shovel the driveway while the other responders were inside helping deliver the baby. i would work on that delivery first but it was nice to have the driveway cleared, too. momma and baby are doing just fine. good stuff. thanks for inviting us into your home tonight. that s it for this special report. fair, balanced and unafraid. here s martha. martha: polar might be a good middle name polar vortex. something like that. bret: there you go. martha: thank you, bret. speaking of that we have an extreme weather alert tonight insanely cold it is colder in the united states than it is at the north pole and it is dangerous. frost bite that can set n minutes. some people in areas are being told that even breathing heavily outside could compromise your lungs. not a great idea. good evening, everybody, i m martha maccallum and this is the big story out of the gate tonight. we have mike tobin standing by this a freezing city of chicago. rick reichmuth here with me in the studio and kentuck
puerto rico struggling to recover from hurricane maria and she was something else. air force one expected to arrive in san juan next hour. we ll follow that. right now fema says the situation is getting better by the day. many don t have electricity. about half the population has access to drinking water. 60% expected to have running water by tend the end of the week. president trump speaking earlier outside the white house before departing. it will be acknowledged what a great job we ve done and people are looking at that. in texas and florida we get an a plus. i think we ve done just as good in puerto rico and it is a much tougher situation. bill: that moments ago. mike tobin standing by live in san juan. this is republican house leadership. kathy mcmorris rogers at the microphone first. steve scalise is in that room and we ll hear from him in a
but i want to tell people what they are they re on the screen. he makes his arrival here in naples, florida, . coming down as ari fleischer said to give a boost to those workers who have been working around-the-clock and sweltering temperatures and really making a sacrifice to try and help people. pardon me. this is the press corps, not the president. my mistake. that s not marine one, that s the osprey and i never flew in that. the press did. melissa: we are waiting the president still, although the prices they there, thank goodness. leave him, i ll send it to you. leland: the press is there as it is our live camera, mike tobin standing of i for their presidents arrival. we already heard governor rick scott earlier in the hour talk about gas and getting gas into florida. gas prices have gone up a little bit in the wake of these two hurricanes, but our next guest says that america s energy
thank you. eric: and now we have news on fox news alert on those severe storms that ripped through the midwest overnight and a devastating tornado that has left one person dead in illinois. it also brought rising flood waters in indiana. the violent storms knocking down trees leaving thousands of people without power and take a look at this on the highway, a semi truck blown right off the road by the force of those winds. parts of the east coast should be in store for more of the same dangerous weather. we ll have video of that semi in just a moment. mike tobin standing by amid the damage in fairdale, illinois, just west of chicago south of rockford. hi mike. reporter: hi there erik. let me show you quick what s happening. we ve got this row of power trucks coming in town as really moves onioned the search on beyond the search beyond the rescue efforts and it s all about the clean-up now, the
let s go to mike tobin standing by in el reno and the latest on theest estimates in that area. mike. it is remarkable, you look around and see the damage. all of this is the roof of the technical center. you look past me and can see the structures and all the cars battered because of the force of the storm. it was really a remarkable coming together of a number of different factors. you had all these tornadoes forming in the sky at the same time, so many stringers and storm chasers recording what was happening. we have this remarkable view of funnel clouds, forming in the sky, reaching down to the earth and scouring the earth and going back into the sky oftentimes as another funnel cloud was formed, particularly in el reno, the day aft after. we re seeing a lot of structural damage to buildings, a lot of cars battered by debris and trucks overturned by the force