Hurricane Ian on track to bring “life-threatening storm surge,” damaging winds and flooding to the Florida peninsula

Anderson Cooper 360

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🗓️ 28 September 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Hurricane Ian is expected to bring “life-threatening storm surge,” damaging winds and dangerous flooding to Florida over the next few days. The Category 3 storm’s track shifted south and officials in Florida are urging residents to evacuate. CNN Meteorologist Jennifer Gray joins AC360 to give the latest update on when Hurricane Ian should be making landfall and when Floridians on the west coast should start feeling tropical storm force winds. Plus, Americans Alexander John-Robert Drueke and Andy Tai Ngoc Huynh went to Ukraine to help fight against the Russians and were captured by Russian-backed forces in June. Both were freed last week after a prisoner swap was brokered by Saudi Arabia. Alex, along with his mother, Bunny Drueke, join AC360 for an exclusive interview to discuss his decision to fight in Ukraine, his capture and his reunion with his family. 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	Good evening, we begin tonight with a new update just in from the National Hurricane Center
0:04.5	on Hurricane Ian.
0:05.8	As this satellite video shows, it is a massive and highly active system.
0:09.6	The flashes you see are lightning.
0:11.4	Here's what it's like right now in Key West, which is just started seeing tropical storm
0:15.2	level winds.
0:16.2	The greatest concern right now is in the Gulf Coast where a combination of heavy lingering
0:21.2	rainfall and massive storm surge and rivers already at flood stage could send up to 12 feet
0:26.2	of water into low-lying areas.
0:27.8	So federal agencies have been coordinating with state officials on emergency needs.
0:32.0	The House January 6th Committee has canceled tomorrow's hearing because of the storm.
0:36.2	As only CNN can, we have a team of respondents and forecasters on this tonight, Jennifer
0:39.9	Gray's in the Weather Center, Randy Kays in Pentecostal Florida.
0:43.1	Patrick Opman is in Havana, Cuba, which has already been hit.
0:46.1	I want to start with a new bulletin and Jennifer Gray.
0:48.8	So what have we learned now?
0:50.2	The storm is maintaining its strength.
0:52.6	We have 120 mile-power winds with gusts of 150.
0:56.4	It's still moving to the North Northeast at about 10 miles per hour.
0:59.8	It's basically paralleling Key West right now.
1:02.4	The lower keys have already received tropical storm force winds and conditions are only
1:06.6	going to deteriorate across the southern peninsula of Florida throughout the overnight
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