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they're great people, beautiful state. you know about their football team? >> bill: a little bit. >> dana: governor desantis will give a update any moment now and bring it live. florida is bracing for what could be a once in a century storm. >> bill: the current storm track shows landfall sometime on thursday, maybe in tampa. if that were a direct hit, it would be the first major storm to hit tampa in more than 100 years. >> dana: forecasters are predicting storm sturge. people are boarding up homes and businesses. the amount of water may simply be too much to overcome. >> bill: here...

hour. >> there will be catastrophic flooding and life threatening storm surge. if you are in tampa bay and counties north and south of that it could be something that happens. if you're under an evacuation order. evacuate to higher ground that will be safe from the type of surge and flooding. >> bill: our fox weather team coverage considers. adam klotz standing by to tell us the latest. >> dana: first we'll go to phil keating. he is in a beach community a half hour southwest of tampa. sounds like a good place. >> it is. it is old, classic florida. the time to get out of town is now. ...

Speeds are at 40 miles per hour or less. so when that happens, they will make that call. people will be able to use those. but don't use it until then because that obviously carries some risk if people don't know that that's something that is going on. you also can use things like gas buddy to find gas stations in the area that have fuel. i would note if you look at these updated tracks that we've been getting this morning -- i think you'll probably see that reflected in the 11:00 a.m. advisory from the national hurricane center, you have potential paths of the storm entering florida's gulf co...

Encourage the women of her country to have more babies. but that's what she is trying for in italy. byron, thank you so much. interesting to watch her political career. we'll see the reaction from that. nice to see you, byron. >> thank you. >> dana: ian has its eyes on florida. the tampa bay area, the latest on the storm's track. california lawmakers approving a first of its kind bill, doctors punished for misinformation. who decides what is misinformation?

Vulnerable region. >> dana: thank you so much for that. >> bill: want to bring the rob herrin from the hillsborough fire rescue. at the moment where do you think your situation is? >> well, hillsborough county fire rescue and our county is ready and prepared for the storm. we want to urge as has been said this morning, those residents in evacuation zones to please heed that warning. as mentioned, floridians can become comfortable and complacent. we need to take the storm seriously. it is the storm surge and those rainwaters and flooding that will follow that is the true danger here. >> dana: h...