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Florida's Governor Ron DeSantis provided on Wednesday morning the most recent update regarding Hurricane Idalia, which had initially intensified to a Category 4 hurricane but has subsequently been downgraded to a Category 3 storm.

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00:00 Hurricane Adalia has struck its first blow in Florida, making landfall on Wednesday near
00:04 Keaton Beach on the west coast of the state.
00:07 The U.S. National Hurricane Center says it expects the storm to bring wind speeds of
00:11 up to 205 kilometers, that's just over 125 miles an hour.
00:16 The governor of Florida has appealed to people not to take unnecessary risks.
00:20 Do not go outside in the midst of this storm.
00:23 If it's calm where you are, it may be because you are in the eye of the storm and those
00:28 conditions will change very, very quickly.
00:31 So wherever you are, hunker down and don't take anything for granted here.
00:37 This is a very, very powerful storm.
00:41 Everything points towards Adalia weakening.
00:42 A couple of hours before making landfall, it was a Category 4 hurricane with wind speeds
00:47 of up to 225 kilometers per hour.
00:50 The U.S. National Hurricane Center expects it to continue advancing through southern
00:55 Georgia or southern Carolina.
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