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Good evening everyone i'm laura coates. breaking news, hurricane idalia has intensified over the warm waters of the gulf of mexico and is now forecast to become an extremely dangerous category four storm, before it makes landfall in a matter of just hours. the storm is packing 110 miles per hour winds and is already causing flooding in some of the coastal areas. our teams are out across the entire storm zone, chad myers is in the cnn weather center with the very latest forecast. carlos suarez is in tampa, brian todd is in tallahassee, and gloria pazmino is in clearwater. let's go right now to ...

The entire storm zone, we've got chad myers in the cnn winter center, carlos flores is in tampa, brian todd is in st. mark's florida, and gloria pazmino is in clearwater. i want to get right now to the brand-new forecast with chad myers in the weather center. what is happening? >> just the new banner from the national hurricane center, just saying that this will be 130 mile per hour category four at landfall. so, it is not going to change the surge much. some surges have gone to 10 to 15, now they have pushed them up to 12 to 16. let me show you where they are. there is the eye, it is a danger...

We want to take you to the region now. "cnn news central" anchors john berman and sara sidner are kicking off our live team coverage. john is in tallahassee, sara is in crystal river. john, what are you seeing where you are? >> i'm in tallahassee, the capital of florida, where it is raining at times heavily, where the wind has been picking up, gusts here have been 40 to 50 miles per hour. tallahassee has never been hit with hurricane-force winds, unclear if that will happen as the storm is now passing south and a little bit to the east of here, but tallahassee will be very much in this severe ...

Add a full moon, plus four to seven feet of storm surge, and with water on both sides, we're concerned about these islands tomorrow. >> reporter: some areas are bracing for up to 15 feet of surge. our mireya villarreal in levy county. >> here in cedar key, the businesses are boarded up, the sandbags are out here. they will have an absolute evacuation order in place. gas will be off. lights will be off later on this evening. residents say they are worried they won't have anything to come back to. >> reporter: elite urban search and rescue teams and firefighters from miami headed north into the ...

Al, what are we looking at? >> lester, as you mentioned this is going to be a rapidly intensifying storm. right now idalia is just off the tip of cuba, 70-mile-per-hour winds moving north at 8. here's what we have. hurricane warnings from port st. joe to south of tampa. those will expand. the path of the storm will bring it up and probably landfall sometime early wednesday. could be as a category 3 storm, somewhere between tallahassee and cedar key. we are looking for winds that could top 118 miles per hour. bringing down trees, communication, damaging buildings. as far as that storm surge, th...