An hour ago to a category 4 but a serious and deadly storm that will have the target of the West Coast of florida in its sights sometime later tonight and early tomorrow morning. Im Bill Hemmer in orlando. We do a split show today. Dana you are missed but glad youre there. This is americas newsroom, im dana perino. You have covered many of these hurricanes, bill. I think that even you are saying wow, this one is big and monster by comparison even. Bill you know, i think it is storm 21. Im back at a hotel where i was five years ago. Florida will take a wallop here. They were predicting earlier today there will be a part of the West Coast of florida that will have a Storm Surge of eight to ten feet. Think about that now. Those low lying Barrier Islands that have been so built up over the past 50 years. The Population Increase on the West Coast of florida. This is going to be a doozy. Experts describe milton as a once in a Century Storm and folks in tampa are taking heed. Very tough. We r
outside his store. it originally said millionaires and put a b over the m. carp car even better news. steve: congratulations to some lucky person. ainsley: change your world. save so many people s lives. brian: don t need the overdraft in your checking and everything is going to clear. ainsley: how many times i got dinged for that and called my mom. i need $100. brian: make you pay. meanwhile, let s go to a fox weather alert now. thousands of florida residents can no longer focus on the election told to evacuate as tropical storm nicole approaches the state s east coast. residents are filling sandbags to prepare. steve: of course, many people lined up at gas stations and there was, as always, panicked buying of food and water and toilet paper leaving some store shelves can you see right there empty. ainsley: fox weather senior meteorologist janice dean has the fox weather forecast. janice, i remember when sandy hit, brian did all the sandbags in his front yard. brian:
no. i think the democrats need to have some very serious lessons they learned as well and one of the things we heard throughout the election period was that a lot of voters felt like they were being condescended and looked down to by democrats so democrats can look at this as a victory by holding their own but there was a lot of money to just standstill. steve: what about donald trump. he endorsed i think hundreds of candidates. yeah, i do think that what we re seeing right now is that the future of the republican party is ahead of us not behind us. i think it s time, when you look at candidates like kemp in georgia, you look at desantis in florida, you look at these candidates who stand for freedom who stand for business, candidates of action, that s where the momentum is it s not coming from donald trump in the past it s coming from the future. steve: lee carter up late last night and early today. thank you very much. thank you. steve: we re going to step aside. more fox an
it s such an important issue and it s an issue that is really affecting americans every single day. not only the human trafficking but the fentanyl that s coming across that border. so i m hopeful that obviously republicans will have a solution but i m hopeful democrats will actually come to the table and want to solve this as well. brian: i would imagine because it s going to be right in their face for 2024. chad wolf appreciate it. thank you. thank you. brian: all right. listen i want to get a weather update right now, thousands of florida residents are told to evacuate because the tropical storm nicole is approaching the state s east coast. residents are filling sandbags, that s how we got that video. many people are lining up at gas stations and panic buying food and water leaving some store shelves empty. fox weather senior meteorologist janice dean has more. janice janice: yeah we think this is going to become a hurricane ian before it makes land fall and i believe that w