is only beginning. sandra: for those of us who have lived through hurricanes we know how scary they can be. chief meteorologist is with us tracking the storm and the latest tally on some of the winds that are being reported across that state. what are we seeing, rick? so far, john, i m glad we had the video that popped up from 2017 up in jacksonville, because jacksonville is going to get storm surge again from this storm, which is pretty hard to imagine. this is a look at the winds recorded so far, verified naples, 112 miles an hour, still with kinds of the worst of the wind offshore, it has not made its way there just yet. so we have a long road ahead. all right, every hour now we are getting an update here, so this is the 2:00 p.m. update. no changes in the last three hours, pressure still at 937 millibars, moving north/northeast at nine miles an hour. we are looking at that every hour. often times when you have a storm making landfall it starts to weaken a bit, interac
had already been heavily saturated with water because it had been a very rainy season. so this complete inundation of water at this point is going to cause some significant damage to our area. so it s going to be crystally important that we try to get these assessments done as quickly as we can when the storm moves out so that way we can get a real assessment of all the needs, coordinate between the governor s office who has done a tremendous job, fema, like i said, i was at the fema offices a few hours ago, going over what s happening, what the standout plans are, asertation for fuel, for water, for food and for housing. so we can get people to safety quickly once the storm passes and try to rebuild the area as quickly as we can. sandra: it s just something, here is marco island, congressman, we were on placida
state, across the state the weather is quickly changing. thank you very much. john: fort myers where robert ray has been so diligently reporting from, 19th congressional district, the congressman is byron donalds, what s the situation congressman where you are? you are in d.c., i guess i m in washington, came up for the vote on resolution for the federal government but obviously the concern and thought process with everything going on at home, spent some time today over at the noaa offices and the fema offices trying to get assessments for what s happening now and also what s to come when this storm passes. southwest florida, obviously we have been through storms before. hurricane irma the most recent one, so now the key thing is, number one, people being safe, staying in their leaving, and number 2, doing assessments as quickly as we can
towers looked like after the horrific attack, the worst attack on our country where 2977 people lost their lives. this is the scene of the north and south towers now pulled, what can you tell us about the homeland 18 years later? we have come a long way. i was honored to be there last week, the view you took is similar to the customs and border protection and fema offices in the freedom tower. for cvp they came back to lower manhattan 2 years ago for the first time after the 9/11 attack and people who were there on 9/11, in the 93 attacks as well, showed the commitment to protect the country. our strategy going forward is to continue to invest in those areas that helps us prevent significant attack, trying to access the united states, that is dhs s mission in terms of
it down as well. we have over 443 river flood warnings right now with the stages up and down from texas the to areas of northern florida all of the i way toof the way o florida, and the areas of the great lakes, and the stationary front has been the main culprit for this, and most of it moving o out, and several days for the rain, randi, to make it from the small streams and lakes into the tributaries, and so we will see these crests going higher, and we le see more warnings as the merrimack, and the mississippi and the missouri will crest and make its way down stream. it is a terrible situation. it is. and thank you, tom, to be with us and you know that area so well. stick with us, because i want to bring on the phone, collene who is with the missouri fema