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residents are urged to stay inside. our team is on the ground, crews mobilize before sunrise and senior meteorologist is here tracking ian in new york city. >> todd: phil keating, where we begin our coverage in st. petersburg, we got the latest update the hurricane has been downgraded to a tropical storm, what are you seeing right now? >> good morning, had u.s. coast guard helicopter land across the water at tampa general, now flying off, they have a real busy day doing search and rescue operations all day, still unknown whether they have numerous people that need to be rescued or wh...

devastating some of the most important tobacco farms used to produce iconic cigars. you are watching "fox and friends first," i'm carley shimkus >> todd: i'm todd piro, our reporters are live this morning. janice dean is in the fox weather center in new york city. >> carley: we begin in st. pete's beach, on track to be one of the first places hit today. lauren, what are you seeing on the ground right now? >> still dry at this moment and looking ago, later today that will not be the case. this morning ian is expected to strengthen to a category four hurricane, before moving to a hurri...

Wind, strong storm surge along the coast and potential for up to two feet of rain depends where you live. the latest track, expecting landfall this afternoon, that timeline has moved up. it will move across and get out possibly into the atlantic. looking at tropical storm that will affect georgia, to carolinas and midatlantic. storm size, this is what we're expecting. around 12 noon, the core of the strongest winds move to the fort myers and naples area, sarasotas, still hurricane force gusts here and we could see potential for a storm surge, which is deadliest part of a hurricane for some vul...

Those will catch some of the rain and tear the storm up just a little bit. so this track, although not quite set in stone is certainly pretty obvious where this thing probably goes. the this storm size may still be significantly different from where we are now. let me just say this. if it you're retired in south florida and you have kids in michigan, time to go visit. that's for at least for now. i mean this is still four to five days away. but why hang out? sure looks like. >> those models, all of them ominous looking. we will speak to the national hurricane center shortly. in the meantime ...

This is the town up here in el reno, oklahoma. look at the town size right here, compared to the storm size overall. this was the path of the storm. it was on the ground for quite a while, 6:03 p.m. is when it formed way over here. moved this way. stayed there until 6:43 p.m. covered almost 16 mile. do the math there, you realize on any given area, it could have been grinding away for 2 minutes or more. as you mentioned, it was not only strong, well, well over 200 miles an hour, but quite wide. 2.6 miles across at its biggest area and ef-5. one more thing to note in all this, erin, at one poin...