currently, they will work 24/7, until we get the lights back on again, as the governor said, not our first rodeo, but every storm is also different and always face different challenges. and i appreciate all of the support from the state, governor, thank you, and from local law enforcement as well, the national guard, and this is a team sport, and a team effort, and we re going to all work together until we get florida back up on our feet, and where we all want to be. thank you. and when fpl and the other companies have crews in, the extent to which that infrastructure has remained is critical, because you know, it is a lot easier for them to reconnect an existing system than have to rebuild it, so to see some of that thats was able to withstand a hurricane, it is also just a testament, i mean some of these folks, put money into the resiliency of the infrastructure. and this is like the ultimate test. when you ve got a hurricane that is a massive hurricane coming in at 155 m
airport closures, the ripple effect now, and this hurricane now headed inland. headed straight for orlando before then tracking north. alerts at this hour up across florida, georgia, and now the carolinas. our meteorologists ginger zee and rob marciano on the ground tonight with our team across florida. also, the acting deputy director of noaa s national hurricane center right here with us tonight. what concerns him most as we head into the evening hours. the other major news this wednesday night, the u.s. state department now urging americans to leave russia immediately. the american embassy warning russians may force americans with dual citizenship into military service. and the allegations involving russian sabotage into the pipeline that would deliver russian natural gas into europe. ian pannell inside ukraine tonight. in this country, the major news tonight on alzheimer s. a potential breakthrough. a promising new drug and what it s shown so far. also tonight, poli
it will severely impact millions of people and put the barrier island communities completely under water. joining me this hour, the acting director of the national hurricane center to update the track of the storm. i will talk to mayors up and down the coast as ian comes onshore. let s go to our meteorologist with the latest on the hurricane s path. what are you seeing from the latest updates? with each update, the conditions continue to grow dire. right now, we are seeing lots of rain and strong winds moving into ft. myers. if you look at the latest trajectory, we have this making landfall as a mjor hurricane, a strong category 4, 155 miles per hour winds. once you are in 157, you are in cat 5. they are seeing strong winds move into areas. streets are under water. i want to note that it s not until the center of the eye makes landfall that we call it a landfall. we are anticipating within the next three to four hours this will make landfall just outside of ft. myers and so
Night, as laura continues her vacation. Im turning it over to my favorite person at fox, Shannon Bream she starts now. Shannon . Shannon jason, well see you tomorrow night. Thank you so much. We begin with the fox news alert. Breaking tonight, the president s attorney sounding off in robert mueller, also, standing by, white House Counsel Donald Mcgahn after this weeks report saying that mcgahn has cooperated extensively with a Special Counsel investigation. And scorned former cia director john brennan mulls a lawsuit over his Security Clearance getting revoked on the president says, bring it on. Also tonight come President Trump honors Immigration Enforcement officials of the white house, calling out democratic leadership as open border extremists. Senator david purdue was asked at that event and he joins us to talk about the abolishment i. C. E. Movement and whether the senate really well work all the way through the august recess. We all speak exclusively to a former miss america as
A recap of the days headlines and a look at whats in store for tomorrow. Executive order, the National Security exception in the Executive Order was invoked, we never had a situation where a president did it on his own, no process, no outline of what the concerns work and he just unilaterally revoked it. We dont know how the court would view this. The president suggesting we get discovery and go back through your emails and find out how much you are paid to get on different shows and other things. Is that enough to scare john brennan away from this . I dont think so. When he shows up is fairly political. If he has merit to his claim or argument to the story, there are reasons for both sides, some say the president wants to continue if it benefits them, brennan says it benefits them because as you could see, playing the role of martyr, it is unclear how this plays out because both seem to think continuing this conversation makes sense for both of them. Shannon we have this report that d