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this update just moments ago. hurricane ian is a storm moving closer to floor at that's west coast bringing high winds, extremely heavy rain and life threatening storm surge flooding. already ian hitting key west with major storm surge flooding. more than 2 1/2 million people now under some level of evacuation warnings. officials escalating their urgent appeals to evacuate. >> if you are in an evacuation zone, your time to evacuate is coming to an end. you need to evacuate now. >> meteorologist chad myers is in the cnn weather center. chad, what's the latest on the predicted storm tr...

Seconds ago, really bad surge. that area is really prone to bad surge. the worgs case scenario with the right side coming up into fort myers is going to bring some really bad surge problems today. >> you've got water, all this water, storm surge, where is it all going to go? you still have damaging winds to worry about, right? >> oh, yeah. absolutely. that's what's going to hamper people, anybody who needs rescues. if you are in an evacuation zone, it is important to get out of there. you might not be able to even call for help after the storm passes through because of the cell service being d...

Here's where the center of the eye is. not far from the atlantic here, we may get a warning over oco coke or cape hatteras. maybe some minor surge problems, we could get some isolated tornados. we have to watch out around the virginia beach/norfolk area. numerous areas, everyone in maroon is under a flash flood warning and we'll take the storm out in the open atlantic and eventually it will head towards nova scotia. likely as a category 1 hurricane and just enough of the storm is going to clip southern portions of new england. cape cod is under a tropical storm warning. you will get some rain ...

High tide. we are not getting surge problems here. it is a serious storm that will affect people in terms of flooding. we saw some trees down but ultimately, winds are not particularly heavy here. every now and then you get a wind gust here. it looks like the events has been better for north carolina than expected. >> we had a chance to speak to officials as well as those involved in the rescue operations. have you seen anyone venturing out? what has the response been whether the local city official, national guard or other organizations? have you spotted anyone out there getting help to folks...

Incredible. usually at this point the storm goes inland, now we're like, okay, what happened? how bad was this? we have done it with the surge and the wind. now we have to get through the water issues with the rainfall, with this storm and they're going to last into the middle of next week in some cases. there will be flu homes going under water on tuesday of next week as the rivers continue to rise and that water flows down towards the coast. there are some of the pictures from when we had the surge problems the worst of it we have been saying with pamlico sound, the trent risks up to washing...