Hurricane Ian makes landfall as Category 4 storm

The Lead with Jake Tapper

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3.5 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 28 September 2022

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Hurricane Ian has made landfall on the western coast of Florida just after 3:00pm ET. The eye crossed over a barrier island near Fort Myers, Florida. Winds are 150 mph, making the storm just shy of a Category 5. More than 850,000 customers are without electricity across the state of Florida. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	this is CNN breaking news.
0:05.4	Welcome to the lead I'm Jake
0:06.5	Tapper and we start today with
0:08.0	breaking news hurricane in has
0:10.1	made landfall on the western coast
0:12.4	of Florida as a devastating
0:14.0	category for storm just after 3 p.m.
0:17.6	East Coast the eye crossed over
0:20.6	coyote Costa a barrier island
0:22.9	near Fort Myers Florida.
0:24.7	This is a live look at the satellite
0:26.6	right now and you can see the the
0:28.7	immense size and strength of this
0:30.7	hurricane the winds are topping out
0:32.6	at 150 miles per hour that's just
0:35.8	shy of making this a monstrous
0:38.3	category five. Now this was the
0:40.8	scene just ahead of landfall
0:43.2	captured by a storm chase behind
0:45.8	island Florida again near Fort Myers.
0:48.0	These conditions are only expected
0:50.6	to worsen in the coming hours
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