I'm Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief John Bickley with Georgia Howits Tuesday, August 29, and

this is your morning wire afternoon update.

Idalia has been upgraded to a hurricane as it barrels toward Florida's Gulf Coast.

The National Weather Service in Tallahassee has dubbed the system an unprecedented event,

since no major hurricane on record has ever passed through the bay bordering on the big

bend region.

The storm is projected to make landfall tomorrow as a category three system with winds hitting

upwards of 120 miles per hour.

Officials on the island of Cedar Key have ordered residents to evacuate as the storm surge

could bring water up to 15 feet.

Here's Cedar Key Commissioner Sue Colson.

It's really important, we leave.

We don't control the power.

The power will go out when it goes out.

The water will go off probably tonight, which will also impact the sewage treatment.

So this is going to be a problem for people who can't live without water or sewage.

But look at our city, it's very old.

It's historic.

And we're hoping that those people back then knew what to do and these buildings will

maintain one more time.

The FBI is reportedly searching for more than a dozen ooze-back illegal immigrants who

are believed to have been smuggled into the U.S. by an ISIS-linked individual.

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