12 feet higher, devastating communities like for the myers, naples and some 2 million homes and businesses are without power in florida, that is 20% of the entire state and 96% of fort myers is in the dark. one official saying it could take weeks for the power to come back on in some areas. floodwater inundating areas like naples and port charlotte. these are pictures of that area leaving some people who decided to ride out the storm trapped in their homes, others rescued from their cars, berman. the danger also continues, we should note. reporter: it absolutely does continue. the storm not done yet. brianna, i m sorry for communication problems earlier. the fema administrator told me they are prepared for thousands of displaced people, thousands perhaps of long-term displaced people. so that is what people are up against here in florida right now. cnn s got live team coverage of ian still very much a powerful force. first i want to go to the national hurricane center. mike
a very warm welcome to our viewers joining us in the united states and around the world. i m isa soares in london. just ahead here is this what we want to protect or are we going to do our jobs and protect our children? the community of uvalde deserves answers. my plan is to address inflation, respect the fed. i think that i was wrong then. there have been up an tis participated and large shocks to the economy. trying to hustle and bustle many streets in shanghai after so long. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with isa soares. warm welcome to everyone. it is wednesday june 1. and we begin in uvalde where the governor has now declared a state of disaster. a week after 21 innocent lives were cut short in that horrific school shooting. the declaration will accelerate state and local resources to assist of course the devastated community. meantime questions are mounting over the police response to the massacre, but officials say the incident commander duri
trump from being sandy has raised raised no more than $20 million since donald trump was convicted on those 34 felonies including $100 million reportedly from billionaire donor merrian evenson. but the white house are saying about all of that and will how much the trans- paris campaign by comparison, we might find out soon. high everybody, i m neil cavuto that will have you maybe some surprises in that building nine. over the uk jackie. good afternoon, neil. that biden campaign is not reading content s instead they re responding this way and also seeing them had a great stretching and fundraising of their own. have no doubt that the relation of an amount of money because his base we know is going to stick with him threw thick and thin whether he s a convicted felon or not. this campaign did in fact have one of the best stretches of fundraising in the campaign. campaign did not specify how much they ve taken him during the period they described as one of their
south florida region word interest tropicals systems world and every year. storm surge often inundates shorelines and communities and with a changing environment, there is much concern i hire sealevel means war more water gets pushed to shore during a storm, which is that this aspect of a hurricane. is not a sealevel rise back is increased hurricanes and increased hurricane intensity is. were starting to talk about, six hurricanes that have never known anyone s radar before. we hope that this forecast this year does not come to fruition but right now all signs are pointing to a devastating scenario in the coming months. neil: thank you for that. no wonder that a lot of potential homeowners looking at the price of homeowners insurance are trying to skip it altogether if they can. jeff locke has more on that from new jersey. just.
minimum central pressure was 958, jane. that represents. jane: a big drop. ian: that represents a drop of around 10 millibars. that ll be more than enough to put us up into major hurricane intensity at that point. we ll have the latest update, the intermediate update, the 2:00, that s a bigger one than these hourly positionals. that ll be coming up in just a matter of minutes. we ll bring that to you right here on fox news and fox weather as soon as we get it. this is all part of our continuing coverage as we track idalia tonight. that s a live picture from cedar key look at these waves, yeah. the poorly parked cadillac a car that should not be there in a place where there s a mandatory evacuation looking out towards some of the businesses there, the restaurants, the bars. beautiful portion of leavy county in cedar key. we are tracking idalia every step of the way. unfortunately forecast to make a landfall on florida s big bend or the nature coast as a category 4 storm. keep it rig