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city are you okay? rescuers, helping guide residents through submerged intersection, since, having been turned into a lake. then, there is this. the electricity crisis. the storm, knocking out power lines, in more than 2 million homes, and businesses, which have been plunged into darkness, across the state. meteorologist, pedram javaheri, tracking ian. he joins me. pedram, ian may have weekend, but is unleashing very dangerous conditions. where does it stand right now? kristie, we ve got the latest update from the national hurricane center. 11 hours overland, since it made landfall. you will notice, still, a category one. a drop from 90 miles per hour, to 75 miles per hour, leaving this as a low-end, category one hurricane. notice, on the back side of the storm system, the cloud field, beginning to break. as far as clearing skies, around portions of marco island, around areas up towards tampa. all of these areas, finally, seeing drier weather persist. just eas ....
Closed. what local officials are telling us is that if conditions get worse over the next 24 hours or even after that, they re not going to be able to get first responders over that privilege and to the island if people are stuck. a lot of people are chosen to ride out the storm and they re saying a lot of people may be cut off, about 30,000 people total live in those two islands. not clear to officials how many people did get out. they say it s very hard to tell. but a lot of people have elected to ride out the storm. they could be cut off in the next couple of days if conditions worsen and first responders can t get over the bridges. about 2,400 customers in this county are already without power and i think that s with the worst of this storm yet to come. mandatory evacuations here in florida, up to georgia into the ....
Exceeding a hundred miles per hour on the left side of that storm, across florida, up to georgia, and into the carolinas. so, what do folks need to do? the first thing that you need to do is everything that is outside your house i can fly away is brought inside your house. your lawn furniture, your plant can turn into a missile to fly in at 70-80-a hundred miles per hour into your home or a neighbor s home. make sure all that is brought in. secondly, you need to go through with a video on your iphone or the like, and to document your house. before you leave, you need to document everything, because if you do happen to have that worst day experience, you want to be able to show an insurance company what your home looks like. third, close the doors. think about this for a moment. if a little bit of air gets into ....
Onere. very happy to have the general with us now to see if he s encouraged by the response today. good to have you back what do you think of the response across the region today? a lot of preparation today to be prepared to respond, neil. right now the big question are the bahamas and what is going on with our friends there. they re a commonwealth state. but the united states does have marines on stand by once that storm passes to go in and help save lives in the bahamas. along the eastern seaboard up to georgia, the united states northern command working in support of the national guard in each state has predeployed helicopters, engineering units and task force trucks prepared ....
Tune in starting tomorrow. 6:00 a.m. for the latest. i m richard luiy. goodnight from new york. rachel has the night off but she will be back next week. all eyes are on hurricane dorian beating a path towards florida. and gaining strength as it goes. the warm waters of the atlantic is crank canning up the storm. it is sustained winds of over 130 matter of principle rr. the latest models have dorian making landfall late monday or early tuesday morning. but where it hits and how much destruction it causes are open questions. for now the entire east coast of florida up to georgia are in the danger zone. joining us with the latest forecast is meteorologist bill karins. ....