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Hillsborough officials request emergency declaration after Hurricane Idalia

Hillsborough County wants to hear from you if you are dealing with damage to your home from Hurricane Idalia.

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"I could tear up," Steinhatchee marina begins hurricane restoration effort

Locals, people from out of town, and private donors came together here at Steinhatchee Marina at Deadman Bay to hand out supplies

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World Central Kitchen serves food to those impacted by Idalia in Steinhatchee

People in Steinhatchee are relying on people like workers with World Central Kitchen for food and water.

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deputies who were on duty in this county ever, normally, at one time. they had to call in the state police to help them because there were so few of them there to monitor it. but they just want people to know, if you are still here now, you are on your own. >> there's only so much they can do once the storm comes through. john berman, thank you very much. i want to go now to cnn's carlos suarez, he's live in tampa florida. carlos, where the conditions like where you are there on the ground? >> will, we are in for a wet and windy night here. in tampa bay. it's about half an hour ago we started seeing a line of thunderstorms associated with this hurricane make its way across hillsboro county. we expect this bad weather to continue into the night and into tomorrow, which is when we might start seeing some of the storm surge associated with this hurricane. that is the biggest concern from emergency officials at this hour. they are worried that the storm, which is going to pass hillsborough county and

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definitely the cavity of the shoreline is something that is very scary for a storm surge, because it is very conducive for the piling up of that water with the onshore flow, anywhere to the right of the center. >> yeah, that is a really interesting point about how that geography can actually make it so much worse for that part of the state. read, tamarack you very much as always and, again, stay safe tonight. >> thank you for having me. >> in some florida hospitals are suspending services ahead of idalia's landfall, but others are preparing for a spike in patients. someone who is manning the war room of one of florida's largest hospital systems will join me next. ♪ chevy silvlverado has what it takes to do it all. with up to 13 camemera views. and the z71 off-road package. ♪ you ok? yeah.

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coast as a category three, just three hours from now. evacuations are underway in at least 28 counties. mayors, officials, the governor all warning people in those targets zones to take cover or leave immediately. that includes people in cedar key and big band. one of the greatest threats, of course, is the storm surge. it's expected to reach once in a lifetime levels for this part of florida. cnn's live up and down the coast, including in tampa and steinhatchee. we will speak live with some storm changes storm chasers in the heart of the bull's-eye, also officials warn that time is running out to evacuate. first let's get straight to chad myers with this new forecast. chad, what is the path of hurricane idalia at this hour? >> still straight up to the north and likely just to the east of tallahassee as it continues to the north overnight. now the hurricane center will

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i want to go next to cnn's phone john berman who is in steinhatchee on florida's big bend for us. so john, where is this storm expected to hit in the coming hours? you are aware? we could be seeing that landfall? >> unfortunately here. not far from here. and if the eyewall goes across here exactly, this is still the area where they are expecting 10 to 15 feet of storm surge. about 45 minutes south of here, cedar key, the mayor told his people that they simply can't be helped if they stay. get out, this could be unsurvivable. let me explain why. i'm on the deck right now on a marina, the sea hag marina, normally a bustling place, i can see the bar right here with this time of night it would normally be filled with people. hurricane herman in 2016 was a category one. it has a storm surge of six feet. when that came in here, and then to come in here, that fill

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feet under the water tower, the school, people are stashing their vehicles up there. all of this behind me is going to be flooded out for several blocks through the gulf of mexico shoreline. >> you have experienced so many storms over the course of your life and career, but this is not really a part of florida that is used to this kind of intensity. what are you the most concerned about as we go into the coming hours? >> well that's right. a storm of this intensity has never gone up through the major coast and the northwest florida and appalachia bay here, and so an unprecedented storm like this will have unprecedented impacts and we just don't know what to expect. it is a scary thing, even for a storm chaser that has seen over 50 or 60 hurricanes so far, we just don't know what the impacts are going to be. we're not as familiar with the shoreline, it is very low-lying here as well so the storm surge is going to penetrate several miles inland. it is likely going to knock out a lot of bridges as well.

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climate correspondent, bill weir, who is live on the scene. bill, you are right on the path of this storm, now a category three almost. how is the situation changing where you are as it moves closer? >> well, abby, we haven't seen any change yet here. it's still pretty calm before the storm but it was less than a year ago when i was preparing for hurricane ian and we went to bed and woke up and the storm had intensified greatly. that is the ingredient here, the warmer golf of mexico, warmer than we have ever seen before. it is in patches and so, overall, it is about 88 degrees, and average temperature but hot or warm to the shore, close to 90. so we are going to see whether or not that is sort of a steroid shot for this particular storm as it gets close to the shore. folks in communities like this, which is right, a low-lying community right on the river here as that storm surge pushes all the water up into the neighborhoods. that is the main concern. >> to that point, you just talked about this warmer water.

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move on, it looks like -- as well, and we do expect a tornado threat to really as we get into the overnight hours as well. -- we do expect a big-time tornado potential as well. down here in cedar key's, the big concern is the storm surge and this is an island that sticks out a little bit to the north of tampa. we do expect landfall a little bit to the west, as they are slowly starting to trend west. it doesn't mean that they are going to have it catastrophic storm surge here because a landfall of the hurricane is anywhere off to the west. we have that powerful onshore flow that is going to pile up the water and we expect a 10 to 15 foot storm surge with waves on top of that and winds gusting to her triple digits up over 100 miles per hour, so it's going to be very life-threatening here and that is why there is also a mandatory evacuation for this zone as well. there are about 100 people, and there are some higher areas here on cedar key, above 20

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