already are. All in starts right now. It evening from new york, at this moment, hurricane mil...

That storm surge could be the worst part of this storm. So we will be on that during this hour. I'll be watching. Thanks alex. Thank you. We are going straight to bill karins. Msnbc's meteorologist. Nbc news meteorologist for the latest on the situation there. Bill, what can we expect now in florida? this is when all the damage is happening. We can't show you where the worst storm surge is. But we know it is moving in. We have had reports of a ten foot storm surge in sarasota. As we go down the coast, all the way to naples, it's been at least five to six foot storm surge. That is higher than h...

The evacuation process. It wasn't easy, first off. There was a lot of different variables, a lot of different factors that came into that decision. One of them was financial. Really don't know if we can come back or not. You know, if the storm hits really bad, you know, our area might be fine, but the pathway back down the home might not be. And to risk not having that cheque every week that we, you know, depend on, could just be a major issue down the line as well. Some people would think that maybe that's just the wrong way of thinking, but it's really hard to leave everything behind, pack e...

5,500 additional gigawatts of renewable capacity to come online between now and 2030. That's more than the current power capacity of china, the european union, india and the united states combined. China is leading the pack, responsible for 60% of the additional output. And solar is winning the renewable race, making up 80% of the forecasted growth. But electricity infrastructure is not keeping up. Up to 10% of renewable energy is going to waste because it's not able to be stored at times when more is being generated than needed. For more, joining me now the iea's executive director, dr fatih ...