Live Updates: Hurricane Ian has South Carolina in its sights

Hurricane Ian was on its way to South Carolina Friday morning after bludgeoning southwestern and central Florida, leaving catastrophic damage in its wake.

The National Hurricane Center said Ian, which regained hurricane status after a brief span as a tropical storm, could bring a "life-threatening storm surge" and hurricane conditions to the Carolina coast along with "flooding rains" across South and North Carolina and southern Virginia. It issued a hurricane warning for the entire South Carolina coast.

And Ian could have more in store for Florida: "Major to record river flooding will continue across central Florida through next week," the center predicted.