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turned roads to rivers after idalia rolled ashore as a category 3 storm. water reaching four feet high in some spots. we await high tide. governor kemp is holding a press briefing, let s listen in. your honor itting us loose to do the job we are trained to do, we appreciate that. that quick response allows us to fill a room with state assets to do the job we need to do. we have prepositioned assets all over the state, patrol, dnr, forestry commission, air asset, drone, search and rescue teams, tarps, mre s, water, things needed we have prepositioned and down range. we have our staff inside local management centers to get response quickly and in a timely manner. something we want to remind everybody, trees that are down, it will take a while. we remind you, 72 hours is time frame you need to be thinking before you can expect a true power response. if before that, we are very pleased, ittic tas time to get back into the area. we have to clear right-of-ways and assess tr ....
rapidly intensifying storm now a category 1. taking aim at florida s gulf coast and with life threatening storm surge and extreme winds, impact could be devastating. plus a calculated risk. president trump s former chief of staff mark meadows taking the stand. but will his testimony convince a jury to move his trial to federal court. and classes are canceled today at unc chapel hill after a faculty member was shot and killed. what we re learning about the suspect in custody. those major stories and more all coming in right now on cnn news central. right now, idalia pounding parts of western cuba as a hurricane while florida prepares for impact. idalia is expected to make lawful in florida s big bend region early tomorrow morning potentially as a category 3. it is forecast to bring a life threatening storm surge that could cause water to swell up to 12 feet in some areas of florida and up and down the state s western coast, floridians are preparing. we re tyi ....
and don t take anything for granted here. we have already had 11 tornado warnings, and there are more tornadoes possible. even and especially in the very outer bands of the storm. steve and it s just getting started. even the governor s command center lost power twice during the press conference, but they have got generators. listen, we have got live fox team coverage all morning long. senior meteorologist janice dean is here in the studio m. tracking the storm. steve harrigan is in participaten springs. brandy campbell live in tallahassee. start in clearwater where robert ray is standing by and in coronado street, right, robert? cared in a dough drive to be exact. off the gulf of mexico, clearwater beach. what we are seeing and experiencing as a team myself and two photographers, fox news photographers is a very heavy band that has just come in. one of our meteorologist at fox weather in new york alerted me that this was coming and, boy, was he right. because this is ....
storm has turned deadly. the florida highway patrol says that one person was killed in a weather-related accident on interstate 75 in pacifico county. the national hurricane center just put out its latest update on the storm. and right now it is a category 1 storm with maximum sustained winds of 90 miles per hour. idalia made landfall around keaton beach, florida, around 7:45 a.m. eastern time as a category 3 storm. the strongest to hit florida s big bend region in more than 125 years. idalia s biggest impact appears to be storm surge, which topped eight feet in some places. and in cedar key, florida, part of a bed and breakfast collapsed and washed away. nearly 300,000 homes and businesses are now without power in florida and georgia. florida governor ron desantis urged people not to go out if they don t have to. please hunker down, wherever you are, don t mess with this storm. don t do anything that is going to put yourself in jeopardy. and there will be a lot of he ....
alerts ahead of the hurricane idalia arrival. some areas are looking at 12 feet of storm surge. now, florida residents are bracing for yet another impact, and people rushing to pack their cars with sandbags and supplies ahead of idalia s arrival. idalia flooded out neighborhoods in cuba, and now we are live at cedar key, florida. where is it like where you are now in about 24 hours before the storm is expected to hit florida? reporter: exactly, josé. folks are working to get all the preps done. this business has put up caution tape, and the doors are open in the front and back. i think that is hopefully so when the 115-mile-per-hour winds come through, they will be able to go through the structure and may cause less damage, and some of the structural damage we might see in some of these situations, and that s the concern for a lot of these businesses up along the waterfront. a lot of them have boarded up their windows to prevent that. some are trying to move everythi ....