carley: good morning, i m carley shimkus live at nationals park in washington ahead of the congressional baseball game tonight. i m so glad to be back, i love covering this event. i ve done it a few years in a row. it is all about unity and bipartisanship. friendly competition between republicans and democrats, been going on since 1909. i just found out record number of tickets were sold and the money goes to charity. todd: awesome to see them doing something other than beating each other up. this is for a good cause. you cover two main stories out in the field. oil stories and baseball storiless and today is the latter. carley: i cover a lot of oil and gas stories and sports. yeah, my beats are quite interesting. i love to do it. everybody can watch the game. it is going to start at 7:00 eastern time on fox sports 1. we ll cover it live. tune in for that. there is going to be display of bipartisanship on capitol hill later today at national stadium. in florida yesterda
it was so bad that this man had to wade through knee-deep water inside of his own home. in florida the storm damage issine worse. 45 people have died and hundreds of homes are destroyed. a woman struggling to survive was captured in a harrowing phone call. in am in water. okay. i am so cold. i am losing you and i can t hear you. i love you. i love you. well, thankfully that woman was rescued along with others in the state along with 600 patients evacuated from health care facilities. more help is on the way. i have directed that every possible action be taken to save live and get survivors. every minute counts. this is not just for florida. it is an american crisis. my message to people in south carolina is simple. listen to the warning and follow the officials instructions. authorities are concerned about the barrier islands near fort meyers which took the brunt of the hurricane. many residents chose not to evacuate and are now cut off from the mainland. the
on shore after hurricane force winds and storm surge push them out of the sea. this is a scene of utter destruction. in areas where the storm leveled homes and businesses, damage assessments are also underway in south carolina to the was battered by dangerous storm surge. residents from florida to virginia facing another challenge in the form of a power outages. the lights are still out for more than 1 million people in florida alone. the white house has yet to confirm when president biden will visit that state. he says he plans to travel there as soon ask conditions allow. meanwhile much needed relief is starting to flow to some of the hardest hit areas after the president approved federal emergency aid for florida, south carolina, and north carolina. fox team coverage on ian s aftermath from the fox weather center, florida and south carolina. that is where we begin with nay boy live in myrtle beach. john, good evening. the damage here certainly could have been worse. pe
the wo woods just yet. ten storm-related deaths after facing an overnight hammering across the peninsula. residents describing what it was like to ride out one of the worst storms to ever hit the u.s. i feared for my life. i went across the street, i got sticks and it didn t last enough for the big bad wolf that puffed away. i was just scared for my children. trace: rescue and recovery efforts underway in numerous cities that have seen historic flooding, fallen trees, downed power lines, and large gaps where a bridge once connected the mainland to the barrier islands. we ve got team coverage for you tonight, kevin corke with a look at how this biden administration is responding to the storm. will nunley still on the ground and we begin with steve harrigan live in florida just 9 miles away from where ian came a short period good evening, you heard from people who rode out the storm the fear as the storm was coming through and then later we are seeing people talking tod
people are now in 257 shelters like this woman right here. florida says it needs 5.5 million meals to feed them all. and 6.6 million liters of clean water. 2 million people still do not have power. water isn t running in five counties. 19 counties have boil water notices. and more than 200 health care facilities are evacuating, or considering doing so. 10 airports are closed. along with 24 ports. 31 transit systems. and nine railways. and then there is the death toll. the official number is now 14. though those same officials say that number is very likely to rise. and they are warning, just because it has a weaker wind speed, making it a category one storm, hurricane ian, that does not mean that the danger has passed. as we have learned over and over again, it is the water, the rain, the storm surge, and the flooding that is often the most dangerous. that right there is where we begin, looking at what the storm is doing now, joining me from charleston, south carolina, is nbc