we expect it to intensify. we expect it to make land fall as possibly a category 3. but it s also the storm surge that s so significant. so the first thing i just want to tell everybody in florida is listen to your local officials. if they ask you to evacuate, please do so. it doesn t mean you have to go hundreds of miles. it could just be 10 or 20 miles inland to get out of that main area. if you are asked to evacuate, definitely take your important documents with you so you have those. so after you go back in and it s safe to go back in and you start to assess the damage, you have all of our important documents like insurance papers and identification to be able to start a recovery process. i think it s really important to mention we all remember august 29th, 2005 when hurricane katrina hit. that storm was a category 3, but it was the water that was the story. it was the water, the breaking of the dams that was the story there. is this storm going to be the
lot of folks. bret: we will track it all. thank you. if you are at home and want to get the fox weather app. just go to the app. store and click on fox weather. they will give all of the latest details about hurricane idalia. it s really good. check it out. all right. in tonight s throwback. hurricane katrina makes landfall in louisiana. on this day 18 years ago. imagine that august 29th, 2005. it first crossed florida as a category 1 but then came ashore in the bayou as a large category 3 near new orleans on this day. it s considered one of the worst natural disasters in u.s. history. more than 2,000 deaths are blamed on hurricane katrina as that storm overpowered new orleans system of levees. many accused george w. bush of being responsible for a slow reaction from the federal government. he was criticized for saying his fema administrator was doing a heckle of a job. buff, there were also major, a number of major missteps on the state and local level from officials there.
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any of that because there are emergencies right now and he has to deal with those. a great testament to the long-established. every president is defined by external events that no president plans for. george w. bush was not planning for the attacks of 9/11, obviously. i don t think president biden president trump was planning for a global pandemic when he ran in 2016. this is what presidents and legacies are made of. it s not necessarily your a agenda, but how you respond to crises around the world and at home. 16 years ago, katrina slammed into new orleans. george w. bush was not prepared for that. that is one hallmark of his presidency. you can track the bush decline in some ways from august 29th, 2005. more of that coming up. stay with us on the crisis at home and abroad. the question, are americans losing confidence in the biden administration? (vo) at t-mobile for business, unconventional thinking
upgraded based on some of the numbers we re seeing from grand isle where it came a shore. i m not sur priced it in surprised it intensified like this. they re getting better and better with intensity which in my experience and all our experience is the hardest thing to predict. the track was pretty much right on from the beginning but it s the intensity that s the difficult thing to predict and it s the thing you need the most. mike: i have no doubt that your office has applied lessons learned from katrina. do you think a lot of the residents of the great city of new orleans have applied lessons learned as well and gotten the heck out? yes, i really do. so we look at this day as a day that will always be in our collective in this city, august 29th, 2005. but we also learned from it and i believe we have become more resilient as a community and we did a voluntary evacuation. a lot of people left. and those that have stayed, they