the storm barreling through the northeast. governor desantis spoke to us on the massive search and rescue operation that continues at this hour and will for some time. we ve had coast guard rescues, urban search and rescue teams from the state of florida, we ve had the national guard down in southwest florida. people have been being rescued on a minute by minute basis and it will continue to go. dana: we have live fox news team coverage. jonathan serrie, robert ray and janice dean are standing by. want to go to janice dean in the fox weather center for an update. hi. good morning. we ll get the official 11:00 a.m. advisory coming out shortly but we do know this was historic, it is the top four storms, strongest storms to make landfall in florida. 150 mile-per-hour sustained winds. pressure was 9.40 close to a category 5. still the chance they might upgrade it. there were winds indicated at 158 miles-per-hour from hurricane hunters yesterday. the current wind gusts over
MAJURO — Ocean flooding for the third straight day hit low-lying islands throughout the Marshall Islands and the Federated States of Micronesia, causing sparse damage but requiring large-scale cleanups in
other rivers and inlets. and the water comes in and then floods on the backside of those islands. and well away from the ocean. it s not ocean flooding is a threat, but inland is the bigger flooding threat, and we re then we get up into georgia and south carolina. this is some of the most flood-prone areas of the whole atlantic coast. so this confluence of this kind of storm in this part of the country is very, very bad. well, an important warning there about flooding in that part of the state of florida. bryan norcross, appreciate your time. i know you re going to be up all night. we ll be watching. we ll have a lot more. we ll be right back. t t military service goes into my family pretty far back. that makes you more proud to be an american and more proud to be a veteran. i served in iraq in tikrit in 2009. when i took the ancestry dna test, i mean a few results came up that were really shocking. 11% of me cos from the part where i had served. we all come from such different b
ocean flooding on that road and certainly some of the rain that s been falling ought night beginning to wash up on that road there. other positive point is a handful of power outages. i m hearing some 200 plus and now they re beginning to get some twilight. we ll be able to get out and see if there s been any damages. no reports of that so far, gretchen, we re hanging on. hurricane earl just grazing across the outer banks here this morning. all right, craig boswell live for us in north carolina. thanks very much. let s get to the rest of your headlines. we have to start with the fox news alert. a violent morning in pakistan. a blast during a shiite muslim rally has killed at least five people. 20 others are hurt. and earlier this morning, a homicide bomber attacked a mosque in northwest pakistan. at least one person was killed in that attack. this is a taliban in pakistan claiming responsibility for three deadly bombings on wednesday. at least 35 people were killed in those explosion