they re great people, beautiful state. you know about their football team? bill: a little bit. dana: governor desantis will give a update any moment now and bring it live. florida is bracing for what could be a once in a century storm. bill: the current storm track shows landfall sometime on thursday, maybe in tampa. if that were a direct hit, it would be the first major storm to hit tampa in more than 100 years. dana: forecasters are predicting storm sturge. people are boarding up homes and businesses. the amount of water may simply be too much to overcome. bill: here is what we know. governor desantis declared a state of emergency. tampa s international airport will shut down at 5:00 east coast time. dana: evacuation orders affecting hundreds of thousands of people. folks there say supplies are running low. shelves are totally empty. people are starting to panic. it is crazy now. people are crazy, all the flights are insane. there is no flights. i would ho
ainsley: janice dean is tracking ian. she is downstairs. i just saw her. she has been watching this all morning. we start with fox weather. correspondent nicole valdez is she is in tampa bay. steve, ainsley, brian, good morning. every single county in the state of florida now under a state of emergency that includes right here in the city of tampa where hillsborough county schools are officially closed as emergency responders pre prepare nearly 5f those public school buildings into shelters if needed as we look at potential impact from hurricane ian. you mentioned the response and people are doing what they can, which is planning and preparing for what could be some severe impacts as now hurricane ian approaches the gulf coast of florida. and we have already seen some empty store shelves. we have seen water going fast. fuel running low in some areas across the west coast of florida and cars lining the streets. sunday morning was absolutely chaos across some areas of tampa
there are a lot of moving parts still. we ll likely get a better idea from governor desantis whether or not those mandatory evacuation orders are going to be expanded further south. we re getting reports that may already be happening as we speak. absolutely a storm that you want to make sure you move for. the challenge is according to the attorney general, convincing those who have lived in the state for quite some time that this is not a storm to take lightly. they need to evacuate no matter how long they ve lived here or other storms they have seen in their lifetime. bill: rely on you a lot in the coming days. dana: janice dean is tracking ian s path reporting from fox weather the hurricane headquarters. you talked about a storm of the century back then in the tampa bay area there was about 50,000 people that lived there and now 100 years later close to 400,000 people. so we re talking about a storm of a lifetime and if it does move over the tampa bay area it
bail-out of students that are not paying their debts, it is a bail-out of universities who will continue to rake in even more money, billions and billions of your tax dollars are going to pay off universities that already have these billion dollar endowments. it makes no sense. it is a bail-out of the rich and people who aren t paying their debts and i think most americans don t like that. dana: it breeds resentment and it s a terrible way the feel about your fellow citizens. bill: they are doing the same kind of control over the energy sector. something we have to talk about at some point. i see a nationalization of the whole energy sector of our economy by the federal government. i see that as their goal. we can talk about details on that later. dana: we ll catch you on fox business. it is a big issue. a fox weather hurricane alert. ian is a powerful category 3 form now and eyes set on florida s west coast. experts are warning of the
ainsley: janice dean is tracking ian. she is downstairs. i just saw her. she has been watching this all morning. we start with fox weather. correspondent nicole valdez is she is in tampa bay. steve, ainsley, brian, good morning. every single county in the state of florida now under a state of emergency that includes right here in the city of tampa where hillsborough county schools are officially closed as emergency responders pre prepare nearly 5f those public school buildings into shelters if needed as we look at potential impact from hurricane ian. you mentioned the response and people are doing what they can, which is planning and preparing for what could be some severe impacts as now hurricane ian approaches the gulf coast of florida. and we have already seen some empty store shelves. we have seen water going fast. fuel running low in some areas across the west coast of florida and cars lining the streets.