cyclone. associated press reporting at least 30 people have died, including 27 in florida. griff: ian now set to bring heavy rain to the east coast after definiting leaving devastating damage and landfall again in the carolinas, ap confirming at least 35 have died including 27 in florida. welcome to fox news live. i m griff jenkins. jacqui: good to be with you all, i m jacqui heinrich. and molly is in south carolina, and adam klotz in the weather center and rich at the white house. we ll start off with steve harrigan in north port. jacqui, the water in north port is going up and they re struggling to make rescues. a waiting list of 500 people, calling 911 they re trapped by the water and want to get out we ve seen national guard, and private citizens, too, trying to help people. you can see the houses one after the other have become little islands about chest high, four or five feet height of water around some of these houses. first responders are joined by a lot of people
winds were so powerful, it washed out the bridge. o donnell: cbs meg oliver is in orlando, where sheriff s deputies formed a human chain to pull a woman to safety. vladimir putin defiantly claims ukrainian territory, in a bizarre ceremony to rally the russian people. cbs charlie d agata reports from ukraine tonight on the new threats and america s response. and, on the road. cbs steve hartman has the story of a 91-year-old super fan with a record to be proud of. this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting from the nation s capital. this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting from the nation s capital. o donnell: good evening to our viewers in the west and thank you for joining us on this friday night. as we come on the air, ian is now a post-tropical cyclone, but it is still bringing dangerous conditions to much of the east coast. ian slammed into the south carolina coast as a strong category 1 storm packing winds of 85 mil
we begin with our chief meteorologist rick reichmuth in the fox weather center. rick? yeah, landfall about 55 minutes ago just around the georgetown, south carolina area. that s where the worst of the storm surge is. the storm surge on shore already. winds sustained were 85 miles an hour. a category one storm. we look at the satellite picture. looks like a mess. it s turning into a more typical storm that you might see in the northern latitudes or at least a combination between those two kinds of storms. the rain field will stretch out. we ll see the wind field stretch out as well across a lot of areas. in general, a weakening wind trend now that we have the storm over land. the winds gusting 46 miles an hour. that s an offshore wind. that is pushing water, not allowing storm surge there to be coming on. we have rain here. some of the storms out across east earn north carolina will have a tornado thread there. there s one tornado warning out there to inside of the outer
direct hit from the dangerous hurricane. we have the storm s track. and tonight s eye on america, hurricane hunters fly into ian s powerful winds to show us the new technology they hope will better predict a storm s path. and cbs s ben tracy got a first hand look. this drone can literally go fly around the insides of a hurricane? yes. this is a special edition of the cbs evening news with norah o donnell. reporting tonight from fort myers. o donnell: good evening, and thank you for joining us. and as we come on its air tonight, ian has regained hurricane strength as it moves into the atlantic. taking aim at georgia and the carolinas. but what it left behind here in florida is unimaginable in scale and historic in reach. the president saying tonight, this could be the deadliest hurricane in florida s history. we witnessed the trail of destruction this category 4 storm left. florida governor desantis said today this is a once-in-500-year flooding event. the hurricane-
and georgia. major cities prepare for a direct hit from the dangerous hurricane. we have the stories. this is the cbs evening news. the winds. for power is fully restored. tonight the state s of georgia, the carolinas and virginia will all have de claired a state of emergency ahead of ian s expected landfall tomorrow. we have team coverage tonight. all throughout florida andpbeyoe will start us off north northed for meyers. i know the damage where you are is quite extensive. norah, for this home, the damage is total, completely destroyed this home. now if you go downt the block will you see homes like this, will you see other homes with roofs ripped off and the occasional one show unscathed. we are four miles from the water so this was all wind damage. as daylight broke the path of destruction left behind by hurricane ian was devastating. block by block fort myers beach looks like it was hit by a bomb, only small pieces of debris remain where homes and businesses once s