monster, but i think we are very well coordinated. todd: president trump vowing to head to florida in the wake of hurricane irma. he spent this weekend at camp david meeting with his cabinet and monitoring the storm from there first lady melania trump saying hirm briefing. thank you to first responders. stay safe. it s unclear exactly when the president will head to the sunshine state. hurricane irma s wrath is causing the house to cancel voting today in case some are stuck in florida and can t make it rescheduling votes for tomorrow evening. the senate still plans to vote today. heather, over to you. heather: thank you, todd. today president trump attending his first 9/11 remembrance ceremony since being elected. on the heal heels of new stratey for afghanistan. with us is dr. darren
heather: you are only as strong as the team around you. absolutely. heather: thank you for your service as well. thank you, heather. heather: the time now is 26 minutes after the top of the hour. coming up, caught on camera, the heroic officers who went on risky mission to rescue two people who decided too ride out the storm. not a smart idea. plus, millions weighing up to the devastation, the damage. our live fox news team coverage continues on the ground across the sunshine state. that is up next. helping keep shoppers safe. this is a financial transaction secure from hacks and threats others can t see. this is a skyscraper whose elevators use iot data and ai to help thousands get to work safely and efficiently. this is not the cloud you know. this is the ibm cloud. the ibm cloud is the cloud for enterprise.
to ride it out here when we started looking at leaving and all the traffic and how difficult it was finding a place to stay. and we knew what we were going to be in for with the storm when it did finally hit. and we really didn t want to be somewhere else having to go through that. and we just felt that the safest place to be was at home. todd: as an owner of a recreational fishing company, boats are sort of your livelihood. any sense as to how your boats are doing? both boats did very well. i checked on them after the storm yesterday. and everything faired well. usualfully a storm you try to put them in the best safe haven you can in our case we put them in canals or man grove creeks with ropes on them. my boats faired pretty well and i heard most of the guys did well with their boats. heather: have you been there since 1984. that means you have been through hurricane andrew, wilma, charlie. how does this compare?
with heather: why do you think that s important? because there are people who criticize the administration and they say that president trump had put too much military in place? well, i disagree with him implementing people that had too much military experience. as we look at the resounding effects of terrorism on a national level, i want to say an international level, we need someone in there that has are a strong pulse towards what s going on. we just take into consideration with general kelly as the chief of staff in the white house. he gives donald trump that information instantaneously as opposed to donald trump having to go through layers of his administration to gain that information. heather: also president trump giving more leeway tout decisions being made on the ground there where everything is happening. right. you have to respect the fact that donald trump knows he is not the subject matter expert at military affairs. heather: right. he is going to appoint the people
carnage. 90% of collier county is without power. the roads are impassable. the water is rising. it s impossible to get an assessment this early on just how bad that is. and how much it s going to take if there are people that need to be rescued. we drove a little bit and we saw some. as can you seat wind is picking up. we haven t seen a single emergency crew, electrical power crew out here. nothing of that we are getting word from the officials asking people to literally shelter in place. stay in place because it s not safe out here. this, of course, is just a small part of the larger part of florida. more than 4 million without power. florida power and light has their work cut out. and it certainly feels like, at least in this area, the officials telling people it could be weeks before that power comes back: and the rain starting to fall again. something they certainly don t need here today. guys? heather: thank you very much, griff. moments ago rescuers in