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DeSantis believes Hurricane Isaias will likely make landfall as a Category 3 storm · DEEP INSIGHT

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  Speaker 1: News now, we go to the governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis,
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  Speaker 1: holding a press conference in Tallahassee ahead of the hurricane's landfall.
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  Speaker 1: Let's listen to the governor.
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  Speaker 2: It's something that we prepared for, but folks who are
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  Speaker 2: in the path of this storm should know that this
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  Speaker 2: is not just gonna be a random tropical system. It's
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  Speaker 2: gonna be a strong hurricane and it's gonna potentially do
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  Speaker 2: a lot of damage. If you look at the most
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  Speaker 2: recent track from the National Hurricane Center, they have shifted
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  Speaker 2: the expected landfall east of Escambia County. Higher and higher
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  Speaker 2: probabilities that it's going to make landfall tonight at about
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  Speaker 2: 11 p.m. somewhere in the Santa Rosa, Okaloosa County area,
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  Speaker 2: maybe somewhere kind of right on that border. It could
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  Speaker 2: shift a little, but it's getting close enough to where
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  Speaker 2: There is more and more confidence as this thing's going.
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  Speaker 2: The National Hurricane Center is giving hourly updates on the positioning.
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  Speaker 2: There's also planes that are involved in monitoring all this.
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  Speaker 2: I point that out just because if you look at
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  Speaker 2: the track that we have that's on there and where
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  Speaker 2: they're having this make landfall, if you were– I think
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  Speaker 2: people remember Hurricane Sally was not even in the cone,
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  Speaker 2: supposed to be Louisiana, kind of shifted– and Pensacola was underwater.
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  Speaker 2: If it does shift to the east of Pensacola, it's
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  Speaker 2: possible that the water in the bay there is actually
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  Speaker 2: pushed out. And so you could actually have negative storm
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  Speaker 2: surge if you're on that weaker side of the storm.
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  Speaker 2: It's possible. Anything to where it hits into the east
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  Speaker 2: of it is going to generate significant storm surge. And
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  Speaker 2: so if it does come in that area around Fort
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  Speaker 2: Walton Beach, Santa Rosa, those areas, Destin, obviously you're going
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  Speaker 2: to have a potential surge event. As you see, the
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  Speaker 2: barrier islands, those are very popular barrier islands. Those are
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  Speaker 2: very nice barrier islands. Some of the nicest beaches anywhere
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  Speaker 2: in the world are right there. It will produce surge
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  Speaker 2: to the east of that, but not just limited to
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  Speaker 2: Santa Rosa, Okaloosa. You're looking at all of that coast,
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  Speaker 2: all the way down to Bay and Panama City, all
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  Speaker 2: the way beyond that to Apalachicola is going to see surge.
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  Speaker 2: And even potentially further down the coastline. even into the
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  Speaker 2: Tampa Bay region. Now, the Tampa Bay region is not
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  Speaker 2: going to get what Destin will get, but this is
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  Speaker 2: going to be something, because it's such a big lopsided storm,
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  Speaker 2: it's going to have the potential to have surge in
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  Speaker 2: a pretty significant length of this coastline. So the move east,
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  Speaker 2: I think, is primarily significant for what that means for Pensacola.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, Pensacola is prepared, continue to be prepared, continue
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  Speaker 2: to assume you're going to have big impacts. And you might.
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  Speaker 2: But to the Senate moves east and that dirty side
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  Speaker 2: is east of the bay there. That would probably be
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  Speaker 2: a good thing for them for sure. And even if
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  Speaker 2: it wasn't, all those other areas, the Okaloosa, the Santa Rosa,
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  Speaker 2: they were going to get storm surge no matter what.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, that was always in the cards. And so
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  Speaker 2: that's what we're looking at. It probably will will land
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  Speaker 2: as as a category three is our judgment. And that's
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  Speaker 2: what we plan for, and we think it might actually
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  Speaker 2: be able to. I know there's wind shear. I know
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  Speaker 2: people are talking about different stuff. We think it's going
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  Speaker 2: to land potentially as a Category 3. And we anticipate landfall,
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  Speaker 2: as I mentioned just a minute ago, at about 11 p.m. tonight.
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  Speaker 2: It's obviously going to continue to go north. If you
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  Speaker 2: look at that area, if it does follow that track,
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  Speaker 2: you know, you've got a lot of unpopulated areas once
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  Speaker 2: you get past the coastal or the barrier islands and
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  Speaker 2: then some of the communities that are on the other
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  Speaker 2: side of the bay there. And then it becomes, you know,
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  Speaker 2: much more rural. But you're going to see water across
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  Speaker 2: the entire region of the Florida Panhandle. There's areas that
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  Speaker 2: already have high water levels. So, yes, the surge coming
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  Speaker 2: in from the storm is the wind impact that you're
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  Speaker 2: going to have, which, you know, even though this is Florida,
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  Speaker 2: even though we build things to higher category three, it
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  Speaker 2: could be 115 mile an hour sustained winds. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: it could be 120. I mean, that's very serious. So
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  Speaker 2: you're going to have damage on that. And then you're
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  Speaker 2: going to have tornadoes spun off in some of these areas.
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  Speaker 2: And that could be, I mean, you could have tornadic
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  Speaker 2: activity in Tallahassee and very far away from the actual
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  Speaker 2: eye of the storm. So what I would tell Floridians is, obviously,
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  Speaker 2: if you're in the pathway, make sure that you finish
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  Speaker 2: your preparations. There's going to be impacts from this far,
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  Speaker 2: far outside the National Hurricane Center's cone, particularly when you're
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  Speaker 2: talking about some of the tornadoes that will happen. And
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  Speaker 2: then what's going to happen as the eye of the
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  Speaker 2: storm moves north into Alabama, you're going to end up
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  Speaker 2: having some of these trailing bands that are going to
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  Speaker 2: be pretty nasty. And they're going to stretch really pretty
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  Speaker 2: much the entire part of northern Florida. It's going to
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  Speaker 2: be nasty throughout the early morning hours of Saturday and
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  Speaker 2: even into, I think, Saturday afternoon. So for the next
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  Speaker 2: 24 to 36 hours, you're going to see some nasty
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  Speaker 2: weather one way or another if you're in this part
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  Speaker 2: of the state. Now, we had said earlier today, and
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  Speaker 2: I'll just reiterate, we've got a massive amount.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Governor Ron DeSantis has been through many of these,
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  Speaker 1: but this one is looking like a solid Category 3.
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  Speaker 1: He said they do expect it to make landfall this
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  Speaker 1: evening at that velocity, around 120 miles per hour, puts
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  Speaker 1: it into the Cat 3 territory. And you can see
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  Speaker 1: how clear and how wide that path is as it
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  Speaker 1: carves forward. its way through Florida and Alabama and Tennessee,
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  Speaker 1: all the way up to Ohio over the coming hours
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  Speaker 1: and days.