people. rick, i had a question about, governor desantis is due to give another press conference at 5:30. when he does that, what s something that you ll be wanting to learn more about? yeah. i mean, he ll have updated numbers for us, i would imagine, which, you know, we know we re over a million people without power, without power going into the overnight hours. obviously it s really warm. you don t have worries about cold. we ll probably also get information about what kind of, not just damage, but water rescues going on. we ve heard reports that people are calling, saying we need to be rescued from our homes. where this came onshore, we are hearing that the water level from the storm surge is at people s roofs. back to katrina i m not saying this is a katrina situation, because it was a different flooding situation from the levees breaking. if you have your home, the water is up to your roof, you didn t leave, you have no place to go other than to get to the attic,
maybe it knocks something else loose that had been hanging on. that s what we re encountering a lot here on the ground. neil: hang in there. just incredible. so the storm rages on, and will, we re told, for at least another 24 hours, as it continues to slowly, and i mean slowly make its way north. that will do it here. the five is now. hello, everyone. it s 5:00 in new york city. this is the five. the worst case scenario is unfolding for millions of americans. hurricane ian making landfall about two hours ago in southwestern florida, with ferocious wind speeds clocking in at nearly 155 miles an hour, just shy of a category five. at least 2.5 million people were ordered to evacuate. more than 1 million floridaians are sitting without power. that s going to grow every
you know, the linemen ready to come in, begin restoring power, they re already parkway positioned. they ve got to wait for conditions to be safe. we emphasized bulk removal of debris. in the roads are clear, you can t even start the work. the cooperation has been excellent. better than it s ever been before a storm. senator, i m wondering about the islands in southwest florida that really have taken a direct hit, moving south of sarasota, even boca grande, sanibel island. sanibel island s elevation is 3 feet above seawater. what are you hearing about that part of the state? we re not hearing a lot. those people have been cut off, lost power. maybe cell service to some
1100 resource requests have been we received 1100 resource requests. we have fulfilled 900 of those. again, the difference of the # hundred is stuff that we cannot just can t get out on the road right now. we are working as quickly as possible to address those needs. we have well over 200 shelters open. we have 42,000 restoration personnel. we literally have with first responders across the state and additional ones coming in, there is well over 10,000 responders statewide ready to do stuff. as the storm makes its way across florida. i remind floridians to stay indoors if you are in the path of the storm. if you are sheltering in place and the path of the storm and you still have power and wifi, please visit florida disaster.org/info to fill out our shelter in place survey. we have had a really we have
damaged. we talked about the infrastructure taking a hit. it s not just electric lines. it s the long bug cells on top of cell towers getting battered by the storm as well, coming offlane, it s getting harder and harder for us to transmit. rick was talking about taking a moment to get images out of these places. that s why. it s not because we can t immediately reach them after a storm, but we don t have a way to get them back to you because the cellphone towers are being damaged heavily under the weight of the storm, also affecting, by the way, people trying to communicate with their family and with rescue workers in these urgent hours after an emergency like this. so much stull ahead. guys? will, thank you very much. hurricane ian making landfall, and more than 1 million americans are without power. more to come on that. we re watching this major storm. our coverage continues on fox news and the fox weather app.