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Anderson Cooper 360

spoke to someone on one of these planes, lieutenant commander josh rainenberg. lieutenant commander, i understand you have just flown through the eye wall of idalia. tell me what you saw. >> yes, sir, we just did. and right now on the north side of the storm. we're about 200 miles west of tampa. and we saw mostly what we expected. we saw an intensifying hurricane. and we were able to find the center of the storm successfully. and right now we're loitering north, getting ready to go back into the eye of the storm. >> what's it like to fly through the eye, the eye wall of a hurricane, which we all know is the most intense, most powerful part? >> it can be a little bit unpredictable. and at times scary. but as a pilot, we're trained to do certain things inside the aircraft to make it perform in the way we want it to.

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urban areas in the entire state, a thriving metropolis. and while the eye of the storm is not going to hit there, there is serious concern even in tampa about the storm surge. with us now, cnn's carlos suarez who is standing right by the seawall there, carlos. explain what you're seeing. >> yeah, so right now things are dry at this hour, though a quick look at the radar shows we are in for a strong line of thunderstorms come the top of the hour. there are two mandatory evacuations at this hour. one is here in hillsborough county, which is home to the tampa bay area. and the other is just to the west of us in pinellas county. that is home to st. pete and clearwater. as you mentioned, john, the concern going in to tomorrow is that we are going to see flooding associated with this storm. we're talking about a storm surge anywhere between 4 to 6 and 7 feet. so going into tonight, the concern from emergency officials are for the folks that live in

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wind speed and pressure and temperature, so that those readings are sent back to the national hurricane center in realtime. they get those readings and they can make their final projections on where this hurricane will make landfall and just how strong the storm will be when it does make landfall. in fact, they are calling this flight that i'm about to get on the landfall flight because it is very likely going to be the last flight that the hurricane hunters fly on this storm before it makes landfall. they may actually, we were in the preflight briefing just a few minutes ago and they said it is very likely that they will keep us up in the air flying through the eye of the storm a little longer than expected, depending on how quickly it approaches land. >> all right, victoria candidate with an and credible assignment for us tonight. please keep us updated on what you see when you are up there.

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really able to respond until the storm leaves out and were able to get the roadways clear. so, it is hard to anticipate when we are going to be able to return to normal circumstances because we know that we are going to feel effects from the storm and likely major effects from the storm. but, every ten or 15 miles matters right now. whether it goes east or west, and that is likely going to determine the type of response that we have to have tomorrow. >> lieutenant jeffrey yarbrough, thank you so much for giving us all this information and helping people to prepare if they still can. joining me now is florida state representative diane hart, her district is hillsboro county. thank you for being here. representative heart, your county is sad to see some of the hurricane idalia, through tomorrow i might add. are you prepared and what are you most concerned about over these next several hours are we looking right now at the screen on the image of the eye of the storm, battling that big bend

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The 11th Hour With Stephanie Ruhle

breaking news tonight. we just learned hurricane idalia is now expected to strengthen to a category four before making landfall tomorrow morning. in the state of florida. tonight, it is still a category two, with winds at 110 miles an hour. one of the biggest threats, a record-breaking storm surge of 10 to 15 feet in certain areas. my colleague tom giannis picks it up from here. >> tonight, this destructive hurricane powering the sure, fueled by the warm waters of the gulf of mexico. the eye of the storm and trained directly on florida's western coast. >> i don't have a great feeling about it. i'm hopeful, but i just think that we're about to. >> with hurricane idalia torrential rains and gusts of up to 125 miles per hour bearing down, last-minute perhaps are at a fever pitch. florida's governor mobilizing

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here, a lot of moving parts and an intense, deepening storm with an eye that has been very impressive for now, it seems like five hours. that means the storm is rapidly intensify. i don't have an update on the 1:10, to 1:15 it. we are waiting on an airplane to get in there. in fact, one of our reporters will be on that airplane, be able to report back to us live. 130 miles per hour is the forecast at landfall, slightly after sunrise coming up here in about eight hours. here you go, here is the eye of the storm. something else that has just popped up, here a tornado watch for these cells that are coming onshore on florida's west coast. some of them are spinning, some of them will have waterspouts, some of them will have tornadoes. that is the likelihood. the big threat here, after the storm surge, is just how far and how inland this wind field will be. 110 mile per hour winds all the way across the florida georgia line.

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this point. fox weather meteorologist bob van dylan completes our trio monitoring conditions live from clear watch beer right now bob i know you've been dealing with these outer bands, what's it looking like right now? >> i think right now ian the strongest outer band is affect us right now and this will probably be the last big one that goes through before it finally edges away from us because the center of circulation, the eye is moving past us now past our latitude moving in that direction but right now we are caught in a major squall. so we have the tropical storm force gusts, we have the heavy downpours, and we're watching high tide in about a half an hour from now and if that wind shifts around from the southeast where it's been for most of the night to the south and south wested we're going to see that storm surge roll in here. that could be a good 4-6 feet, ian. >> yeah, bob, as you mentioned, the eye of the storm it's about, call it 110 miles off to your west, off the western shores of

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The 11th Hour With Stephanie Ruhle

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fueled by the warm waters of the gulf of mexico. the eye of the storm is trained directly on florida's western coast. >> i don't have a great feeling about it. i'm hopeful, but i just think that we're about to. >> with hurricane idalia torrential rains and gusts of up to 125 miles per hour bearing down, last-minute perhaps are at a fever pitch. florida's governor mobilizing 400,000 lineman to try to keep the lights on. >> that's the ultimate goal, rapid restoration of power, this is a major hurricane. >> the keys and fort myers beach already seeing flooding. crystal river now in the crosshairs. >> this is somewhat new territory you guys, right? a major hurricane hasn't come through this area, we are told, ever. >> correct. we haven't seen anything like this in a very long time. >> idalia that's to wash away parts of the florida coast with a record setting storm surge. a hurricane's deadliest threat

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major hurricane. and this thing is going to continue to intensify as it comes ashore here this morning. >> and look, you've been around the block covering tornadoes, hurricanes, you name it. and i'm just curious for your take. based on the forecasts that we've seen to this point, what are you expecting toee in the coming hours physically on the ground where you are? and how do you intend to react to what you're seeing? >> so we're going to slowly see the winds begin to pick up and get stronger as each hour passes. eventually we'll reach those tropical storm strength winds, 35 plus, 45-mile-per-hour winds. until we get to the hurricane force winds of the outer eye wall of the hurricane approaches land. we'll get strong winds coming from onshore winds actually, coming out of the east-southeast of these cyclone that's rotating. until the eye wall comes ashore, where the strongest winds are associated right along the eye of the storm.

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