world. higher gas price for your vehicle. not good on both counts. you would think it would be time for the president to go back to trump-level production. open up federal lands, cut away the bureaucracy. and frack our way back to energy independence. but he s not. what s the real agenda. the president is helping democrat interests, not american interests. we agree we need to be less dependent on opec plus and foreign producers of resources like oil. the president is working so hard on clean energy solutions, that s the future. the truth of the matter is dependency on foreign countries for american oil and gas is a choice. the choice thissed a behind straition has made repeatedly. brian: not to trial onshore or offshore. not to give new leases and the choice to go green when green is not ready. biden s runs to two enemy nations. the million gallons a day on the global market would bring prices down. most recently law enforcement killing 100 people protesting the vicious
insurance crisis that is crushing on people who live off the water, live near the water. explain all that. we got to see the destruction hurricane ian did down in fort myers. we took a crew, a team down to fort myers last year. we took a big barge down and craned boats out of people s yards, on top of people s houses. and we ve seen stuff that i didn t know a storm could do. and so it was a real big eye-opener to my whole family. i think my dad is worryied wors case scenario he doesn t want to be like what happened in fort myers. with insurance stuff going on, we re all worried. that s why we re staying here to see if there is anything that we can do to protect what we have. chase, hurricane hermine which was a hurricane 1 storm, it did pass through here. it had a 6-foot storm surge. now we re standing down by the water. there is a bar area up here in
and right now you can feel the pressure dropping in your belly. and it feels like the hand of death. and i ve never been an alarmist about hurricanes. i always think it s going to be just fine. but i am concerned about this place that i love so much. we haven t had anything like this since the great cedar key hurricane of 1896. and i think it s going to be three times as bad as that. so this island that we all love, i have grave concerns may not be here as we know it 48 hours from now. i can understand your concerns, given the gravity of the forecast, and given the storm surge of all the things that happen in a hurricane, there is really so little you can do. i do understand, you just talked about it. you ve got a couple of boats. what do you plan to do with the boats? this is after the storm passes. and after the surge has reached its maximum height, if there are people that are stuck, we re going to get on the boat and try to find him. we ve got kayaks. a 15-foot skiff tied up to
live pictures from indian rocks beach in florida, well south of where i am. people checking out the waves and the wind and seeing how hurricane idalia is affecting things. now, never a good idea, by the way, to go that close to the water when a hurricane is bearing down. needless to say where i m standing in steinhatchee, all along the steinhatchee river, you will not be able to stand here a few hours from now. where i am will be covered in water. if the forecasts are correct the water would be well over where my head is right now. we ve seen the effects of storm surge in florida. last year hurricane ian, the storm surge devastated fort myers beach in punta gorda. not too far from there is clearwater beach which is where gloria pazmino is tonight. gloria, what are you seeing? john, i was speaking to people who were walking along the beach just about two hours ago as the sun was coming down,
records show sustained winds reaching 120 miles per hour in some areas. and the storm surge, it soaked the south carolina coast with maximum storm tides of 20 feet, observed in some areas. the wind is picking up so dramatically. there is no water and the eye hit. when the eye hit, it started. it was like filling up a bathtub there was no waves there was no nothing. like in about 10 minutes. reporter: decades ago in 1969, it was camille, a category 5 hurricane that made landfall along the mississippi coast. the winds were so fierce, they destroyed all the wind recording instruments in the area. what now? now we ll start over again. i got the clothe is got on and $22 in my pocket. reporter: the winds at the coast were estimated to be about 200 miles per hour. and with those winds came water, lots of it. a storm tide of 24.6 feet occurred at pass christian, mississippi according to officials. randi kaye, cnn, palm beach county, florida.