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this is don lemon tonight, you're watching our coverage of in, making its way up the florida peninsula. we have all the news coverage this evening, it is dumping rain on this entire area. lots of water. but also the wind, pushing the wind all across the state of florida. our crews are out in the field, we're covering it all for you. we've got bill weir, bill is joining us from punta gorda florida, also brian todd is in -- is in derek van damme is in breaking tin for us. i want to other meteorologist, our expert, mr. tom seders in the weather center. tom, i am getting so much rain, lo...

>> yeah, that's right, look, as you mentioned it's weakened now to a tropical storm, but weakened or not, ian is still one for the record books cutting this brutal path across florida's west coast. as much as 20 inches of rain fell in some areas. this morning, there's 14 million people under flood alerts. more than 2 million homes and businesses are without power across florida. and that intense flooding that berman mentioned there in places like fort myers and naples, here you're seeing pictures of those areas, it's leaving people who decided to ride out the storm just trapped in th...

ian now setting its sites on the south carolina coast, as we come on the air, with the tropical storm expected to strengthen back into a hurricane as it moves, look at it there, very slowly across the atlantic and back towards the east coast, after a trail of destruction in florida. people there are reeling now from one of the worst storms that has ever hit them, and doing what they can to start picking up the pieces. sanibel island, captiva island, a storm surge, with a huge chunk of the causeway there, that is the only way in or out, in a state overall, more than two and a half mil...

As federal agencies and local governments reassess flood zones and incorporate new technology, data on sea-level rise and the fact that the concrete jungle doesn’t absorb as much water as the natural environment, they’ve concluded that vast swaths of South Florida — particularly inland areas — are vulnerable to crippling storm surge and flooding from rain.

Wait till the sun comes up in the morning and they start to see crews are able to go out an emergency officials out there. standby, i want to go to tom. tom this had been downgraded to category one, that doesn't mean the danger is over? >> oh no, not at all. in fact, the entire peninsula of florida right now is experiencing tropical storm force winds. and with that, the brain that comes with it. in fact, it's going to continue to be a hurricane up near orlando where you are. and maybe just kind of fall off and that hurricane status in tropical storm as it exits the other end of the state. you ...