cyclone. associated press reporting at least 30 people have died, including 27 in florida. griff: ian now set to bring heavy rain to the east coast after definiting leaving devastating damage and landfall again in the carolinas, ap confirming at least 35 have died including 27 in florida. welcome to fox news live. i m griff jenkins. jacqui: good to be with you all, i m jacqui heinrich. and molly is in south carolina, and adam klotz in the weather center and rich at the white house. we ll start off with steve harrigan in north port. jacqui, the water in north port is going up and they re struggling to make rescues. a waiting list of 500 people, calling 911 they re trapped by the water and want to get out we ve seen national guard, and private citizens, too, trying to help people. you can see the houses one after the other have become little islands about chest high, four or five feet height of water around some of these houses. first responders are joined by a lot of people
a category 1 storm with 85 mile per hour wind and officials came out and they ve set up the fencing to keep people away from the boat, which is not totally secure. we ve seen workers going in and off the boat and i ve seen officials here, they re not sure how they ll take care of it. one idea, digging trench and flipping it around and into the eegs. and how it got here from 3:00 yesterday. strong waves washed ashore. we know four people were on the boat, two of whom did not initially want to evacuate the boat. all four did and thankfully all are safe. and the apartment complex from myrtle beach not far from where we are now. four people were rescued by firefighters from a cherry picker. an electrical box shorted and they could not walk in the water. and thankfully they re all safe. how bad the flooding got, storm
so, we thought we were good. our parents, who live right across the street, have a generator, or my parents have a generator right across the street, but unfortunately, both of our homes were destroyed, cars, we were very fortunate. my boyfriend, who i live with, his family is in naples and they had power and everything so they came and got us in their vehicles when things calmed down. griff: ashlee, what was the most frightening part of it and what we re seeing, by the way, our viewers are seeing some of the footage you shot. it just terrifying, looking out of it looks like the window of your apartment. what was the most terrifying part of it? what point were you concerned you might not make it through this? it was the not knowing. we lost phone service, we had no idea how bad things were going to get, and even sending
seem like sober, smart calm people discussing this issue. i do say we are at the point now, juan, where we have got a corrupt media the media is motivated by ideology, not giving folks a fact to run a page one article to say a ploo tune in eastern afghanistan, most dangerous territory there is was raggedy, their word, wearing cut off t-shirts and bandannas while digging trench is a disgrace. absolute disgrace. go. i think raggedy is someone else s word. they quoted that let me just say have chuck hagel, the defense secretary on capitol hill on wednesday giving testimony and then some closed door testimony. i think you will find out mr. this young man was a did i setterrer. we know he walked away twice and came back, bill. i m not just going to leap to any conclusion. i might add, you know, you look at some of these republicans on capitol hill. mccain, inhock, toomey, others. they were so quick to say don t lose sight of the principle. we don t leave everyone
people discussing this issue. i do say we are at the point now, juan, where we have got a corrupt media the media is motivated by ideology, not giving folks a fact to run a page one article to say a ploo tune in eastern afghanistan, most dangerous territory there is was raggedy, their word, wearing cut off t-shirts and bandannas while digging trench is a disgrace. absolute disgrace. go. i think raggedy is someone else s word. they quoted that let me just say have chuck hagel, the defense secretary on capitol hill on wednesday giving testimony and then some closed door testimony. i think you will find out mr. this young man was a did i setterrer. we know he walked away twice and came back, bill. i m not just going to leap to any conclusion. i might add, you know, you look at some of these republicans on capitol hill. mccain, inhock, toomey, others. they were so quick to say don t lose sight of the principle. we don t leave everyone behind. if they re stupid, you know