areas, the water has veeded enough to allow them to come back home. so for people who are out there watching this as they are thinking of going back home, i mean the danger hasn t evaporated. what should they know when they are trying to make their way back home and assess the damage? well, again, i think the first thing is pay attention to what local authorities are saying. make sure that they get the clear signal from local authorities before they venture into an area. and when they do go, there is potential for it is never a good idea to walk through water because there could be contaminants this it or hidden obstacles. but even if the water is gone, they are going back into a house that has been flooded, we have to be very, very dave about potential contaminants, about struct structural damage. so good idea to go slow and get things checked out. and once it has been checked out, it may actually take work
pick him up and rescue him from his home to get there. jacqui: incredible. the storm might have passed, but the danger hasn t. katie, we ll check in later. for more coverage of the latest weather updates in your area, go to foxweather.com and download the fox weather app today. griff: jacqui, we re just seeing now fema giving an update here. let s dip in and take a listen to what they say. we re very, very appreciative for sending charles williams to assist us here within our emergency operations center. he has been a tremendous help and assistance to those of us within the county as we ve been responding to the emergency. at this time i m going to ask orlando mayor to come forward and then we ll have the sheriff come forthfor comments and then open it up to any questions that you have.
st. petersburg they may not be able to get out just yet because the danger hasn t pass the the yet. we re getting another really strong burst of wind and rain here, jake. all right. brian todd, thank you so much. appreciate it in st. petersburg there. we have a senator rick scott in studio with us right now. your reaction to what we re seeing. you heard the mayor of ft. myers talking about how he s been in ft. myers since the 1970s and never seen anything this bad. yeah, i talked to the mayor this morning and you look at the pictures and this unbelievable storm surge. there is a lot of low lying areas in all this area and you ll have the wind, these trailer parks, if they re in them, they might not survive. the water pushed up so high. it takes a long time for that to reseed. plus, look at the map how much rain we re going to get. we re not even close to how much rain we ll have. we ll have a lot more power losses. hopefully we won t lose lives. this isn t over. we ll have the rest
democracy withstood the violence of january 6th. but the danger hasn t receded. the danger has not receded. that is committee chairman bernie thompson. american democracy came close to total collapse on january 6th, but the threat to democracy did not just disappear when the halls of the capitol cleared out that day. we know that, the ex presidents big lies spread from the capital to bakes to individual state. certain republican completely controlled legislatures tried to put forth fake electors to help overturn the election. and now there are dozens of election deniers running for office across the country. and that is just at the state level. that is not even considering the fact that nearly the entire republican parties united around the man responsible for the events on january six. and that the systems and policies that allowed this to happen, folks, they are still
of visibility into how the white house plans to message this? obviously, the president has done an extraordinary job in terms of distributing, disseminating and promoting the vaccines, the fact that we have supply everywhere and anywhere was unimaginable at the beginning of the vaccine being discovered and approved. but this next step comes at a moment when his vaccine mandates have become very politicized by republicans, at a moment when i don t know, it seems like the sort of trip wire of kids being in danger hasn t slowed or stopped any of the, again, indifference is the nicest thing i can say about mr. reeves. what sewer sense of how the white house is preparing for a vaccine for kids under 12. jeff sainz is in charge of the logistics of the covid