BUT IS CONTINUING TO DEVASTAT KELLY: IAN SLAMMED INTO THE FLORIDA COAST AS A HURRICANE BUT IS CONTINUING TO DEVASTATE THE STATE AS A TROPICAL STORM. THE LATEST AS WE ENTER A SECOND FULL DAY OF IAN’S IMPACTS. ALLISON: IAN IS NOW A TROPICAL STORM BUT STRENGTHENING AS IT MAKES YET ANOTHER LANDFALL. THE IMPACTS WE COULD SEE NEXT COLIN: AND TWO U.C. STUDENTS HIT BY A DRIVER IN A STOLEN CAR AS THEY WERE CROSSING THE STREET IN THE MIDDLE OF THE DAY. ONE OF THE STUDENTS DYING FROM HER INJURIES. WHY THE SEARCH IS STILL ON FOR THE PERSO RESPONSIBLE. >> THIS IS WLWT NEWS 5, LEADING THE WAY WITH BREAKING NEWS. COLIN: TROPICAL STORM IAN, STILL DEVASTATING PARTS OF FLORIDA OVERNIGHT AND THIS AFTERNOON INTO THIS EVENING. THANKS FOR BEING HERE. I’M COLIN MAYFIELD. KELLY: AND I’M KELLY RIPPIN. THE CATEGORY FOUR STORM SUSTAINED WINDS OF 150 MILES PER HOUR TAKING AN ALMOST IDENTICAL PATH AS HURRICANE CHARLEY BACK IN 2004, LEAVING HUNDREDS WITHOUT POWER AND STRANDED IN THEIR HOMES. THOUSANDS, MORE THAN IN ORLANDO, HUNDREDS. A NURSE ON HER WAY TO WORK WAS RESCUED BY A NEARBY REPORTER. THIS IS THE VIDEO. THIS IS TONY ATKINS A REPORTER IN ORLANDO FOR OUR STATION WESH. HE IS RESCUING A WOMAN FROM HER FLOODED CAR. TONY CARRIED THE WOMAN OUT ON HIS BACK TO SAFETY. THE WOMAN WAS A HEALTHCARE WORKER AND WAS CALLED INTO WORK NEARBY AS PART OF THE RESPONSE TO IAN. BOTH TONY AND THE WOMAN ARE SAFE. COLIN: WOW. RIGHT PLACE, RIGHT TIME. MILLIONS IMPACTED BY THIS AND IT IS STILL TURNING OUT NOW TOWARDS THE ATLANTIC. ALLISON: CURRENTLY SITTING OFFSHORE YET AGAIN BETWEEN MELBOURNE AND DAYTONA BEACH. IT IS GOING TO STRENGTHEN YET AGAIN AS IT MAKES A THIRD LANDFALL. THE FIRST BEING CUBA, SECOND IN AREAS CLOSER IN FLORIDA. WE ARE GOING TO CONTINUE TO TRACK THIS AS IT MOVES INLAND CLOSER TO CHARLSTON OVER THE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS. RIGHT NOW, WHAT WE ARE SEEING AS IT IS TURNING IN THE ATLANTIC, STILL DUMPING A TON OF RAINFALL FOR DAYTONA BEACH. FLASH FLOOD WARNING’S IN EFFECT EARLIER THIS MORNING. EARLIER, WE HAD FLASH FLOOD EMERGENCIES ISSUED FOR AREAS OF ORLANDO AND OVER TOWARD DAYTONA BEACH AS WELL. THIS IS STILL GOING TO DUMP A LOT OF RAINFALL FOR AREAS AROUND DAYTONA BEACH CLOSER TO ORLANDO OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS. THROUGHOUT THE REST OF TODAY, IT IS GOING TO START TO MAKE ITS WAY FURTHER OFF COAST EVENTUALLY TURNING BACK INTO THE CAROLINAS. RAINFALL TOTALS, CLOSER TO 20 INCHES OF RAINFALL NEAR PORT CHARLOTTE. RIGHT AROUND 17 INCHES SOUTH OF DAYTONA BEACH. THIS IS THE DIFFERENCE THE LANDFALL MAKES. ABOUT TWO INCHES, CLOSER TO 1.5 INCHES FOR AREAS CLOSER TO AROUND TAMPA. NOT AS MUCH RAINFALL FOR SOME BUT SOME GETTING A MONTH AND EVEN A YEARS WORTH OF RAINFALL. LIKELY TO BECOME A CATEGORY ONE HURRICANE AS IT MAKES YET ANOTHER LANDFALL CLOSER TO CHARLESTON. LIKELY GOING TO BE AS A CAT 1. THIS IS GOING TO HAPPEN EARLY TOMORROW MORNING. FROM THERE, IT IS WHEN TO KEEP MOVING TOWARD APPALACHIA. DUE TO THE FACT IT HAS ANOTHER SOURCE FROM MOISTURE BEING THE ATLANTIC OCEAN. IT IS GOING TO KEEP MOVING INTO APPALACHIA EVENTUALLY TOSSING A COUPLE OF SHOWERS OUR WAY. MORE ON THAT TRUCK COMING OUR WAY. KELLY: WE ARE GETTING OUR FIRST GLIMPSES AT JUST HOW POWERFUL IAN IS PROVING TO BE WITH DAMAGE WIDESPREAD THROUGHOUT FLORIDA. COLIN: WLWT NEWS 5’S METEROLOGIST ADAM BURNISTON JOINS US WITH A LOOK AT THE DAMAGE AND FLOODING TAKING OVER THE SUNSHINE STATE. YES, THE POWER OF THIS HURRICANE IS ENORMOUS. WEAVING BOTH NEIGHBORHOODS AND FIRST RESPONDERS SCRAMBLING AFTER THOSE UNSTOPPABLE FLOOD WATERS BARRELED THROUGH. TAKE A LOOK AT VIDEO OUT OF PLACIDA. THIS IS RIGHT WHERE HURRICANE IAN MADE LANDFALL AS A CATEGORY FOUR STORM. YOU CAN THE WIND RIP THE ROOF OFF A MOBILE HOME, SENDING THE BELONGINGS INSIDE, FLYING. THE ENTIRE NEIGHBORHOOD, RAVAGED. STORM SURGE FROM HURRICANE IAN WASHED AWAY PART OF THE SANIBEL CAUSEWAY. TAKE A LOOK AT NEW DRONE FOOTAGE SHOWING THE DEVASTATING IMPACT ON THE BRIDGE. THE ROUTE IS THE ONLY WAY TO GET TO OR FROM SANIBEL AND CAPTIVA ISLANDS TO THE MAINLAND FOR OVER 6000 PEOPLE. THE ROADWAY THAT WAS WASHED AWAY IS ON THE RAMP UP TO THE CAUSEWAY’S SECOND BRIDGE. AND A FLOOD EMERGENCY AT A FIREHOUSE. YOU CAN SEE FIREFIGHTERS RUSHING AROUND IN SEVERAL FEET OF WATER TRYING TO SAVE THEIR EQUIPMENT AND BELONGINGS. YOU CAN SEE A FIRE ENGINE SURROUNDED BY WATER AND THE BAYS FLOODED TOO. WHEN IT COMES TO FOLKS GETTING IN AND OUT OF THE AIRPORTS WE KNOW THAT JACKSONVILLE INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT WILL CLOSED TODAY. ALL FLIGHTS ARE CANCELED AND THE TERMINAL WILL BE CLOSED. ORLANDO INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT HOPES TO RESUME COMERCIAL OPERATIONS SOMETIME TOMORROW. KELLY AND COLIN, BACK TO YOU