WATCH LIVE: Track Idalia as it moves away from Florida after making landfall

Idalia made landfall along Florida's west coast Wednesday morning as an extremely dangerous hurricane.

Idalia intensified into a major hurricane before making landfall in Florida's Big Bend area near Keaton Beach around 7:45 a.m.

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The hurricane quickly moved across Florida and into Georgia, and was downgraded to a tropical storm on a path toward South Carolina.

Track the latest details on Idalia including wind speed and projected path in the player above, or with NBC6's First Alert Doppler 6000:

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