Page 2 - Tracking Ian News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Power now. The winds are extremely high. And water is rising. Just clinging to i dont know what that is. Theyre flying around the streets. A cinder block wall that was the entire width of this area came down. Theyre coming through. We had some of the strongest winds here so far. Good to be with you this morning. Im francis rivera. And im philip mena. It is 4 30 in the east. Thank you for joining us for this Special Edition of early today. The strong winds of ian already impacting Daytona Beach along the western coast as it slowly moves towards orlando. The storm has been downgraded to a catego...

power now. the winds are extremely high. and water is rising. >> just clinging to i don't know what that is. they're flying around the streets. >> a cinder block wall that was the entire width of this area came down. >> they're coming through. we had some of the strongest winds here so far. >> good to be with you this morning. i'm francis rivera. >> and i'm philip mena. it is 4:30 in the east. thank you for joining us for this special edition of "early today." the strong winds of ian already impacting daytona beach along the western coast as it slowly moves towards orlando. the storm...

spinning toward the west coast of florida this morning. bringing with it life-threatening storm surge, catastrophic winds and flooding. we'll have a live report from tampa in just a moment. and also ahead, a former d.c. metro police officer does not hold back at a sentencing for a capitol rioter. plus, we'll dig into new data that suggests significant covid waves could be coming this fall and winter. ♪♪ good morning. and welcome to "way too early" on this wednesday, september 28th. i'm jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us and we're going to begin in florida...

keep coming. willie? >> yeah. start in florida, though, this hour, mika. millions of residents are bracing for hurricane ian as that powerful storm barrels towards the state getting stronger by the hour. just this morning it became a category 4 hurricane expected to make landfall in the southwest coast of florida as early as this afternoon. the center of the storm forecast to move over the central past of the state with winds reaching more than 130 miles per hour. the national hurricane center also warning of dangerous storm surge and flooding with up to 18 inches of rain expected in...

it will severely impact millions of people and put the barrier island communities completely under water. joining me this hour, the acting director of the national hurricane center to update the track of the storm. i will talk to mayors up and down the coast as ian comes onshore. let's go to our meteorologist with the latest on the hurricane's path. what are you seeing from the latest updates? >> with each update, the conditions continue to grow dire. right now, we are seeing lots of rain and strong winds moving into ft. myers. if you look at the latest trajectory, we have this makin...