anyone who shared information from it. the repair shop owner calling the latest legal move retaliation after he slapped hunter with a defamation suit. i actually have been public in announcing there have been several attempts by several individuals to modify and insert fake data to muddy the waters or to discredit the overall contents of the laptop by asserting fake data into the laptop and why i made a copy of the drive before i gave it to the f.b.i. i didn t trust the f.b.i. dana: chad pergram live on capitol hill untangling the threads for us. hunter biden is now seemingly conceding that the world s most famous or infamous laptop is his. this comes ahead of a house hearing next week focusing on suppression of the laptop story by social media. i m glad we re finally confirming it is his which the f.b.i. knew all along. by the way, they knew it was his when they were out briefing members of congress and the media saying it was russian disinformation. you talk about l
washington. bill and dana are off. good morning to you. nice to be with you today i m gillian turner. former president trump said he would be arrested today as part of a hush money investigation. the manhattan grand jury is still as of now hearing from witnesses. law enforcement source tells fox news not to expect an indictment and arraignment until next week. preparation for the hearing underway at the courthouse in lower manhattan. nypd shutting down streets and building barriers in response to numerous safety concerns. dana: zbloo the potential arraignment of a former president is a logistical nightmare. alvin bragg has ruled out the possibility of a virtual hearing. the case centers on a 130,000 hush money payment made by trump s former attorney cohen to storm daniels in 2016. cohen pled guilty and was sentenced to three years in prison. he is a key witness in the case against trump. yesterday the jury heard from one of cohen s former legal advisors who called hi
ian will go down as one of the most powerful hurricanes to ever hit the u.s. the storm turning coastal communities into open ocean winds as high as 150 miles per hour shredding everything in their path. fema says 1500 people have been rescued since ian came to shore, the worst natural disaster in state history. fox team coverage start right now. steve harrigan is near sarasota county, chad pergram at the white house on federal response but first to alexandria hoff to pine island, florida. alexandria. reporter: arthel, we are in an area that s called mat lachet, it s complicated what s happening behind me. rescue effort being led by the u.s. coast guard to rescue people who will be stranded on pine island ever since this storm hit and this has been a large-scale operation. what ends up happening here those stranded on pine island have to get on boat to mount lachet and plenty of people have been rescued by helicopter as well. a couple of minutes we know that ems personnel was
we begin with our chief meteorologist rick reichmuth in the fox weather center. rick? yeah, landfall about 55 minutes ago just around the georgetown, south carolina area. that s where the worst of the storm surge is. the storm surge on shore already. winds sustained were 85 miles an hour. a category one storm. we look at the satellite picture. looks like a mess. it s turning into a more typical storm that you might see in the northern latitudes or at least a combination between those two kinds of storms. the rain field will stretch out. we ll see the wind field stretch out as well across a lot of areas. in general, a weakening wind trend now that we have the storm over land. the winds gusting 46 miles an hour. that s an offshore wind. that is pushing water, not allowing storm surge there to be coming on. we have rain here. some of the storms out across east earn north carolina will have a tornado thread there. there s one tornado warning out there to inside of the outer
swift boats, all ready to move in and begin to go door-to-door when it is clear enough to be able to do so. power outages have slammed half a million. that is the latest number that we have over the course of this hour that we re now in. floridians on the ground as ian barrels towards their homes, their businesses. we have people all across the state with updates about different sections of the state, what it feels like, what s going on there. fox team coverage with all of our great weather team out there spread across the state as well. we begin with katie burn who is in orlando. katie, what can you tell us from where you are? all right. let s go to max gordon first. max is in tampa bay. max, tell us what you re seeing where you are. hi, martha. so we ve been hearing a lot about the storm surge concerns in the fort myers area. but up here where we are on the north end of the storm, we ve seen an erie sight along old tampa bay. we ve seen what is known as reverse storm surg