category 5. call it one. strongest storms to ever hit florida. thank you so much. nbc news correspondent joining us kerry sanders. kerry, good morning. what does it look like there? reporter: well, we know it s coming. thanks to the radars. it s just raining. it s miserable right now. we ve had some gusts but not even tropical force winds. where i m standing a couple feet from where the rivers connect there and heard discussion about the the storm surge, and this likely will be under water because of where we are. so close. 140-plus winds pushing into the storm surge. one of the things important to note about storm surge. especially for those who decided no the to evacuate. with the storm surge comes the force of mother nature. not just a simple rise in water. it s a force that comes in and it can actually wash away a home. so somebody who thinks, well, i can deal with the water. no.
a live look at tampa, florida, where millions of people are under an evacuation order right now. the hurricane barreling toward florida. we ll have an update on a number of levels, get a check on radars and check in with nbc s kerry sanders and we ll be looking at this storm s path. expected to make landfall in the next few hours. expected to be the storm of a lifetime. joining us now, former secretary of state, the u.s. special presidential envoy for climate, john kerry. it s really good to have you on the show this morning, mr. secretary. we want to talk about what s obviously happening with climate change and your efforts in just a moment, but i would be remiss not to start with the situation in ukraine.
several hundred, the amount of meals and water and fuel that has been prepositioned in the region to help people after the storm hits. so the president and the white house and the administration, in terms of fema, are taking it very seriously. i mean, in any hurricane like this, it is a test for an administration, certainly in the wake of what we saw with hurricane katrina and the bush term back in 2005. the president actually was supposed to be in florida yesterday, darlene, as you know, for a political trip that was postponed because of the approaching storm. and there s always some politics around some things like even in a major natural disaster. there was some talk yesterday as to why it took the white house and governor desantis so long to communicate until last night. but what do we expect here, between these two men, as desantis makes no secret that he s eyeing biden s job in a couple years? right. that s a great question. it is a little curious to many of us in the white h
wait a second. i m not going in with president clinton until the kid comes in, basically. i was like, 31-year-old freshman, and it was chiles and democrats who had no use for me politically. pull me into the room. sit down, say it s his district, talk to him. a lesson i never forgot, and that s a lesson i think joe biden probably knows better than anyone. yeah. and when we are in devastating tornadoes in southwest missouri, a very republican area, you saw those party lines fall away. one thing i do hope, joe, put a little politics in this. we all are praying for the people of florida. we hope the devastation is not deadly. we are glad for the cooperation, but when it s all over i hope some of those floridians who hate the federal government remember that the federal government is there for them at a time of disaster. right. absolutely. i think the reason why the
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