change. i am not in the pews of the church of the global warming leftists. this is what he thinks about climate change and now his state is getting hit with one of the worst hurricanes to ever hit. well, perhaps . sean: we had haines in 1922. this is 2022. it s hurricane season. anyway here with aformer arkansas governor mike huckabee and former senior advisor to president trump steven miller and lara trump. laura we ll start with you. people are at risk tonight people are under water they can t be rescued in fort myers, in sarasota, in the naples area and they want to talk about climate change when this is hurricane season and during hurricane season, you usually have hurricanes like we did a hundred years ago. yes. well, of course the democrats and their marketing arm, the main stream media, never let a good crisis go to waste and, of course a life threatening
will be feeling the effects of this hurricane first. they will be feeling the storm surges and the winds. and that is why we tried to evacuate them a while back. but our main priority is the safety of our residents and we ve been preparing for this for years. for this particular hurricane, we ve been preparing since last week. we saw the impact it could have. so our utilities department ensured that our generators were ready to go, public works began clearing the storm drains. we have fortified all of our city buildings and assets, our parks and rec department has removed items that could become projectiles. our fuel forms are operational and ready to go. florida power and light right now has thousands of individuals that have a staging ground in the city of sarasota and are out right now fixing our infrastructure as thousands of floridians are losing their
is between 5 to 8 and we re already at 5 so could get much worse. further north they are expecting up to 18 feet which could just be devastating. joining me now is the mayor of sarasota, florida, which is a little bit south of where i am, kind of on the other end of the tampa bay area. mr. mayor, thank you so much for being with us. the outer bands of the eyewall making landfall south of where we both are, what are you expecting over the next several hours? we just made the decision just now to withdraw all of our police officers from the streets just because of the sustained wind pressure that we ve been having. over the next few hour, we re anticipating that everyone will heed the governor s warning and stay hunkered down. it is too late to evacuate at this point. so everybody in zone a and b
he should be saying we re not going to send crews out because we can t put them at risk. what are you seeing right now? are your rescue volunteers actually going out? we have a few on standby. we are currently not at the location. we are looking out for the safety of our team right now as well. yep, you ve got to do the right thing. you can t risk their lives for others. i know you have volunteers across florida tonight, charlotte county as well as in sarasota. and we just heard someone from noaa who was talking about having gone through 76 storms and he s never seen anything like this. it is the strongest storm on record to hit florida s coast. does that change how your team is able to respond with search and rescue? no, ma am, we just no, we just turn our rescue and make sure our safety is first, like i
electricity. and our police of course have an evacuation plan and are redirecting traffic, and withd withdrawing them from the treats because of the hazardous conditions. and i want to reiterate, sarasota, let s add it to the list of the coastal cities who are saying emergency services cannot reach you now. you need to stay in place. and most of the cities along the west coast of florida right now, your evacuation plan, that time is over. stay where you are. shelter in place. mr. mayor, we ve been hearing 12 to 24 inches of rain possible. what impact will the fresh water flooding have on sarasota? let me just tell you that 10 inches of rain is enough to have your car floating around. and so these are very serious conditions that everyone should take seriously. you know, preparing for this, we had numerous sites with sandbags being distributed, 12 different