Washington. We begin with a Fox News alert. Hurricane helene as strengthened to a category 4 storm with winds up to 130 miles per hour. Its expected to bring a potentially unsurvivable 20foot Storm Surge and major flooding later tonight and the states big Bend Region. We are praying for everyone in the Storms Path in florida and we bring you the latest updates we will with reporters on the ground throughout this hour. But, first, should have stuck with joe. Thats the focus of tonights angle. Now, for years, at public appearances, Joe Biden was repeating limbself, often speaking in gibberish. Those were the words of ja john, ketanji brown jackson. Repeat the line, will not bring israel will only bog down israel in gaza. Laura well, they are about to contract a wicked case of Buyers Remorse over at the Democrat Party because the new immember Son Swing State poll shows that every battleground is tied except georgia where trump is up by 2. The economy remains the number one issue in all of
Bret youre welcome. Good evening. Im Bret Baier, we have new Polling Information Tonight about the president ial election in two crucial Swing States. Thats coming up. House lawmakers meantime tear into the Secret Service over the first attempted assassination against former President Trump, that is the subject of tonights common Ground Segment new Yorks Mayor resists calls to step down after being charged in a federal indictment. But, first, were awaiting landfall for the powerful Hurricane Helene. Along the florida panhandle. This going to be a Multistate Event with potential for significant impacts. Every minute that goes by brings us closer to having conditions that are going to be simply too dangerous to nav navigate. Going to come a point where we Cant Rescue you. I convince myself that it is safer to leave. A little bit nervous. Me against Mother Nature right now. Bret helene is bringing heavy rain, high winds. Predicted to be a massive Storm Surge. Tens of thousands of commerce
workers and pay their bills. hard working employees can breathe easier as well. no losses this is an important point. no losses will be borne by the taxpayers. dana: fox news alert. welcome to a new hour of america s newsroom, i m dana perino. bill: i m bill hemmer. dana: a great monday morning. bill: good morning at home. president biden last hour reassuring americans the banking system is in tact after the second and third largest bank failures in u.s. history in the last couple of days. silicon valley bank in california. new york s signature bank yesterday. dana: they issued a joint statement saying depositers will get their money back at both banks. here is janet yellen yesterday. whenever a bank, especially one like silicon valley bank with billions of dollars in deposits fails, it is clearly a concern from the standpoint of depositors, many of which may be small businesses. dana: the market has been open for 31 minutes. what do we know? to avoid a re
hour. there will be catastrophic flooding and life threatening storm surge. if you are in tampa bay and counties north and south of that it could be something that happens. if you re under an evacuation order. evacuate to higher ground that will be safe from the type of surge and flooding. bill: our fox weather team coverage considers. adam klotz standing by to tell us the latest. dana: first we ll go to phil keating. he is in a beach community a half hour southwest of tampa. sounds like a good place. it is. it is old, classic florida. the time to get out of town is now. no joking around at this point. most of the people in this town have evacuated already leaving it a ghost town. there is hardly any humans within the eye can see. the brass monkey over here, a famous restaurant bar and grill boarded up yesterday and sandbags on the ground. across tampa bay mandatory evacuations began yesterday for all neighborhoods along the coast. the real issue is the bay itself and
next system is weaker than the last but the ground is already so saturated the water has nowhere to go. this is just not what folks want to see and here people tell residents the water is unsafe to drink because it has tainted by the floodwaters. dana: they can t buy a break out there. we wish for one for them. check out fox weather or continuing coverage of the storm and scan a qr code to download the fox weather app or stream it on your favorite device. bill: on the border now fox captured this exclusive video from yesterday, el paso. [shouting] bill: there was a crowd of about 1,000 migrants rushing from the south to the north across this bridge from mexico at the port of entry in el paso, texas. officers scrambled to secure the area. texas lieutenant governor dan patrick is here. a couple things to get through. give me a moment to get through all of this.