business correspondent ashley webster live in spring hills, florida. and ashley, it is the calm before the storm where you are in spring hill right now. it is indeed. good morning, steve. it s a very mild, pleasant morning. but that s going to change quickly over the course of the next 48 hours. i m in front of a gas station here in spring hill. we are about 50 miles north of tampa. everything looks fine, right? not so much. this gas station ran out of gas about 4:00 yesterday afternoon. you can see the sign no gasoline of any grade, including non-ethanol. in fact we were noticing the last person to use this particular pump managed to squeeze out 18 cents. but it s not just the gas that s a problem and the shorts damage as we see people driving around early this morning looking for a pump that actually has gas. but the supplies are starting to go down. batteries, flashlights and water in particular. it s hard to find right now. you can t find a isca of water anywhere. i wan
from the national hurricane center, but first live in tampa, nicole valdez. hey, nicole. ainsley, brian, steve, good morning. florida attorney general saying this is the storm we all have feared. she called the chance of us seeing anywhere from 5 to 15 feet of storm surge, detrimental for the tampa bay area. and unfortunately we are seeing the impacts of hurricane ian across florida. brand-new video from the florida keys, you are already seeing flooding beginning in portions of monroe county. it s part of one of the reasons why we already know hundreds of thousands of people are under mandatory evacuations right now. here is a look at all six counties that those people are living in. really all along florida s gulf coast and we are already hearing reports that the number of counties issuing the mandatory evacuations are expanding. it s why people are boarding up their homes, getting all the resources, going to the grocery stores, packing up their cars, getting ready to driv
from buffalo and she says she has never seen anything like this. we still have scores and scores of vehicles that were abandoned when people left during the storm, or in a ditch, they cannot possibly get out. we have had snowplows, major snowplows and rescue vehicles. i saw them myself in ditches buried in snow. anita: the brutal weather causing thousands of flight delays and cancellations. flight aware, charles watson is at the airport in atlanta with all of the latest there, and charles, you ve been chatting with us there from the airport over the last couple of days. how are things looking today? well, look, it s busy. the travel troubles continue here in atlanta, and at airports across the country. this is a taste of what it looks like here in atlanta, what we are experiencing. a lot of folks in the airport today. large crowds, large lines full of people who are just hoping that the day goes smoothly for them. unfortunately, that likely won t be the case for many as
crossing in the early morning hours, some in the river. some of them going up a river bank and ultimately more than 100 of them crossing illegally into private property here in eagle pass. this part of the del rio sector, which sometimes seems upwards of 2,000 illegal crossings per day. cuff see border patrol eventually led all of those migrants away to be processed. but that certainly wasn t the only group we saw. take a look at this second piece of video after the sun came up. another group of approximately 200 migrants crossed illegally. many of them just walking along a local highway. that s the sort of thing that happens out here in eagle pass. you can just be driving down the road and see large groups of migrants coming into the country and being processed by border patrol. as you can see, many of them single adults. and then as that was happening, take a look at other group that crossed on the other side of town spotted by fox news drone another group of about 200 or s
found the body of the mother behind a vacant apartment. i m carley shimkus. todd: i m todd piro. the suspect had violent history of rape, assault and kidnapping dating back to the time he was 11 years old. cleotha abston only 16 when he began a 20-year prison term. let s turn to brooke singman with the latest. brooke: police have confirmed the body found is the body of eliza fletcher. the memphis police department and law enforcement discovered remains of a body, forensic investigation positively identified the body was in fact eliza fletcher. carley: s fletcher s body was located seven miles from where she was kidnapped and a mile away from an apartment complex where cleotha abston was seen cleaning the floors of his suv. her family says they are heartbroken and devastated and grateful to federal law enforcement for tireless efforts to find her and bring justice to the person responsible for this horrible crime. cleotha abston is charged with first-degree murder, agg