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of this hurricane. it could make landfall the next several hours and then work its way up the peninsula slowly, very slowly, bringing hurricane force winds here to tampa, to orlando before it heads out over the atlantic on the other side maybe sometime later tomorrow. obviously millions of people feeling the impact of this, a life threatening storm in some ways a near worst case scenario for some of the people south of here. there was an 8 a.m. update just in from the national hurricane center. i believe we have michael brennan at the national hurricane center to give us a sense of t...

this storm will only continue to intensify. if you want to leave, as the governor has said, now is your last chance. we cannot send first responders into harm's way because you decided not to leave. >> 155 mile per hour winds. that is what hurricane ian is now producing as it bears down on florida's coast. i'm john berman live in tampa this morning. brianna keilar is in washington. this is cnn's special live coverage of a storm that is getting more powerful by the minute. the national hurricane center just reported it had a plane flying through the center of this storm measuring sust...

we have teams on the ground as we prepare for the eventual landfall. we are in florida, and carlos suarez is in tampa in gulfport, and carlos, as we've been discussing, tampa, that is where the real worry is because they're worried about storm surge and a lot of the residential areas there are vulnerable. >> reporter: that is exactly right, jim and poppy. the concern is the forecasted five to ten foot storm surge with hurricane ian. we are in gulfport. that is about a half hour drive outside of tampa where a number of businesses right before the barrier islands have already boarded u...

lifetime. >> we made the decision we were going to get out and go take some -- somewhere else. >> we were going to go to a hotel, i dobt have the money to go to a hotel, this was our best bet. >> todd: tampa international airport will suspend all flights 5 eastern tonight in preparation for the storm. >> carley: janice dean is tracking the storm andin jos us now. >> janice: this is a strengthening storm, about to move over the western portion of cuba, strengtheneds to category three storm and has a lot of warm water ahead of it. i'm concern this is already a strong storm and fact it ...

and communities on the florida gulf coast are boarding up, stocking up and getting ready for impact and the possibility of a storm surge that could reach up to ten feet. >> people are taking it very seriously. >> we're trying to be ready. who knows, may be real bad or not bad at all, but if it is, we want to make sure we are ready. now, nasa is sharing this stunning view of the storm from the international space station. we have the latest. >> details emerging ahead of the january 6th hearing, and nbc is hearing from two services the secret service confiscated the phones of agents....