facilities in iraq used by iranian backed militants. joey: the act of retaliation comes after three u.s. service members were hurt on an attack on northern iraq. black smoke rising over gaza as the idf ramps up attacks on hamas terror attacks. the intense fighting comes after iran s president issues a threat against israel after one of their commanders was killed. david spunt is live in washington with the very latest. hi, david. one of our service members critically injured. the other two injured but in the critically. still waiting further details on those. the president ordered after u.s. forces came under attack by a drone. the iranian backed militia tied hezbollah and other affiliated groups under the umbrella of iran affiliates. president biden. camp david. let me be clear the president and i will not hesitate to take necessary action to defend the united states, our troops, and our interest. there is no higher priority. while we do not seek to escalated conflict in
rising causing residents to track towards higher ground. absolutely nuts. brian: more than 70,000 floridians are without power this morning. governor ron desantis urging residents to get out. time to evacuate is come to an end. you need to evacuate now. the governor will give another update in just about 30 minutes. we will bring that to you live. first, we have live fox team coverage janice dean tracking the storm s latest path. fox news weather we start with robert ray in fort myers. robert? good morning. you know, as light is about to come up here and these rain bands and window really intensify, conditions are deteriorating here in fort myers beach. the gulf of mexico, just a football field over there. churning up. i was just over there. when it gets light, we will show you that. you can see right now, these heavy bands as hurricane ian is right out there. the eye center is about 70 miles from where i m standing it s 30 miles wide and the window fell well over 300
happening at the same time, whether one is a diversionary one or other plans to happen simultaneously. so, whether this was an errant explosion, and the explosions were heading elsewhere, we don t know what the intended targets may have been, if this was not the target they selected. gillian: bill, obviously when you look at a situation like this, it s way too early in the process to talk about motivations, but do you have any sense based on just the geography, the very bare phones facts we have here, the fact this was likely a car bomb, that they were going from the u.s. or trying to go from the u.s. to canada. does that speak to you and your background expertise about what types of terror organizations might be interested in conducting something like this? yeah, it s very difficulty point to kind of come to any of those assumptions. certainly we know that the fbi director wray just over the past few days has reiterated concerns about potential terrorist activities, eman
accidentally stuck on the accelerator, and so then that drove into this or were they intentionally aiming for it. were there any other vehicles we re trying to transit statement, that are suspicious. are those vehicles being checked out? those are some of the questions and some of the things they would be investigating, certainly if they can get a license plate or vin number off this vehicle, they may identify who owned it, whether it was stolen or not, the background of it. there s all sorts of questions in things they could start to investigate to determine of course if there s any identification they could find of the occupants that would be helpful as well. so those are the types of things they ll look at and run it against anybody s prior, you know, do they have any sort of prior interactions with law enforcement or is it somebody that may have a known medical condition, such as a heart issue or other issue that could have led to them becoming unconscious before this inc