arrested. also a shadowy group inside venezuela has claimed responsibility saying they are going to once again try to kill madeira. he says the mastermind are from neighboring colombia and the united states. u.s. officials say they have nothing to do with this attack. the madeira regime has any hard evidence of people in the united states engaging in activity that rises to a criminal violation, send it to us and we will take a serious look at it. they haven t done that yet. this entire televised event was supposed to show that nicholas madeira is in complete control inside venezuela. instead it was the reverse. you had soldiers running for their lives and a sense of confusion there comes at a time of weakness for the president. 1 million% inflation inside venezuela. the government originally thought about lopping 3 zeros off the currency. now they have decided to chop off five zeros from their currency, shepard. steve. steve: harrigan live on that story.
brian: all right. right now to a fox news alert. you are seeing it. a roof ripped a home as hurricane maria just hit landfall about an hour and 12 minutes ago. ainsley: monster category 4 storm could be the strongest hurricane to hit the island in nearly a century. steve. steve: harrigan is live in withisan juan, puerto rico where the storm is barreling down right now. tell us where you are in respect to greater san juan, puerto rico. we re in san juan, not far from the airport in a concrete park parking garage. we herd a lot about destructive winds and these winds could be deadly. it s clear that they are right now. we are seeing large concrete hotels in the capital simply being torn apart minute by minute. we have seen large pieces of the sidewalls come out. we have seen balconies go flying. trees snapped in half.
closer to the shore when we can to see whether or not that happens, shepard. shepard: hearing the familiar after the storm noise of alarms. are they coming from everywhere? jr. they are, and a lot of bits of tin roof making a lot of noise when they get blown around and bits of tile also. it s going to to be a major, at the very least, a major clean-up operation. you re going to hear a lot of chain saws and generate ors and, of course, more than 70,000 people without power. 20,000 evacuated, and a lot more left the area. it s going to be a big comeback, but we re still not sure. we can give you a little snapshot of the damage. big enough to knock down trees, powerful enough, but not every tree and not the buildings. shepard, back to you. shepard: thank goodness. steve harrigan where the wind s howling in naples. i mentioned fort myers is next for this storm and then at some point to tampa. mike tobin s there live now. how s it looking? reporter: well, shep, it s interesting how harrig
ritchie incognito was suspended indefinitely after allegedly threatening his teammate jonathan martin. reporter: what do you have to say about the storm you are in? i m trying to weather the storm. this will pass. reporter: there is an allegation you left voicemails. no comments right now. we are going to kind of weather the storm and that s it. martha: each harrigan is live in miami. tell us about these reports that it came from above that he should toughen up, i think are the word, jonathan martin. reporter: those reports are being published in the florida sun sentinel.
martha: we are back with this fox news alert as we start to get a sense of the beginning damage from hurricane sandy and this is in ocean city. we re being told that there is significant damage to the pier areas along the beach there. military trucks are arriving on that scene to do what they can to help secure. our own steve hair dpan is on the harrigan is on the scene as well. most of the area has been evacuated. steve indicated most people have evacuated and that is good news. the military is doing what they can to help as the destruction is being felt along the first instance in ocean city, maryland. we ll be back there shortly. keeping a close eye on hurricane sandy. all important. it can be done without ohio but, let s face it, everyone always points out and reminds the world, hey, you can t win a presidential election without ohio and then they go through all the