of hurricane ian, what residents are finding when they return home. plus vladimir putin s brazen move, how the rest of the world is reacting to the russian president s plan to annex part of ukraine. and how south korea is reacting to the latest missile launches from pyongyang. relief and recovery efforts are ongoing in florida after parts of the state with utterly devastated by hurricane ian. this is some of the damage left behind in ft. myers, a town once brimming with life is now a flattened field littered with debris. residents say much of what they own has been washed away and lost forever. lost everything last night. everything. family is okay, dogs are okay, parents are okay. lost everything we had. pictures, memories. gone. and we re seeing similar trails of destruction in other parts of florida where some residents are still trapped and waiting for help. my grandparents are still at the house. we have animals there. they didn t want to leave the animals. s
that destruction left behind in just three cities in florida. and clued in fort myers. we will go there in just a moment and now coming to be known as ground zero. satellite images showing areas there before and after the storm. survivors continuing to speak out about what they have endured. i sheltered in a closet until part of the roof came off. and then the wind came in there so that i just went behind the bed. and stay there. nothing about gratitude that we are here and for all that the people out there do. i will never ever not evacuate again. the power of that storm i mean if that would ve crashed into the side of the house. we would have been swept away. all right happening now in sarasota county in west central florida. possible levee break, that is threatening flooding about to 15 feet in the hayden river community. the sarasota county sheriff s office tweeting a warning saturday morning. and then urging residents to shelter in place if it is safe to do so.
we ve got our correspondents and legal team here standing by with new reaction from some trump allies. also this hour, check out the big board. the markets, wall street reacting pretty well to thats into just out from the fed, and another interest rate hike on the way, to try to get a handle on in place. is this? or will there be more hikes to come? we will talk about all of it. plus an nbc news exclusive debuting here this hour, stacey abrams one-on-one with our blayne alexander, early voting now just days away, in georgia, what she is saying about the state of her race as polls show her falling further behind brian kemp. a lot to get to in the next 60 minutes. i m hallie jackson, along with tom winter, ron allen in new york, and business investigations reporter david enrich is with us, a new book out sefrtds of the damned and care line polici and former federal prosecutor and msnbc legal analyst paul butler. let s get to some of the questions at 3:00 eastern, 12:00 pacifi
todd: hurricane ian plowing through western cuba yesterday knocking out power to the entire country and devastating the most important tobacco farms in the country used to produce cuba s iconic cigars. you are watching fox and friends first, i m todd piro. carley: i m carley shimkus, our reporters are live across florida this morning, we begin with senior meteorologist, janice dean who is tracking it from our studio. janice: they just upped the winds, that is a strong category four storm, the pressure has dropped by 10 millibars. it is strengthen as it approaches the coast, we r expecting landfall this afternoon. heightened awareness to the storm surge and for hours it will batter the coast and interior sections of florida. rain and wind and storm surge will impact coast of florida and inland will flood two-story homes at the coast. you don t have time, you can hide from the wind, you have to run from the storm surge. wind gusts in excess of 100 mile per hour for dura
800,000 still without power. hundreds of thousands are now homeless. it s just destroyed and it s ruined. you have to start all over again. as hurricanes worsen, are there some areas where americans shouldn t rebuild? i ll speak to fema administrator deanne criswell and florida senators rick scott and marco rubio. upping the ante, ukraine takes back a key city one day after vladimir putin illegally annexs four regions of ukraine and again threatens to go nuclear. there are no checks on mr. putin. can the west keep the russian leader under control? plus, the road to 218, with the democrats majority threat earned in congress, virginia becomes a battleground for one of the most competitive house races in the country. if you look across the spectrum in the country, this is road to 218. i spent time in a district that could prove decisive? hello, i m dana bash in washington where the state of our union is picking up the pieces after a devastating storm. the number