parts of the state on a slow, this is really an issue, it s churning on the destructive crawl north. orlando now in the crosshairs of this historic storm that s produced record rainfall and storm surge. power outages are a major problem with more than 2 million customers in the dark across florida. water is just everywhere in many communities. in port charlotte, the storm blew the roof off of a hospital and it flooded the intensive care unit. ahead, we re going to speak to a doctor there, how they managed to protect patients and what the conditions now. fort myers has experienced some of the worst flooding in the storm. torrents of water just rushing into the streets trapping people in their homes. same for naples where officials say half of the streets aren t even passable because high water has inundated them. although it s weakened, there is concern about ian regaining strength and threatening the southeast, georgia, the carolinas, and all declaring emergencies in advance.
where dangerous hurricane ian is heading next. classrooms turned into bedrooms. we visit shelters and speak to families riding out the storm together. my main focus was getting them to safety. o donnell: and remembering legendary cbs newsman, bill plante, who covered more than half a century of history. this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting tonight from tampa, florida. o donnell: good evening, and thank you for joining us. as we come on the air tonight, the state of florida is being pummeled by hurricane ian. the massive category 4 storm made landfall just hours ago with winds of 150 miles per h hour. ian slammed ashore north of fort myers with dangerous winds and catastrophic storm surge. the storm is moving inland and dumping tremendous amounts of rain along the i-4 corridor. and to get a better understanding of just how big ian is, this is what the storm looks like from space, the powerful hurricane covering almost the entire state of flori
why nasa is now joining the hunt for ufos announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening, everyone, from los angeles where president biden today offered an explanation for why consumer prices are still climbing may s numbers out today dashing hope inflation was starting to cool. instead it jumpe another percent growing to 8.6% year over year, leaving inflation sitting at 40-year highs affecting everything from home prices to food, clothing to gasoline put another way, american households are paying $460 more per month to buy the same amount of goods and services with the port of los angeles as his background president biden putting some of the blame on shippers, oil companies and vladimir putin as wall street suffered a major sell-off the dow lost 880 points, 2.7% the nasdaq down 414 points, 3.5% tonight, all eyes now turned to the fed and its next steps tom costello has more. reporter: the red arrows on wall street represent real money for american
Category two. Instead he exploded in veracity to a category four. Its going to cause a huge amount of damage. Our hearts go out to those folks. Sandra thats it for us. Special courage continues here on the Fox News Channel with Shepard Smith. Hurricane michael, its on the way and it is expected to be historic. Im Shepard Smith on the fox news deck. Often in programming including outnumbered will not be seen today. Hurricane michael is a major category 4 storm set to make landfall somewhere around Panama City Beach, florida. It is expected to be the most powerful storm ever to hit the region. It is but an hour or two away. Lets get a live update from the National Hurricane center in miami. Back to the National Hurricane center, this is ken graham on the operant center. Its noon eastern, 11 00 central. The latest information on the Hurricane Michael. A couple of things to make note
here, the latest information we have wins still at 150 miles power. The pressure has dropped. We have the H
maybe, oh, maybe cat 2, and now, there is not really anything to prevent it from continuing to strengthen. it is going to be a major impact, and florid yens, should expect that the storm is going to be a major cat 3 hurricane. meteorologist eric van dam has the latest forecast from the cnn center, and what should people impact and prepare for? yes, this is what people should prepare for like the governor said. it is going to be a major hurricane upon landfall which means 150-mile-an-hour winds plus. so this is the last day to prepare for this, and if you are in florida, we expect the winds to move across the peninsula before it hits landfall. and we have to remember that georgia into the carolinas, you will be impacted by the storm latest into the track.