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hello, and welcome to our viewers in the united states. and around the. world i m john. vause with the cnn center in atlanta. almost nine hours now since hurricane eta made landfall in southwest florida. and this monster storm continues to cause widespread flooding. and storm surges in 12 feet high in places. tonight, statewide. like trustees outed more than 2 million homes and businesses, and the power grid so badly damaged parts there are concerns it may need to be rebuilt. ian arrived at the state went just shy of a category five. it s since been downgraded to a category 1, but still remains very dangerous. authorities warning the worst may yet be to come. ian is now slowly moving into central florida, with winds around 90 miles or 145 kilometers per hour. time lapse video shows water levels rising on the streets of fort myers, south of where it made landfall. the national hurricane center said the storm surge on florida s west coast has likely peaked, and is now s ....
Weather office across the heart of florida underneath flood alerts. a large majority of them underneath flood warnings, meaning flooding is imminent or occurring with the excessive rainfall amount. of course, a lot of this happening in the dark as we lost extensive power across the res region as well. but john, these wind speeds of 120, 140 miles per hour. observed, this time yesterday, we re talk about the system making landfall as a category 4, low-end category 4, about 130 mile per hour winds. but once you shift from one scale to another, the exponential increase in damage left behind, which is really going to make it devastating appearance here in the morning when we see the sun come back up across on these areas. 250 time increase when you increase from one category to the next, from 3 to 4. so, these increases we saw right at landfall is really want to make it for it entirely devastating landfall on these communities as the system moves across. notice, about 2 million customers i ....
Communities. so far in the past 24 hours, as it has sat there just offshore, it has brought down about 10-plus inches of rainfall. the concern is that amount or more, maybe up to 20 inches, could be seen over the next few hours as this pushes over land and potentially meanders here through at least the next 24 to 36 hours. about 12 million people are going to be underneath flood alerts, stretching through the entirety of southern louisiana, harris county and houston very prone to flooding. this will be something we ll follow over the next few hours. not good considering what just happened there with ida. thank you, pedram. i appreciate it. we ll p watching. tomorrow night, make sure you tune into cnn s special coverage of the california governor recall. it starts at 10:00 p.m. i m going to be on covering the recall really late or really early, starting for those of you on the west coast. starting at 2:00 a.m. make sure you watch. thank you for watching, everyone. our coverage conti ....