“Ian strengthened early Wednesday into an extremely dangerous Category 4 hurricane, with 155 mph winds just a tick below Cat 5 strength and a wind field that covered almost half of the state.” Ian is making landfall in Florida and it looks like a bad one.

+ “Waffle House has become the unofficial barometer of a storm’s intensity.” And 21 of them are already closed in Florida. Here are the latest updates from CNN and ABC.