Hurricane Idalia intensifies as it heads towards Florida's Gulf Coast
Hurricane Idalia is barrelling towards Florida’s Gulf Coast forcing evacuations in low lying areas. The storm system has already lashed Cuba with heavy rain and hurricane-force winds and it's intensifying ahead of its expected landfall in Florida tonight.
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00:00 Florida's Gulf Coast braces as Hurricane Idalia approaches.
00:07 It's forecast to make landfall as a Category 3 storm over what's known as the state's Big Bend.
00:15 In the island town of Cedar Key, businesses have been boarded up and locals told to leave.
00:23 It's a large hurricane in pretty much the last eight years that we've been working for this restaurant.
00:29 It's going to be wiped out and we're not going to have much left after this.
00:33 Low-lying areas are expected to be swamped when the hurricane hits.
00:38 The storm surge could rise above four and a half metres.
00:43 Idalia drenched Cuba as it intensified into a hurricane,
00:48 while people in Florida scrambled to get themselves ready.
00:52 We've never left a storm before, but my son's a law enforcement officer
00:56 and he's encouraged me real bad to leave.
00:59 Less than a year after Hurricane Ian killed around 150 people in Florida's southwest,
01:06 these communities are preparing for the worst.
01:09 list.
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