be there. that s my commitment to. neil: here s the thing. ian is not leaving. it s down but not out. ian now a tropical storm is expected to make its way back to a category one hurricane after devastating the sunshine state. south carolina s governor will hold a news conference shortly. here s what we know right now. a storm surge up to seven feet predicted for charleston, south carolina as of tomorrow. in florida today, more than 2.6 million people are still without power across the state. no indications when they will get that back. search and rescue operations underway in florida s barrier islands and other hard-hit areas. governor desantis calling it a 24/7 operation. moments from now, we ll talk to the mayor of fort myers florida particularly hard hit by the storm. first, fox team coverage with robert ray in fort myers and steve harrigan in charlotte county where they re trying to dig out. welcome. i m neil cavuto. let s go to robert ray in f fort myers that got reall
he was the one who came out and said flatten the curve, and that flattening the curve kept going on and on and on. now, when it comes to schools, he s not telling a fib here. in july of 2020, i interviewed him and he said we have to get the schools open by the fall, but note he had already set a policy of lockdowns and closures that were extended to the schools. so the issue of collateral damage, mental health effects, socialization, nutrition, eye care, the mask overuse, the issue of not being with your peers that we were so worried about was extended and he talked about it in july 2020, but i think the horses were already out of the barn. we saw from other parts of the world that you could leave schools open and the spread did not increase. john: to that point, dr. siegel, it s one thing to say we want the schools to open, but it s another to set conditions or be among the people setting conditions that make it impossible for those schools to open. and at the same time, t
for the hand off. laura: america, this is the hannity strip tease. you do a live rap throw to me. sean: hang on one second. i will be right. there i am walking to the next studio. this is how close i am to you. [laughing]. laura: make sure the lighting is shadowiy. i am glad you have a tie on. is this going to be a strip tease every night? sean: it s not a strip tease. laura: take the hour i can t do it. sean: we lost laura s single. i am a talk show host and i never shut up. laura: i am back. no strip tease. doesn t look like it. [laughing]. we are out. sean: good night. laura: wow. lack out tom jones. [laughing]. look out. that s for the really old crowd. samantha noticed you had the same yellow tie on tonight that you were wearing 4 years ago. [laughing]. thank god you threw it off in the middle. sean: can i say one serious thing? you had 5 unbelievable, amazing years here on fox. we are so proud of you. you are a critical part of our team. it is a
so the first and most important thing people can do is go out and get vaccinated. that will keep people, kids, adults, everybody out of the hospital at very high rates. that is probably the most important thing. and then we know how to manage rsv. most children, most adults, relatively mild. small somebody of kids that get sick from it, we can take care of it. we need to make sure the beds are open for children which is why it is important to protect yourself from influenza and covid as well. are we going to be seeing makeshift hospitals or wards for children this winter? i hope not. we re seeing a lot of rsv right now. my hope is that turns around. what worries me is if we then add in influenza and covid on top of that, that s where we can get into trouble, but we don t have to. we can t control everything, but there are things we can control. the two most important things now are going out and getting the influenza shot, the flu shot and getting the new updated covid sh
presidio, they are still breathtaking. but what is happening on the streets is heartbreaking. it is the client as far as the eye can see. this is my city, my home, i love it. i do see a destroyed like this is just devastating. armed with her cell phone, erica sandberg chronicles the decay, and drug use along san francisco s fain market street. just steps from a city run center they claim to address these very problems. there was a needle. the word correspondent then tweets images she says convey a reality beyond the local media show. laura: she is right it s homelessness, addiction, mental illness, shuttered businesses, even longtime residents are now beginning to leave. and who could blame them? high taxes, high crime, it s just not worth it for most families. but even after the recall of the radical d.a., san francisco is still down about 500 police officers. and by the way the police union chief says that in that number could be over 800 by the end of the year, i