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Breaking news and good evening. I'm erin burnett outfront tonight. The breaking news unsurvivable. That is the exact word officials are using right now, as hurricane helene has now grown to an extremely dangerous category four hurricane, bringing with it potentially really historic storm surge levels right now expected at 20 feet. Let's just look at the scene right now is a live camera that we have in met lots of florida trees right there right now, you've got up to 130 an hour gusts coming through that area on that bridge. We have seen cars coming and going really even in these past few momen...

millions there on tornado watch. is the west coast that could really feel the brunt getting slammed directly with life threatening storm surge and flooding in a day or so. millions of people in ian's cross hairs and boarding up the homes. people waiting in line for hours for free sand bags. mandatory evacuations were expanded. they're told it's time to leave now. fema's chief urged people to get out of harm's way. >> our biggest concern as we wait for this storm to make landfall is storm surge and i will note that storm surge is a leading cause of hurricane related fatalities. the de...

there it is expected to explode into an intense, powerful category 4 storm. then ian will likely weaken a bit before charging ashore somewhere along florida's gulf coast. florida's governor saying the storm's massive size means the entire state, the whole state wail be impacted. and he has activated the florida national guard. cnn meteorologist tom seder has been tracking all this in the weather center. what is the latest? >> well, it continues to look a little disorganized, really. it is a tropical storm. it's not moving very quickly, alex. only at 12 miles per hour, but it's gettin...

Water. and we have during these storm seasons and the heavy rain situations we empty out our storm ponds. we put a great deal of water over the dam much more than on a daily basis and really try to prepare, clean out our storm ditches, do everything that we can to allow that water to freely flow out into the bay and into empty storm ponds. >> of course as we've been saying there's so much uncertainty as to where this storm will hit. it could be anywhere from southern florida all the way up to the panhandle. but it could very easily, of course, land right on your city. what are you considering ...